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 including a focus on a densely populated, coastal society
• To inform society about the causes and consequences of climate change.

Just as climate change cannot be mitigated by one community acting on its own, these goals can only be accomplished through the cooperation of experts from the natural, social, and political sciences. The Climate and Environmental Change Initiative is therefore a multidisciplinary research, education, and outreach effort that draws from the strengths in many departments at Rutgers and facilitates collaboration across a broad range of disciplines from oceanography to sociology and from ecology to economics.

The Initiative focuses on six research and educational themes:
-Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
-Impacts on Coastal Environments, Infrastructures and Communities
-Education and Outreach
-Impacts on Freshwater Resources, Ecosystems and Agriculture
-Impacts on Human Health
-Human Dimensions.

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 not only New Jersey's citizens, communities, policies and economy, but also those around the world.

DIRECTOR: Anthony Broccoli Phone:1-848-932-5749 Email: broccoli@envsci.rutgers.edu Office Location: ENR Building

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Marjorie Kaplan Phone: 1-848-932-5739 Email: kaplan@envsci.rutgers.edu Office Location: ENR Building

 

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