Join us on Wednesday 25 September 2024 to hear from I-CHANGE’s Anna Molter and Juan Esteban Quintero Marin on “From Awareness to Action: Citizen-Led Climate Initiatives in the I-CHANGE project.” Anna and Juan will explore how Dublin’s communities are turning climate knowledge into impactful action. Over the past three years, the I-CHANGE project has empowered citizens, schools, and local organisations to tackle pressing environmental challenges through innovative Living Labs. Discover how participants have monitored air quality and traffic, analyzed data, and implemented meaningful changes to reduce their carbon footprints. Anna and Juan will share key insights and discuss the successes, challenges, and future of citizen-driven climate action in Dublin.
This UCD citizen science community of practice hybrid talk will take place on Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 1-2pm in the UCD James Joyce Library Link 3 and on Zoom. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Speaker biographies
Anna Molter is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Environmental Modelling with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy and the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering. She has a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of Manchester and joined UCD in 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher to work on the WeCount project, which was a citizen science study of traffic in five European cities using low-cost traffic sensors. Following WeCount, she started to work on the I-Change project, which engages citizens through living labs to address climate change, sustainable development and environmental protection within the framework of the European Green Deal. Her research lies at the intersection of environment, health and technology. She is a multi-disciplinary researcher with core skills in pollution modelling, exposure assessment, epidemiology, and spatial analysis.
Juan Esteban Quintero Marin is a research assistant in the I-CHANGE project. He has a Master’s in Earth and Environmental Sciences and his interdisciplinary research focuses on nature conservation, environmental education, and sustainable management of geological resources. Citizen science has been a part of his work in various contexts. In the Colombian Caribbean, he worked collecting local knowledge and involving schoolchildren in citizen science activities on the climate, botany, and geology of the local ecosystem. In Ireland, he worked with the School of Geography using citizen science activities for community appropriation and dissemination of the local natural heritage in the Wicklow and Blackstairs uplands. In I-CHANGE, he is involved in participatory air pollution monitoring and awareness raising.