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Jennifer Marlon and Nicolas Begotka’s findings on the mismatch between heat risk perceptions and the real risk reveal public unpreparedness for heat.

Streams no longer protected by the Clean Water Act may play a major role in Des Moines’ drinking water supply.

YCGS mapped Elk River headwater streams that help supply Charleston’s drinking water, many of which may lack federal Clean Water Act protections.

Arianna Salazar-Miranda finds suburban street design, not just distance from downtown, drives close to 38 percent of suburban climate emissions.

Yale’s Office of International Affairs awards seed funding to 10 global projects spanning AI, public health, climate, and cultural heritage.

Arianna Salazar-Miranda’s research finds that 38 percent of suburbs’ environmental costs are a result of street design, not only suburban sprawl.

Our Drone Facilitator, Skye Hellenkamp, has received the Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship!

Learn more about the use of high-frequency satellite data to measure the “urban pulse”, a new framework developed by researchers at UConn and Yale.

A YSE-led study introduces the “Urban Pulse”, a new framework to monitor urbanization in a continuous manner rather than with static figures.

Nathaniel Raymond’s forensic analysis of satellite imagery shows how drones have made attacks on civilians in Sudan deadlier and more traceable.

Learn more about the New Haven Digital Atlas, an interactive map created by Yale’s New Haven Environmental History Project.

Climate change is pushing heat risk beyond what many communities recognize, preventing people from adequately preparing for future heat danger.

Understanding where assessed heat risk and public concern align can help guide effective communication, planning, and climate adaptation.

More light meant more development, but that is no longer always the case, instead earth’s nighttime lights have become more volatile.

Li Murphy, our drone facilitator, crawls into Mormon cricket swarms to understand what they see, why they march, and how they can be managed.

The historic Graves-Gilman House at 37 Hillhouse Avenue, built in 1866 and newly renovated in 2025, now houses Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions.

The latest Yale Climate Opinion Maps (YCOM) update has been released, featuring four new measures of climate change beliefs.

Sparkle Malone discusses recent research on methane’s climate effects, highlighting the importance of calling for a methane observation system.

Karen Seto, Co-Director of the YCGS, discusses how cities influence climate change, biodiversity, food systems, and long-term sustainability.

Prof. Seto received a 2026 Franklin Institute Award for her pioneering work using satellite imagery to study how urbanization is reshaping our planet.

Discover how Miriam Olivares is geo-empowering Yale by removing research roadblocks, supporting scholars, and connecting strong GIS foundations.

Study finds Earth’s night lights are increasingly volatile, revealing instability, shocks, and changing human activity—not just steady economic growth

Frontline communities worry as much about climate change, but focus more on immediate local impacts like heat, outages, and daily disruptions.

Nathaniel Raymond explains his warnings of genocide in El Fasher, using evidence to push for action.

Drs. Marlon and Leiserowitz show frontline U.S. communities face greater climate risks, yet concern about global warming is similar nationwide. 

YSE  experts assessed the legal, policy, and public health implications of the rollback of the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

Leiserowitz’s research finds institutional climate readiness often doesn’t match how prepared people feel for extreme weather in vulnerable countries.

Sparkle Malone says Everglades wetlands remain a major carbon sink despite methane emissions, offering key insights for climate restoration. 

Nathaniel Raymond’s lab used satellite and flight data to reveal RSF’s growing drone fleet in Sudan and link its supply chain to foreign support

Dr. Kai Chen led a study showing PM2.5-related heart deaths declined since 2001 but unevenly by race, identifying black carbon as a key driver. 

Dr. Marlon warned that climate change will likely increase wildfire risks in densely populated, forest-rich parts of Connecticut and the Northeast.

Targeted change could reshape daily mobility

New research uses artificial intelligence to simulate how changes to zoning might influence how far people travel each day thereby reducing emissions.

Researchers told the News that Sunday’s snowstorm was unusually large and followed larger climate patterns in which more extreme weather is predicted.

iKON uses SMS and games to engage smallholder farmers as climate data contributors, improving models, warnings, and policy with community insight.

Marlon says India’s new climate maps give leaders actionable insight to tailor adaptation, communication, and development policies to public needs.

Jennifer Marlon says India’s climate-impact data can guide leaders in shaping adaptation, communication, and sustainable development policies.

Yale GIS Accelerator helped a doctoral student map how American traveling circuses evolved from wagon routes to rail networks.

Professors Karen Seto, Xuhui Lee, and Anthony Leiserowitz were named among Clarivate’s top 1% most-cited researchers.

Miriam Olivares has been honored with the 2025 Linda Lorimer Award in recognition of her leadership in advancing geospatial research and training.

Professor Seto received the 2026 Franklin Institute Award for her groundbreaking work on urbanization and land-use change.

Prof. Malone used satellite data & machine learning to show that fire-regimes help Florida’s subtropical forests recover faster and become productive.

Astronaut Fred Haise shares how resilience, teamwork and adaptability helped him face unexpected challenges on the Apollo 13 mission.

Prof. Salazar‑Miranda found urban spaces are shifting from social spots to fast-through thoroughfares — with people walking faster and lingering less.

YSE scientists created a data-driven framework to help planners target the most effective sites for equitable urban tree planting.

A new analysis finds that 30,000 more Americans are expected to die from wildfire-smoke exposure annually by 2050

Yeim We presented geospatial research on street vending, policing, and racial inequality in LA at the Urban Humanities Global (Un) Conference.

Dr. Seto estimates that “urban expansion will result in building a city equivalent in size of New York City every eight days for the next 35 years.”

YAPP combined multispectral & thermal imaging, ethnobotanical surveys, and residue analysis to study ancient medicine.

Belief systems about climate change are more tightly connected in richer, information-dense regions and looser in poorer or fossil-fuel reliant areas.

Majorities of Americans believe global warming is already affecting extreme weather like heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods, and sea-level rise.

Prof. Seto found that climate change and urban heat delay spring leaf-out in NYC trees by disrupting winter cues.

Dr. Jennifer Marlon noted that heat concern fades within a year and urged clear, visual, and community-based messaging to sustain awareness.

Juwon Kong, a postdoctoral associate in the Seto Lab, finds that urban heat is delaying, not advancing, spring in New York City’s parks.

Yale-led workshop at Great Mountain Forest explored affordable tech (LiDAR, drones) to improve global forest carbon monitoring and conservation.

Dr. Marlon noted that flash flooding isn’t new but has worsened with global warming, urging action on climate change and fossil fuel dependence.

Yale’s online Environmental Data Science Certificate teaches key data skills to tackle real-world environmental issues. Applications open July 1, 2025

Dashboard maps U.S. church closures and health impacts using county data, built with Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions.

Dr. Marlon warned that wildfire has become the new baseline in the Western landscape—but emphasized that “doing nothing is not a neutral choice.”

Yale has launched a new Center for Geospatial Solutions to enhance its research, training, and infrastructure in geospatial science and data analysis.

Dr. Marlon emphasized that heat advisories are vital for protecting lives, especially in places like Alaska unaccustomed to extreme heat.

Emmitt Thulin, a student Event Coordinator, reflects on organizing a heartfelt tribute to Dr. Dana Tomlin, marking a meaningful semester at the YCGS.

Yale Professor Dana Tomlin, pioneer of Map Algebra and a founding figure in GIS, reflects on his career and how he helped shape geospatial analysis.

In Conversation with wildfire and climate researcher Dr. Jennifer Marlon

Miriam Olivares emphasized that the GIS Accelerator program’s success stems from participants’ eagerness to learn and the Jill Kelly’s teaching.

Moderated by ISPS Director Alan Gerber, Sterling Professor of Political Science, the event featured Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis and Shiro Kuriwaki

The Yale community gathered at Sachem’s Wood on April 8, 2024, to witness a breathtaking 91% solar eclipse. 

Yale will create a new Center for Geospatial Solutions (YCGS) to enhance the university’s research, training, and engagement infrastructure.

Yichen Yang, a PhD Candidate in Yale School of the Environment, has been awarded Yale University’s Esri Innovation Program (EIP) Student of the Year.

Global study maps UHI in over 9,500 cities using MODIS and Google Earth Engine, offering a web app with 16 years of high-resolution global heat data.

Remote sensing’s growth and YCEO’s 25 years of training highlight Yale’s expanding Earth observation expertise and the center’s leadership transition.

Yale’s new drone workshop shows how UAS can create ultra-detailed 3D models, expand remote sensing research, and inspire student projects from mapping

Yale alum and TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak returns April 6 to discuss her pioneering satellite-based archaeology and citizen science initiatives

Workshop in Muguga trained researchers in open-source GIS, remote sensing, and ecological modeling to map tsetse flies, supported by Yale collaborator

Yale study finds convection, not lost vegetation, is the main driver of daytime urban heat islands, especially in wet cities, reshaping strategies for