Nonprofits, academics and city governments are bringing in citizen scientists to adapt to the climate crisis.
“The scientific community is leaning into the idea that science can be an ally for justice, and a tool that communities have as they try to repair or address past harms or promote future changes,” said Rajul Pandya, vice president of the American Geophysical Union’s Thriving Earth Exchange, which connects communities across the globe with scientists for collaborative research.
Satellite-based estimates of ground surface temperatures can’t compete with dozens or hundreds of residents using thermometers and infrared cameras to document heat in their neighborhoods—and inside their homes. Crowdsourcing rainfall measurements during storms can uncover pockets of severe flooding that flood models often miss.
“The solutions are almost as granular, in some cases, as the threat,” said Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and founder ofCommunity meeting workshopping the results of the project in Harlem.How the Harlem Heat Project has heightened awareness of heat’s dangers Researchers have long understood that indoor temperatures, especially in buildings lacking adequate air conditioning, can exceed outdoor temperatures during heatwaves—a phenomenon that Harlem Heat Project researchers refer to as an. But the Harlem Heat Project quantified the wide variance in how Upper Manhattan’s indoor spaces responded to outdoor conditions, according to Brian Vant Hull, a research scientist at CUNY’s Remote Sensing Earth System Institute.
But the qualitative data, based on participants’ lived experiences, was just as valuable as the quantitative data, according to Kizzy Charles-Guzman,Charles-Guzman attended
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