Decision Center for a Desert City
NSF Press Release 04-132
Arlington, Va. - Five interdisciplinary research teams will share some $25 million from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) over the next five years to study important aspects of
problems associated with understanding climate-related decisions under uncertainty.
Research centers will be located at Arizona State,
Carnegie-Mellon and Columbia universities.
Other interdisciplinary teams will be conducting research at the University of Colorado at
Boulder and Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif.
The increased knowledge generated by recent scientific research on the causes and consequences
of climate change and variability has led to a growing need to better understand how decision
makers make choices among the alternative courses of action.
According to Cheryl Eavey, NSF's program officer for the Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU)
projects, "NSF expects these teams to produce new insights of interest to the academic community,
generate significant educational benefits and develop new tools that will benefit policy makers,
decision makers and many different stakeholders."
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