The Reid Bryson (CPEP) Exploratory Research Grant

Background: The Bryson CPEP program annually solicits for new small interdisciplinary projects on climate-people interactions in collaboration with climate scientists in the Center for Climatic Research. Priority will be given to the projects that initiate new directions beyond the existing research in the Center for Climatic Research, that include innovative interactions between the climate and social sciences, and that have the potential of extramural funding.

• Dissemination of a Wisconsin Archaeoclimate Atlas. R.A. Bryson, $2,000.

• The Atlas of Wisconsin Archaeoclimatology provides a robust hypothesis of the modeled climate for the past 14,000 years and explores the relationship between climatic parameters and the environments and peoples of the state. An animated map of precipitation for the state of Wisconsin can be found here.

• Were Late-Pleistocene Extinctions Human- or Climate- Driven? Jack Williams, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, $13,000.

• Facts of Climate History of Madison/Wisconsin. Zhengyu Liu, Steve Vavrus, $3,000.

• Economic Development and Environment in East Himalayas. Yongming Zhou, Dept of Anthropology, $6,700.