vis4climate

IEEE VIS, November 9 to 13
The Westin Copley Place

Workshop on Building a Transdisciplinary Climate Vis Community

The need to understand, mitigate, and adapt to climate change and its resulting problems is greater than ever. Solutions can take many forms, ranging from understanding key factors in climate modeling to monitoring forests and species distributions to deciding how to model a sustainable energy or transportation grid, and finally, to communicating the implications to non-experts. This 4th IEEE VIS workshop on visualization and climate change aims to continue the discussion of the role visualization can play in mitigating climate change and to build a strong community of academics and practitioners. In contrast to the interdisciplinary role of visualization in other domains, climate change problems include numerous and diverse stakeholders, and therefore calls for transdisciplinary collaborations among these stakeholders. This workshop aims to elevate the role of visualization in combating climate change by creating a space for interactive discussions with invited guests and the scientific community. To this end, the workshop invites a diverse set of guests from policy, community engagement, and science. For more information, see the Workshop Proposal.

Goals of this Workshop

• Discuss, exchange on, and identify challenges and directions for research in the area of vis4climate.
• Share and discuss current work and viewpoints from the community to raise awareness of this research.
• Create a strong vis4climate community consisting of academics, practitioners, and decision-makers by fostering collaborations and a common understanding of the field.
• Share the results of discussions during the workshop as a basis for building a strong vis4climate community.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: June 25, 2026
Author notifications: July 23, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: August 13, 2026

Call for Participation

As a basis for the planned discussions, we invite the community to submit:

• Original research contributions that summarize original research as extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages).
• Reflections, opinions, challenges, or critical views that characterize or challenge the role of visualization in climate change (up to 3 pages).
• Pictorials, posters, and interactive demos can have any form (video, photos, comic, etc..) linked from a one-page description with relevant references.

Please follow the IEEE VIS formatting guidelines (TVCG style) for your submissions. In this workshop we want to highlight the breadth of application areas that relate to climate change and welcome submissions addressing (but not limited to):

Relevant visualization tasks include (but are not limited to):

Possible target audiences include (but are not limited to):

Submissions can be made on PCS. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers, including invited external reviewers and members of the workshop committee. We want to give authors the option to decide whether they would like their accepted submissions archived. Submissions will serve as guiding topics for discussions during the workshop. Therefore, please indicate which domain area, visualization task, and target audience your submission addresses.

Program

Talks, discussions, and networking. We will have invited speakers from academia, policy, and community engagement, as well as presentations of accepted submissions. We will also have ample time for discussions and networking to foster collaborations and build a strong vis4climate community.

More infos to come...

Organizers

Contact

For any questions or inquiries, please contact us at vis4climate@googlegroups.com.