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| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
Description: Although NOAA was formed in 1970, the agencies that came together
at that time are among the oldest in the Federal Government. The agencies
included the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey formed in 1807,
the Weather Bureau formed in 1870, and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
formed in 1871. Individually these organizations were America's first
physical science agency, America's first agency dedicated specifically
to the atmospheric sciences, and America's first conservation agency.
Much of America's scientific heritage resides in these agencies. They
brought their cultures of scientific accuracy and precision, stewardship
of resources, and protection of life and property to the newly formed
agency.
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Cooperative Institute or Research in Environmental Sciences
Description: CIRES is an internationally recognized leader in innovative earth
system sciene research committed to integrating its findings to improve
education and public awareness. We conduct research and education
that improves our understanding of the earth system. Since 1967,
the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences has provided a productive setting for collaborative research
and teaching in the wide-ranging disciplines of the environmental
sciences.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
Description: NCAR is a federally funded research and development center.
Together with our partners at universities and research centers, we are
dedicated to exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its
interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society.
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Integrating Worldwide CO2 Flux Measurements
Description: FLUXNET,
a "network of regional networks," coordinates
regional and global analysis of observations from micrometeorological
tower sites. The flux tower sites use eddy covariance methods to measure
the exchanges of carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor, and energy
between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere.
At
present, over 250 tower sites are operating on a long-term and
continuous basis. Researchers
also collect data on site vegetation, soil, hydrologic, and
meteorological characteristics at the tower sites. To search for flux
or site characteristics data, choose
"Obtain Data" from the menu above.
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Category: Climate Related Information
Global Warming Facts & Our Future
Description: Climate Warming Is a Global Problem
But the impacts and potential solutions will affect us locally
and in many different ways. The challenge for each of us and for
our policy makers is to pursue effective responses that are as
fair as possible to all people and nations.
In this exhibition the National Academies provide scientific information
to help us make informed decisions and to help answer some important
questions.
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Category: Climate Related Information
NOAA Carbon Cycle Interactive Atmospheric Data Visualizaiton
Description: This data exploration tool enables visitors to
View all data including near real-time preliminary NOAA / CCGG measurement results.
Obtain details about each sampling location.
Manipulate and compare NOAA / CCGG data sets.
Create custom graphs.
View their plots on-line with an option to save figures locally for later use.
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Category: Climate Related Information
The Warming of the Earth
Description: This page is based on a brief synopsis of the 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the National Research Councils 2001 report Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, as well as NCDCs own data resources.
Added on: 12-Aug-2005 Hits: 70
Category: Climate Related Information
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Description:
The predecessor of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Magnetic
Observatory of Helsinki University, was founded as early as 1838.
Meteorological observations were included in the work of the
Observatory from the very beginning; later, in 1881, the Society of
Sciences assumed responsibility for the operations, and official name
was changed to the Meteorological Central Office, under which name the
Institute began to prepare daily weather information for the newspapers
of Helsinki in 1885.
In 1919 the FMI became a research institute under the Ministry of
Agriculture and later on, in 1968, it was transferred to the Ministry
of Transport and Communications.
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Carbon Cycle Science Program
Description: The
USGCRP budget includes $221 million in FY 2002 for research and observations
related to understanding the global carbon cycle. Carbon is important
as the basis for thefood and fiber that sustain human populations, as
the primary energy source that fuels human economies, and as a major
contributor to the planetary greenhouse effect and the potential for
climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) concentration have
been increasing in the atmosphere, primarily as a result of human use
of fossil fuels and land clearing, and are now higher than they have
been for at least 400,000 years. Of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere,
about half is currently taken up as part of the natural cycling of carbon
into the ocean, and into land plants and soils. These reservoirs of
carbon are known as carbon “sinks.” Changes in land management
practices and the addition of CO2 and nutrients are known to have the
potential to enhance significantly the uptake of carbon, particularly
by forests and croplands.
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Category: Climate Related Information
Charles David Keeling: 1928-2005
Description:
Charles David Keeling, the world's leading authority on atmospheric greenhouse gas accumulation
and climate science pioneer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography since 1956, died of a heart
attack on June 20, 2005 while at his Montana home. He was 77 years old.
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Category: Climate Related Information
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
Description: NOAA works closely with the international PAGES/ CLIVAR initiative to improve our understanding of societally relevant climate variability and our ability to predict future climate change. NOAA contributes to the PAGES/CLIVAR initiative by supporting the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, and by providing extramural support (jointly with the National Science Foundation) for the Earth System History Program area of special emphasis on paleoclimate variability
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Category: Attendee Organizations
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Description: Polar and Marine research are central themes of Global system and Environmental Science. The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes. It coordinates Polar research in Germany and provides both the necessary equipment and the essential logistic back up for polar expeditions. Recent additional research themes include North Sea Research, contributions to Marine Biological Monitoring, Marine Pollution Research, Investigation of naturally occuring marine substances and technical marine developments.
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French Atomic Energy Commission
Description: CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation.
A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in
setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.
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Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
Description: Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS) is one of the highest meteorological research institutions in China. CAMS is attached to China Meteorological Administration, and supported by both China Meteorological Administration and Ministry of Science and Technology of China. It was established in 1978. Its predecessor was the Central Meteorological Institute, which was renamed as CAMS in 1991.
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Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)
Description: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) plays a role to contribute to development of science and technology, forestry administration, Japan's international cooperation, and public activities, for promotion of sustainable forest management and resource utilization, through research on forest, forestry and forest products
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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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Category: Attendee Organizations
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC
Description: CDIAC responds to data and information requests from users from all
over the world who are concerned with the greenhouse effect and global
climate change. CDIAC's data holdings include records of the
concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active gases in
the atmosphere; the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the oceans in
the biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases; emissions of carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere; long-term climate trends; the effects of
elevated carbon dioxide on vegetation; and the vulnerability of coastal
areas to rising sea level.
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Category: Climate Related Information
Tohoku University
Description: Tohoku University was founded in 1907 as the third imperial university,
during the period when Japan had begun to transform itself into a
modernized society. Since then, it has played a leading role in both
research and education in Japan, and is now ranked among the top
universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Category: Attendee Organizations
Botany & Microbiology at The University of Oklahoma
Description: The Department of Botany and Microbiology is located in George Lynn Cross Hall -- a modern nine-story building on the Norman campus that contains teaching classrooms and laboratories, research laboratories, faculty, graduate student and supporting staff offices, a media preparation center, microbiology culture collection and stockroom. The department also operates two greenhouses and several field sites.
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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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Crop Genetics and Environmental Research Unit
Description: This Unit conducts research on crop plants to identify and characterize genes of agronomic importance, to assess the impact of global climate change on future crop productivity, to improve biological nitrogen fixation and to identify alternatives to methyl bromide for protection of crops from soil borne pests.
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Carnegie Department of Global Ecology
Description: The Carnegie Institution is a private organization that conducts basic research for the benefit of humanity. Its Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans. The goal of this research is understanding the ways these interactions shape the behavior of the earth system, including its responses to future changes. The Department of Global Ecology includes faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates, plus technical and administrative staff. There are opportunities for volunteers who wish to be involved in the research.
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National Institute for Environmental Studies
Description: Since its establishment in 1974, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) has been playing a major role in environmental research in Japan. We are proud of the integrative expertise to tackle environmental issues through the collaboration of our researchers and staffs with diversified specialties such as physics, chemistry, engineering, agriculture, fisheries, medicine, pharmacology, law/politics and economics.
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Physics and Astronomy - Utrecht University
Description: Research takes place within the facultary research institute, in one of thirteen research programmes. These programmes are part of the research institute, and participate in science institutes and research schools that have been recognized by the Royal Netherlands Acadamy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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UCLA | Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Description: The UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences has been at the forefront of atomspheric and oceanic research and educatino since its inception in 1940. A broad curriculum is offered in Dynamic and Synoptic Meterology, Atomspheric Chemistry and Physics, Atomspheric Radaition and Remote Sensing, Climate Dynamics, Physical Oceanagraphy, and Upper Atmospheric and Space Physics. The Departments unique strength lies in the breadth of its educational and research programs.
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Institute of Plant Sciences
Description: The Institute of Plant Sciences of the University of Bern (IPS), Switzerland, is a teaching and research institute, consisting of five independent research sections. The education of a plant scientists at the IPS takes four years, including a diploma work (Master's thesis) of one year, a PhD thesis lasts three years. Our aim is the education of plant scientists who are able to work independently as scientists in research or administration, who have a broad knowledge about general botany, who understand important processes in plants and who master the most important methods in plant ecology, statistics, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. In addition we stress the ability to co-operate, to give good seminars and to take responsibility.
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University of Washington
Description: Founded 4 November 1861, the University of Washington
is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the
Pacific coast. The University is comprised of three campuses: the Seattle campus
is made up of seventeen schools and colleges whose faculty offer educational
opportunities to students ranging from first-year undergraduates through doctoral-level
candidates; the Bothell and Tacoma campuses, each developing a distinctive identity
and undergoing rapid growth, offer diverse programs to upper-division undergraduates
and to graduate students.
The primary mission of the University
of Washington is the preservation, advancement, and dissemination
of knowledge. The University preserves knowledge through its libraries
and collections, its courses, and the scholarship of its faculty.
It advances new knowledge through many forms of research, inquiry
and discussion; and disseminates it through the classroom and
the laboratory, scholarly exchanges, creative practice, international
education, and public service. As one of the nation's outstanding
teaching and research institutions, the University is committed
to maintaining an environment for objectivity and imaginative
inquiry and for the original scholarship and research that ensure
the production of new knowledge in the free exchange of facts,
theories, and ideas.
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and the Enviroment
Description: ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment is a public undertaking operating in the fields of energy, the environment and new technologies to support competitiveness and sustainable development.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Description: Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the
U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST's mission is
to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology to
enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life.
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Category: Conference Partners
National Center for Agroecology
Description: As the National Center for Agroecology, the FAL takes into consideration the requirements of agricultural practice and extension, and of political, environmental and public demands. We keep in touch with all our stakeholders. Our research integrates ecological aims and agricultural production aspects. We cooperate closely with universities as well as with our five sister research stations. Together with the Research Station for Plant Production in Changins (RAC), we form the center of competence for "field crops, grasslands and agroecology".
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Wageningen UR
Description: After the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004, Wageningen UR has installed a "Tsunami Task Force" which explores the ways in which our organization can contribute to the reconstruction of tsunami-affected areas. An inventory of our expertise, relevant for the reconstruction activities, has been compiled into a catalogue and distributed to organizations in the tsunami-affected areas.
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Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie - LODYC
Description: Le Laboratoire d'Oc�anographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC) est, depuis d�but 1986, une Unit� Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7617, anciennement UMR 121) d�pendant du CNRS (D�partement des Sciences de l'Univers), de l'IRD (ex-ORSTOM) (D�partement Milieux et Environnement) et de l'Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie � Paris 6 (UPMC - UFR 924). Le LODYC fait partie de l'Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de l'Universit� Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ), et F�d�ration de Recherche (FR 636) comprenant aussi le CETP, le LMD, le LPCM, le LSCE et le SA. Des personnels de l'Universit� Versailles Saint-Quentin, de l'Universit� Denis Diderot - Paris 7, de l'Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des Techniques Avanc�es (ENSTA) et de M�t�o-France font partie du LODYC, qui accueille en outre des personnels du Conservatoire National des Arts et M�tiers.
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Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department
Description: Scientists in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry (MC&G) Department were extremely active in 2004 analyzing the chemical composition of the ocean, and its constituent sediments, rocks, and biota. While laboratory studies, modeling, and remote sensing of the ocean all are important to many of our staff, what stands out in 2004 was the wide range and number of field programs. Jeff Seewald, Katrina Edwards, and Wolfgang Bach conducted research cruises to undersea hot spots in the Pacific, where chemical and microbiological transformations at high temperature and pressure take place in and around underwater volcanic systems. Such sites are accessible several miles below the surface only by remote samplers and underwater submersibles that take measurements and collect samples for analyses.
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World Meterological Organization
Description: The WMO is the UN system's authoritatve voice on the state and behavior
of the Earth's atmosphere, it's interaction with the oceans, the
climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental
organization with membership of 187 Member States and
territories. It originated from the International Meteorological
Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established in
1950, WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations for
meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related
geophysical sciencs.
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Environmental Sciences Division (ESD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Description: The Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an interdisciplinary research and development organization with more than 30 years of achievement in local, national, and international environmental research. Scientists in ESD conduct research, develop technology, and perform analyses to understand and assess responses to global and regional change, environmental stress, and resource use. By expanding scientific knowledge and developing technological solutions, we strengthen the nation's leadership in addressing important environmental problems. We use our innovative research to meet sponsor needs and solve the most challenging environmental problems related to energy production and use and its impact on the environment. We share unique research facilities with scientific collaborators and integrate our field and laboratory research with new theory, modeling, and data systems.
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University of Toronto
Description: While we have much for which to look forward, we must be diligent in attending to the urgent matters that will inform the implementation of the Budget and its impact on the University of Toronto, particularly with respect to graduate expansion; as well as the significant administrative preparations for the incoming President. These are some of the many reasons why I am so honoured to serve the University as Acting President until the end of September. During this transition period, we cannot afford missteps or loss of momentum, and I have charged myself and the University's administration to dedicate all of our best efforts to ensure a good outcome from the Province's new investment in higher education, and a smooth transition for President-designate Naylor.
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University of North Dakota - Department of Space Studies
Description: Human activity in space has drawn from a
multitude of skills and a broad knowledge base. To achieve
our goals in space, or even to become fully aware of the
possibilities, our scientists, engineers, business leaders
and policy makers must coordinate efforts and properly
allocate resources. This has proven to be very difficult due
to the conflicting motivations, procedures and "languages"
employed by these groups. The Department of Space Studies
works to give students a working knowledge of the overall
picture so they can become the scientists, engineers,
planners, managers, troubleshooters, negotiators and
communicators of the space community.
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Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
Description: BBSR has been a noted resource for hands-on education for decades, with graduate, undergraduate and high school students coming from around the world to study at BBSR. Although BBSR is not a degree-granting institution, students participate in BBSR summer courses for credit from a number of prestigious institutions. Since 1997, BBSR has participated in collaborative semester sessions with accredited institutions. BBSR now has collaborative programs for undergraduate students with Duke University, the University of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams University. Students in the program offered with Duke University come from a number of institutions that participate in a marine science consortium.
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Centre for Isotope Research
Description: 1. Collaboration: High-resolution multi-proxy records of climate change during the Preboreal: evaluation of climate forcing factors; 2. Financier: O2/N2/Ar concentration ratios in air
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Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Description: The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is one of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Facilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA/AOML is a part of the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and is located in Miami, Florida. AOML's mission is to conduct basic and applied research in oceanography, tropical meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic chemistry, and acoustics. The research seeks to understand the physical characteristics and processes of the ocean and the atmosphere, both separately and as a coupled system.
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ClimatePrediction.net
Description: What is climateprediction.net?
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a
forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people
around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have
their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full
capacity.
Why?
Climate change, and our response to it, are issues of global importance,
affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand,
insurance costs and much else. There is a broad scientific consensus that
the Earth will probably warm over the coming century;
climateprediction.net should, for the first time, tell us what is most
likely to happen.
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U.S. Geological Survey
Description:
As an unbiased science organization, we are dedicated to the timely, relevant,
and impartial study of the landscape, our natural resources, and the natural
hazards that threaten us.
Mission: The USGS serves the Nation
by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand
the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters;
manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance
and protect our quality of life.
Vision: USGS has become a world leader
in the natural sciences thanks to our scientific excellence and
responsiveness to society's needs.
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Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center
Description: Atmospheric science is therefore intrinsically interdisciplinary, with chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, geology, and ecology all core disciplines. The Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center is a multi-college unit at UC Berkeley, with the goal to broaden the atmospheric sciences beyond its traditional boundaries to embrace the biogeochemical frontier and the human dimension. The Center facilitates communication and integration across these traditional boundaries. In doing so, we aim to define a new paradigm for investigating changes in the atmosphere by integrating the microscopic mechanisms of chemical, physical, and biological processes with large-scale ecological and geological interactions between the geosphere, biosphere, and oceans, and how these interactions alter atmospheric composition.
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Center for Carbon Management
Description: Missing from the recent debate on the world’s energy needs is an attempt to maintain the fossil fuel option while addressing the legitimate environmental concerns over the emission of carbon dioxide. Rather than eliminating the use of fossil fuels or ignoring the risks they pose to the atmosphere, a viable third way would find ways to capture virtually all carbon dioxide, either at the point of emission or from the air, and dispose of it safely and permanently. The mission of the Center for Carbon Management is to research and develop new technologies that will sustain fossil fuels as a viable energy source.
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UofC, Department of Geography
Description: Geography focuses on places and spaces, on humankind's stewardship of the Earth, and on the inter-related problems associated with environmental, economic, political and cultural change. We are certain that many of you will find geography an exciting discipline. Discover geography . . . consider enrolling in our 200-level introductory survey courses. Geography examines the interaction between various natural elements of the environment, such as weather, vegetation, soils and landforms, and the distribution of human activity according to social and environmental factors. Major objectives of the undergraduate program are to provide a broad background in geography and depth in selected subfields.
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Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Description: The College of Science, Tohoku Imperial University (later renamed Faculty of Science, Tohoku University) was founded in 1907. The main principles underlying its foundation are a "primary emphasis on research" and establishment of an educational institution that would "provide opportunities for study to all people, open-door." Tohoku Imperial University was the third imperial university to be established in Japan, following the establishment of Tokyo Imperial University in 1886 and Kyoto Imperial University in 1897. The College of Science, Tohoku Imperial University consisted of three departments, mathematics, chemistry and physics, and was the first college in Japan to be founded with an independent physics department. Many departments and laboratories have been added since the foundation of the College of Science, and today, the Graduate School of Science has become one of the largest science faculties in Japan, covering almost every field of natural sciences.
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University of East Anglia
Description: UEA admitted its first 87 undergraduate students – in English Studies and Biological Sciences in 1963.
People in Norwich had begun to talk about setting up a university in
the city as long ago as last century, but it wasn’t until 1960, as the
post-war 'bulge' generation was bringing about an expansion in higher
education, that the Unive
rsity of East Anglia finally got the go-ahead.
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University of North Dakota - Department of Space Studies
Description: Human activity in space has drawn from a multitude of skills and a broad knowledge base. To achieve our goals in space, or even to become fully aware of the possibilities, our scientists, engineers, business leaders and policy makers must coordinate efforts and properly allocate resources. This has proven to be very difficult due to the conflicting motivations, procedures and "languages" employed by these groups. The Department of Space Studies works to give students a working knowledge of the overall picture so they can become the scientists, engineers, planners, managers, troubleshooters, negotiators and communicators of the space community.
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Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Description: The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) is a joint climate research venture between the University of Bergen (UoB), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC). The BCCR integrates observationalists and modellers in a concerted interdisciplinary research effort with the ambition to be a world-class centre on studies of high-latitude climate change. The BCCR is the largest climate research group in Norway. In 2002 it was awarded the status of a national Center of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway.
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton
Description: We invite you to participate in Princeton’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program which offers a combination of courses and interdisciplinary research on a wide range of environmental topics related to weather and climate. Our interests cover natural and human-induced phenomena, from daily changes in the weather, to global warming over the next century (should the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases continue to rise), to the recurrent Ice Ages that our planet experienced in the distant past. Because of our close ties to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA, our facilities include supercomputers for the realistic simulation of atmospheric and oceanic motion. Because we are part of the Department of Geosciences of Princeton University, some of our faculty members participate in field programs (in the tropical oceans, and in Antarctica for example), while others perform laboratory experiments to explore the bio-geochemistry that determines the fate of the carbon dioxide we are injecting into the atmosphere. Our association with Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs enables us to participate in the design of policies to cope with regional and global environmental problems.
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| Talk History | |
| Friday, September 30 | | · | Discussion Panel |
| · | Nitrogen Regulation of Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems in Respons |
| · | The Role of Water Relations in Driving Grassland Ecosystem Responses to Rising A |
| · | Unraveling the Decline in High-latitude Surface Ocean Carbonate |
| Thursday, September 29 | | · | Hazards of Temperature on Food Availability in Changing Environments (HOT-FACE) |
| · | The Amazon and the Modern Carbon Cycle |
| · | New Coupled Climate-carbon Simulations from the IPSL Model |
| · | The Changing Carbon Cycle |
| · | What are the Most Important Factors for Climate-carbon Cycle Coupling? |
| · | CO2 Uptake of the Marine Biosphere |
| · | European-wide Reduction in Primary Productivity Caused by the Heat and Drought i |
| · | Persistence of Nitrogen Limitation over Terrestrial Carbon Uptake |
| · | Atmospheric CO2, Carbon Isotopes, the Sun, and Climate Change over the Last Mill |
| · | Proposing a Mechanistic Understanding of Atmospheric CO2 During the late Pleist |
| · | Greenhouse Gas (CO2, CH4) and Climate Evolution since 650 kyrs Deduced from Anta |
| Wednesday, September 28 | | · | (In and) Out of Africa: Estimating the Carbon Exchange of a Continent |
| · | Recent Shifts in Soil Dynamics on Growing Season Length, Productivity, and... |
| · | Interannual Variability in the Carbon Exchange Using an Ecosystem-fire Model |
| · | Photosynthesis and Respiration in Forests in Response to Environmental Changes |
| · | Seasonal and Interannual Variability in Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange in Japan |
| · | Estimating Landscape-level Carbon Fluxes from Tower CO2 Mixing Ratio Measurement |
| · | Monitoring Effects in Climate and Fire Regime on Net Ecosystem Production |
| · | Radiative Forcing from a Boreal Forest Fire |
| · | The Influence of Soil and Water Management on Carbon Erosion and Burial |
| · | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of CO2, CH4, and N2O Fluxes in Ecosystems |
| · | Modeling the History of Terrestrial Carbon Sources and Sinks |
| · | The Age of Carbon Respired from Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| · | Discussion Panel |
| · | The Underpinnings of Land Use History |
| Tuesday, September 27 | | · | Regional CO2 Fluxes for North America Estimated from NOAA/CMDL Observatories |
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