Peter Stempel is an artist, social scientist, and educator. His research integrates peoples’ qualitative concerns about climate change with physical impact models to create visualizations used for hazard and risk communication. These visualizations are tested in diverse coastal communities to better understand how visual communication may be best employed for implementation of natural and nature-based features, climate mitigation, emergency management and planning. This work expands the diversity of engaged persons and broadens the range of hazards and concerns that can be modeled and depicted.
In his role as associate professor of landscape architecture with a focus on water related resilience at Penn State University he is training artists and designers to collaborate more effectively with scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders to equitably address complex societal issues like climate adaptation.
