2023 Comer Climate Conference Public Landing

Thank you for sharing your fantastic science!

Your ideas, enthusiasm and dedication are truly inspiring. As long-time climate scientists, it is hard to describe the relief we feel at meeting our reinforcements coming over the hill. Seeing you is like getting a second wind, knowing that we are not working alone, and it gives us confidence that we can and will bend the CO2 curve during our lifetimes! We can't wait to hear what science discoveries you'll come up with - improving our understanding of climate variability and helping us all to to be better prepared for the changes that lie ahead.

Cheers (and woohoo!),

—Joellen Russell & Jerry McManus, The Changelings

illustration by Ellen Litwiller

Rekindling a tradition

Since 2004, we’ve hosted the annual Comer Climate Conference, an opportunity for Comer Fellows and guests to convene for presentations, collaboration, and discussion. We were thrilled to reconnect for the first in-person conference since 2019. Scientists shared findings from field work ranging from Greenland to Antarctica, across the U.S. and around the globe. They were joined by environmental journalism students from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, artists who use visual storytelling to expand scientific understanding. Teens Take On Climate also Zoomed in from Chicago's South Side.

Learn more about the history of the Comer Climate Conference and our environment work.