Global Change Education Program
The Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory assists the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) in conducting the Global Change Education Program (GCEP) to promote undergraduate and graduate training in support of the Department's global change research activities.
Global change research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes. Global change research is supported by BER through the Atmospheric Science Program (ASP), the Environmental Meteorology Program (EMP), the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, the Terrestrial Carbon Processes (TCP) effort, the Program for Ecosystem Research (PER), and studies carried out under the direction of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). Other studies address integrated assessments, predictions, and policy, as well as paleoclimatology and earth system processes. The GCEP consists of two components: the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) and the Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship (GREF). A major goal of GCEP is to involve undergraduate students at the end of their sophomore or junior year in BER-supported global change research, then continue this experience during subsequent undergraduate summers. SURE is designed to support individual undergraduate students during multiple years. To further improve the quality of emerging scientists in disciplines related to global change research, SURE students are encouraged to apply for GREFs and postdoctoral study programs. Mr. Rickey C. Petty is the DOE Program Manager; Dr. Jeffrey S. Gaffney (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) is the Mentoring Coordinator; Dr. Nancy Marley (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) is the Assistant Mentoring Coordinator; and Dr. Milton J. Constantin (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education) is the Project Manager.
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