October 23rd, 2012 NYU’s Educating for Sustainability Lecture New York University In her lecture, “Our Energy Efficiency Paradox: Psychological Barriers to ‘No-Brainer’ Solutions,” Elke Weber, CRED co-director, will speak about the psychological dimension of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of climate change. She will address (a) human causes of, consequences of, and… read more

CRED PhD student Katherine Thompson was invited to the 2012 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, hosted by Gerd Gigerenzer’s Adaptive Behavior and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, from July 3 to 10, 2012. The event’s focus was on “decision making in the wild,” a theme perfect for Katherine,… read more

June 27th-29th, 2012 Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference Leeds School of Business in Boulder, Colorado Presentations by CRED researchers included: Appelt, K., E. Johnson, M. A. Z. Knoll, and J. E. Westfall: Time to Retire: Why Americans Claim Benefits Early and How to Encourage Delay Camilleri, A. R., and B. R. Newell: Does the… read more

May 18th, 2012 Climate Information and Decision Architecture for Malaria Control Columbia University Derek Willis, CRED/IRI postdoctoral research scientist, took the lead in organizing the panel on “Climate information and decision architecture for malaria control: new opportunities for improved decisions” for the recently concluded ICARUS III (the 3rd meeting of the Initiative on Climate Adaptation… read more

April 29, 2012 Brace Yourself! Preparing for Wild Weather in the Hudson Valley Yonkers, New York Katherine Thompson, doctoral student in the Columbia University Department of Psychology and CRED affiliate, spoke at the Hudson River Museum as part of their Science Sundays program. Katherine addressed natural hazards, such as hurricanes and floods, and how we… read more

April 17-20, 2012 NOAA-NASA-NSF Climate Change Education Principal Investigators Meeting Arlington, VA Sabine Marx, CRED managing director, was a keynote presenter at the NOAA-NASA-NSF Climate Change Education Principal Investigators Meeting held in Arlington, VA on April 17-20, 2012. Sabine was on the panel “Using Insights from the Learning and Social Sciences to Improve Climate Education,”… read more

April 20, 2012 Historicizing Hazard New York, NY CRED Co-Directors Elke Weber and Ben Orlove, as well as CRED Principal Investigator Upmanu Lall participated in Historicizing Hazard, an interdisciplinary workshop on environmental learning, ignorance & fear held at Barnard College. This workshop was sponsored by the Earth Institute and the Center for International History at… read more

March 19-23, 2012 Meeting of IPCC Working Group 3 Wellington, New Zealand Elke Weber, CRED co-director, traveled to Wellington, New Zealand to be with co-authors of the IPCC Working Group 3. The group met from March 19-23, 2012 to prepare their contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), a review and assessment of the scientific,… read more

March 13-15, 2012 10th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop University of Miami, FL Derek Willis (CRED postdoctoral research scientist) and Galen Treuer (CRED research assistant) participated in 10th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop held from March 13 to 15, 2012 at University of Miami. Derek presented “A framework for using climate information to… read more

February 27-29, 2012 WHO-TDR Workshop Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Derek Willis, EI Fellow, and Barbara Platzer, CRED Assistant Director, participated in a workshop led by WHO-Tropical Disease Research (TDR) on the “Assessment of Research Needs for Public Health Adaptation to Social, Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Vector-Borne Diseases in Africa” held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia… read more