Global Change

Global Change refers to changes in the Earth’s system on a planetary scale. Change can be in oceans, life, land, atmosphere, polar regions, and the planet’s natural cycles.

Scientists who study global environmental change are interested in learning how drivers of environmental change (including human population growth and consumption, energy use, land use changes, and pollution) impact biological systems across many scales — from the level of the individual organism, to populations, communities, and ecosystems,

Global environmental change science is therefore a highly multidisciplinary effort, involving physical scientists who study climate, the oceans, the atmosphere, and geology, as well as biologists investigating physiology, evolution, and ecology.