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CURRICULUM VITAE
Maxwell T. Boykoff
University of Colorado 1333 Grandview Avenue
[email protected] UCB 488
303.735.0451 Boulder, CO 80309, USA
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-2387
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/
CURRENT POST_____________________________
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (2009 – present)
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program (2014 – present)
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program (2009 – 2014)
Adjunct, Department of Geography (2010 – present)
University of Oxford
Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute (2009 – present)
PREVIOUS POSTS___________________________
Departmental Lecturer, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford
Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute (2008 – 2009)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Christ Church Oxford, UK
Faculty Associate, Smith School for Enterprise & the Environment
James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellowship University of Oxford
International Environmental Governance and Climate Policy (2006 – 2008)
Environmental Change Institute & James Martin 21st Century School Oxford, UK
Director/Co-Founder Choluteca, Honduras
Duyure Adelante (non-profit organization) (1999 – 2006)
Researcher San Francisco, California
Bluewater Network (climate change policy) (2001)
EDUCATION________________________________
University of California, Santa Cruz – Ph.D. (2000 – 2006)
Environmental Studies (and parenthetical notation in Sociology) Santa Cruz, California
The Ohio State University – B.S., Major: Psychology (1991 – 1995)
Phi Beta Kappa; Cum Laude; graduation with distinction Columbus, Ohio, USA
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PUBLICATIONS_____________________________ * notes student authors at the time of publication
REFEREED JOURNALS
Watts, N. Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Cai, W.,
Campbell-Lendrum, D., Capstick, S., Chambers, J., Dalin, C., Daly, M., Dasandi, N., Davies, M.,
Drummond, P., Dubrow, R., Ebi, K.L., Eckleman, M., Ekins, P., Escobar, L., Fernandez Montoya,
L., Georgeson, L., Graham, H., Haggar, P., Hamilton, I., Hartinger, S., Hess, J., Kelman, I.,
Kiesewetter, G., Kjellstrom, T., Kniveton, D., Lemke, B., Liu, Y., Lott, M., Lowe, R., Maquins,
O.S., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McGushin, A., Mikhaylov, S.J., Milner, J., Moradi-Lakeh, M.,
Morrissey, K., Murray, K., Munzert, S., Nilsson, M., Neville, T., Oreszczyn, T., Owfi, F.,
Pearman, O.*, Pencheon, D., Phung, D., Pye, S., Quinn, R., Rabbaniha, M., Robinson, E.,
Rocklöv, J., Semenza, J.C., Sherman, J., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Tabatabaei, M., Taylor, J.,
Wilkinson, P., Costello, A., Gong, P. and Montgomery, H. (2019) ‘The 2019 Report of The Lancet
Countdown on Health and Climate Change’ The Lancet
Osnes, B., Boykoff, M. and Chandler, P. (2019) ‘Good-Natured Comedy to Enrich Climate
Communication’ Comedy Studies DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623513, 10(2), 224-236.
Wibeck, V., Linner, B.O, Alves, M., Asplund, T., Bohman, A., Boykoff, M., Feetham, P.M., Huang,
Y. Nascimiento, J., Rich, J., Rocha, C.Y., Vaccarino, F. and Xian, S. (2019) ‘Stories of
transformation: A cross-country focus group study on sustainable development and societal
change’ Sustainability 11(8), 2427 DOI:10.3390/su11082427
Ghosh, A. and Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Framing hegemonies of sustainability and climate change:
Deconstructing discourses in the vernacular and English language media on Sundarbans, India’
Geoforum 99(2), 142-153 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.014
Boykoff, M. and Osnes, B. (2019) ‘A Laughing Matter? Confronting Climate Change through Humor’
Political Geography 68(1), 154-163 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.09.006
Boykoff, M. and Oonk, D. (2018) Evaluating the perils and promises of academic climate advocacy
Climatic Change 10.1007/s10584-018-2339-3
Watts, N. Amann, M. Arnell, N. Ayeb-Karlsson, S. Belesova, K. Berry, H. Bouley, T. Boykoff, M.
Byass, P. Cai, W. Campbell-Lendrum, D. Chambers, J. Daly, M. Dasandi, N. Davies, M. Depoux,
A. Dominguez-Salas, P. Drummond, P. Ebi, K.L. Ekins, P. Fernandez Montoya, L. Fischer, H.
Georgeson, L. Grace, D. Graham, H. Hamilton, I. Hartinger, S. Hess, J. Kelman, I. Kiesewetter, G.
Kjellstrom, T. Kniveton, D. Lemke, B. Liang, L. Lott, M. Lowe, R. Maquins, O.S. Martinez-
Urtaza, J. Maslin, M. McAllister, L. Mikhaylov, S.J. Milner, J. Moradi-Lakeh, M. Morrissey, K.
Murray, K. Nilsson, M. Neville, T. Oreszczyn, T. Owfi, F. Pearman, O.* Pencheon, D. Pye, S.
Rabbaniha, M. Robinson, E. Rocklöv, J. Saxer, O. Schütte, S. Semenza, J.C. Shumake-Guillemot,
J. Steinbach, R. Tabatabaei, M. Tomei, J. Trinanes, J. Wheeler, N. Wilkinson, P. Gong, P.
Montgomery, H. and Costello, A. (2018) ‘The 2018 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health
and Climate Change’ The Lancet, 391(10120), 581-630
Boykoff, M., Osnes, B., and Safran, R. (2018) ‘Contando estorias de la ciencia del cambio de clima
‘Dentro del Invernadero’’ in 'Comunicación Audiovisual de la Ciencia’ [co-editors Gómez, G.O.,
León, B. and Francés i Domènec, M.] Special Issue, TV Morfosis CNTD.
Watts, N. Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Bouley, T. Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Campbell-Lendrum,
D., Chambers, J., Cox, P., Daly, M., Dasandi, N., Davies, M., Depledge, M., Depoux, A.,
Dominguez-Salas, P., Drummond, P., Ekins, P., Flahault, A., Frumkin, H., Georgeson, L., Grace,
D., Graham, H., Grojsman, R., Haines, A., Hamilton, I., Hartinger, S., Johnson, A., Kelman, I.,
Kniveton, D., Liang, L., Lott, M., Lowe, B., Mace, G., Maslin, M., Mikhaylov, S., Milner, J.,
Moradi, M., Morrissey, K., Murray, K., Nilsson, M., Neville, T., Oreszczyn, T., Owfi, F.,
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Pencheon, D., Pye, S., Robinson, L., Rocklov, J., Schutte, S., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Steinbach,
R., Tabatabaei, M., Wheeler, N., Wilkinson, P., Gong, P., Montgomery, H. and Costello, A. (2017)
‘The 2017 Report of the Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years
of inaction to a global transformation for public health’ The Lancet 391 (10120), p. 581-630.
Luedecke, G. and Boykoff, M. (2017) “Environment and the Media.” in The International
Encyclopedia of Geography (Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey
Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston eds) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI:
10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0464
Goodman, M.K., Littler, J., Brockington, D. and Boykoff, M.T. (2016) ‘Spectacular
Environmentalisms: media, knowledge and the framing of ecological politics’, Environmental
Communication 10(6) 677-688
Boykoff, M. and Luedecke, G. (2016) ‘Elite News Coverage of Climate Change’ Encyclopedia of
Climate Change Communication DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.357
Fischhendler, I., Boymel, D., and Boykoff, M. (2016) ‘How competing securitized discourses over
land appropriation are constructed: The promotion of solar energy in the Israeli desert’
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 10(2) 147-168
Boykoff, M. (2015) ‘Consenso y oposición al cambio climático: El caso de los EEUU como ejemplo’
Mètode 85(1) 81-87
Gold, A.U., Oonk, D.J.*, Smith, L.K., Boykoff, M., Osnes, B.B., and Sullivan, S.B. (2015) ‘Lens on
Climate Change: Making Climate Meaningful through Student-Produced Videos’ Journal of
Geography DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2015.1013974
O’Neill, S., Williams, H, Kurz, T., Wiersma, B. and Boykoff, M. (2015) ‘Dominant frames evident
in legacy and social media coverage of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report’ Nature Climate Change
5(4), 380-385
Fischhendler, I., Cohen Blankstain, G., and Boykoff, M. (2015) ‘Evaluating mega-projects in the
face of uncertainties: Israeli mass media treatment of the Dead Sea Water Conduit’ Public
Understanding of Science 24(7) 794-810
Anderegg, W.R.L., Callaway, E.S., Boykoff, M., Yohe, G., and Root, T.L. (2014) ‘Error Bias in
Climate Science’ Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95(9), 1445–1451
Bailey, A., Giangola, L.* and Boykoff, M. (2014) ‘How grammatical choice shapes media
representations of climate (un)certainty’ Environmental Communication (special issue
eds. Ulrika Olausson and Peter Berglez) 8(2), 197-215
Boykoff, M., and Olson, S.* (2013) ‘‘Wise Contrarians’ in Contemporary Climate Science-Policy-
Public Interactions’, Celebrity Studies journal (special issue Editors Michael K. Goodman and Jo
Littler) 4(3), 276-291
Boykoff, M., and Yulsman, T. (2013) ‘Political economy, media and climate change – the sinews of
modern life’ Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4(5), 359-371.
Boykoff, M. (2013) ‘Public Enemy no.1? Understanding media representations of outlier views on
climate change’, American Behavioral Scientist 57(6), 796-817
O’Neill, S., Boykoff, M., Day, S.A., and Niemeyer, S. (2013) ‘On the use of imagery for climate
change engagement’ Global Environmental Change 23(2), 413-421.
Schroeder, H., Boykoff, M., and Spiers, L. (2012) ‘Who Represents the State: National Delegations
in the International Climate Negotiations’ Nature Climate Change, November 18, 1-3
doi:10.1038/nclimate1742
Rick, U., Boykoff, M., and Pielke, Jr, R. (2011) ‘Effective media reporting on sea level rise
projections, 1989-2009’ Environmental Research Letters, 6(1), 1-6.
Boykoff, M., Frame, D. and Randalls, S. (2010) ‘Discursive stability meets climate instability: A
critical exploration of the concept of ‘climate stabilization’ in contemporary climate policy’,
Global Environmental Change, 20(1), 53-64
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Bottrill, C., Liverman, D. and Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘Carbon Soundings: GHG emissions in the UK
music industry’ Environmental Research Letters 5(1), 1-8
Boykoff, M. (2009) ‘‘We speak for the trees’: Media reporting on the environment’, Annual Review
of Environment and Resources, 34, 431-458
Boykoff, M. and Goodman, M. (2009) ‘Conspicuous redemption: promises and perils of celebrity
involvement in climate change’, Geoforum, 40, 395-406
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids’, Political
Geography, 27(5), 549-569.
Boykoff, M. and Mansfield, M. (2008) ‘‘Ye Olde Hot Aire’: Reporting on human contributions to
climate change in the UK tabloid press’, Environmental Research Letters, 3(2) 1-8
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘Lost in translation? United States television news coverage of anthropogenic
climate change, 1995-2004’, Climatic Change, 86(1), 1-11.
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘Media and scientific communication: a case of climate change’ Communicating
Environmental Geoscience, special issue: Liverman, D.G.E., Marker, B. and Pereira, C.P. (eds),
Geological Society of London, 11-18.
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘From convergence to contention: United States mass media representations of
anthropogenic climate science’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, (32) 4, 477-
489
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘Flogging a dead norm? Media coverage of anthropogenic climate change in
United States and United Kingdom, 2003-2006’ Area 39(4), 470-481.
Boykoff M. and Boykoff, J. (2007) ‘Climate change and journalistic norms: a case-study of U.S.
mass-media coverage’ Geoforum, 38(6), 1190-1204
Boykoff, M. and Boykoff, J. (2004) ‘Balance as bias: global warming and the U.S. prestige press’,
Global Environmental Change 14(2), 125-136.
EDITED VOLUMES
Crow, D. and Boykoff, M. (eds.) (2014) ‘Culture, Politics and Climate Change: How information
shapes our common future’ Earthscan from Routledge, 252 pp.
Moser, S. and Boykoff, M. (eds.) (2013) ‘Successful adaptation to climate change: Linking science
and policy in a rapidly changing world’ Routledge, London, 360 pp.
Newell, P., Boykoff, M. and Boyd, E. (eds.) (2012) ‘The new carbon economy: constitution,
governance and contestation’ Wiley-Blackwell, 208 pp.
Boykoff, M. (ed.) (2010) ‘The Politics of Climate Change’, Routledge/Europa, 303 pp.
Goodman, M., Boykoff, M. and Evered, K. (eds.) (2008) ‘Contentious Geographies: Environmental
Knowledge, Meaning, and Scale’, Ashgate Publishing, 242 pp.
REFEREED MONOGRAPHS
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy
and Society’ Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316646823. 302 pp.
Boykoff, M. (2011) ‘Who Speaks for Climate? Making sense of mass media reporting on climate
change’, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521133050. 240 pp.
REFEREED GUEST EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES
Goodman, M.K., Littler, J., Brockington, D. and Boykoff, M.T. (2016) ‘Spectacular
Environmentalisms’, Environmental Communication 10(6).
Boyd, E., Boykoff, M. and Newell, P. (2011) ‘What is distinct about the ‘new’ carbon economy?’
Antipode 43(3).
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Boykoff, M. and Randalls, S. (2009) ‘Theorising the Carbon Economy’, Environment & Planning A,
41(10).
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
Boykoff, M. and Farrell, J. (2019) ‘Climate Change Countermovement Organizations and Media
Attention in the United States’ Climate Change Denial and Public Relations. Strategic
Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction (Almiron, N. and Xifra, J. [eds])
Routledge, London, pp. 121-139.
McNatt, M.*, Goodman, M., and Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Anthropocene communications: cultural
politics and media representations of climate change’ The Routledge Companion to Environmental
Planning (Davoudi, S., Cowell, R., White, I. and Blanco, H. [eds]) Routledge, London
León, B., Boykoff, M., Huda, J.*, and Rodrigo, Carmen (2018) ‘Framing in climate change videos" in B.
León and M. Bourk [eds], Communicating Science and Technology through Online Video: Researching
a New Media Phenomenon. London: Routledge.
Osnes, B., Safran, R. and Boykoff, M. (2017) Student Content Production of Climate Communications’.
What is Sustainable Journalism?, Ed. P. Berglez, U. Olausson, and M. Ots [eds] 93-111, Peter Lang
Bailey, A., Giangola, L. and Boykoff, M. (2016) ‘How grammatical choice shapes media
representations of climate (un)certainty’ (Olausson, U. and Berglez, P. eds) Media Research on
Climate Change: Where have we been, where are we going? Routledge, London
Boykoff, M. and Goodman, M.K. (2015) ‘Science (and Policy) Friction: How Media shape North
American public discourses’ (Sommer, B. ed) Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change and the
Environment in Northern America. Climate and Culture vol. 3, edited by Carmen Meinert and
Claus Leggewie. Leiden: Brill, 189-205.
Boykoff, M., McNatt, M.* and Goodman, M.K. (2015) ‘Communicating in the anthropocene: the cultural
politics of climate change news coverage around the world’ (Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds) Routledge
Handbook on Environmental Communication Routledge, London
Boyd, E., Boykoff, M. and Ghosh, A. (2015) ‘Climate adaptation in Mumbai India’ (Johnson, C.A.,
Toly, N.J. and Schroeder, H. eds) The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in
the Global Climate Regime Routledge, London, 139-155.
Bailey, A., Giangola, L.* and Boykoff, M. (2014) ‘¿Eludir el cambio climático? Comparativa de las
preferencias de uso lingüísticas en la cobertura mediática en Estados Unidos y España’ (Leon, B.
ed) Periodistas, medios de comunicación y cambio climático Comunicación Social, Barcelona,
Spain, 137-153.
Crow, D. and Boykoff, M. (2014) ‘Introduction’ (Crow, D and Boykoff, M. ed) Culture, Politics
and Climate Change: How information shapes our common future Earthscan from Routledge,
London, 1-20.
Suarez, P., Mendler de Suarez, J., Koelle, B. and Boykoff, M. (2014) Serious fun: scaling up
community-based adaptation through experiential learning (Ayers, J., Schipper, L., Reid,
H., Huq, S., and Rahman, A. (eds.)) Scaling up Community-based adaptation. London,
Earthscan, 136-151.
Boykoff, M., Ghosh, A.* and Venkateswaran, K.* (2013) ‘Media coverage of discourse on
adaptation: competing visions of “success” in the Indian context’ (Moser, S. and Boykoff, M.
(eds.)) Successful adaptation to climate change: Linking science and policy in a rapidly
changing world Routledge, London, 237-252.
O’Neill, S.J. and Boykoff, M. (2011) The role of new media in engaging the public with climate
change. (Whitmarsh, L., O’Neill, S.J. and Lorenzoni, I. (eds.)) Engaging the Public with Climate
Change: Communication & Behaviour Change, Earthscan, London, 233-251.
Boykoff, M. and Smith J.H. (2010) ‘Media presentations of climate change’ Routledge Handbook of
Climate Change & Society (Lever-Tracy, C. (ed)) Routledge: London, 210-218.
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Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘Carbonundrums: the role of the media’ in Climate Change Science and Policy
(Schneider, S.H., Rosencranz, A., Mastrandrea, M.D., and Kuntz-Duriseti, K. (eds)), 397-404.
Boykoff, M., Goodman, M. and Curtis, I. (2010) ‘The cultural politics of climate change:
interactions in everyday spaces’ The Politics of Climate Change (Boykoff, M. (ed)) Routledge:
London, 136-154.
Boykoff, M. (2009) ‘Media representational practices in the Anthropocene Era’ Uncertainties in
Environmental Modeling and Consequences for Policy Making (Baveye, P., Mysiak, M. and
Laba, M. (eds)), Springer-Verlag Publishing, 339-350.
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘Fight semantic drift?! U.S. mass media coverage of anthropogenic climate
change’ Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, and Scale (Goodman,
M., Boykoff, M. and K. Evered (eds.)), Ashgate Publishing, 39-58.
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘Mass media and environmental politics’ The Politics of the Environment
(Okereke, C. (ed)) Routledge: London, 101-116.
EDITOR REVIEWED ARTICLES
Boyd, E., Boykoff, M. and Newell, P. (2011) ‘The ‘new’ carbon economy: What’s new?’ Antipode
43(3), 1-10.
Boykoff, M. (2011) ‘The role of the media in mobilizing the population’, in Climate Change: Global
Risks, Challenges, and Decisions (Richardson, K, Steffen, W. and Liverman, D. [eds]),
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 455-458.
Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘Indian media representations in a threatened journalistic ecosystem’ Climatic
Change 99(1-2), 17-25.
O’Neill, S.J. and Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘Climate denier, skeptic or contrarian?’ Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 107: E151.
Hulme, M., Boykoff, M., Gupta, J., Heyd, T., Jaeger, J., Jamieson, D., Lemos, M.C., O’Brien, K.,
Roberts, J.T., Rockström, J., Vogel, C. (2009) ‘Conference covered from all angles’ Science 15
May, 881-882.
Boykoff, M., Bumpus, A, Liverman D, and Randalls S. (2009) ‘Theorising the carbon economy:
introduction to the Special Issue’ Environment and Planning A 41(10), 2357-2379.
Boykoff, M. and Rajan, S.R. (2007) ‘Signals and noise: mass media coverage of climate change in
the USA and UK’ European Molecular Biology Organization Reports 8(3), 207-211
Boykoff, M. (2005) ‘The disconnect of news reporting from scientific evidence’ Nieman Reports
59(4), Winter 2005, 86-87.
BOOK REVIEWS
Boykoff, M. (2018) review of Rising by Elizabeth Rush, Nature Climate Change, 8(10), p. 653.
Boykoff, M. (2016) review of Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public
Sphere by Philip Smith and Nicolas Howe, American Journal of Sociology (vol. 122, no. 1)
Boykoff, M. (2013) review of ‘Governing the Wild: Ecotours of power’ by Stephanie Rutherford,
University of Minnesota Press, The AAG Review of Books 1(1), 30-31
Boykoff, M. (2012) ‘Webs and Flows: Understanding 21st Century Activism Online’ a review of
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age by Jennifer Earl
and Katrina Kimport. Contemporary Sociology, 41(4) 486-487.
Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘It’s not you, it’s me…well, it’s us – A review of Hulme’s “Why We Disagree
about Climate Change’’ Geographical Journal 176(3), 267-270
Boykoff, M. (2010) A review of ‘Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent
democracies’ edited by Compston, H. and Bailey, I. Environment and Planning C, 28(3), 569-570
Boykoff, M. (2009) ‘Beyond Discord: A review of ‘Why We Disagree about Climate Change’,
Nature Climate Change Reports, doi:10.1038/climate.2009.70
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Boykoff, M. (2009) ‘What have future generations done for me lately?: Climate change causes,
consequences, and challenges in the new millennium – A review of Cowie (2007), Gautier
(2008), Moser and Dilling (2007)’, Global Environmental Politics 9(2), 123-128.
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘A Review of ‘Creating a Climate for Change’ edited by Moser and Dilling’,
International Journal of Sustainability Communication, 1(3), 171-175
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘A Review of ‘The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge,
Norms and Discourses’ edited by Mary Pettenger’, Environmental Conservation, 35(1), 88-89.
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘A Review of ‘The Atlas of Climate Change,’ by Kirsten Dow and Thomas E.
Downing’, Environmental Science and Policy 10(3), 267-268
Boykoff, M. (2004) ‘A Review of Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science’
by Tim Forsyth’, Environment and Planning A 36(8), 1517-1518.
Boykoff, M. (2003) ‘A Review of ‘The Carbon War’ by Jeremy Leggett’, Capitalism, Nature,
Socialism (14)1, 146-148.
DATASETS Boykoff, M., Aoyagi, M., Benham, A.*, Daly, M., Doi, K., Fernández-Reyes, R., McAllister, L., McNatt,
M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D. *, Pearman, O. *, Simonsen, A.H., and Ytterstad, A. (2019) World
Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and Climate Change
Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/4c3b-b819
Boykoff, M., Chandler, P., Nacu-Schmidt, A., and Oonk, D.* (2019). World Radio Coverage of Climate
Change or Global Warming, 2000-2019. Media and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/k55w-7a04
Boykoff, M., Benham, A. *, Daly, M., McNatt, M. and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019). International Wire
Service Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2019. Media and Climate Change
Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/fj1y-8c74
Boykoff, M., Gifford, L., Nacu-Schmidt, A. and Osbourne-Gowey, J.* (2019). US Television Coverage of
Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets.
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/C862-0E81
Boykoff, M., Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.*
(2019) Australian Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and
Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado,
doi.org/10.25810/558F-C477
Boykoff, M, Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.* (2019)
Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2019. Media and Climate
Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/es52-xr23
Boykoff, M., Benham, A.*, Daly, M., Fernández-Reyes, R., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A.,
Oonk, D.*, Pearman, O.*, Simonsen, A.H., and Ytterstad, A. (2019). European Newspaper Coverage of
Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets.
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, https://doi.org/10.25810/fx6e-r462
Boykoff, M, Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.* (2019)
German Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and Climate
Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/rxtv-eb29
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Boykoff, M, Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.* (2019)
Indian Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and Climate
Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/6qjv-1296
Fernández Reyes, R., Boykoff, M., Daly, M., McAllister, L., Nacu-Schmidt, A., and Pearman, O.* (2019)
Latin American Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2019. Media and
Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of
Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/5dxz-xm93
Boykoff, M., Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.*
(2019) New Zealand Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2005-2019. Media
and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado,
doi.org/10.25810/jgyv-zg57
Boykoff, M., Chandler, P., Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and
Pearman, O.* (2019) United Kingdom Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming,
2004-2019. Media and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology
Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of
Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/8196-e820
Boykoff, M., Daly, M., McAllister, L., McNatt, M., Nacu-Schmidt, A., Oonk, D.*, and Pearman, O.*
(2019) United States Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2019. Media
and Climate Change Observatory Data Sets. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of
Colorado, doi.org/10.25810/jck1-hf50
REPORTS, TEACHING MODULES AND WORKING PAPERS
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) ‘“I’m bordering on saying ‘I told you so’ but I
don’t think anyone really wants to hear that”’: December 2019 Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) ‘Talking about Climate Change is not an Insult to
Bushfire Victims’: November 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and
Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) ‘A New Normal’: October 2019 Review of the
Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change
Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘‘Unprecedented and dangerous changes [are]
being driven by global heating'”’: September 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate
Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘I am an environmentalist”’: August 2019
Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate
Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
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Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘Monumental Challenges Remain”’: July 2019
Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate
Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., McAllister and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘Rights to Life, Liberty, Property and
Public Trust Resources”’: June 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and
Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) ‘“Life as We Know It’”: May 2019 Review of the
Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change
Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/8qh4-1973
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “’Coal is Facing Intensifying Pressure from Wind
and Power”’: April 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global
Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/2gey-pv24
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘Scientists Fear Arctic Heating Could Trigger a
Climate ‘Tipping Point’”’: March 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change
and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology
Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of
Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/t24f-6g96
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘The Earth is Facing a Climate Change
Deadline”’: February 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global
Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/n3qx-9x31
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) “‘The World is Most Clearly Sleepwalking into
Catastrophe’”: January 2019 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global
Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
doi.org/10.25810/fsex-ep12
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J. and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2019) A Review of Media Coverage of Climate Change
and Global Warming in 2018, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/71q0-st50
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) ‘Duly ‘noted’, but not duly ‘welcomed’:
December 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming,
Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/qv9p-yt19
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) “I’ve seen it. I’ve read some of it. And it’s fine”:
November 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming,
Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research,
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/te5x-ye24
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) ‘1.5 to stay alive’: October 2018 Review of the
Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change
Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/jne4-af95
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Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) A Tale of Three Storms: Mangkhut, Florence &
Trump’s Tweets: September 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and
Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/Q8YF-0640
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) Morrison installed, Clean Power Plan uninstalled:
August 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media
and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
https://doi.org/10.25810/70zy-9358
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) Connecting the dots: July 2018 Review of the
Month's Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change
Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/KAC7-ZE20
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) June 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/PETQ-D773
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) May 2018 Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/eafb-9s31
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) April 2018 Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/KSFA-KH84
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) March 2018 Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/WFEM-SQ87
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) February 2018 Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/CT5R-9A40
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2018) January 2018 Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/VQ0G-HW97
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) December Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/60Y9-HC83
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) November Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/CVDF-T795
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) October Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/RXG2-4264
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Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) September Review of the Month's Media
Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center
for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/EFG4-EG94
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) August Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/TJZG-R879
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) July Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/XAJF-M109
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) June Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/AB5S-XQ20
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) May Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/H0X4-4928
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) April Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/EGKS-8176
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) March Review of the Month's Media Coverage of
Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/72NM-KK94
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) February Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/H07G-YC17
Boykoff, M., Katzung, J., and Nacu-Schmidt, A. (2017) January Review of the Month's Media Coverage
of Climate Change and Global Warming, Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.25810/VYRF-9R75
Boykoff, M., and Venkateswaran, K.* (2014) ‘Environment: Climate Change’ for TED talks/Wiley
Interdisciplinary Studies series http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-814217.html
Liverman, D, Moser, S, Wieland, P, Dilling, L, and Boykoff, M (2013) Climate Choices for a
Sustainable Southwest Chapter 18 – Southwest Technical Report to the National Climate
Assessment
Boykoff, M, Goodman, M. and Littler, J. (2011) ‘Charismatic megafauna: The growing power of
celebrities and pop culture in climate change campaigns’ Environment, Politics and
Development Working Paper Series,WP#28, Department of Geography, King’s College London.
Boykoff, M. and Okereke, C. (2010) ‘A-Z glossary of climate change’ in The Politics of Climate
Change Boykoff, M. (ed), 185-260.
Boykoff, M (2009) ‘A discernible human influence on the COP15? Considering the role of media in
shaping ongoing climate science and policy’ session summary from the Copenhagen Climate
Congress
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Bottrill, C., Lye, G., Boykoff, M. and Liverman, D. (2008) ‘First Step: UK Music Industry
Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2007’, report for Julie’s Bicycle & the UK Music Industry, 2007-
2008
Boykoff, M. and Roberts, T. (2007) ‘Climate change and human development – risk and
vulnerability in a warming world: Media coverage of climate change – current trends, strengths
and weaknesses’, background paper for the United Nations Development Program Human
Development Reports 2007
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘Climate Change and Global Justice’ for The Encyclopedia of Activism and
Social Justice (Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn Herr (eds)), Sage Publications.
Boykoff, M. (2007) ‘Carbon Dioxide’ and ‘Framework Convention on Climate Change’ for The
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (Paul Robbins (ed.)), Sage Publications.
COMMENTARIES
Boykoff, M. and Pearman, O.* (2019) ‘Now or Never: How media coverage of the IPCC 1.5C Report
shaped climate action deadlines’ One Earth 1(1), 1-4
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Comunicación creativa sobre el cambio climático’ Metode 103, 5-9.
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Why we should laugh about climate change’ The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/leave-em-laughing-instead-of-crying-climate-humor-can-break-
down-barriers-and-find-common-ground-120704
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘The kids are alright, adults are the climate change problem’ Daily Camera,
Friday September 6 https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/09/05/opinion-max-boykoff-the-kids-
are-alright-adults-are-the-climate-change-problem/
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘How to Talk Effectively about Climate Change’ Scientific American July 22
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-talk-effectively-about-climate-change/
Boykoff, M. (2019) ‘Communicating climate change effectively and creatively’ Cambridge
University Press blog July 4 http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2019/07/communicating-climate-
change-effectively-and-creatively/
Boykoff, M. (2016) ‘The ‘get on with it’ Conference of Parties meeting in Marrakech’ Prometheus,
November 17 http://ciresblogs.colorado.edu/prometheus/2016/11/17/the-get-on-with-it-
conference-of-parties-meeting-in-marrakech/
Boykoff, M. (2016) ‘Prometheus 2.0: Our common future’ Ogmius
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/ogmius/archives/issue_45/ogmius_exchange3.html
Boykoff, M. (2016) ‘An experimental evening of ‘comedy and climate change’ Inside the
Greenhouse http://insidethegreenhouse.org/blog/experimental-evening-%E2%80%98comedy-
climate-change%E2%80%99
Boykoff, M. (2015) ‘Do the mainstream media tell the full story? A critical account of coverage at
COP21’ Climate Matters blog, December 3
Boykoff, M. (2015) ‘Leveraging Media, Social Science, Humanities in Climate Change
Discussions’ Boulder Daily Camera, May 2.
Boykoff, M. (2014) ‘Fostering Creative Climate Communications ‘Inside the Greenhouse’’, Leopold
Leadership 3.0, 21 July, http://web.stanford.edu/group/leopoldleadership/cgi-
bin/wordpress/?p=3561
Boykoff, M. and Osnes, B. (2012) ‘Students sprout creative communications on climate change
Inside the Greenhouse’, Skeptical Science (sKs) blog, 15 August,
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Students-sprout-creative-communications-climate-change-
Inside-Greenhouse.html
Boykoff, M. (2012) ‘The climate stories we tell ourselves’ Cambridge University Press blog, 2
April http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2012/04/climate-change-and-the-media/
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Boykoff, M. (2012), ‘A dangerous shift in Obama’s climate change rhetoric’ Washington Post, 29
January, http://wapo.st/zf2GLo
Boykoff, M. (2012), Economies must grow for the climate change fight. The Guardian 16
January, http://bit.ly/xx30wu
Boykoff, M. (2011) ‘ COP17 – global vs. local solutions’ Think Africa Press, December 1,
http://thinkafricapress.com/cop17/behalf-world
Boykoff, M. (2010) ‘Media reporting on climate change in the 00s’ Extra! – Magazine of Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), February
Boykoff, M. (2009) ‘El caso del cambio climático: los medios y la comunicación científica’
Infoamérica, Agosto-Diciembre, p. 117-127.
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘The real swindle’ Nature Reports Climate Change, 2(2), 31-32,
www.nature.com/climate/2008/0803/full/climate.2008.14.html
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘The language of carbon trading’ online debate with Linda Rost, January 5-11,
www.rsacarbonlimited.org/viewarticle.aspa?pageid=859&nodeid=111
Boykoff, M. (2007) “Climate change and media, science and policy: is time on our side?”
nature.com Climate Feedback, climate change blog http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/
Boykoff, J. and Boykoff, M. (2004) ‘Journalistic balance as global warming bias: creating
controversy where science finds consensus’ Extra! – Magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) 17(8), 22-25.
MEDIA INTERACTIONS (since July 2009 [appt at CU] – Dec 2019)
Over these 10.5 years at CU Boulder, I have been interviewed or my work has been featured in the media
approximately 730 times from September 2009 through the end of 2019. My work has gained recognition
particularly in recent years. Media outlets where I have been interviewed include CNN, France 24 television,
Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today,
Associated Press, National Public Radio, KPFA, Deutsche Welle and Columbia Journalism Review. I have
been interviewed or my research has also been covered in many additional outlets as well as in numerous
additional international media organizations.
INVITED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS ______
2019 – invited talk, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12
2019 – invited talk and workshop session, University of Tasmania, November 28-29
2019 – invited panelist, Colorado Academy, Denver, Colorado, November 12
2019 – invited panelist CMCI One-College event, University of Colorado, October 24
2019 – invited panelist Denver Museum of Nature & Science event, Denver, Colorado, October 16
2019 – seminar talk in Geography Department, University of Colorado, October 11
2019 – invited presentation (with Beth Osnes and Cassandra Brooks), Useful Arctic Knowledge workshop,
University of Colorado, October 1
2019 – Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax, Denver, Colorado, September 21
2019 – Center for a New Energy Economy (CNEE) event, Breckenridge, Colorado, September 19
2019 – Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, Colorado, September 11
2019 – invited panelist (two panels), Worldviews Conference, University of Toronto, June 12-14
2019 – invited speaker, University of British Columbia, CoAdaptree Symposium, May 21
2019 – invited panelist, University of Colorado Boulder Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Fellows, May 13
2019 – invited speaker, New York University, Environmental Studies seminar, April 16
2019 – invited speaker, Princeton University, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-
PREE) seminar at the Woodrow Wilson School, April 15
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2019 – invited moderator, Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, April 12
2019 – invited speaker, London School of Economics, Grantham Institute, March 1
2019 – invited speaker, University of Valencia Mètode journal anniversary talks, February 28
2019 – invited speaker, Michigan Symposium on Media and Politics: Environmental Advocacy in a Polarized
World, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 22
2019 – invited speaker, 5th Kavli Symposium, World Federation of Science Journalists, Washington D.C.,
February 20
2019 – invited talk, Collection of Climate and Energy Education Resources (CLEAN) group, February 5
2018 – invited talk, Narratives, New Media and Mass Communication workshop, Chatham House and Leo
DiCaprio Foundation, New York, NY, September 27.
2018 – invited lecture for ‘Unnatural Disasters’ conference, University of Illinois, September 13
2018 – invited panel, Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP), University of Colorado, September 5
2018 – UC3 (University Climate Change Cooperative), University of Colorado, July 26
2018 – Global Town Hall, Climate, Sustainable Development and Global Economic Security panel, July 23
2018 – National Park Service, Climate Change Response Program 10th Anniversary, July 12
2018 – University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society ‘Climate Science and Democracy’
April 26
2018 – invited panel talk, Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, April 10
2018 – invited lecture, Colorado School of Mines, Hennebach Lecture Series in the Humanities, Arts and
Social Sciences Division, April 4
2018 – guest judge for ‘Denver’s Next Improv Star’, Bovine Metropolis, April 21
2018 – invited lecture, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Comunicació, Barcelona, Spain, March 7
2017 – invited lecture, Communicating Climate Change in Troubled Times workshop, Reading University,
November 14
2017 – Climate Reality, invited panel presentation, University of Colorado Boulder, October 26
2017 – National Parks Service, Climate Change Response Program, invited presentation, October 18
2017 – Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP), University of Colorado, invited presentation, October 4
2017 – Policy panel for Communication Science Conference (CommSciCon) Rocky Mountain West,
University of Colorado, September 24
2017 – Understanding and Adapting to Future Climate in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Deep South Inaugural
National Science Challenge Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, September 4
2017 – Universität Hamburg, for workshop on ‘re-defining the boundaries of science and journalism in the
debate on climate change’, June 21-23
2017 – Lens of Climate Change invited speaker, CU Boulder, June 9
2017 – Universidad Valencia, TV Morfosis invited presentation/interview, June 3
2017 – Colorado Renewable Energy Society talk, May 25
2017 – Conference on World Affairs moderator ‘climate refugees: the human cost of climate change’, CU
Boulder, April 12
2016 – United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change, Marrakech, invited speaker at side
event hosted by International Environmental Communication Association, November 15
2016 – United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change, Marrakech, invited speaker at side
event hosted by Climate Outreach (UK), November 15
2016 – United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change, Marrakech, invited speaker at side
event hosted by EcoArts Connections, November 16
2016 – National Parks Service, Climate Change Response Program, invited presentation, October 17
2016 – League of Women Voters (Denver, Colorado), invited presentation and panel discussion, March 22
2016 – Royal Society of New Zealand (Wellington), invited keynote lecture February 9
2016 – University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies colloquium, January 25
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2015 - International Lecture Series of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) at the University of
Hamburg, invited speaker December 16
2015 – United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change, Paris, France, invited speaker at side
event hosted by Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), December 3
2015 - Cultures of Sustainability, Social and Digital/Virtual Media, University of Reading, invited lecture,
November 24
2015 - Communicating Climate Science: Challenges and Opportunities conference, Basque Centre for Climate
Change, invited keynote lecture, November 23
2015 – International Festival of Environmental Communication – Festival Internacional de Cine de Medio
Ambiente (FICMA), Barcelona, Spain, invited speaker November 11
2015 – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Comunicació, Barcelona, Spain, invited talk, November 10
2015 – Universidad de Navarra, School of Communication, invited seminar lecture, November 5
2015 – New Generation of Polar Researchers, USC Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina Island,
California, invited workshop seminars/talks May 2-9
2015 – World Bank Roundtable ‘Communication for Climate Change 2.0’, invited speaker, Washington, DC,
April 15
2014 – United Nations Conference of Parties Meeting (COP20) Climate Negotiations, Development and
Climate Days, lighting talk, Lima, Peru, December 6
2014 – Sustainability Science Congress hosted by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU),
invited talk, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 25
2014 – Teaching Controversial Science Topics, University of Colorado-Boulder, invited speaker (with
Rebecca Safran and Beth Osnes) September 13
2014 - The American Meteorological Society, 21st Conference on Applied Climatology invited speaker,
Denver, CO, June 10
2014 – University of Idaho, School of Journalism, invited speaker, March 24 & 25
2014 – Wellesley College, Environmental Studies Department, invited speaker, March 14
2014 – University of California, Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies Department, invited speaker, February 18
2014 – Stanford University, Department of Communication, invited speaker, January 20
2013 – University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, XVIII CICOM International Conference of Communication,
keynote lecture, November 7
2013 – University of Copenhagen, Sustainability series lecture, October 22
2013 – China Center for Climate Change Communication, Renmin University, Beijing, China, invited talk,
October 12
2013 – American Geophysical Union Chapman conference, invited talk, Granby, CO, June 9
2013 – Association of American Geography meeting, invited by Communications Geography group for ‘author
meets critics’ session, April 9
2013 – Journalism that Matters, invited plenary discussion with Bill McKibben, April 3
2013 – Boston College, Department of Sociology, invited seminar lecture, February 19
2012 – keynote/plenary talk, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 17
2012 – University of Colorado-Boulder Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/Institute for
Behavioral Sciences brownbag seminar (with Professor Beth Osnes), Boulder, CO, November 11
2012 – plenary session at the Society of Environmental Journalists, Lubbock, Texas, October 7
2012 – invited speaker, Program on Writing and Rhetoric and the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at
the International Conference on Culture, Politics and Climate Change, Boulder, Colorado, Sept 13
2012 – invited speaker, National Center for Atmospheric Research ‘Climate Communications Roundtable’,
September 13
2012 – invited speaker, Peak to Peak workshop on sustainability, August 21
2012 – invited speaker, Greenhouse Scholars workshop, August 13
2012 – invited speaker, Essen Germany workshop, June 28-30
2012 – invited speaker, Denver Café Scientifique, June 12
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2012 – invited speaker, World Renewable Energy Forum, Denver, Colorado, May 15
2012 – keynote address, DePaul University, Chicago, April 13
2012 – Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Boulder, Colorado, March 19
2012 – panelist for science communication and public understanding, Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM)
and Association for the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Salt Lake City, February 21
2012 – Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, Colorado, February 8
2011 – ‘Shapers of the debate: what happens to science in the hands of stakeholders’ panel,
American Geophysical Union, December 5-9
2011 – Mexican ministry of foreign affairs, Mexico City, November 23
2011 – University of Miami, Abbess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, November 14
2011 – University of Colorado-Boulder Peace Corps event, October 26
2011 – ‘Carbon smarts: learning science on the go’ conference, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell, October 20-21
2011 – talk at ‘Media leaders and climate change roundtable’ Royal Society of the Arts, Institute for
Public Policy Research, London, October 6
2011 – talk at ‘Peak to Peak: teaching sustainability’ workshop, University of Colorado-Boulder, August 16
2011 – James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, July 14
2011 – talk at International Environmental Communication Summit, Dalfsen, Netherlands, June 20
2010 – talk at media training workshop, hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development,
United Nations 16th Conference of Parties meeting, Cancún, Mexico, December 2
2010 – talk to Climat Environnement Societe - Groupement D’interet Scientifique on ‘Climate change
controversies in the UK media: sociological insights’, Paris, France, September 20-21
2010 – Society for the Social Studies of Science and Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies
conference, University of Tokyo, Japan, August 26
2010 – the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, August 25
2010 – the Association of Japanese Environmental Journalists, Waseda University, Japan, August 24
2010 – panelist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification on ‘land use and land use change
in the climate debate and negotiations’, Global Media Forum, Bonn, Germany, June 22
2010 – panelist for Deutsche Welle Media Services session on ‘coverage vs advocacy: does the media guide or
reflect a cultural shift?’, Global Media Forum, Bonn, Germany, June 22
2010 – talk at the International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, Asilomar Conference
Center, Monterey, California, March 24
2010 – panelist for ‘Geoengineering and Climate Change: promises, pitfalls, possibilities’, Environmental
Studies Program Colloquium, University of Colorado-Boulder, March 29
2010 – Colorado School of Mines, March 11
2010 – East Boulder Senior Center, January 22
2009 – talk in the ‘communicating climate change’ session at the American Geophysical Union conference,
San Francisco, CA, December 13
2009 – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth Systems Research Laboratory Physical
Sciences Division Seminar Series, Boulder, CO, December 9
2009 – University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, UK, December 1
2009 – University of Colorado-Boulder Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/Institute for
Behavioral Sciences brownbag seminars, Boulder, CO, October 26
2009 – University of Colorado-Boulder Geography Department colloquia, September 25
2009 – talk at World Congress of Science Journalists, London, UK, July 1
2009 – Newcastle University, School of Geography and Environment, May 27
2009 – the G8+5 Meeting of Environment Ministers, Siracusa, Italy, April 22
2009 – talk at ‘Media and the Environment: Between Complexity and Urgency’ conference, Institute of Social
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Sciences of the University of Lisbon, The Gulbenkian Foundation, and the European Environment
Agency, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2-3
2009 – session chair/presenter, ‘Role of Media in Contributing in Combating Climate Change’, Congress on
Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, and Decisions, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 9-12
2009 – London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment, February 17
2009 – talk for the Cultures of Climate Research Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, February 10
2009 – participant in discussion on interactions between celebrity and the environment, with George Monbiot,
Mike Goodman and Jo Littler, Kings College London, January 28
2008 – talk at media training workshop, hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development,
United Nations 14th Conference of Parties meeting, Poznan, Poland, December 5
2008 – Phillip Allan Updates Teacher Conference, Bloomsbury, London, December 3.
2008 – International Graduate School, University of Oxford, Centre for the Environment, School of
Geography, December 2
2008 – Oxford City Schools High School Science Day, Oxford Castle, UK, November 11.
2008 – Halford MacKinder Society lecture, Christ Church, University of Oxford, November 6.
2008 – keynote address for the 2008 Bishop Grosseteste Lecture in the Chapter House of Lincoln Cathedral,
October 9, Lincoln, UK
2008 – talk at UK Energy Research Centre Meeting Place workshop ‘Engaging the public in climate change
and energy demand reduction’, 7-8 October, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
2008 – web seminar talk, United States National Park Service, September 11, US
2008 – talk for Barclay’s Int’l Climate Challenge, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, June 23
2008 – talk at ‘Communicating about Climate Change: A Governor’s Initiative Toward a Sustainable West’
workshop, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, June 2-4
2008 – talk for MBA Social Marketing, Said Business School, University of Oxford, May 13
2008 – ‘The 1887 Society’ of Geographers lecture, University of Oxford, May 12
2008 – University College London, School of Geography, February 28.
2008 – Department of Geography Seminar Series, University of California-Berkeley, February 13.
2008 – talk at ‘Science, Politics, Mass Media and the Environment’ workshop, Oxford University Centre for
the Environment/Reuters School of Journalism, February 1, Oxford, UK
2008 – The Cherwell School, January 30, Oxford, UK
2008 – Oxford School of the Third Age, January 24, Oxford, UK
2007 – International Graduate School, University of Oxford, Centre for the Environment, November 27
2007 – University of Plymouth, School of Geography, October 24
2007 – talk at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute meeting, ‘Uncertainties
in environmental modeling, consequences for policy making’, Istria, Croatia, October 6
2007 – talk at the ‘Trust in Science’ workshop, Toronto, Canada, October 15-16
2007 – University of East Anglia Centre for Environmental Risk/Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, June 13
2007 – talk at Climate Change: Scientific Briefing for Artists, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, June 1
2007 – talk at the Annual National Science Communication Conference, by the British Association for the
Advancement of Science/The Royal Society, 14-15 May, London
2007 – talk at the Oxford Literary Festival, Christchurch College, University of Oxford, March 25
2007 – talk at British Council Abrupt Climate Change Workshop, University of Oxford, March 23
2007 – University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, February 15
2007 – Oxford University Centre for the Environment ‘Challenging Behaviour’ seminar lecture, February 8
2006 – Kings College London Department of Geography, Nov. 21
2006 – OxFam Headquarters, Oxford, UK, October 25.
2006 – talk at the Discussion on Climate Science & Policy, Phoenix Theater, Oxford, UK, September 24
2006 – University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Politics, May 8
2006 – Moss Landing Marine Lab Seminar lecture, March 24
2005 – Santa Clara University Environment Studies Institute Seminar lecture, April 29
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2004 – Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, New York, New York, October 7
SELECTED ACTIVITIES AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS __ 2019: Panel presentation, Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
September 4-7
Invited participant, Earth’s Call, Aspen, Colorado, May 17-19
Invited participant, Deep South Challenge Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, May 7-12
2018: Invited participant, Scientific Integrity Roundtable, US Senate offices, Washington DC, December 11.
Session co-convener (with Shelly Sommer), American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, December 12.
Invited participant, Scientific Integrity Roundtable, AAAS, Washington DC, May 21-22.
Workshop participant, Climate change think tanks, Barcelona, March 4-8.
Invited participant, Scientific Integrity Roundtable, US Senate offices, Washington DC, February 8.
2017: Invited participant, Deep South International Science Panel, ‘Understanding and Adapting to Future Climate in
Aotearoa/New Zealand’, Wellington, New Zealand, September 4-9
Invited participant, Universität Hamburg ‘re-defining the boundaries of science and journalism in the debate on
climate change’ workshop, Hamburg, Germany, June 21-24
Invited participant, Universidad de Valencia ‘TV Morfosis’, Valencia, Spain, May 31-June 3
Invited participant, CoAdapTree: Healthy trees for future climates Genome BC Research Oversight Panel,
Vancouver, B.C., April 10
Presentation in session on ‘Geographies and counter-politics of humor amid adversity’ session at the
Association of American Geographers, 7 April, Boston, Massachusetts 2016: Workshop participant, Data Visualization, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Advanced Training, Duke
University, October 21-22
Invited participant, Deep South International Science Panel, New Zealand, February 6-10
2015: Invited Participant, ‘Taller D'audiovisuals’, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, September 29
Presentation (with Rebecca Safran and Beth Osnes), Conference on Communication and the Environment,
University of Colorado-Boulder, June 11-14.
Invited Participant, ‘Disaster Risk Reduction – Climate Change Adaptation Expert Forum’, Antalya, Turkey,
February 10-13
Invited Participant, ‘Navigating the International Conservation/Sustainability Agenda’, Aldo Leopold
Leadership Program Advanced Training Workshop, February 1-4
Invited Participant, ‘IPCC Expert Meeting on studies of the IPCC process’, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan 28-29
2014: Paper Presenter, Third International Climate Adaptation Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 12-16.
2013: Presentation, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, MA, February 14-18
Paper presenter, International Human Dimensions of Global Change meeting, United Nations University,
Tokyo, Japan, January 27 – February 1
2012: Paper presenter, International Studies Association meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4
Paper presenter, Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences conference, University of Santa Clara,
Santa Clara, CA, June 24-27
Session co-organizer, Climate Adaptation Futures meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, May 26-29
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Paper presenter at Rachel Carson Center, ‘Eco-Images: Altering Environmental Discussions and Political
Landscapes’ workshop, Munich, Germany April 18-19
Paper presenter at International Studies Association meeting, San Diego, CA, April 1-4
Session co-organizer and presenter in sessions at the Association of American Geographers, 23-26 February,
New York, New York
2011: Invited talk/participant at ‘Glamorous environmentalisms’ workshop, Kings College London, July 7-9
Presented research, organized and chaired sessions on ‘exploring how mass media confront complexity when
covering climate change’, Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences conference, Burlington, VT,
June 25
Presented research in session ‘Non-state actors in earth system governance and the public-private divide’,
Colorado Conference on Environmental Governance, Ft. Collins, Colorado, April 19
2010: Presented research at United Nations 16th Conference of Parties meeting, Cancún, Mexico, December 3
Presented research at the International Climate Change Adaptation Conference on Climate Adaptation Futures:
Preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change, Gold Coast, Australia, July 1
Presented research on the panel ‘Understanding Climate Change Skepticism’ at the American Association for
the Advancement of Science meeting, San Diego, CA, February 22
2009: Presented research at the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on Earth Systems Governance, Volendam, Netherlands,
December 4
Presented in session on ‘teaching sustainability’, co-organized and chaired session on ‘media representations of
climate change’ at the 2009 Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences conference in Madison
Wisconsin, October 9-12
Presented research at the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change, April 26-30, Bonn, Germany
Co-organized sessions and presented research at the 2009 Association of American Geography meeting in Las
Vegas, NV, USA, March 24-29 on ‘governance in the new carbon economy’
2008: Co-organized and participated in ‘TippingPoints: A Climate Science-Arts Encounter’ (with Peter Gingold, Ian
Curtis, Angela McSherry and Prof. Diana Liverman), University of Oxford, September 14-15
Participated in Tyndall Workshop on Non nation-state actors, University of Oxford, May 19-20
Presented research and co-organized three sessions (with Harriet Bulkeley, Diana Liverman and Julian
Agyeman) called ‘Governing Climate Change: new politics, new discourses, new geographies’ for the
Association of American Geographers conference, 15-19 April, Boston, MA
2007: Presented research at the British International Studies Association conference, University of Cambridge, UK
December 17-19
Presented research at the Communicating Climate Change conference, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal,
November 19-20
Presented two research papers at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference in Montreal, Canada,
October 11-13
Participated and presented in the DISCCRS III Symposium in Volcanoes National Park, Hawai’i, September
10-17
Co-presented (with Mike Goodman) research at Cultural Studies Now organised by the School of Social
Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies (SSMCS) at the University of East London July 19-22
Presented research at (and co-organized) the Commodifying Carbon: the Ethics of Markets in Nature, July 16,
University of Oxford
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Co-organized and presented research at the ‘Carbonundrums: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate
Change around the World’ workshop, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the Environmental
Change Institute, University of Oxford, June 27
Presented research at the Workshop on Environment and Sustainability Communication at the Leuphana
University of Lüneburg, June 21-22
Presented research at the Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change,
24-26 May, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Presented research at the ‘Minding the Gap’: Reflections on Media Practice & Theory symposium, Reuters
Institute for the Study of Journalism University of Oxford, May 12
Presented research (and co-organized sessions) at the Association of American Geographers conference, 17-21
April, San Francisco, California
2006: Panel participant/presenter for climate discussion, OxFam Headquarters, Oxford, UK, October 25.
Participant at the Theorising the Carbon Economy workshop, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
September 20
Participant at the ‘Tipping Points’ Conference on Climate Change, University of Oxford, September 3-4
Presenter at Royal Geographic Society Institute for British Geographers Conference, session title:
Implementing Climate Policy: Geographical Perspectives August 31-September 2
Presenter at the 2006 Association of American Geographers Conference; March 7-11; Chicago, Illinois.
2005: Presenter at the 2005 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change ‘Global
Environmental Change, Globalization and International Security: New Challenges for the 21st Century’;
October 9-13; Bonn, Germany.
Presenter at the First Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Univ. of California-Santa Cruz, June 2.
Participant at Climate Science Education Day (with 39 other selected climate scientists); April 26-27,
organized by Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS); Sacramento, California
2004: Invited talk (and participant) in the Workshop on the Communication of Science via the Media at the
University of Washington; Seattle, Washington; November 8-10
Presenter at the PrecipNet/STEPS Workshop on Climate Change Science and Policy, University of California-
Santa Cruz, May 27-28
Participant in the Institute for International Studies Ford Environmental Politics Dissertation Workshop
‘Nature, Culture and Power’; Sonoma, California, April 8-11
Paper presenter at the Association of American Geographers Centennial Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
March 14-19
2003: Paper presenter at the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
‘Taking Stock and Moving Forward’, Montreal, Canada, October 16-18
Participant at the Greenhouse Network National Climate Education Project: Speaker and Leader Training,
Boston, Massachusetts, July 25-27
2002: Paper presenter at the 2002 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
‘Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition’, Berlin, Germany, December 6-7
TEACHING_________________________________
University of Colorado-Boulder Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Introduction to Environmental Studies, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017,
Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies Program
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Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Introduction to Environmental Studies, Summer 2019 [session B],
University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies Program
Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Creative Climate Communications, Spring, 2019, Spring 2017, Spring
2016, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies Program, Atlas Program and Department of
Theater and Dance
Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Climate Politics and Policy, Summer 2018 [session B], University of
Colorado Boulder, Geography Department and Environmental Studies Program
Graduate Teaching, ‘Colorado Science Technology and Policymaking processes’ with Matthew Druckenmiller
and Jorge Nicolás Hernández Charpak, Maymester 2018, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental
Studies Program
Undergraduate Teaching: course title: First Year Seminar – Science and Environmental Communication, Fall
2017, University of Colorado Boulder.
Undergraduate Independent Study, Fall 2017, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies Program
Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Climate Politics and Policy, Summer 2017 [session B], Summer 2016
[session B], Summer 2015 [session A], Spring 2012 & Spring 2011, University of Colorado Boulder,
Environmental Studies Program
Graduate Seminar Teaching: course title: Climate Politics and Science-Policy, Spring 2014, University of
Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies and Geography
Graduate Seminar Teaching: course title: Political Ecology, Fall 2012, University of Colorado Boulder,
Environmental Studies Program
Graduate Seminar Teaching: course title: The Problem Orientation, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011,
Spring 2010, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies Program and Political Science
Department
Undergraduate Teaching: course title: Inside the Greenhouse: Utilizing Media to Communicate Positive
Solutions for Climate Change, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental
Studies Program and Department of Theater and Dance (co-taught with Professor Beth Osnes)
Undergraduate Seminar Teaching: course title: Culture, Politics and Climate Change, Fall 2011, Spring 2010
& Fall 2009, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies Program
University of Oxford Undergraduate Lecture & Tutorial Teaching, Final Honors: course title: Environmental Policy: Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Fall 2008/Winter 2009 (with Prof Diana Liverman),
University of Oxford, School of Geography
Graduate Seminar Teaching: course title: Global Environmental Politics, Fall 2008 (with Dr. Heike Schroeder)
University of Oxford, School of Geography MSc Programme: ‘Environmental Change & Management’
Graduate Seminar Teaching: course title: Mass Media and Environmental Governance, Winter 2008 University
of Oxford, School of Geography; MSc Programme: ‘Environmental Change and Management’
Graduate Tutorial Teaching: course title: Cultural Politics of Climate Change, Winter/Spring 2008, University
of Oxford, for sabbatical BBC journalist
Undergraduate Tutorial Teaching: course title: Science and Journalism; Spring/Summer 2007, University of
Oxford, School of Geography
Graduate Lecture Teaching: course title: Non-State Actors at the Interface of Climate Change Science and
Practice; Winter 2007; University of Oxford, School of Geography; MSc Programme: ‘Environmental
Change and Management’
University College London Visiting Lecturer: Graduate course title: Science and Politics of Climate Change; Winter/Spring 2007;
University College London; School of Geography; MSc Programme: ‘Environment, Science and Society’
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University of California-Santa Cruz Lecturer in Environmental Studies (three Undergraduate courses/six terms, 2004-2006): course titles: Political
Economy and the Environment (2004, 2005, 2006); Climate Change seminar (2006); Ecological
Forecasting for Global Warming (2004, 2005) University of California-Santa Cruz
Co-Founder, Co-Facilitator and Co-Organizer: Graduate course title: Political Ecology Working Group;
January 2001 – 2006; description: Graduate student-led professional development working group –
Participants design syllabi and organize speakers to educate students working on environmental issues on
the political context surrounding conservation efforts; UC-Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies
Teaching Assistant (ten appointments from September 2000 – June 2005): Undergraduate course titles:
Political Economy & Environment (2004; Environmental Studies Dept); Senior Capstone - Environment &
Culture (2002, 2003; Environmental Studies Dept); Introduction to Community Activism (2003, 2004,
2005; Communities Studies Dept); Trade & Environment (2002; Environmental Studies Dept); Sustainable
Development & Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2002; Environmental Studies
Dept);Ecology and Society (2001; Environmental Studies Dept); Ecological Forecast for Global Warming
(2000; Environmental Studies Dept)
SUPERVISORY ACTIVITIES__________________
Student supervision (primary) Graduate Supervisor for David Oonk (PhD student), ATLAS TAM program (2015-present)
Graduate Supervisor for Olivia Pearman (PhD student), ENVS (2017-present)
Graduate Co-Supervisor (with Beth Osnes) for Patrick Chandler (PhD student), ENVS (2017-present)
Graduate Co-Supervisor (with Amanda Carrico) for Jeremiah Osbourne-Gowey (PhD student), ENVS (2018-
2019)
Graduate Co-Supervisor (with Suzanne Tegen) for Emily Ruby (MS student), ENVS (2016-2018)
Graduate Supervisor for Marisa McNatt (PhD student), ENVS (2012-2018)
Graduate Supervisor for Marilyn Averill (PhD student), ENVS (2012-2018)
Undergraduate honors thesis supervisor for Sofia Corley, ENVS/EBIO (2017-2018)
Graduate Co-Supervisor (with Lisa Dilling) for Rebecca Page (MS student), ENVS (2016-2017)
Graduate Supervisor for Mike Henry (PhD student), ENVS (2011-2017)
Postgraduate Supervisor for Dr. Jessica Rich (CIRES Postdoctoral Fellow) (2016-2017)
Graduate Co-supervisor (with Liam Downey) for Lucy McAllister (PhD student), ENVS (2011-2017)
Undergraduate honors thesis supervisor for Kylie Marchiori, ENVS (2015-2016)
Postgraduate Supervisor for Dr. Gesa Luedecke (CIRES Postdoctoral Fellow), 2014-2016
Postgraduate Supervisor for Dr. Joanna Boehnert (CIRES Postdoctoral Fellow), 2013-2014
Graduate Supervisor for Xi Wang (MS student), ENVS (2012-2014)
Graduate Supervisor for Kevin Andrews (MS student), ENVS (2013-2015)
Graduate Supervisor for Lisa Caruana (MS student), ENVS (2013-2014)
Undergraduate honors thesis supervisor for Rachel Brinks, ENVS (2013-2014)
Graduate Supervisor for Kanmani Venkateswaran (MS student), ENVS (2012-2014)
Graduate Supervisor for Aditya Ghosh (PhD student), Journalism (2011-2012)
Undergraduate honors thesis supervisor for Amy Meyer, ENVS (2012-2013)
Graduate Supervisor for Shawn Olson (MS student), ENVS (2011-2013)
Undergraduate honors thesis supervisor for Jesse Fife, ENVS (2011-2012)
Graduate Co-supervisor for Katharine Wilkinson (with Prof. Diana Liverman), Ph.D. Rhodes Scholar in
Geography, University of Oxford, (2006 – 2010), project title ‘Evangelical Environmentalism in the United
States’
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Graduate Co-supervisor for Ben Carmichael (with Ian Curtis), MSc Programme: Environmental Change and
Management, (2009-2010), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘A Climate of Opinion: Towards a
Descriptive Understanding of Trends in US Public Opinion on Climate Change from 2000-2009’
Graduate Co-supervisor for Karine Peloffy (with Ian Curtis), MSc Programme: Environmental Change and
Management, (2009), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘Humour, the web, and environment’
Graduate Supervisor for Prasanna Krishnamurthy, Environmental Change and Management (2008-2009), Univ
of Oxford
Graduate Supervisor for Heidi Kikoler, Environmental Change and Management (2008-2009), University of
Oxford
Graduate Supervisor for Tanya Gray, Environmental Change and Management (2008-2009), University of
Oxford
Graduate Supervisor for Gina Hanrahan, MSc Programme: Nature, Society and Environmental Governance,
(2008), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘The Power of One? Individual Behavioural Change and Climate
Change Communication’
Graduate Co-supervisor for Bernadette Kwok Jia-Yan (with Dr. Emily Boyd), MSc Programme:
Environmental Change and Management, (2008), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘Climate Adaptation on
a City Scale: Responding to Water Risks in Melbourne (Australia)’
Graduate Supervisor for Astrid M Westerlind-Wigstrom, Environmental Change and Management (2007-
2008), University of Oxford
Graduate Supervisor for Hanoch Ilsar, Environmental Change and Management (2007-2008), University of
Oxford
Graduate Supervisor for Alex Dewar, MSc Programme: Environmental Change and Management, (2007),
University of Oxford, thesis title ‘United States Climate Discourses: Public Understanding and Political
Opinions’
Graduate Supervisor for Denise Noblot-Celeghin, MSc Programme: Environmental Change and Management,
(2007), University of Oxford thesis title ‘Lobbying Pressures and United States Energy Policymaking’
Graduate Co-supervisor (with Dr. Emma Tompkins) for Caridad Canales, MSc Programme: Environmental
Change and Management, (2007), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘Mexican Media and Climate Change’
Graduate Co-supervisor for Simon Billett (with Prof. Judith Pallot), undergraduate student in Christ Church
College Geography, (2006 – 2008), University of Oxford, thesis title ‘How do post-colonial political
geographies permeate Indian national newspapers’ portrayal of climate change?’
Committee work, Student Supervision Currently on graduate committees for University of Colorado-Boulder students Abagail Ahlert (Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, PhD), Lee Frankel-Goldwater (Environmental Studies, PhD),
Victoria Stout (Environmental Studies, PhD), Ryan Harp (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences, PhD), Denise Fernandes (Environmental Studies, PhD), Diana Dorman (Environmental
Studies, PhD), Kelsey Tayne (Education, PhD), Emily Nocito (Environmental Studies, PhD).
Past PhD student advising/examination committee member for Lauren Gifford (Geography, PhD, 2018), Amy
Quandt (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2017), Meaghan Daly (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2016),
Kathy Kelsey (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2016), Adrianne Kroepsch (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2016), Sara Hagedorn Calvert (Political Science, PhD, 2015), Kate Clark (Environmental
Studies/Sociology, PhD, 2015), Ashwin Ravikumar (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2013), Kris Hoyt
(Sociology, PhD, 2012), and James Meldrum (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2012), Jessica Weinkle
(Environmental Studies, PhD, 2013), Amy Telligman (Environmental Studies, PhD, 2013)
Past MA/MSc student advising/examination committee member for Nika Durham (Journalism, MA, 2014),
Brian Hires (Journalism, MA, 2012), and Ron LaCoss (Environmental Studies, MSc, 2011)
Undergraduate honors committee for Todd Camnitz (2010) John Busch (2011), Mahir Haque (2013)
Examiner for confirmation of DPhil status progress for Janelle Knox-Hayes, School of Geography and the
Environment (2008) University of Oxford
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Examiner for confirmations of DPhil status progress for Adam Bumpus, School of Geography and the
Environment (2008) University of Oxford
Examiner for confirmation of DPhil status progress for John Cole, School of Geography and the Environment
(2009) University of Oxford
External examinations External PhD examiner for Berhard Isopp, York University (Toronto), thesis title: Mediating Public Science:
Experts, politics, and climate change in the news media in Canada (October 2018)
External PhD examiner for Dain Bolwell, University of Tasmania (Australia), thesis title: The Owl of Minerva:
governing technology in the quest for sustainability (August 2017)
External PhD examiner for Julia Wester, University of Miami (Florida), thesis title: Perceptions of Wastewater
Re-Use in the United States (April 2016)
External Masters Degree examiner for Rachel Robson, University of Melbourne, thesis title: To Ideology and
Beyond: A Discourse Analysis of the climate and energy narratives of Governor Schwarzenegger and
Governor Perry (January 2016)
External PhD examiner for R. Meiring, University of Capetown (South Africa), thesis title: Framed: COP 17
on South African Television (2013)
External PhD examiner for Radhika Mittal, Macquarie University (Australia), thesis title: What do newspapers
tell us about climate change and food practices? News and views from a content analysis of mainstream
Australian and US newspapers (2012-2013)
External Masters degree examiner for William Mason, Prescott University (AZ), thesis title: Climate Action
Planning in Boulder, and Aspen, Colorado (2012-2014)
External PhD examiner for Jan Sinclair, University of Auckland (New Zealand), thesis title: What do the news
media do with expert information about environmental risks? (2012)
External PhD examiner for Neil Jennings, University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), thesis title: How and
why did the possibility of a thermohaline circulation collapse as a risk issue in the UK (2008)
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZING_________
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse & Trash the Runway video showing (8 May 2019), CU Boulder Museum
of Natural History (with Beth Osnes and Patrick Chandler)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: Stand Up for Climate: An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy
(25 April 2019), Old Main Theater, (with Beth Osnes and Patrick Chandler)
Co-organized ‘Individual, Innovative, & Impactful: Communicating Science for our Second Century’ (with Dr.
Susanne Moser and Cat Hoffman and Larry Perez) the National Park Service, Ft. Collins, Colorado, April
24-25, 2018
Co-organized CSTPR 15th anniversary events, September 25, 2017 University of Colorado Boulder
Co-organized Fall 2017, International Collective on Environment, Culture, and Politics (ICECaPs) events with
the Research and Innovation Office (RIO), Office of Faculty Affairs, CU Office of Legal Counsel, and
Office of Strategic Relations.
Co-organized ‘written science communication day’ (with Phaedra Pezzullo and Susan Sullivan) for US
National Committee of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) (14 August 2017),
University of Colorado Boulder
Co-organized CU Boulder and City of Boulder dialogue on City of Boulder Climate Commitment (12 October
2016), CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (with Sarah Thomas and Brett
KenCairn)
Co-organized Science and Environmental Communication workshop (7 October 2016), Al Bartlett Science
Communication Center (with Phaedra Pezzullo, Katya Haflich, Shelly Sommer and Tom Yulsman)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Presentation with More Than Scientists, Eric Michelman (14
September 2016), Williams Village Residence Academic Program (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
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Co-organized Power Dialog: Discussing Colorado’s Engagement for a Clean Energy Economy in the 21st
Century (4 April 2016), CIRES Auditorium (with David Ciplet, Stephanie Malin and Kristen Averyt)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: An Encounter with Mike Nelson (19 April 2016), CIRES Auditorium
(with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: Standing Up for Climate: An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy
(17 March 2016), Black Box Theater, Atlas Institute (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Conference on Communication and the Environment (2015) program co-chair, University of Colorado-
Boulder, June 11-14.
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Conversation with William Kamkwamba (in collaboration with Casey
Middle School) (February 2015) (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke and Nanibah Chacon (9 December
2014), University Theater (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Conversation with Andrew Revkin (18 April 2014), Macky
Auditorium (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Conversation with Climate Wise Women (6 October 2013), Macky
Auditorium (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organized Inside the Greenhouse: A Conversation with James Balog (1 April 2013), Macky Auditorium
(with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran)
Co-organizer & steering committee member (Prof Deserai Crow was lead), CU-Boulder ‘International
Conference on Culture, Politics and Climate Change’, September 13-15
Co-organizer & steering committee member, CU-Boulder ‘Peak to Peak Sustainability Workshop’ (August 2011,
August 2012)
Coordinated University of Colorado-Boulder ‘Campus to Congress’ activities (in coordination with Bard
College) (2010, 2011)
Co-organized (with Prof Mike Goodman) ‘Celebrities and the Environment: Focusing on climate and trade’,
Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 25 May 2009
Co-organized What is ‘new’ about the new carbon economy? workshop (with Prof. Peter Newell and Dr.
Emily Boyd), Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 4 September 2009
Co-organized ‘TippingPoints: A Climate Science-Arts Encounter’ (with Peter Gingold, Ian Curtis, Angela
McSherry and Prof. Diana Liverman), University of Oxford, 14-15 September 2009
Co-led a trip to the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium for the University of Oxford MSc Programme
‘Environmental Change and Management’ (with Prof. John Boardman, Prof. Peter Newell, Dr. Emily
Boyd, and Philip Mann), March 5-8, 2008
Co-organized (with James Painter) ‘Carbonundrums: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
around the World’ workshop, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the Environmental Change
Institute, University of Oxford, 27 June 2007
Co-organized (with Dr. Mark Sheehan, Dr. Emily Boyd, Catherine Bottrill, Dr. Dave Frame and Prof. Scott
Prudham) Commodifying Carbon: Ethics of Markets in Nature, 16 July 2007 University of Oxford
Co-organizer (with Timmons Roberts) of the Climate Change and the Future seminar series, James Martin 21st
Century School/Tyndall Centre/Environmental Change Institute (2006-2008)
Co-coordinated (with Prof. Eban Goodstein) the ‘Save Santa’s Workshop’ project to raise awareness in cities
across the United States about the threats and impacts from climate change (2004-2006)
REQUESTED BOOK and REPORT ENDORSEMENTS__
Lerman, D., Morais, R.J. and Luna, D. (2018) The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics,
Routledge, London.
Brevini, B. and Lewis, J. [eds] (2018) Media and Climate Change. Routledge, London.
Boehnert, J. (2017) Design, Ecology, Politics: Toward the Ecocene Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
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Kunelius, R. Eide, E., Tegelberg, M and Yagodin, D. (eds) (2016) Media and Global Climate Knowledge:
Journalism and the IPCC Palgrave, London. 372 pp.
Hoffman, A. (2015) How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate Stanford University Press, Palo Alto,
CA. 112 pp. ISBN 9780804794220
Anshelm, Jonas and Hultman, Martin (2014) Discourses of Global Climate Change: Apocalyptic Framing and
Political Antagonisms Routledge, London. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-13-878131-3
Burch, Sarah L., and Harris, Sara E. (2014) Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada. 297 pp.
Gareau, Brian (2013) From Precaution to Profit: Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in
the Montreal Protocol Yale University Press, 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-300175-26-4
Carvalho, Anabela, and Peterson, Tarla Rai (eds) (2012) Climate Change Politics: Communication and Public
Engagement, Cambria Press, Amherst, NY.
Painter , James (2011) Poles Apart: The international reporting of climate scepticism University of Oxford,
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 136pp, ISBN 978-1-907384-07-3
Morris, Benjamin (2011) The Bella Amazon Digital Services, 124pp, ASIN B006MARZ2S
Doyle, Julie (2011) Mediating Climate Change Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK, 182pp, ISBN 978-0-7546-
7669-0
Painter, James (2011) Summoned by Science: reporting climate change at Copenhagen and beyond University
of Oxford, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 137pp, ISBN 978-0-9558889-9-1
ACADEMIC and PEER SERVICE_______________ Service to academic community Deputy Editor (history/social science): Climatic Change
Associate Series Editor: Anthem Press
Editorial Board: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature & Culture
Editorial Board: Global Environmental Change
Editorial Board: Journal of Environmental Media
Over the past ten years I have conducted numerous peer reviews for approximately forty different journals,
while I have reviewed book prospectuses for twelve difference book publishers. In addition, I have conducted
grant reviews for about ten different programs, from the NSF and UK ESRC to the Leverhulme Foundation. In
other reviewer service I have evaluated submissions for six conferences and five reports as well as countless
informal reviews for peers and colleagues.
2019-present: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Contributing Author (Working Group 3)
2015-present: Independent Science Panel, Deep South Challenge, New Zealand
2019: Professor salary banding review (Alison Anderson, Department of Sociology, School of Law,
Criminology and Government (Faculty of Business), University of Plymouth)
2019: Associate Professor promotion review (Sam Randalls, Department of Geography, University College
London)
2019: Tenure review (Shannon Hagerman, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British
Columbia)
2018: Associate Professor promotion review (Justin Farrell, Yale University School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies)
2018: Tenure review (Ezra Markowitz, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental
Conservation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
2017-2021: Research Oversight Committee (ROC) for the societal research aspects Genome Canada research
project (Title: CoAdapTree: Healthy trees for future climates).
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2017: Committee Chair, Climate Change Communication Award, International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR)
2017: pre-tenure review (Ezra Markowitz, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental
Conservation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
2016: tenure review (P. Sol Hart, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan)
2016: tenure review (Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry)
2015: International Environmental Communication Association, Conference on Communication and
Environment conference program co-chair
2008 – 2014: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of the Institute for British Geographers
Service to University community 2019: CU interdisciplinary task force committee
2018-2019: internal ARPAC reviewer, Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder
2017-present: Research and Innovation Office (RIO) steering/advisory group, University of Colorado Boulder
2010-present: University of Colorado co-organizer of UN observer credentialing (with Prof Jim White and
Marilyn Averill)
2017-present: Advisory Board, Albert Bartlett Center for Science Communication, University of Colorado
2018-present: Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Budget and Planning committee
2017-present: Boulder Faculty Climate Science & Education Committee (BFCSEC)
2016-2018: Advisory role, Center for Sports Governance, University of Colorado
2017-2018: Faculty Leadership Institute, cohort 5, University of Colorado Boulder
2015-2018: Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Intercollegiate Athletics committee
2017: search committee for Office of Outreach and Engagement, Program Manager hire
2010-present: hosting of visiting scholars: Anna Kukkonen, University of Helsinki (2017-2018), Dr. Leslie
Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2017), Dr. Justin Farrell, Yale University (2016-2017), Julia
Schubert, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, Bonn Germany (2017), Dr. Suzanne Tegen, National
Renewable Energy Laboratories (2016-2017), Ines Lorcher, University of Hamburg (2016), Dr. Lesley
Henderson, Brunel University, London (2016), Dr. Reiner Grundman, University of Nottingham (2016),
Dr. Bonnie Rusk, independent conservation biologist (2016), Dr. Leah Goldfarb (2016), Dr. Saffron
O’Neill, University of Melbourne (Australia) (2011), Franziska Hollender, University of Vienna, Austria
(2011), Gesa Ludecke, Leuphana University, Germany (2010) 2016: Lisa Barlow Primary Unit Evaluation Committee
2012-2017: University of Colorado Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP) Faculty Advisor
2011-2013: University of Colorado Sustainability committee advisory member
2010-2013: University of Colorado Geography Department colloquium committee
Service to Environmental Studies program community 2016-present: Environmental Studies program Graduate Committee
2016-present: Environmental Studies program Executive Committee
2015-present: Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Environmental Studies program representative
2017-2018: Environmental Studies program Introductory Series 1000/1001 Committee
2016-2017: Environmental Studies natural resources governance tenure-track faculty search committee, Chair
2017: Primary Unit Evaluation Committee (PUEC) chair for Assistant Professor Peter Newton review
2016: Environmental Studies program Inclusive Excellence Committee
2014: Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for tenure review: Associate Professor Lisa Dilling
2012 – 2015: University of Colorado Environmental Studies peer teaching evaluation committee, Chair
2011: Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for mid-term review: Assistant Professor Lisa Dilling
2011-2012: Environmental Studies program endowed chair faculty search committee
2009-2012: Environmental Studies program colloquium committee
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Service to Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences community 2016-present: Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
2017-present: co-editor (with Ami-Nacu Schmidt and Jennifer Katzung) of Ogmius Newsletter for CSTPR
2017-present: search committee for Rad Byerly memorial CSTPR award
2016-present: CSTPR AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering application review committee
2009-present: CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Executive Committee
2019-present: CU-Boulder Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship program co-Director (with
Fernando Briones)
2013-2019: CU-Boulder Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship program Director
2017: CIRES Graduate Student Fellowship review committee, Chair
2017: search committee for CIRES Outreach and Engagement Director hire
2017: search committee for Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Office Manager
2016-2017: CSTPR Science Technology and Policy Certificate program interim Director
2016: CIRES CSTPR Academic Review and Program Advising Committee report
2015: CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series committee chair
2014-2016: CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Associate Director
2014: CIRES Graduate Student Fellowship review committee
2012-2013: CU-Boulder Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship program Co-Director (with Prof
Lisa Dilling)
2012: CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series committee
2011: CIRES visiting scholar selection committee
Service to wider public community 2016-present: E-town Editorial Advisory Board
2018: Years of Living Dangerously Science Advisor
2016-2018: Advisory role, Climate Change Comedy Project (Emily Coren [PI])
2016-2018: Advisory Board member: Colorado Ocean Coalition/Inland Ocean Coalition
2014-2017: Boulder Valley School District, Talented and Gifted District Advisory Committee
2009: Earth Journalism Awards Regional Juror for North America and Australia
2008-2009: University of Oxford, Christ Church College low-carbon energy committee
2003-2012: Board Member – Three Americas solidarity group (Santa Cruz, California)
GRANTS and CONTRACTS ___________________
Current: Colorado – American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Local Science Engagement
Network (LSEN) grant (2019-2020) (with Matt Druckenmiller, co-PI)
The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in Social Sciences (CARTSS) ‘Balance as Bias 2.0’ via Media
and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) with Andrew Benham, Patrick Chandler, Meaghan Daly, Lucy
McAllister and Marisa McNatt
Wellcome Trust (2019-2022) ‘Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change’ Media and
Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) collaborator (with Lancet Countdown)
Spanish Ministry of Economy (2019-2022) ‘New avenues for climate change communication’ Collaborator
(with Bienvenido Leon and Maria Carmen Erviti),
Rio Seed Grant (2018-2020) ‘Resilient and Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Characteristics, Links and
Barriers’ collaborator (with Sherri Cook [PI])
Spanish National Government (2016-2020) ‘Think tanks, denialism and climate change in
Europe (THINKCLIMA)’ collaborator (with Nuria Almiron, Jordi Xifra, Miquel Rodrigo, Catia Faria,
Marta Tafalla, Lisa Kemmerer, Francisco Hernández Heras, and Ana Fernández Aballí)
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California Council on Science and Technology, in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation and the Simons Foundation (2016-2019) ‘Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program
for Colorado State Policymaking’ Co-PI (with Matthew Druckenmiller)
Completed/Past: Collaborator/advisor (2017-2018): ‘Connecting Science to the General Public More Effectively through the Arts’
(James White [PI])
PI (2017-2018): Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP) Growth Grant, University of
Colorado
PI (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran) (2017-2018) ‘Equipment for Inside the Greenhouse’, Environmental
Studies Program student course fees, University of Colorado.
Advisor (Anna Gold PI, Leslie Smith Co-PI, Sarah Wise Co-PI, Jennifer Taylor, David Oonk, Dick Alweis)
(2015-2017): National Science Foundation, Innovative Technology Education for Students and Teachers
(ITEST) program, STEM Learning and Research: ‘Lens on Climate Change’
PI (with Kevin Andrews, Meaghan Daly, Lauren Gifford, Gesa Luedecke, and Lucy McAllister) (2017):
University of Colorado Outreach and Engagement ‘Building the Public-facing Media and Climate Change
Observatory (MeCCO)’ $11,995
PI (with Kevin Andrews, Meaghan Daly, Lauren Gifford, Gesa Luedecke, and Lucy McAllister): Center to
Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) ‘Media and Climate Change
Observatory’ (2016), $2,000
Collaborator (with Stephen Sheppard [PI]): Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; ‘The
Future Delta 2.0 experience: Mobilizing knowledge on climate change education through video Games’;
$37,700
Co-PI (with PI Myanna Lahsen [PI], and Colleen Scanlon Lyons, Dale Jamieson, Paul Lussier), International
Social Science Council (ISSC) (2014) ‘Curbing Meat using Media: the cultural politics of meat
consumption in Brazil, China and the United States’, $40,455
Co-PI (with Anne Gold, Leslie Smith, Susan Buhr, David Oonk), University of Colorado Outreach and
Engagement Program, (2013-2014) ‘Lens on Climate Change in Colorado: Video Contest for Secondary
Students’, $5,588
Advisor (Marda Kirn and Shilpi Gupta PIs) CIRES Innovative Research Program (IRP), (2013-2014) ‘Science
on a Sphere’
Advisor (David Lustick PI, Jill Lohmeier, Robert Chen, David Rabkin, Rick Wilson, co-PIs) (2012-2017),
'Science Express', $2,200,000
Co-PI (with Lisa Dilling), University of Colorado Outreach and Engagement Program, (2013) ‘Improving
Climate Science Communication and Adaptation Decision-making in the Humanitarian Sector’, $7,912.50
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran), CU-Boulder Environmental Center and Sustainability Initiative
Grant (2013) ‘Inside the Greenhouse’, $2,500
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes and Rebecca Safran), CU-Boulder Outreach Program Grant (2013) ‘A conversation
with James Balog at Macky Auditorium’, $5,000
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes, Rebecca Safran, Tom Yulsman and Ryan Vachon) Information, Communication,
Journalism, Media and Technology (2012-2013) ‘‘Climate Corps’: Focusing on Providing Curriculum
Development Specific to Climate Communication’ subaward $1,000
Advisor (with Shawn Olson, PI), Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)
(2013) ‘Power Politics: The political ecology of wind farm opposition in Wyoming’, $3,761\
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes) (2011-2012) Grace and Gordon GAMM Interdisciplinary Fund for Collaborative
Teaching, ‘Inside the Greenhouse: Utilizing Media to Communicate Positive Solutions for Climate
Change’ awarded $8,933.30
Co-PI: Climate Central (with Marisa McNatt) (2012) ‘‘Surging Seas’ Hits Home – An Assessment of Media
Coverage of Climate Central’s March 2012 Sea Level Rise Report’, $1,620
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Co-PI: Business As Usual Films (with Shawn Olson, Lucy McAllister, Marisa McNatt, Mike Henry, Robert
Brulle) (2011-2012) ‘History of Climate Science-Policy in the Public Sphere’, $10,000
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes) (2011-2013) CU-Boulder Outreach Program Grant ‘Inside the Greenhouse: Utilizing
Media to Communicate Positive Solutions for Climate Change’, $8,000
Co-PI (with Beth Osnes) (2011-2012) University of Colorado-Boulder ASSETT grant ‘Inside the Greenhouse:
Utilizing Media to Communicate Positive Solutions for Climate Change’, $3,000
Advisor (Ben Shaw, Kate McGeever) Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) United
Kingdom (2009-2010) ‘Public perceptions of short term actions government should take to mitigate
climate change’ subaward £2,000
Co-PI (with J. Timmons Roberts) (2007) ‘Climate change and human development – risk and vulnerability in a
warming world: Media coverage of Climate Change’ report for 2007 United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) Human Development Report, £10,000
Advisor (with Catherine Bottrill, Diana Liverman, co-PIs) (2007) ‘Developing a Carbon Positive Strategy for
the UK Music Industry’ £1,000
Advisor (with Ian Curtis, J. Timmons Roberts) (2007-2010) ACNielsen and the Environmental Change
Institute on a 47-country on-line survey on public understanding and environment
AWARDS (since Fall 2009 [appt at CU] – Fall 2019)_________________
Choice Award ‘Outstanding Academic Title of 2017’ for ‘International Encyclopedia of Geography’
(contributor with Gesa Ludecke) (Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey
Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston eds) by Choice Review
The social sciences ‘2014 Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Best Digital Data Management Plans and
Practices award’, University of Colorado (2014) (with Kevin Andrews, Joanna Boehnert, Meaghan Daly,
Lauren Gifford, Lucy McAllister, Ami Nacu-Schmidt, and Xi Wang)
University of Colorado, Green Faculty Award (2014)
Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship Award (2013-2014)
Choice Award ‘Outstanding Academic Title of 2014’ for ‘Successful adaptation to climate change: Linking
science and policy in a rapidly changing world’ (co-edited with Susanne C. Moser) by Choice Review
Deans Fund for Excellence (2013) to present working paper entitled ‘Emissions from the Fifth Estate:
New/Social Media Coverage of Climate Change’ at International Human Dimensions of Global Change
meeting, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, January 27 – February 1
Cambridge University Press book ‘Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Coverage of Climate
Change’ selected one of the 2011 Scotsman Books of the Year