Kathy Hibbard, Project Scientist

Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES)

CGD is the home of the International Project Office for the new IGBP Earth System modeling project, Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES). The primary emphasis of AIMES is to begin to integrate human processes into coupled carbon-climate models. The AIMES Project Office is responsible for the initiation and implementation of coupled carbon/climate/chemistry and human processes into the future of Earth System Modeling activities. AIMES builds on the legacy of the Coupled Carbon Cycle-Climate Model Intercomparison Project (C4MIP) and is co-chaired by Dave Schimel (CGD) and Colin Prentice (UK- QUEST).

AIMES hopes to link within and between CGD and other NCAR divisions as well as NCAR and the international community. Initial activities include the development of emissions databases and models through GEIA, co-led by Alex Guenther in ACD and Claire Granier in France. In addition, AIMES is actively participating in an Integrated History of People and Earth (IHOPE) with the goal of developing databases that capture human activities and their interactions with the environment. IHOPE is co-led by Bob Costanza (University of Vermont), Lisa Graumlich (University of Montana), Will Steffen (Australian National University) and Kathy Hibbard (CGD). More...

 

Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE)

IHOPE is a multi-year activity with the goal to understand the complex ways in which humans have affected and have been affected by natural systems of the Earth, and to integrate human history with a fairly detailed and spatially explicit natural history of the Earth over the last 8,000 years. More...