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Advancing Climate Tech Solutions Through CITRIS

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Program Drives Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Research

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In her plenary remarks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26), Jennifer Granholm 鈥 current  and former  at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) 鈥 said, 鈥淲e face a great challenge in eliminating carbon pollution and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, but the opportunity at hand is even greater.鈥

Since CITRIS was founded as a  at the University of California in 2001, it has sought to catalyze IT solutions to society鈥檚 most pressing issues by uniting the unique strengths of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息鈥檚  at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz under a single interdisciplinary banner.

From enabling more accurate models of California鈥檚 water supply with , to building resource-saving agricultural tools such as the , to launching , CITRIS researchers have seen a number of the challenges emerging in our warming world and risen to address the opportunities. 

Sustainability is woven into CITRIS鈥檚 infrastructure: Its Berkeley headquarters,  has stood as a proving ground and 鈥渓iving laboratory鈥 for green building technologies such as  and  since its construction in 2009.

At 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, a  to  aims to help her team create system-level models for heavy machinery and their batteries, as well as alternative battery designs for electric construction vehicles such as loaders and excavators.

颁滨罢搁滨厂鈥檚&苍产蝉辫; has also supported research that improves wildfire detection with un-crewed aerial vehicles, such as the  led by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Santa Cruz鈥檚 , and creates drone-based remote sensing tools for post-wildfire landscape surveys, such as an  led by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 Gary Bucciarelli. 

Addressing climate justice

As the heart of CITRIS鈥檚 climate, energy and sustainability technology research, the CITRIS Climate initiative works to confront the harmful effects of climate change, especially those burdens that disproportionately fall upon underserved communities, through multicampus, multidisciplinary activities.

鈥淭here is no climate solution without climate justice,鈥 said , professor of civil and environmental engineering at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and . 鈥淚f we do not address the problem of climate change now, we will see these problems grow exponentially and be more painful in the future.鈥 

Under Barbato鈥檚 leadership, CITRIS Climate is focusing its efforts on climate mitigation, or reducing the negative effects of climate change, and climate adaptation, or adjusting society to the effects that we see now and expect to see in the future. 

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Nitin Kumar, Michele Barbato, Julie Nguyen and Thomas Tonthat pose with earth blocks they made at their Bainer Hall site. (Karin Higgins/新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis)

Current areas of dedicated research for the initiative include lessening the severity and impact of wildfires, building sustainable and resilient communities, and, in alliance with , developing resources for healthy aging in a warming world.

CITRIS Climate holds thoughtful collaboration as a fundamental strategy of its work. Beyond the four CITRIS campuses and associated centers such as the  (CARC), the initiative has partners across the University of California, as well as the California State University system, state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, and national laboratories. 

鈥淲hen addressing the problem of climate change, you cannot do it in a vacuum,鈥 said Barbato. 鈥淲e need to build a community across disciplines. 

鈥淭he superpower of CITRIS is putting together people in very different fields who otherwise would not have an opportunity to work together.鈥
 

There is no climate solution without climate justice. - Michele Barbato, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, director of CITRIS Climate

These relationships are often between individual investigators and partner organizations, but Barbato is excited to explore more formal institutionalization, since these outside institutions offer valuable perspectives in solving problems.

鈥淭he capacity to look at the problem from different angles is a major benefit of working within CITRIS,鈥 he said.

He also identifies workforce development as an essential tactic for tackling climate change. Having a climate-specific track in the  and similar initiatives trains college students for jobs that require climate mitigation knowledge, including those at the local and federal policy levels.

In support of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息鈥檚 , CITRIS Climate aims to use its silo-busting superpower to convene 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 faculty, staff and students to drive progress in critical climate and energy technology. With the potential to accelerate this work through  from the state, CITRIS鈥檚 holistic approach is poised to lead the transition to a more sustainable future.

鈥淎s researchers, engineers and educators, we are doing the best we can to provide the tools to address the problem now and in the decades to come,鈥 said Barbato.

 

This article is an excerpt from 鈥淧reparing for a warming world: CITRIS at the vanguard of climate tech research鈥 by Karen Vo of CITRIS. Read the full article at .

 

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