Help Support the Work of Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO)
please enter in Media and Climate Change Observatory (MECCO) Fund as the gift designation
This observatory analyzes traditional/legacy media representations of climate change. With additional funding, the group of CU-Boulder graduate student and postdoctoral researchers (along with CU-Boulder Professor Max Boykoff and collaborators in Australia, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Tasmania) endeavor to comprehensively aggregate, monitor, appraise and critically examine media coverage - from newspapers, tv and radio to new, social and digital media - that influence the spectrum of possibility for effective responses to ongoing climate challenges. At present, the MeCCO team monitors coverage monthly in 131 selected sources globally. With further funding support, the MeCCO team will scale analyses out to provide resonant and useful information for a range of consumers, from local practitioners to elected officials and academic researchers.
MeCCO Research Team
Midori Aoyagi1, Ester Appelgren15, Anne Gammelgaard Ballantyne8, Max Boykoff3, Catherine Bruns12, Patrick Chandler3, Meaghan Daly3, Rogelio Fernández-Reyes5, Erin Hawley7, Yumiko Hayakawa2, Kyotaek Hwang15, Isidro Jiménez Gómez6, Kyungsun Lee4, Jari Lyytimäki11, Lucy McAllister10, Erkki Mervaala10, Gabi Mocatta13, Ami Nacu-Schmidt3, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey3, Olivia Pearman14, Lars Kjerulf Petersen9, Amy Rawn3, Kristina Riegert16, Anne Hege Simonsen7, and Andreas Ytterstad8
1Chuo University, Japan, 2National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, 3University of Colorado Boulder, USA, 4University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA, 5Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 6Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 7University of Tasmania, Australia, 8Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, 9Aarhus University, Denmark, 10Denison University, USA, 11Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, 12University of Minnesota, USA, 13Deakin University, Australia, 14US Geological Survey, USA, 15University of New Mexico, USA, 16Södertörn University, Sweden
MeCCO Lead Team
MeCCO lead Project Investigator, Max Boykoff
MeCCO Infographics, Design & Outreach Lead, Ami Nacu-Schmidt
MeCCO Counts Coordinator & Technical Support Lead, Olivia Pearman
MeCCO is a Multi-University Collaboration
University of Colorado Boulder (USA), Aarhus University (Denmark), Deakin University (Australia), Denison University (USA), Chuo University (Japan), National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan), Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), University of Tasmania (Australia), University of Arkansas, Little Rock (USA), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Finnish Environment Institute (Finland), Södertörn University (Sweden), US Geological Survey (USA) and University of Minnesota (USA)
