by Kayla Guilliams | Sep 14, 2021 | Featured, Urbanization
On August 28, we sent nearly 40 volunteers armed with handheld sensors, smartphones, and smartwatches to help collect urban heat data around town. This citizen science campaign was in partnership with the NC Museum of Life and Science and the Town of Chapel Hill, and...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 14, 2021 | Featured, Urbanization
It’s been a hot summer, and we at UNC’s Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) are trying to better understand how people are experiencing the Urban Heat Island effect in cities. We are partnering with the NC Museum of Life and Science to launch a citizen science campaign to...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jan 16, 2020 | Climate
As 2020 rolled in, Twitter users leveraged a trend of capturing #2019InFiveWords to document the urgency of climate action. The UN noted that “#ClimateChange is happening NOW,” citing the forest and bush fires that blazed around the world as one example of how...
by Amy Weinfurter | Oct 7, 2019 | China
Data has the potential to transform China’s environmental management. While its environmental data still sparks scrutiny, the country is in the midst of a turn towards more comprehensive monitoring, in the service of increasingly ambitious environmental goals. The...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jan 23, 2017 | China
China’s environmental management faces a key crossroad. Its transformation into the world’s second largest economy has generated industrial growth and increased consumption. The resulting air pollution, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and soil and water contamination...
