EESI Centers
Northeastern Regional Center of the DOE National Institute for Climatic Change Research
Ken Davis, Director
The National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER). The goal of NICCR is to mobilize university researchers, from all regions of the country, in the support of the climatic change research objectives of BER.
Research topics focus on:
- Reducing scientific uncertainty about potential effects of climatic change on the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems;
- Evaluating or improving the understanding and prediction of potential effects of climatic change on the future geographic distribution of terrestrial ecosystems at the regional scale;
- Using measurements of contemporary exchanges of mass and energy between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems to reduce scientific uncertainty about possible effects of an altered terrestrial carbon cycle and/or surface energy exchange on global and/or regional climate; and
- Using synthesis of existing experimental or observational data, or modeling, to better understand or forecast potential effects of climatic change on ecological systems and/or feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to climate at the regional scale.
For more information about NICCR, please contact:
Kenneth J. Davis
512 Walker Building
Department of Meteorology
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: 814.863.8601
Fax: 814.865.3663
Email: davis@met.psu.edu
Web site: http://www.nerc.niccr.psu.edu/