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About Us
The Rutgers Climate and Environmental Change Initiative is a university-wide endeavor that addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time. This multidisciplinary research, education, and outreach effort draws from the strengths in many departments at Rutgers and facilitates collaboration across a broad range of disciplines. The Initiative is guided by three major goals:
- To understand the mechanisms that drive global and regional climate change
- To predict the future of the climate system as well as the impacts of change on a densely populated, coastal society
- To educate society about the causes and consequences of climate change
Climate change touches our society on a variety of scales, from local to global and from individual to societal. By fostering a greater understanding of climate change, its effects, and its solutions, the knowledge gained as part of the Climate and Environmental Change Initiative will enable healthy development of New Jersey's citizens, communities, policies, and economy.
Photos throughout website courtesy of: Darwin Bell, CDC/Prof. Frank Hadley Collins (Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Notre Dame), National Fish and Wildlife Service, Janice McDonnell, Norb Psuty, Tom Rudel, Jackie Fritsche