Funding
We are very grateful to the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for their continued support for our research to understand how climate variability and change will impact the lives and livelihoods of people in the Great Lakes Region (Cooperative Agreement R-83081401-1)
Prior funding for research which contributes to the Pileus Project:
- USEPA — provided funding for the previous Great Lakes Regional Assessment
- MSU Extension (MSUE) and MI Agriculture Experiment Station (MAES) — long term, ongoing stakeholder relations with Agriculture & Travel, Tourism & Recreation Resource Center
- NATO — funded initial development of transfer function methodology for scenario development
- DOE (Department of Energy); (NIGEC) — funded development of Great Lakes temperature scenarios using IPCC Second Assessment era models
- Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station — CERES plant growth models and economic valuation under risk
- Michigan Economic Development Corporation — downhill skiing status and impact analysis
- USDA (US Department of Agriculture) /RMA — Management of “multiple-period” risk for supply chain of perennial crops
- USDA/FAO/Industry — Trade and competitive advantage in the world for tart cherries
- USDA/USFS/Joint Fire Science Program — Funding for regional climate model scenarios
- Fulbright — initial contacts with climatologists in Poland