Javier Garay

CNI Fellow
Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering 
UC Irvine

Project Description

The UCI Regional Climate Resilience Project is an exploratory community organizing project focused on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, action, and activism from the deserts of Riverside County to the coast of Orange County, California. While climate change is a global problem, its effects are and will continue to be felt locally. Increasingly, municipalities are looking regionally for support, knowledge sharing, and partnership to address local climate challenges. 

In his work on this project, Javier will begin building a data-driven narrative synthesizing the various environmental, demographic, social, and other factors that contribute to the current opportunity for regional climate resilience collaboration in Orange and Riverside Counties and their borderlands. This project will include quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting, and may include analysis and synthesis of the climate mitigation and adaptation policies that are having an impact on the region.