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Report: The Costs of Wildfire in California

Join the study team behind CCST's latest report, "The Costs of Wildfire in California," for a discussion of the report's findings and recommendations. Featuring Steering Committee Chair Michael Wara and the lead authors Teresa Feo and Samuel Evans.

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CCST PROVIDES...

  • Analysis of scientific and technical matters of critical importance for California decision makers

  • ‘Science At Your Service’ – On-demand expertise for briefings, reports, and more

  • Access to world class expertise through our Partner Institutions and beyond

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CCST SCIENCE 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

Feb 22, 2021

Less Than 1 Week Left to Apply for CCST’s Science & Technology Policy Fellowship
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Pictured: 2019 CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows. See each class of Fellows.   SACRAMENTO, ...
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Feb 19, 2021

CCST Hosts Resilience Workshop Exploring California’s COVID-19 Policy Challenges
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  The CCST workshop on COVID-19 Policy Challenges opened with a panel discussion moderated by ...
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Feb 16, 2021

Translating Manure Research to Environmental Policy: Q&A with 2021 Fellow Rylie Ellison
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Rylie Ellison is a 2021 CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow placed on the Senate ...
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Feb 9, 2021

Top Five Lessons Learned: Delivering a Virtual Fellows Training Program During COVID-19
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Jeffery Song is the CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows Program Manager. In this role, ...
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Feb 2, 2021

Update: Watch the 2021 “CCST Science in Public Service Award” Presentation
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2021 CCST Leadership Awardees. Science in Public Service Award: Given to a public servant with ...
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Feb 1, 2021

Less Than 1 Month Left to Apply for CCST’s Science & Technology Policy Fellowship
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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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VIDEO: 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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VIDEO: Natural Carbon Pathways

Natural Pathways for Carbon Sequestration in California

Wed. June 24th.

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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Board of Directors

The Board provides strategic vision and direction, and has fiduciary responsibility for CCST. Distinguished leaders from academia and industry—including those representing our Sustaining Institutions and Federal Laboratory Affiliates—form the 16 members of the Board.

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CCST Advisory Panel

The CCST Advisory Panel will be an interdisciplinary team of experts who will contribute to and support CCST’s efforts to bring science to California decision makers.

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Distinguished Experts

Distinguished Experts

CCST’s Distinguished Experts—an invited roster of distinguished scientists and technical experts with deep experience, spanning Nobel Laureates to entrepreneurs—are called upon to help identify relevant experts to author the organization’s reports and respond to other requests for expertise.

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CCST Science Fellows

CCST Science Fellows

Every year, CCST places ten PhD scientists and engineers in the California Legislature for one-year appointments. CCST Science Fellows work hands-on with policymakers addressing complex scientific and technical issues, as well as assuming other responsibilities of full-time legislative staffers.

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CCST Staff

CCST staff implement programs as directed by the Board, providing policy analysis and project management, and serving as direct liaisons between state leaders and the Council. Staff members support CCST’s growing network of experts and continually cultivate new contacts within the legislative and scientific communities. Staff also provide vital training and year-round support for CCST Science Fellows serving in the Capitol - enabling them to deliver the critical non-partisan technical analysis that state legislators need to drive scientifically sound policies forward.

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Science Services

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.

Contact CCST to speak to an expert in a specific scientific or technological field, secure expert testimony for a hearing, arrange for an in-office meeting with a researcher, organize a panel briefing, commission a brief report or full-fledged research project and publication, and more.

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What We Do at CCST

What We Do

We facilitate informal chats, expert testimony, briefings, workshops, reports, and more for California decision makers.

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Commissioned Projects and Reports

CCST convenes trusted experts to produce rigorously reviewed scientific reports that aid state leaders in making critical decisions.

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Expert Briefings

Providing Capitol decision makers with succinct, impartial information that satisfies the tight deadlines of state leaders.

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CCST Science and Technology Week

Science and Technology Week

CCST’s annual Science and Technology Week celebrates the importance of science in informing California policymaking.

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CCST Projects

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:

  • Convenes world-class experts to develop assessments

  • Ensures full disclosure of conflicts of interest

  • Conducts thorough, objective work based on scientifically sound principles

  • 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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Oil and Gas Water Cycle Reporting

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

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Biomethane

Biomethane

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

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Orphaned wells

Orphan Wells

Understanding how deserted and orphaned wells affect the State of California.

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Maker Space

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

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Publications

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.

All of our publications are freely available, and can be viewed by browsing the full list of reports, or by using the search bar.

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California’s policies are stronger with science. By donating to CCST, you help to support a more informed California, and to improve the lives and wellbeing of the 40 million inhabitants impacted by the choices made by the state’s decision makers.

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