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1. Fundamentals
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2. Field Studies
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3. Lifelong Learning
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AGCI Walter Orr Roberts Public Lecture Series
AGCI hosts public lectures by leading scientists as part of an event series named in honor of Walter Orr Roberts, a notable scientist, humanitarian, and founder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. This series has covered the gamut of global change topics from changes in biodiversity, to human health changes in response to the environment, to the climate of earth's past, present, and future. -
AGCI Science Sessions
Conceived in 1989 and conducted each year since 1990, AGCI's interdisciplinary workshops bring together scientists from across the globe to discuss current, critical topics in global environmental change. -
Energy Solutions
AGCI is dedicated to identifying promising policies, technologies, and research ideas that accommodate the energy requirements of the human population while reducing the environmental impact of civilization’s energy needs. Our solutions page showcases solution strategies, AGCI's Energy Table and Energy Tool, and our Quarterly Research Review series. -
Global Change Showcase
This showcase features some of AGCI's online learning materials targeted at higher education students and lifelong learners curious about topics like climate change, energy decarbonization, water availability, food security, and preservation of ecosystems. Featured resources include engaging public talks by experts from the global change research community and illustrated explainer videos from AGCI's interdisciplinary workshops.
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Communicating Science Creatively
In order to close the gap between scientific information and public understanding, AGCI produces graphics backed by sound science to convey messages that would benefit from visual explanation.
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iRON
The interactive Roaring Fork Observation Network (iRON) is comprised of a series of local watershed-wide monitoring stations (ranging in elevation from 6,200ft to over 12,000ft) that help to improve local understanding of our ecosystems in the context of a changing climate. -
Resilience
The AGCI Resilience Project aims to help foster improved dialogue about resilience and offers a set of core principles from which communities can get started. This work emerges from a 2015 AGCI workshop on Risk & Resilience in the Face of Global Change.
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Mountain West Climate Services Partnership
To facilitate shared learning and capacity building, the Mountain West Climate Services Partnership is a network of researchers and local champions working to increase access to information, tools, and other resources to help small and medium-sized communities throughout the Mountain West region prepare for climate change.
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