Mission

Lamont's Climate Center (CC) receives income from an endowment established by the Vetlesen Foundation. The amount of the income varies from fiscal year to fiscal year and depends on the dividends earned from the original principal.   For the current fiscal year (July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008), the Climate Center received $164,730.  The money is used for four major purposes:

1. To fund each semester a visit by a prominent scientist.
2. To fund one or two miniconferences at Lamont each year.
3. To fund each year an undergraduate research project in a climate-related field.
4. To fund start-up research projects aimed at leveraging government sponsored research grants. For a list of projects funded in the more recent past, click here

The majority of our funds go into the latter of these four initiatives.