After Ice App | Justin Brice

After Ice

After Ice is an artist intervention via mobile selfie app, a collaboration between visual artist Justin Brice and award-winning app development studios Strange Flavour and Second Verse.

After Ice allows you to visualize sea level rise wherever you are standing and experience climate change through augmented reality. After Ice makes global ice melt visceral and felt by putting you inside future scenarios.

Using augmented reality, and powered by NASA science, this app shows you how high seas will rise in relation to where you are standing while using the app. Will you be underwater by 2080 or sooner? Under a business-as-usual scenario, and the ice caps completely melt, how high will the water get? This app will let you see the impact, using the most current predictions from NASA scientists.

Using NYC as a test case, the app will also explain the imminent threat New York City faces as a coastal city with a population of 8.4 million inhabitants, and explain what you need to know, and what you can do.

After Ice will walk you through three scenarios

Total Melt

This scenario is a very long way off, but if the earth continues to warm, and all the ice melts, there will be over 263 ft (80.32m!)^ of projected sea level rise.

2080’s

According to the latest projections, the seas will rise by over 6ft (2m) by the 2080s*†. That’s within the lifespan of children alive today.

New York City 2080’s

In case you don’t live right on the coast, we bring this sea level projection to life by placing you in front of the famous Bull of Wall Street in New York City. You’ll see what it’s like to stand (or swim) there in the 2080’s*†.

“I thought of this app as a way to help quickly visualize what is happening to the planet. We have a serious disconnect from important existential issues like global warming and melting glaciers. Glaciers live a world away, and in a temporal and spatial scale, that evolution has not prepared us to understand.

As an artist interested in the existential, and feeling a great sense of urgency, I felt compelled to make this accessible. We warm the earth, the glaciers melt, and we go under water… Global warming is happening however, it needs to be emotionally felt before people will want to take action. I hope this app will at the very least get a conversation going and get some of the science out of the lab, and into people hands.”

— Justin Brice

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Download After Ice for iOS

iOS App

2018

PLEASE NOTE:

^ United States Geological Survey, “Sea Level and Climate“, (Richard Z. Poore, Richard S. Williams, Jr., and Christopher Tracey)

* Data from the “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 report” (Rosenzweig and Solecki, 2015)

† This app is using NPCC and NASA data and incorporates both storm surges and tidal surges into its calculation, and not just areas below mean sea level. Due to multiple factors, this data is not accurate beyond 100 miles from New York City.

– This app is not intended to be used as a tool for planning purposes.

– We have made every effort to be as scientifically accurate as possible

– This app uses public data from NASA and the IPCC but is not endorsed by NASA or the IPCC, nor a product of NASA or the IPCC.

– Athenaeum LLC, second verse LLC, nor Strange Flavour LTD (UK) shall be held liable for any errors, omissions or damages of any kind in regards to the design, function or use of the app.

Creative Direction: Justin Brice

Creative assistant: Frances Segismundo

Additional design, development & coding: Strange Flavour LTD (UK)

Published by: second verse LLC

Strange Flavour, Apple Design Award-winning game developers are best known for AirBurst, Flick Fishing and their new Spinny Wings live and work in the United Kingdom.

Second verse was founded by Colin Lynch Smith and Ian Lynch Smith, the brothers behind Freeverse, beloved maker of apps and games for Apple platforms. Second verse is on a mission to create simple, elegant software, only sometimes for profit.