We bring together scientists, stakeholders, policy experts, and communication professionals to achieve science-based solutions for pressing environmental problems.
Our unique partnership engages decision-makers, produces actionable science, and communicates research to inform climate change, land management, and air & water policy.
We tackle the interacting challenges of climate change, land use, and pollution through our three initiatives: Energy Transformation, Landscapes & Resilience, and Water Sustainability.
Since our founding in 2012, we have produced 16 policy-relevant scientific publications, engaged 700+ stakeholders in science policy dialogues, and our work has been featured 1000+ times in media outlets.
The NELF Explorer team at Harvard Forest is hosting a monthly discussion group via Zoom to discuss how to apply scenarios and indicators of change to review and update conservation plans, strategies, and actions. The next meeting will be on Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30am.
Science Policy Exchange co-founder Kathy Fallon Lambert is quoted in an article by Yale Climate Connections about the Environmental Protection Agency's new Affordable Clean Energy rule. The new rule would hardly change emissions, with a small reduction of less than 1% beyond what would likely happen without any policy at all.
Science Policy Exchange project leader Gary Lovett of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is quoted in an article entitled, "Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?" by Gabriel Popkin, in the New York Times Magazine.
Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, a founding Science Policy Exchange partner, has a rich set of virtual learning resources. They invite teachers, students, and parents to use the resources, which they have compiled all in one place.
A science brief for journalists co-authored by Science Policy Exchange co-founders Kathy Fallon Lambert and Charley Driscoll reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is threatening to unravel federal rules that are reducing mercury pollution.
Science Policy Exchange co-founder Kathy Fallon Lambert is quoted in an article in the Washington Post, about the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to unravel a rule that has cut emissions of mercury and other toxins from power plants.
Science Policy Exchange consortium includes four associated National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. The LTER Executive Board voted in January to change the status of the LTER Diversity Committee to make it a representative committee, with a named individual designated to participate from each site.
