Congratulations to our colleagues at RDCEP and the 1896 Pilot Project! This story comes from our friends at the Computation Institute, check out more news on their website: ci.uchicago.edu. 

Today, the White House announced the latest branch of its Climate Data Initiative, focusing on new open datasets and tools for two important components of climate change: ecosystem resilience and water. As with a previous call for new climate research resources, scientists from the CI's Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP) will support these efforts with a new project focused on the role and future of irrigation in agriculture, hydrology, and climate. 

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The term Social Cost of Carbon is a figure that puts a dollar value on the climate damages per ton of CO2 released, and is used by, among others, policymakers to help determine the costs and benefits of climate policies. In the latest issue of the journal Science, a group of economists and lawyers urge several improvements to the government’s figure that would impose a regular, transparent and peer-reviewed process to ensure it is reliable and well-supported by the latest facts.

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This story comes from our friends at the Computation Institute, find out more at: https://www.ci.uchicago.edu

 Last year, the CI launched their Inside The Discovery Cloud speaker series to highlight exciting Computation Institute projects across all five of their research areas. This year, they are kicking off the series with a topic central to the CI mission: collaboration. Bringing together scientists from within and outside the CI who have worked together on projects in biology, climate change, molecular engineering, urban sensing, computer science, and more, the series will illustrate the brodening impact of computational methods and the power of partnerships between computational and domain scientists.

Future talks will take place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month in Searle 240, with lunch provided to all attendees. For the full schedule, see below. You can also view videos from the 2013-14 Inside The Discovery Cloud talks on the CI YouTube channel.

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Have an idea for a better way to get around, connect with friends, listen to music or split the tab — or something else entirely? Programmers and non-programmers alike are encouraged to submit any ideas for the next great website, software package, mobile app, or something else (surprise us!) to the UChicago App Challenge by November 14. Challenge sponsors IT Services, UChicagoTech, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chicago Innovation Exchange will help semifinalists turn their ideas into reality, with the winning app taking home $10,000 from UChicagoTech!

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