IAI-CRN 3035

¿What is the Collaborative Research Network (CRN3035)?

The Collaborative Research Network (CRN3035) is a cooperative research network that, in addition to producing scientific knowledge about climate from both natural and human perspectives, aims to improve the way climate information and knowledge are analyzed, evaluated, synthesized, and communicated. To achieve this, it is essential that research be aligned with the needs, procedures, and decision-making protocols of the various climate-sensitive social sectors

IAI-CRN-3 Project on Climate Services in Southern South America

The project involves collaboration between academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations from Argentina, southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay, and the Regional Climate Center for Southern South America (CRC-SAS), which includes the four aforementioned countries plus Bolivia and Chile.

The project is part of the Cooperative Research Networks 3 (CRN-3) from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The CRN program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States.

Research is closely intertwined with education and outreach programs designed to develop versatile scientists capable of working comfortably in interdisciplinary teams, navigating the science-society interface, and producing and communicating rigorous, useful, and usable climate knowledge.

Proposal

The research program proposes a user-centered definition and improvement of climate services products and processes. We aim to address the information needs, expectations, values, priorities, and social norms of different types of users.

As a result of a two-way process, we expect a realistic fit between the capabilities of some and the needs and expectations of others to gradually emerge: users will expand their set of options in response to new information, and knowledge producers will adapt their products to the changing needs of the former.

Geographical focus: southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and central-eastern Argentina

¿Who are we?

The network is an interdisciplinary team of scientists working in both universities and government agencies, as well as community partners working in agricultural extension agencies and non-governmental organizations in South America and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the United States.