University of Wisconsin Madison Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Description: Over the last 53 years, we have grown into one of the leading departments in our field of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. We have strong graduate and undergraduate programs which are nationally recognized. We graduate about 15 Ph.D. or M.S. students each year; our graduates are active in research labs and universities around the world. We graduate approximately 20 B.S. students each year; they choose options allowing a focus on weather systems or general atmospheric science.
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Centre for Environmental Modelling and Prediction at UNSW
Description: The Centre for Environmental Modelling and Prediction at UNSW comprises one of Australia's largest and most successful teaching and research groups in meteorology and oceanography, with interests in weather forecasting, climate modelling, ocean current simulation and wave breaking. The tools used by both staff and students include mathematical techniques and supercomputer models, with studies augmented by data collected from both ships and aircraft and from regions as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef and the Antarctic.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan
Description: Civil and environmental engineers design, plan and construct infrastructure systems including buildings, bridges, highways, airports, tunnels, pipelines, channels, waste-water systems, waste site, remediation systems, power generating plants, manufacturing facilities, dams, and harbors. These infrastructure systems are key to sustaining human development and activities, and civil and environmental engineers must consider technical as well as economic, environmental, aesthetic, and social aspects. Many projects are sufficiently large and complex that civil and environmental engineers seldom work alone, but usually are a part of an interdisciplinary team, and so benefit from a broad-based education.
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Geochemical Res. Dep.
Description: Geochemical Research Department covers various research areas of the chemical environment of the earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere, through the study of temporal and spatial variations in the concentrations of chemical substances. Recently, as a result of increasing human activities and the introduction of anthropogenic materials, the chemical environment of the earth has been changing rapidly. Given the scientific and public considerations involved, our recent studies have focused on obtaining precise and accurate information on the consequences of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, carbon and nitrogen cycles in the marine environment, and the exchange rate of chemical substances between the ocean and the atmosphere. We also have focused on radioactive contamination of the ocean and the atmosphere, and the behavior of natural and artificial chemicals in the air, the ocean, and the deep ocean floor.
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UC Berkeley - Department of Environmental Science Policy Management (ESPM)
Description: The mission of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is to bring a diverse research, teaching, and extension capacity to bear on environmental problems from local to global scales. The biological, physical, and social scientists of the department are organized into three divisions based on similar disciplinary or topical research interests, but all work within the unifying framework of the analysis of environmental problems, and the development of management strategies to address them. Environmental problems demand increased understanding of social, physical, and biological systems, and the transfer of basic research findings through modeling, implementation, teaching, and extension. ESPM facilitates the cross-disciplinary collaboration necessary to address vital, contemporary questions.
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Kansai Research Center Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Description: Our goal is the development of integrated forest management by resolving the mechanisms of the various functions of the Satoyama and suburban forests that include the maintenance of biodiversity, conservation of the environment, formation of scenic landscapes, and production of timber as we seek to establish ideal relationships between nature and human society.
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National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
Description: The former National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) was founded in 1983 to conduct advanced and basic technological development pertaining to the control, maintenance and utilization of the agro-environment, including the biological environment. The new National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) was turned into an Independent Administrative Institution (a semi-autonomous agency) on April 1, 2001 and concentrates to fulfilling its research mission on a global scale as follows: 1) strategies to ensure stable food supplies under global environment change, 2) assuring the safety of food and environment utilizing the natural circulation function of agriculture, and 3) succession of the agro-environmental resources to future generations.
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Biology in Colorado | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU, Boulder
Description: The importance of a broad undergraduate education in Biology cannot be overstated and our recent restructuring has put the department of EBIO in a unique position at CU to prepare students for advanced research in all aspects of Biology, as well as giving them a broad general undergraduate education. In the Letters section (here in PDF format, please scroll to page 3!) of the Nov 28th issue of Science a letter from the President of the National Academy of Sciences discusses this importance. The letter is based on a report called Bio 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. This report was written at the request of the National Institute of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and presents a recommendation for educating students interested in careers central to biomedical research. As the President quoted from the report
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Climate Research Group
Description: The climate research group (GRC) responds to the need to know more about our climate, its history and its functioning, and also the need to improve our capacity to predict climatic changes in the short term (seasonal and inter-annual), and to learn to use such predictions for the benefit of society. The ideas underlying climatic predictions are no different from those of meteorological predictions: they need appropriate data, suitable models, appropriate initialising methods and continuous research in order to improve all parts of the process. The main differences between climatic and meteorological predictions are the time scale involved, the initialising data are mainly oceanic and the prediction models basically couple the atmosphere and the oceans (Coupled GCM).
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National Institute of Polar Research
Description: The center was established in 1990 with two tasks: first, to function as the national coordinating office for the world Arctic research community; secondly, to conduct its own research. The recent rapid growth in human activity is affecting the environmental conditions of the entire planet, and particularly the two polar regions. Because of concern about this activity, Japan, as a country located in the northern hemisphere, supports environmental research in the Arctic region, which is being carried out generally within the framework of international cooperation. The center is operated by scientists who specialize respectively in various research fields concerning the Arctic environment. At present, eight scientists representing the original disciplines of meteorology, glaciology, oceanography, terrestrial biology, and upper atmosphere physics are collaborating on the study of the structure and variations of the atmosphere, and the marine and terrestrial environment of the Arctic. The knowledge and experience accumulated by NIPR from its Antarctic research are essential for the Center in planning and executing Arctic research.
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