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 Appelgren2, Anne Gammelgaard Ballantyne3, Grace Bennett-Pierre4, Max Boykoff5, Meaghan Daly6, Rhiannon Danborn5, Rogelio Fernández-Reyes7, Kaitlan Gil-Najarro8, Hannah Ha5, Kyotaek Hwang4, Isidro Jiménez Gómez9, Anna Kulikova5, Kyungsun Lee10, Jari Lyytimaki11, Lucy McAllister12, Erkki Mervaala11, Gabi Mocatta13, Ami Nacu-Schmidt5, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey8, Olivia Pearman5, Bruna Ramos14, Kristina Riegert2, Anne Hege Simonsen15, Sitashma Thapa5, Hong Vu5, Andreas Ytterstad15
1National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, 2Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Aarhus University, Denmark, 4University of New Mexico, USA, 5University of Colorado Boulder, USA, 6Independent Researcher, 7Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 8Texas A&M, USA, 9Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 10University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA, 11Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, 12Denison University, USA, 13University of Tasmania, Australia, 14Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, 15Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
MeCCO Lead Team
Lead Project Investigator, Max Boykoff
Infographics, Design & Outreach Lead, Ami Nacu-Schmidt
Director of Global Operations, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey
Director of Data Management, Olivia Pearman
ENVS Spring 2026 Graduate Research Assistant, Sitashma Thapa
MeCCO is a Multi-University Collaboration
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