Launched in summer 2022, Climate+ is a new offering within Duke University’s Data+ program. Climate+ students engage with climate, environment, and energy researchers and practitioners over a full-time, ten-week summer research experience to learn the nuances of specific climate-related problems and how data science can be applied to identify solutions. Each Climate+ project team consists of up to three undergraduates and one graduate student, who work in a collaborative environment to learn how to marshal, analyze, and visualize data using mathematical, statistical, and computational methods and applying those tools and techniques to their team’s specific problem-based project. Graduate students (including master’s and Ph.D. students) serve as project managers, helping their teams stay on track with deliverables and a project timeline.
Climate+ in the summer of 2022 saw the completion of five team-based projects; an additional eight projects were undertaken in the summer of 2023. Check out the full list of projects.