PNAS

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually referred to as PNAS, is the official journal of the United States National Aacademy of Sciences. Being one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific journals, PNAS publishes research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, feature articles, colloquium papers, profiles, letters to the editor, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. Many of the papers published in the journal are in the biomedical sciences, but PNAS also publishes much research specifically on climate change. PNAS is published weekly in print, and daily online in PNAS Early Edition.

MIT

The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is a leading research center focusing on how to curb climate change. The MIT Joint Program is one part of the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

The Program integrates multidisciplinary expertise from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and the Center for Global Change Science and collaborates with other major research groups within and outside MIT. In particular, the Marine Biological Laboratory's Ecosystems Center has been a key partner for over a decade.

The Program's mission is to:

• improve knowledge of interactions among human and natural Earth systems, with a particular focus on climate and energy, and of the forces that drive global change,
• prepare quantitative analyses of global change risk and its social and environmental consequences,
• provide independent assessments of potential responses to global risks, through emissions mitigation and anticipatory adaptation, contributing to improved understanding of these issues among other analysis groups, policy-making communities and the public, and
• augment the pool of people needed for work in this area by the education of graduate and undergraduate students in relevant disciplines of economic and Earth science analysis and methods of policy assessment.

CITRIS

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society [CITRIS] is a scientific collaboration among industrial researchers from over 60 corporations, and more than 300 faculty members and thousands of students from numerous departments at four campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz).

Together the many diverse research groups innovate new IT-based solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from monitoring the environment and finding viable, sustainable energy alternatives to simplifying health care delivery and developing secure systems for electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, all of which will ultimately boost economic productivity.

CITRIS has a rich tradition of seeding new research, expanding industry partnerships, developing and strengthening its physical and cyber infrastructures, and increasing its collaboration efforts. These efforts will continue to grow as CITRIS embraces an expanding alliance of international collaborations.

In particular, CITRIS' Climate Navigator will embody a joint, web-based program of information distillation and dissemination, as well as a portal of some of the most important climate and energy modeling and roadmapping efforts in the world.