e Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) is a faculty-led, university-based research center on the campus of Purdue University. e PCCRC serves to increase scientific and public understanding of the causes and impacts of climate change through fundamental research and effective learning and engagement.
Purdue Climate Change Research Center Gerald D. and Edna E. Mann Hall, Suite 105 203 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: (765) 494-5146; Fax: (765) 496-9322 Web: www.purdue.edu/climate Email: pccrc@purdue.edu
Cover photos: From left to right: A snapshot from Purdue's Ross Biological Reserve where graduate student Asya Robertshaw is studying the effects of climate change on phenology and reproductive success in the spring ephemeral herbaceous plant community; graduate student Lindsey Payne at Machu Picchu, Peru - Lindsey's research is focused on the integration of transdisciplinary knowledge into decision-making processes; the northern lights over the tundra observation site in Barrow, Alaska, where Purdue Chemistry graduate student Kyle Custard and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kerri Pratt studied halogen chemistry this spring, 2012.