The goal of this project is to help improve the water community’s decision-making process, by designing a new visually-compelling and user-friendly system of indicators, using data from NASA’s hydrological satellites.

As part of this internship, I worked on a team of climate scientists and designers to research the factors that go into decision making related to drought management by various stakeholders. Our team used a design-thinking creative research strategy to connect data and drought indicators to the key decision points of stakeholders and end-users. Leveraging our expertise in Industrial and Product Design, we approached climate science with ethnography, visualization, and systems thinking techniques to assess the state of water management and information infusion throughout the US.

Going forward, these findings will be used to create a comprehensive system of drought and hydrological indicators that will go into the future National Climate Assessment Report, which is a central component of the 2012-2021 US Global Change Research Program.

The goal of this project is to help improve the water community’s decision-making process, by designing a new visually-compelling and user-friendly system of indicators, using data from NASA’s hydrological satellites.

As part of this internship, I worked on a team of climate scientists and designers to research the factors that go into decision making related to drought management by various stakeholders. Our team used a design-thinking creative research strategy to connect data and drought indicators to the key decision points of stakeholders and end-users. Leveraging our expertise in Industrial and Product Design, we approached climate science with ethnography, visualization, and systems thinking techniques to assess the state of water management and information infusion throughout the US.

Going forward, these findings will be used to create a comprehensive system of drought and hydrological indicators that will go into the future National Climate Assessment Report, which is a central component of the 2012-2021 US Global Change Research Program.

The goal of this project is to help improve the water community’s decision-making process, by designing a new visually-compelling and user-friendly system of indicators, using data from NASA’s hydrological satellites.

As part of this internship, I worked on a team of climate scientists and designers to research the factors that go into decision making related to drought management by various stakeholders. Our team used a design-thinking creative research strategy to connect data and drought indicators to the key decision points of stakeholders and end-users. Leveraging our expertise in Industrial and Product Design, we approached climate science with ethnography, visualization, and systems thinking techniques to assess the state of water management and information infusion throughout the US.

Going forward, these findings will be used to create a comprehensive system of drought and hydrological indicators that will go into the future National Climate Assessment Report, which is a central component of the 2012-2021 US Global Change Research Program.