Advancing Global Change Science and Solutions

Every day, practitioners, planners, and policymakers face increasingly complex decisions to help communities prepare for the impacts of a changing climate. To help meet that need, AGCI launched a series of investigations exploring how practitioners access and apply climate information—and how to better support their decisions and actions.

Advances in AI and machine learning hold tremendous promise to revolutionize how we understand and protect the natural world — but interdisciplinary collaboration between ecology and AI communities is crucial.

SOAK is a vibrant community of social scientists, engaged researchers, and practitioners who use critical scholarship to systematically study how science is produced and used in decisions and actions. Their goal is to understand what causes scientific knowledge to become “actionable.”

AGCI is delighted to welcome two outstanding new team members: Olya Jerard, Vice President of Finance and Operations, and Dr. Dhruv Patel-Tupper, Program Development Manager with AGCI’s Workshops program.

AGCI spoke with glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, about the speed and scale of vanishing ice as a global change issue, and the critical need to make the science of vanishing ice accessible and relevant to policymakers.