Since 1999, Dr. Conn has served at Cal Poly as Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Undergraduate Education and Professor of City & Regional Planning. Dr. Conn previously held tenured faculty appointments in Planning at UCLA and Virginia Tech. He also served as Special Assistant to the Provost, Head of Environmental Design & Planning, and Associate Director of the University Center for Environmental & Hazardous Materials Studies at Virginia Tech. During his career to date, he has directed grants and contracts valued in excess of $2 million funded by such entities as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the Virginia Department of Waste Management, and the California Integrated Waste Management Board. He has consulted widely. Dr. Conn has authored, co-authored, or edited two books, seven book chapters, thirty refereed publications and numerous other articles, reports, reviews, and conference presentations.
Articles
Applying Environmental Policy Instruments to Used Oil, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, (2009)
A comprehensive assessment was conducted of California's Used Oil Program, which was established in 1992...
Using Automated Emergency Notification Systems to Inform the Public: A Field Experiment (with Richard C. Rich), Risk Analysis (1995)
Research and experience have shown that it can be difficult to get citizens to pay...
"Indirect Regulation" of Environmental Hazards Through the Provision of Information to The Public: The Case of SARA, Title III (with Richard C. Rich and William L. Owens), Policy Studies Journal (1993)
Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 seeks to reduce the...
Initiating the Development of an Integrated Waste Management Curriculum, Resources, Conservation and Recycling (1993)
The National Recycling Coalition, in recognition of significant changes in the field of solid waste...