FCVP Team Members Attend TED Countdown Summit in Detroit

Team members from the Forest + Climate Visualization Partnership (FCVP) hosted a Breakthrough Session, “Imagining urban forest restoration,” using virtual reality technology to demonstrate forest-climate interactions.

FCVP team members, Daphna Gadoth (left), Aidan Ackerman (middle), and Sara Constantineau (right) posing for a picture at the TED Countdown Summit in Detroit, Michigan on June 12, 2023.
FCVP team members, Daphna Gadoth (left), Aidan Ackerman (middle), and Sara Constantineau (right) posing for a picture at the TED Countdown Summit in Detroit, Michigan on June 12, 2023.

Team members from the Forest + Climate Visualization Partnership (FCVP), a collaboration between FCCP and SUNY ESF, hosted a Breakthrough Session at the 2023 TED Countdown Summit in Detroit, Michigan on June 12th. Daphna Gadoth (FCCP), Lauren Cooper (FCCP), Aidan Ackerman (SUNY ESF), and Sara Constantineau (SUNY ESF), showcased three virtual-reality experiences developed by the partnership to educate users on forest-climate interactions and practical applications of the visualization technology.

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The FCVP team in attendance at the Summit with session facilitator, Tim Reed. From left to right, Tim Reed, Lauren Cooper (FCCP), Daphna Gadoth (FCCP), Aidan Ackerman (SUNY ESF), and Sara Constantineau (SUNY ESF).

 

Uniting over 40 speakers from various corners of the globe, the Summit served as a platform for global innovators, business executives, scientists, policymakers, activists, artists, and others to collaborate, discuss, and strategize on tackling the pressing climate crisis. The FCVP Breakthrough Session, “Imagining urban forest restoration,” allowed attendees to experience ultra-realistic, highly immersive forest landscape scenarios using virtual and augmented reality technologies.

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Aidan Ackerman (left) guiding a Summit attendee through the virtual forest.

Learn more about the Forest + Climate Visualization Partnership here.

 

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