iceberk: Informatics for Climate Empowerment @ Berkeley

iceberk
Informatics for Climate Empowerment @ Berkeley

We are a newly launched multidisciplinary lab at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Our goals are:

To understand the information needs and behaviors of individuals and communities confronting the effects of climate change
To develop information tools to support their efforts in climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity conservation
To train the next generation of information leaders for our societal transition to a sustainable and just climate future

Building on our collective expertise across multiple disciplines, we pursue a range of research and education initiatives: from participatory and speculative design activities to learn from diverse communities, to planet-centric monitoring tools based on remote sensing and AI; from interrogating the ethics and values of entrenched and emerging tools and discourses, to developing curricular innovations for future climate technologists.

People:

Prof. John Chuang
Prof. Joshua Blumenstock
Prof. Kimiko Ryokai
Ando Shah
Nyah Mattison
Suraj Nair
Yangyang Yang
Zoya Abdullah
Leonardo Erlacher (visiting student researcher)

Projects:

Carbon Pricing Calculator (in collaboration with OpenEarth Foundation)
Being The Creek
Sand Mining Watch
Climate, People, and Informatics
... more to come