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States as Laboratories for Science Policy Innovation

CCST CEO Amber Mace, PhD, and Senior Advisor Jun Bando, PhD, contribute to a national conversation about The Next 75 Years of Science Policy with an essay on the roles of states and boundary organizations in science policy innovation.

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CCST S&T Policy FELLOWS

Want to make a difference? We recruit PhD scientists and engineers to spend a year of public service in California, gaining valuable career training in public policy.

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News from CCST

Jul 1, 2022

California Policymakers Signify Enduring Value of CCST to the State by Investing in Fellows
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Jun 23, 2022

CCST Workshop Envisions a More Holistic and Inclusive Public Health System Informed by COVID-19 Response
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Jun 22, 2022

Call for Public Health Perspectives: Forest Health, Wildfire Smoke, and Public Health
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Jun 2, 2022

Dr. Ishwar K. Puri Appointed to CCST Board of Directors as USC Representative
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Jun 1, 2022

The Keyword? Adaptability. Making the Career Transition from Science to Policy.
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May 12, 2022

WATCH: Decarbonizing with Hydrogen: Challenges and Opportunities
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Technologies for Renewable Energy Storage

A CCST Expert Briefing held July 20th, 2021 on energy storage technologies that can help improve California’s resiliency to climate change and meet the State’s SB 100 goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045.

Expert Panelists:

Janea Scott, Moderator, Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals, U.S. Department of the Interior; Former Vice Chair, California Energy Commission

Noel M. Bakhtian, Berkeley Lab, Energy Storage Center

Joan Casey, Columbia University, Environmental Health Sciences

Robert D. Cormia, Foothill College, Chemistry

Sarah Kurtz, UC Merced, School of Engineering

 

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Watch: Responding to Wildfires amid Compounding Disasters

A CCST Expert Briefing held June 8, 2021 on how compounding disasters, like COVID-19 and extreme heat, affect wildfire response in California. Moderated by CCST Executive Director Amber Mace.

Expert Panelists:

• Michael Méndez, UC Irvine, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy
• Nicole Meyer-Morse, FEMA, Deputy Director, FEMA Consolidated Resource Center, West
• Stephen Wong, UC Berkeley, Research & Development Engineer, Transportation Sustainability Research Center.

 

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Mitigating Extreme Heat in a Changing Climate

The California Council on Science and Technology hosted a panel discussion with experts on how extreme heat impacts Californians and ways to equitably mitigate this increasingly common climate-related disaster.

Moderator:

Kate Gordon, then Governor's Senior Policy Advisor on Climate & Director, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

Panelists:

  • Glynn Hulley, NASA JPL, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems
  • Sumanjeet Kaur, Berkeley Lab, Energy Technologies
  • R. Jisung Park, UCLA, Luskin School of Public Affairs

 

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Toward a Resilient California

Complex and intersecting disasters, including climate change, megafires, and the COVID-19 pandemic, are radically disrupting the ways in which Californians live and work. Science and technology (S&T) are revolutionizing a range of sectors in ways that heighten opportunities for social progress, but also threaten to magnify existing social inequalities and present risks to privacy, public safety, and national security. CCST redoubled our efforts on disaster resilience to increase the delivery and responsiveness of advisory services provided by independent S&T experts to State policymakers.

 

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Watch: Technological Pathways for Carbon Sequestration

Watch a panel of experts discuss technologies to capture and store CO2 to meet California’s carbon neutrality goals, including Sally Benson, Stanford University, Holly Buck, University of Buffalo, Preston Jordan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Gaurav Sant, UCLA. Moderated by David Stout from the California Energy Commission.

 

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Watch: Digital Contact Tracing

CCST hosted a virtual panel of experts, moderated by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, including Dan Boneh (Stanford), Brandie Nonnecke (CITRIS Policy Lab), and Mike Reid (UC San Francisco) to discuss the role of digital contact tracing (exposure notification) as part of a strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

 

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READ: Science Policy Career Guide

CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows alumni developed a guide for scientists interested in public policy, providing an introduction to science policy, detailing various types and issue areas, programs, organizations and fellowship opportunities, and highlighting many career professionals and their paths to science policy.

 

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Watch: Natural Carbon Pathways

Natural Pathways for Carbon Sequestration in California

A panel of experts including Patty Oikawa (CSU East Bay), Rob Jackson (Stanford), Matthew Potts (UC Berkeley), and Asmeret Berhe (UC Merced) discussed the role of carbon sequestration in California's forests, marshes, soils, and other natural lands in meeting the State's carbon neutrality goals.

 

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For more than 30 years, CCST has worked to tailor its services to meet the needs of the Capitol policy community, particularly when it comes to providing impartial advice and expertise on sensitive scientific matters. By leveraging its network of experts distributed throughout the University of California, California State University, California Community Colleges, Stanford, Caltech, and NASA and DOE campuses, CCST can respond to a variety of decision maker requests for assistance.

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Most of our projects, which focus on issues that are timely and important to California’s future, result in the publication of one or more reports. To provide sound, science-based input to California’s policymakers, CCST:

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  • Ensures full disclosure of conflicts of interest

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  • Ensures rigorous peer review is conducted before reports are published

We are proud to uphold these standards, ensuring that policymakers have the information necessary to craft policies made stronger with science—in California and beyond.

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Costs of Wildfire

Assessing the state of knowledge regarding wildfire losses and their associated costs across key sectors.

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Impacts on cost of biomethane, volume sold, and equipment operation.

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Potential health risks and community impacts of natural gas production and storage.

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Developing a sustainable network to aid the growth of the Maker Movement.

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As a trusted non-partisan partner of the California Legislature and Executive Branch, we develop and publish reports on some of the most timely and important issues critical to California’s future. Our publications ensure that the public has access to unbiased insight into important scientific matters, while giving policymakers at the state and national level the information necessary to craft policies that reflect current scientific understanding.

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