October 4th, 2012 Ben Orlove introduces CRED to RISA teams through webinar presentation at research meeting NOAA’s Regional Integrated Science and Assessments (RISA) meeting On October 4, 2012, CRED co-director, Ben Orlove gave a webinar presentation at a research meeting of NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA). Entitled, “An Overview of CRED: Some observations for… read more

October 12th, 2012 CRED Lab Meeting Columbia University, Schermerhorn 419, CRED Conference Room George Marshall, founder of the UK-based non-profit, Climate Outreach Information Network, and its Talking Climate Programme, was the featured speaker at CRED’s October 12th seminar, “Preaching to the Tone Deaf: How can we reach beyond the ‘usual suspects’ and engage new, challenging or disinterested… 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

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 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 24-28, 2012 AAG Annual Meeting 2012 New York, New York CRED was represented at this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting, held February 24-28 in New York, by visiting research scholar Diana Reckien and visiting scholar Seth Baum. Diana presented a paper on “What it needs to reduce perceived burden – Climate… read more

February 15-17, 2012 Climate Mind & Behavior Symposium at the Garrison Institute Garrison, New York Sabine Marx, CRED Managing Director, presented “Communication and Decision Making: Insights from the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions”; and Rick Larrick, CRED Principal Investigator, presented “Better Metrics for Energy Decisions” at the Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) Symposium, held… read more

February 7, 2012 E3B Seminar Series New York, New York CRED Co-Director Ben Orlove gave a presentation entitled “Babies, Dogs and Microbes: Organisms that Threaten the Wilderness Continent of Antarctica” as part of the Columbia University Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology‘s E3B Seminar Series. Ben is looking at three areas of contention under… read more