Project Plans
Project Plans: 2001
Summer Theme: "Closing the Knowledge Gap: Priorities and Common Ground in Climate Research, Climate Literacy, and Environmental Policy".
There is an increasingly demand to find practical ways to use objective scientific knowledge gained in climate research to help reduce some of the uncertainties in making environmental policy. There is also the expectation for the professional research community to make practical and meaningful contributions to improve science literacy.
As part of their summer research experience, GISS/ICP students, faculty and scientists will identify some of the gaps in scientific knowledge that should be addressed in the future to make progress on their team's climate research problem. We will attempt to identify policy experts willing to provide their perspectives on the gaps in knowledge needed to address current environmental policy questions. At the end of the summer, these two groups will come together for a climate summit to determine if there are common goals that make sense to address a collaborative way.
2001 Projects
- An Alternative Climate Scenario: Energy Choices for the 21st Century
- Climate, Aerosols and Health: Environmental Effects on Asthma Burden
- Mapping Urban Aerosols and Emissions to Study Climate and the Environment
- Black Rock Forest Carbon Initiative: Connecting Forest Carbon Sequestration to Atmospheric Carbon Levels
- Storms in the Future: Changes in Intensity, Cloudiness, Rainfall and Economic Costs
- Methane Emissions: A Fairer Accounting and Historical Trends from Fossil Fuel Consumption
- New York City's Vegetational History - Climate Change and Human Impact
- Ocean-Atmosphere Models: Connecting Regional and Global Climate
- Oceans: The Ocean Down to Its Last Eddie
