Peter Stempel is a social scientist, educator, and architect. His research integrates peoples’ qualitative concerns with physical impact models to create visualizations used for hazard and risk communication. This work expands the diversity of engaged persons and broadens the range of hazards and concerns that can be modeled and depicted.
In his role as associate professor of landscape architecture with a focus on water related resilience at Penn State University he is developing inclusive general domain curriculum in water related resilience and training artists and designers to collaborate more effectively with scientists, policy makers, and stakeholders to equitably address complex societal issues like climate adaptation.