Environmental Science

Climate is an original composition by Erik Ian Walker, created in collaboration with TheClimateMusicProject. Tracking historical and projected variations in the climate system from 1800–2250, the composition is guided by four key markers of climate change: carbon dioxide concentrate, near-Earth atmospheric temperature, Earth energy balance, and ocean pH. Carbon emissions from human sources impact each marker, which is assigned a musical analog—tempo, pitch, distortion, and compositional form—to manifest the data as a fully realized musical work.

How do artists approach the problem of sea level rise?

This Snack models ground failure in a phenomenon called liquefaction. See what happens when you shake up structures, loose sediments, and water in a simulated earthquake.

Find out what it takes to monitor climate change.

Learn about the Keeling curve, a graph of the rise of CO₂ accumulated in our atmosphere.

Meet some Bay Area scientists shedding light on how economics and politics adversely impact air quality.

Huge amounts of data are needed to globally track air quality and climate change.

For scientists to collaborate globally they need common, calibrated data points.

In this public briefing, San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) scientists shared cutting-edge science on Bay shoreline restoration and adaptation, translating recent advances and critical findings to inform the Resilient by Design Challenge design teams.

How do first responders rescue whales tangled in debris?

See how our location over San Francisco Bay helps save energy.