About CSES

The Center for Science in the Earth System (CSES) conducts integrated research on the impacts of climate variability and change on the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW). It does this by combining and integrating expertise in climate dynamics, ecological dynamics, hydrologic dynamics, and institutional and policy analysis for the study of PNW climate dynamics and impacts. The CSES also researches the methodologies for accomplishing climate research, and researches the application of climate information in regional decision-making processes in support of the regional aspects of an eventual Climate Service. Click here to read CSES’s most recent annual report.

The Co-Directors of the CSES are Edward L. Miles and Edward Sarachik. The CSES is housed at the University of Washington/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere (JISAO). The CSES is funded and managed jointly by the Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) program and the Climate Diagnostics and Experimental Prediction (CDEP) program of NOAA's Office of Global Programs. The charter of the CSES can be found here.

The CSES is comprised of three groups: the Climate Impacts Group, the Climate Dynamics Group, and the Office of the Washington State Climatologist.

Location

Directions to CSES Offices

The CSES is housed in what is currently know as the Academic Computing Center at the University of Washington campus in Seattle. For a campus map of our location, click here. For a Google map of our location, please use the above link to directions.

Mailing address

Center for Science in the Earth System
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
University of Washington
Box 355672
Seattle, WA 98195-5672

Address for Visitors and Overnight Delivery

Center for Science in the Earth System
3737 Brooklyn Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Campus mail

CSES, Box 355672

Phone

(206) 616-5350

Fax

(206) 616-5775