Via Geology.com – from University of Washington –
Climate Wizard, a tool meant for scientists and non-scientists
alike, is being demonstrated by The Nature Conservancy in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit underway there. It also
is the subject of a presentation Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American
Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and a paper just released
online by the Public Library of Science’s PLoS ONE with Evan Girvetz as
lead presenter and lead author. Girvetz worked on Climate Wizard during
postdoctoral work at the University of Washington’s School of Forest
Resources and just accepted a job with The Nature Conservancy.“Climate Wizard is meant to make it easier to explore climate
data in an interactive way,” Girvetz says. “It makes the data
accessible in ways that are more intuitive, even for people who are not
climate scientists.”For example, data used by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, the science organization evaluating the risks of
climate change, is made visual and more readily understandable through
Climate Wizard. Politicians, resource managers and citizens are all
potential users, Girvetz says. Find Climate Wizard at http://www.climatewizard.org/….
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