The overall direction of this research is toward increased understanding of interactive processes in the Earth's physical environment and the development of a more coherent picture of its sensitivities to natural and anthropogenic change. The carbon dioxide greenhouse effect is a continuing source of research problems, and one of the most pressing problems is how to determine the onset of a theoretically predicted warming. Both of these topics receive considerable attention from CIRES researchers.
Elisabeth Andrews
Betsy received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for her studies of aerosol hygroscopicity in an electrodynamic balance. She followed her graduate work with two post-doctoral fellowships. The first was at Colorado State University studying aerosol-cloud interactions with Dr. Jeffery Collett and Dr. Sonia Kreidenweis. The second was an NSF funded project at University of Northern Colorado investigating factors influencing low-income students’ participation in STEM fields.
