Nina Carlson
Research Areas
- SD Focus Area: Social Dynamics Research Framework
Contact Information
- Email: ninacarlson@ou.edu
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs—Madison, WI
- Master of Public Affairs—May 2007
The College of William and Mary—Williamsburg, VA
- Bachelor of Arts, double major in Government and German Studies—May 2003
Research Interests
Nina Carlson is a Research Practitioner and Deputy Director for Operations at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Oklahoma. During the S³OK project, she led coordination of the Opinion Leader Advisory Network (OLAN) and the Novel Hybrid Treatment and Reuse Options Working Group, bridging research and practice in both.
Key Publications
Buchanan, R., Ripberger, J., Fox, A., Carlson, N., Gupta, K., Silva, C., Jenkins-Smith, H. (2024). “Where there’s smoke there’s fire: the relationship between perceived and objective wildfire smoke risk.”
Environmental Hazards, 23(4), 347–363.
Carlson, D., Ripberger, J., Jenkins-Smith, H., Silva, C., Carlson, N., Bell, E., Gupta, K. (2023). “The causal impact of local weather anomalies on beliefs about the occurrence of climate change.”
Environmental Research Communications, 5(11), 115006.
Olofsson, K., Selvakumar, P., Peach, K., Leon-Corwin, M., Stormer, S., Gupta, K., Carlson, N., Sibley, M. (2023). “Effective stakeholder engagement in environmental problem-solving through group model building: An Oklahoma case study.”
Environmental Challenges, 13:100755.
Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Joseph T. Ripberger, Carol L. Silva, Deven E. Carlson, Kuhika Gupta, Nina Carlson, Ani Ter-Mkrtchyan, and Riley E. Dunlap. (2020). “Partisan asymmetry in temporal stability of climate change beliefs.”
Nature Climate Change 10, no. 4: 322-328.
Jenkins‐Smith, H., Krutz, J., Carlson, N., & Weible, C. (2020). “The 2020 Public Policy Yearbook.”
Policy Studies Journal, 48, S6-S13.
Polo, J. A., Tanner, E. P., Scholtz, R., Fuhlendorf, S. D., Ripberger, J. T., Silva, C. L., … & Carlson, N. (2020). “Mismatches in prescribed fire awareness and implementation in Oklahoma, USA.”
Rangelands, 42(6), 196-202.
Jenkins‐Smith, H., Krutz, J., Carlson, N., & Weible, C. (2019). “The 2019 public policy yearbook: tracking a decade of trends in public policy research.”
Policy Studies Journal, 47, S6-S16.
Ripberger, J.T., Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva, Deven E. Carlson, Kuhika Gupta, Nina Carlson, and Riley E. Dunlap. (2017). “Bayesian Versus Politically Motivated Reasoning in Human Perception of Climate Anomalies.”
Environmental Research Letters, 12(11): 11404.
Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Joseph T. Ripberger, Carol L. Silva, Nina Carlson, Kuhika Gupta, Matthew Henderson, and Amy Goodin. (2017). “The Oklahoma Meso-Scale Integrated Socio-geographic Network: A Technical Overview.”
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34:2431-2441.
Jenkins‐Smith, H., Krutz, J., Carlson, N., & Weible, C. (2017). “The 2017 Public Policy Yearbook: Recent Trends in Public Policy Research.”
Policy Studies Journal, 45(S1), S4-S12.
Jones, Benjamin A., Robert P. Berrens, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva, Deven E. Carlson, Joseph T. Ripberger, Kuhika Gupta, and Nina Carlson. (2016). “Valuation in the Anthropocene: Exploring options for alternative operations of the Glen Canyon Dam.”
Water Resources and Economics, 14:13-30.
Trousset, S., Jenkins‐Smith, H. C., Carlson, N., & Weible, C. (2016). “The 2016 Public Policy Yearbook: Recent Trends in Public Policy Research.”
Policy Studies Journal, 44(S1), S4-S13.
Trousset, S., Jenkins‐Smith, H., Carlson, N., & Weible, C. (2015). “The 2015 Public Policy Yearbook: Tracking Research in Public Policy.”
Policy Studies Journal, 43(S1), S1-S11.
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva, Deven Carlson, Joseph T. Ripberger, Kuhika Gupta, and Nina Carlson. (2014). “Non-Market Values for Alternative Operations of the Glen Canyon Dam: Explorations in Choice and Valuation.”
Technical Report, OU Center for Energy, Security, and Society.