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About AGCI
Since its foundation, the Aspen Global Change Institute has been working to facilitate critical scientific discussions on subjects in Earth systems science. Under the direction of its first scientific advisory board, AGCI held its first summer session in 1990. Since that first meeting, AGCI has held over 75 such workshops, gathering more than 2,500 scientists from 40 countries over that time. In addition to furthering research on a specific topic, these workshops benefit the broader community, as scientists who attend the meetings become ambassadors for interdisciplinary science, subsequently helping to break down disciplinary barriers and promoting relevant scientific engagement with the public.
Funding
U.S. Federal Agencies
- NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)
- DOE (Department of Energy)
- NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- NSF (National Science Foundation)
- EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
- USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
International Scientific Organizations
- IGBP-AIMES (International Geosphere Biosphere Programme)
- WCRP (World Climate Research Programme)
Private Foundations
- Climate Works
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
- Lia Fund
- Sopris Foundation
- New-Land Foundation
- John Denver Aspenglow Fund at Aspen Community Foundation
and other grants and private donations.
About AGCI
AGCI has become an intellectual proving ground, a ferment for new ideas and concepts, and a place where the different disciplines actually talk, and progress. Hal Harvey
What We Do
AGCI has been the most prominent place for developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogues between scientists and practitioners.Guy Brasseur
Get Involved
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller