Agreement with Yarmouk University to exchange students
and faculty and participate in joint workshops, symposia, and research
on desertification, hydrology, geology, and archaeology.
Take a trip around the world and you'll find DRI scientists on every
continent. To better understand environmental changes worldwide,
institute researchers are constantly on the move, from the freezing
waters of the Antarctic to the blazing landscapes of southern Africa.
These pages depict just a few of the exciting projects DRI scientists
are carrying out around the globe.
Jordan -
Agreement with Yarmouk University to exchange students
and faculty and participate in joint workshops, symposia, and research
on desertification, hydrology, geology, and archaeology.
Russia - 
Research on prehistory of northeastern Siberia (see
article on page 5) and luminescence dating of ash beds to determine
chronology of Kamchatkan volcanic eruptions.
United Kingdom - 
Studying how clouds and ice particles form and
how this relates to
climate, and research on the origin of electricity in thunderstorms.
Greenland - Research on ice cores containing 100,000 years of
Earth's climate records.
Canada - Researching how much cars pollute under actual driving
conditions in British Columbia.
USA - 
From its desert home in Nevada, DRI conducts environmental
research in all 50 states.
Mexico - 
Studying how air pollution moves across the U.S./Mexico
border and researching Mexico City's air quality problems.
Brazil - 
Initiative with state and university officials to
conduct environmental studies to help the Brazilian state of Ceara deal
effectively with periodic droughts.<
Antarctica 
- Five different projects: a long-term ecological
study, wind research, climate studies on ice cores, air quality study,
and research on lifeforms in frozen lakes .
Ghana - 
A project using a combination of geophysics and remote
sensing technology to improve rural water supplies in this West African
country.
Australia - Researching the differences between clouds of the
northern and southern hemispheres and how phytoplankton and
human-caused pollution affect these clouds.
China -
For Beijing and Nankai universities, workshops and
development of testing methods for air quality research.
DRI scientists host their international counterparts and work with them in their home countries on a wide variety of projects. Countries represented in these cooperative projects include: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Namibia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
Several DRI scientists are fluent in a variety of languages, including Bengali, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Kiswahili, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.