By Chris Unterberger The second annual La Follette Forum hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Public Policy featured local, state, and national leaders in climate policy. Occurring on October 6 at the UW’s …
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AAAS Annual Meeting 2021 Recap
By Chris Unterberger Though the AAAS Annual Meeting touches on many different areas of science—advancement, policy, diplomacy—the underscore of it all is communication. This year’s meeting exemplified how all branches of science are rooted in …
July 24, 2019 Policy Column: Energy and Scientific Integrity
Written By: Laura Szymanski, UW graduate student, the Geological Society of America’s (GSA’s) Science Policy Fellow, and the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU’s) Voices for Science member Energy Legislation: On 16 July 2019, the Senate Energy …
My experience attending a climate policy bootcamp
by Michael A. Pinkert (Graduate Research Assistant, CaSP Member) Climate change is such a conversational debate that there’s seldom any discussion on what actual policies could help combat it. Recently, I got to find out …
May Journal Club Review: Carbon pricing and the fight against climate change
May’s journal club was led by Michael Pinkert (Graduate Student in Medical Physics). Journal club review was written by Grant Hisao (Postdoc in Biochemistry). Carbon pricing is a strategy to put market pressure on polluters …
June 8, 2019 – World Climate Simulation
Climate change is the greatest challenge to world peace and prosperity. Yet, for many of us, the complexity and size of the issue makes it very difficult to comprehend. To help individuals understand the impacts …
Journal Club Review: C-ROADS
November’s journal club was led by Sam Anderson (Graduate Student in Biochemistry). Journal club review was written by Kevin Lauterjung (Graduate Student in Biophysics). November’s journal club focused on the Climate Rapid Overview and Decision …