Please join us for a screening Chasing Ice Screening & Panel Discussion on Thursday, April 25th! Thursday, April 25, 2013 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Barnard College Altschul Hall 202, Lehman Auditorium Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Theresa E. Hernandez by sending email to teh2006@columbia.edu . Register here: http://bit.ly/17dJxcm Speakers: Stephanie Pfirman,… read more
Positive Feedback, an arts and climate science consortium led by Columbia University (Earth Institute – including CRED!), New York University (Center for Creative Research) and the City University of New York (Institute for Sustainable Cities) will participate in a panel at the upcoming NoPassport Theatre Conference on March 7th at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts… read more
On November 26, 2012, CRED doctoral student Katherine Thompson spoke to the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. Her talk was entitled “What We Think About When We Think About Probability: How Our Experience Affects the Way We Perceive the Risk of Rare Events.” The talk abstract appears below and a full summary can be found at… read more
On November 28, 2012, Elke Weber, CRED co-director, psychology professor, and Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia’s Business School, presented “Psychological Barriers to Understanding and Using Uncertainty” at Princeton University. She was hosted by the research community, “Communicating Uncertainty: Science, Institutions, and Ethics in the Politics of Global Climate Change,” an inter-disciplinary… read more
PhD student Katherine Thompson represented CRED at last month’s Volcanism in the American Southwest Conference, presenting an invited talk entitled, “The View From Social Science: How people will think and behave during an extended crisis with large uncertainties.” The meeting, held in Flagstaff, Arizona on October 18-19th, brought together nearly 100 volcanologists, seismologists, monitoring experts, emergency managers,… read more
Two CRED researchers will present posters at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco 03-07 December. Katherine Thompson will present a poster entitled “The Psychology of Hazard Risk Perception” and Dr. Diana Reckien will present a poster entitled “Realities of weather extremes on daily life in urban India – How quantified impacts infer… read more
The Hurricane in Cuban Art CRED will co-sponsor a guest lecture entitled “The Hurricane in Cuban Art” on Monday evening, November 19th. Please see flier for details. We hope to see you there!
On 16-19 November 2012, three CRED researchers will present at the Society for Judgement and Decision Making’s annual conference in Minneapolis. Ponnam Arora (CRED Affiliated Researcher) will present a talk titled “Endowment Effect and Goal Tradeoffs: A Field Study with Argentine Farmers;” Christoph Ungemach (CRED Postdoctoral Research Scientist) will speak on “Redundant Information as a… read more
The event “Sustaining Peace: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” will showcase cutting-edge interdisciplinary work in conflict resolution, violence prevention, peace and sustainability at Columbia University. CRED will hold a table at the event and will have several staff present to discuss current projects. The event will take place Wednesday, November 7th and the tabling session occurs from 2:00 –… read more
October 2nd, 2012 Katherine Thompson travels to California to partner with USGS, USC, and CEMA to share and present research Arts Center College of Design, Pasadena, California Katherine Thompson, CRED and Psychology Department doctoral student, studies decision making under uncertainty with a focus on how people understand and react to threats posed by natural hazards. Katherine… read more
