BPC Staff
Josh Trapani
Staff Director, Science Policy Improvement ProjectNational Commission on Energy Policy
jtrapani@energycommission.org
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Josh Trapani joined the Bipartisan Policy Center in 2008. Previously, he was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow on the Policy Analysis staff of the USDA Forest Service, where his work focused on climate change adaptation and mitigation in forest ecosystems. Prior to that position, Josh was the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Fellow, working for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on public lands, climate change, and other science issues. Josh received a B.A. in anthropology and a B.S. in geology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, an M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from the University of Michigan, and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado. Josh also holds a Research Collaborator position with the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution. His research took him to sites throughout the U.S., as well as to Mexico and the Omo Valley of Ethiopia. He has published a dozen peer-reviewed papers, as well as essays on science and policy.
