Looking at Sea Level Rise through New Eyes

Here is my newest post for the WWF ClimatePrep blog, on a San Francisco Bay sea level rise visualization project:

Sea Level Rise Seen with New Eyes: the OWLs of San Mateo (Aug. 30, 2016)

I'm currently supporting this collaboration, called LookAhead - San Mateo, led by the climate change communications NGO Climate Access, by contributing to its Twitter feed and Facebook page.

Check out LookAhead - SMC's new website, just launched this week.

This cool outreach tool-- the OWLs, which show the viewer the surrounding landscape under higher sea levels-- will be moved to San Francisco in 2017.

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Update: Climate Access did a variation of the OWLs project in San Francisco from December 2017 to May 2018 using a "new mobile app utilizing virtual reality technology." Find out more at the Climate Access "Projects" web page (scroll down to "Look Ahead - San Francisco").

Also: WWF's ClimatePrep blog apparently went defunct in 2018 and may not be revived.  I'm updating this blog's links to ClimatePrep to snapshots on Archive.org (where available). Some articles look OK there, some not so OK. For a readable version with images intact, see my ClimatePrep articles as reconstructed on this blog:

• Head in the Clouds: The Dream of Harvesting Water from Fog
June 08, 2017

• Story Maps: A Rising Star of Climate Change Communication
April 10, 2017

• The Sea Level Rise Solution that is as Charismatic as Mud
February 17, 2017

• The Internet of Water - October 31, 2016

• Sea Level Rise Seen with New Eyes: the OWLs of San Mateo
August 30, 2016

• California: The Rebeavering
May 22, 2015

• Government Folly in the Face of Climate Change
March 19, 2015

• In the Heat of the Moment
December 02, 2014

• California’s Adaptation Clarion Call
September 02, 2014

• Farmland in Flux
July 8, 2014

• Honest Conversations: Climate Change and Uncertainty
December 12, 2013