Accelerating

Community Adaptation

to Climate Change


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Our Services

Environmental Sensing

& Monitoring

Gather climate change data with participatory community campaigns for many climate hazards.

Spatial Analysis &

Data Visualization

Bring your climate change data to life with dynamic and interactive visualizations and novel analyses.

Climate Adaptation

Consulting

Research design and decision-support tools to implementation guidance and assessments.

Community Engagement

& Social Research

Move from descriptive data and best practices to holistic understanding and action grounded in local context. 

Featured Projects

Portland, OR

Heat Safety in Public Housing

In 2022, CAPA teamed up with the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) and the Home Forward housing agency to track summer temperatures inside public housing units. Residents were engaged in collecting and interpreting data, and identifying solutions.

Bronx, NY

Heat Mapping in the Bronx

Bronx and Manhattan community members work with South Bronx Unite and Columbia University’s Earth Institute to uncover disparities in exposure to urban heat with our flagship service, Heat Watch.

Mystic River Watershed, MA

Wicked Hot Mystic

In order to capture heat and air quality data, 80 volunteers mounted two types of sensors on their vehicle windows, continuously measuring air temperature and the amount of particulate matter (PM2.5) as the car drove along predetermined routes.

Featured Project Partners

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