Northern Illinois University

Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Analytical Center for Climate and Environmental Change

The Analytical Center for Climate and Environmental Change (ACCEC) is a research facility to support, expand, and add visibility to the important global climate and environmental change research already being conducted at NIU.

Climate and environmental change issues are some of the most crucial problems that society is facing and will be facing well into the future. Analytical capabilities are unequivocally the key to our progress in understanding climate and environmental change, and the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at NIU has contributed to this progress with world-class innovative research in three of the areas most sensitive to global change:

  • behavior of polar ice sheets
  • ocean regulation of climate
  • microbiological-geochemical interactions in natural and human-impacted environments on land

Moving this work forward in quantum steps and developing the next generation of cutting-edge scientists will require technical progress in designing sophisticated field and laboratory instrumentation. ACCEC will serve not only NIU scientists and students but also visiting researchers from elsewhere in Illinois, the U.S., and the world.

Phone: (815) 753-1943
Fax: (815) 753-1945