Who We Are
Experts in the fields of climate science and game development.
Alumni
Rikki Parent
Artist, Designer, Programmer
Rikki is a UW graduate with a degree in Atmospheric Sciences. She is also an illustrator in traditional and digital arts and uses these skills to make environmental science fun and accessible for all ages. She created the art for Erode Runner, Soot Out at the 0C Corral, A Caribou’s Tale, 60 Second Sustainability, and EcoTrivia: Save the Animals. Her newest projects are a set of games for King County Water Treatment, and Sustainability Action Arena, a UW CSF project.
Judy Twedt
PhD student, Interdisciplinary Individual PhD Program
Judy has a MS in Atmospheric Science and is working on creative climate communication. She is designing “environmental infosonics,” a term she coined, which use music to represent datasets about the natural world. She co-founded the Climate Change Speaker’s Bureau to talk to labor unions about climate change. She is the winner of the Husky Green Award and College of the Environment Award for Outstanding Community Impact.
Andrey Butenko
Undergraduate alumnus
Andrey worked as a developer on Northlands: Arctic Choices and National Parks Adventure.
Undergraduate alumnus
Alexey programmed and designed the Dark Side of the Earth visualization.
Undergraduate alumnus
Staff, Undergraduate Alum
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
EarthGames 
Associate Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington
Dargan does research on the global circulation of the atmosphere and is especially interested in how the hydrologic cycle might change with global warming. His outreach work includes giving talks, making YouTube videos, and writing songs about our planet’s climate.
Professor
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
University of Washington
Josh Lawler is an ecologist driven by applied conservation questions and their real-world applications, with climate change at the root. In particular, he is interested in how climate change can drive shifts in plant and animal distributions, and the impacts those shifts have at both the species and the ecosystem level.
Dawson Fourier
Lead designer/developer
Undergraduate
Dawson is the lead designer and developer for Cloud Forest Climb, made by EarthGames in collaboration with foundry10 and Woodland Park Zoo. He is additionally leading development of Tera Power, an interactive exploration of climate futures.