Clean Air-Cool Planet

CA-CP is in the business of solving the global warming problem, developing economically efficient and innovative climate policies and mobilizing civic engagement to implement practical climate solutions. CA-CP is the region's leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming:

• CA-CP partners with companies, campuses, communities and science centers throughout the Northeast to help reduce their carbon emissions.

• CA-CP helps their partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.

• CA-CP showcases practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change.

• CA-CP proposes and recommends the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels.

• CA-CP works to build support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ regional Climate Change Action Plan and national programs to reduce emissions.

New England Science Center Collaborative

The New England Science Center was founded in New Hampshire in 1999, with the goal of linking climate science researchers and institutions to the environmental education community, in order to drive awareness and action around the problem of climate change. The NESCC created professional development opportunities (including the popular "Meet the Scientists" program), teaching tools (its flagship: the Climate Change Backpack®) and networking capacity for science educators. It also began working with science centers to help them become models and learning laboratories for greenhouse gas reductions, through the development of the "Greening the Science Centers" program.

Since 1999, the New England Science Center Collaborative has grown from its original fourteen NH members to over 30 member organizations throughout New England. The NESCC was also the model upon which its Connecticut counterpart, the Connecticut Science Center Collaborative, was based. In 2006 NESCC joined with Clean Air-Cool Planet, a founding member of it and the CT Collaborative, to reside under the umbrella of the Northeast Science Center Collaborative.

WAIS Divide Science

While en route to the WAIS Divide field camp, Dr. Ken Taylor of the Desert Research Institute gave a presentation on the science involved in the project and ice coring in general. In it he answers many questions that you may also have such as: Why drill the ice core on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? How deep do these ice cores go into the ice? What kinds of data can be gathered from these ice cores? And just what do these data tell us about climate change? Take a look to learn more about the WAIS Divide project!

National Ice Core Lab (NICL)

The U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) is a facility for storing, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world. It provides scientists with the capability to conduct examinations and measurements on ice cores, and it preserves the integrity of these ice cores in a long-term repository for current and future investigations.

• Why Study Ice Cores?

• Objectives
• Contributions to Global Change
• Related Links
• Timeline

• How Is It Done?

• The Process
• Drilling and Recovery
• Transportation
• Accession
• Examination