A team of researchers, including Middlebury Institute faculty member Juliano Calil, are working on a groundbreaking study about the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in sea level rise planning and community engagement.
Researchers from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Lemann Center at Stanford University, in a partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the City of Santa Cruz, and Virtual Planet Technologies announced the publication of a groundbreaking study about the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in sea level rise planning and community engagement.
The study is part of the special issue of Water, a peer-reviewed journal on water science and technology, dedicated to “Adaptation to Coastal Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise” which will be released on May 13, 2021.
Juliano Calil
Study: Using Virtual Reality in Sea Level Rise Planning and Community Engagement—An Overview
Using virtual reality (VR) to show the possible impact of sea level rise and climate change on specific communities - using data to visually demonstrate scenarios and solutions - the work of Middlebury Institute Adjunct Faculty and Center for the Blue Economy Fellow Juliano Calil was featured on Morning Edition on NPR.
| by Rachel Martin and NPR Host
As communities plan for sea level rise, it can be hard to convince residents of the dramatic changes in store. A California scientist is testing one possible answer: virtual reality.
Dr. Juliano Calil, Center for the Blue Economy Senior Fellow, Adjunct Faculty at the Middlebury Institute, and co-founder of Virtual Planet has created a 3D virtual reality “Sea Level Rise Explorer.”
