High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is a professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences where he served as Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2001 to 2007. Pielke was a visiting scholar at Oxford University's James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization in the Said Business School in the 2007-2008 academic year. His interests include understanding the politicization of science, decision making under uncertainty, and policy education for scientists in areas such as climate change, disaster mitigation, and world trade.