V1003 - Web Poster Ideas


Here are just some examples of possible web project themes which may help guide you to the selection of your project.

Remember:

1) you should follow your passion, do what interests you and your team most;

2) it should mainly focus on a scientific problem that may/may not have a policy or economic element (please do not consider economic or policy analysis for this project;

3) make it manageable in scope, even though you want to don’t try to solve the world’s problems with this project.

Ozone depletion

  • Ozone depletion and Antarctic wildlife
  • Current trends in ozone inventories
  • How global warming impacts ozone depletion

El Nino climate variability

  • ENSO impacts for a given region (Peru, Galapagos, Western US, Australia…): Signatures of variability and Mitigation steps (The Lamont IRI folks are excellent contacts for this).
  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and why it is important to the global warming question
  • Socioeconomic impacts of ENSO prediction science on the vulnerabilities of ENSO-impacted regions
  • Coral reconstructions of past ENSO variability

Global Warming

  • New York City and global warming: projected impacts of global warming
  • Abrupt climate change and greenhouse warming: Climate Impacts and Policy Implications
  • A view from the other side: Views and Validity of the Greening Earth Society agenda
  • Global warming impacts on the US Forestry Industry: Science and Policy
  • The science and motivations of global warming skeptics
  • Emergence and Relevance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • Agriculture and CO2: Impacts and Policy
  • Placing current and project future climate scenarios within the context of the last 1,000 years: How unusual is the present?
  • Carbon emissions trading
  • The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and its regional impacts
  • Carbon sequestration: Technologies for removing CO2 from the atmosphere
  • Modern and future impacts of rising CO2 on ocean chemistry
  • Small island nations of the Pacific and sea level rise
  • ocean acidification due to rising CO2

Pollution

Populations

  • How China may affect the world: Projected emissions impacts due to the modernization of China
  • The Science and Policy of the “Three Gorges” hydro-project in China
  • Population, changing global demographics, and the Kyoto Protocol
  • Living more efficiently: How available technologies and lifestyle changes can reduce emissions in developed countries
  • Sustainable Development: What it is and what it means for future generations

Life

  • Current biodiversity trends: Causes, implications, and mitigation
  • Patterns and causes of fish stock changes in the world's oceans

Water resources

  • The science and policy of water availability in the Middle East
  • History and future of western US Drought

 

Updated September 12, 2007