High Altitude Balloon for Climate Awareness

This project used a high-altitude balloon mission as a near-space platform to explore climate awareness, Earth observation, and public engagement. Founded, led, designed and executed independently, the mission carried environmental messaging and instrumentation into the stratosphere, capturing imagery and data that reveal Earth’s fragility and interconnected systems from a near-space perspective.

By operating at the boundary between Earth and space, the project treated near-space as an accessible research environment, one that can support education, environmental storytelling, and climate-oriented inquiry without the barriers of orbital missions. The work positions high-altitude ballooning as a space-enabled method for making planetary-scale challenges visible, fostering public understanding of climate change, and expanding who can participate in space-based environmental exploration.