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Kimberly Taylor

Program Officer

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Core expertise is in science management, facilitating the use of science by resource managers, strategic planning, and interorganizational decision support

PhD Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley

MA Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley

BA Chemistry, Reed College



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Nickles, J., K. Taylor, and R. Fuji, 2010. “California’s Bay-Delta: USGS Science Supports Decision Making,” US Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS2010-3032.
 
Taylor, K. and A. Short, 2009. “Integrating scientific knowledge into large-scale restoration programs: the CALFED Bay-Delta Program experience,” Environmental Science and Policy, 12(6), 674-683.
 
Jacobs, K., S.N. Luoma, and K. Taylor, 2003. “CALFED: An Experiment in Science and Decisionmaking,” Environment, 45(1), 30-41.
 
Taylor, K., 1997. “Selenium in the Bay Environment-an overview of the environmental concerns, regulatory history, and current status,”Board Issue Briefing Paper No. 1, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, CA.
 
Taylor, K. 1995. Redefining Environmental Management Problems: The Shift in Dredging Management in San Francisco Bay 1967-1994, dissertation in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.
 
Taylor, K., 1984. The search for efficient solar energy storage: the effect of axial ligation on a metalloporphyrin sensitizer, thesis in Chemistry, Reed College, Portland, OR.


My USGS Science Strategy Areas

Understanding Ecosystems & Predicting Ecosystems Change

Climate Variability & Change

A Water Census of the United States

Data Integration & Interoperability

Knowledge Utilization/ Science, Technology, and Society

My research lies at the intersection of a number of fields including city and regional planning, political science, organizational culture, and science-technology-and society studies and focuses on questions of how and why environmental science become part of a resource management system, what types of activities on the part of researchers make it more likely research will be used, and how qualitative expertise about environmental systems can be integrated into decision support systems.


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Kimberly Taylor
Placer Hall, 6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819
ktaylor@usgs.gov
916-278-3006
916-278-3070 - Fax
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