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The Analytical Center for Climate and Environmental Change (ACCEC)
is intended primarily as a research facility to support, expand, and
add visibility to the important global climate and environmental change
research already being conducted at NIU. Climate and environmental
change issues are some of the most crucial problems that society is
facing and will be facing well into the future. Analytical capabilities
are unequivocally the key to our progress in understanding climate
and environmental change, and the Department of Geology and Environmental
Geosciences at NIU has contributed to this progress with world-class
innovative research in three of the areas most sensitive to global
change: (1) the behavior of polar ice sheets, (2) ocean regulation
of climate, and (3) microbiological-geochemical interactions in natural
and human-impacted environments on land. Moving this work forward
in quantum steps and developing the next generation of cutting-edge
scientists will require investment in the University's equipment base
to capitalize on technical progress in designing sophisticated field
and laboratory instrumentation. The development of these facilities
should mean that ACCEC will serve not only the many NIU scientists
and students who are working on these problems, but will also serve
visiting researchers from elsewhere in Illinois, the U.S., and the
world.
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Phone: (815) 753-1943
Fax: (815) 753-1945
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