• To advance the scientific understanding of decision making under climate uncertainty through an interdisciplinary program of research on individual and group decision processes and their relationship
   
• To study how individuals and groups detect change, frame corrective action alternatives, use scientific information including climate forecasts, and formulate and choose between plans to mitigate or adapt to anticipated but uncertain change
   

Specific Research Goals

• To integrate group and organizational goals into theories of individual decision making
   
• To extend modern theory of constructive and context-dependent choice to the group and organizational level
   
• To improve the communication of scientific information (including climate forecasts) to lay audiences in a theory-based way, utilizing knowledge about the mental representation of uncertainty and about decision goals and objectives and employing group processes as facilitators of understanding
   
• To reexamine microeconomic analyses in light of an improved understanding of individual and organizational decision processes
   

Educational and Outreach Goals

• To develop and disseminate decision support tools that (a) help people understand climate variables; (b) enhance intuitions about climate change, climate uncertainty, and climate variability by concretizing probabilistic and sequential events; (c) train individuals and group leaders in methods that provide for the consideration of a more optimal number of frames, goals, and choice alternatives; and (d) organize information sharing and group discussion and decision processes in ways beneficial to group decisions under climate uncertainty
   
• To disseminate Center research results to researchers, decision makers at all levels including policy makers, and educators