Climate Intelligence
Making Climate-Informed Decisions
APL is developing sensors, systems, and models to provide key intelligence on how the environment is changing and how climate pressures may impact future missions. Our teams are identifying climate threats, enabling climate-informed planning, and developing early warning systems.
Mission
Quantify Climate Threats
Identify climate threats and forecast their impacts on military and civilian systems
Support Operational Awareness
Provide intelligence needed to operate in rapidly changing and increasingly extreme environments
Detect Adversarial Activity
Track and observe resource utilization, waste production, and geoengineering activity
Featured Work
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Action
Accelerating Air Quality Forecasts
Discovering Climate Tipping Points
Tracking Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Enlisting eDNA to Understand Ecosystems
Principal Engineer, Research and Exploratory DevelopmentWe need continuous, ubiquitous sensing to understand current states and predict future changes of Earth’s systems. The work we are doing in sensing and modeling will provide next-generation data critical to mitigating climate change and its effects.
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The Emerging Arctic
The Arctic, once known for its extreme cold and ice, is undergoing rapid changes due to climate change. APL's team aboard the RV Sikuliaq, a 261-foot ice-capable vessel owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is studying how radio waves travel through the Arctic atmosphere.
Beyond the Ice: APL Researchers Expand eDNA Research into Polar Regions
APL researchers ventured into unchartered territory in Antarctica aboard Lindblad Expeditions’ newest state-of-the-art PC5 Category A ice class vessel National Geographic Resolution. The trip delivered stunning vistas, penguin and marine mammal sightings and — most importantly — incomparable access to some of the most pristine habitats in the world.
Game Changers — Climate Intelligence
At the 2023 Research Frontiers Forum, APL assembled diverse thought leaders to discuss Climate Change and National Security: Goals. Gaps. Game Changers.
Meet Our Experts
Marisa Hughes Assistant Program Manager, Human and Machine Intelligence
Learn more about Marisa Hughes
Elizabeth Reilly Supervisor, Complex Systems Group
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Sarah Herman Program Manager, Biological and Chemical Sciences
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Climate Security
APL is bringing all of its core competencies to bear on this critical challenge area, assembling top experts from a variety of scientific fields and partners from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise, industry, and government to explore strategic opportunities to make the greatest impact on climate change.