Much has been said about the lack of science advice reaching the Trump administration. There is still no director of the white house office of science and technology policy – the person who usually serves as the President’s top science advisor. The position of science and technology advisor to the secretary of state is vacant, and the EPA says it plans to eliminate the office of the science advisor to that agency’s administrator.
But the Trump administration isn’t the only one shunning scientific advice. The Secretary General of the U.N. - António Guterres – has allowed his science advisory panel to lapse.
Two members of that panel joined Heather in the studio: Susan Avery, President Emerita of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In addition to the U.N. Scientific Advisory Board, she sits on the science advisory committees of NOAA, NASA, the National Park Service, and the National Research Council’s Global Change Research Program. And, Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at U Mass Boston.
