Josh Trapani joined the staff of 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 within the Research & Development Deputy Area, U.S. Forest Service, where his work focused on climate change adaptation and mitigation. Prior to that, he was the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Fellow, working for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on public lands, climate change, and other science issues. Trapani also holds a Research Collaborator position with the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution.

Trapani holds a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research has taken him to sites throughout the United States as well as to Coahuila, Mexico and the Omo Valley of Ethiopia.

• Improving the Use of Science in Regulatory Policy (October 15, 2009)