Assistant Professor
School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Dr. Van Berkel is an assistant professor at The University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability. His research focuses on understanding land change at diverse scales; the physical and psychological benefit of exposure to natural environments; and how digital visualization of data can add new
place-based knowledge in science and community decision-making. He has expertise in spatial statistics, data science, big data, and machine learning. Van Berkel is currently a Co-PI on an NSF grant examining how online webtools can enable the public to co-create landscape designs for novel solutions to climate-change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas. He is also Co-PI of the NOAA funded GLISA project (https://glisa.umich.edu/our-work/projects/) developing land change models to support knowledge discovery in municipalities throughout the Great Lake States. Specifically, this work explores how climate migration could be leveraged for adaptation in the Great Lake State by engaging communities in envisioning a sustainable and just transition. This involves co-creating knowledge and expanding participation to foster a broader understanding and collaborative approach to addressing climate challenges.
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Planning for Climate Migration in Great Lakes Legacy Cities
Sunday, May 19, 2024
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT