In the UW Climate Risk Lab, Foster undergraduate and graduate students learn how extreme, costly weather events might affect businesses—and what businesses can do about it. The students examined Amazon’s supply chain details, the region’s public services and safeguards, and fire forecasting data from the Climate Risk Lab’s wiki—an open-source community where researchers can keep data current and aggregate this important information for free public use. The Climate Risk Lab is led by Professor Phillip Bruner, ’05, who joined the UW faculty in 2023, when the lab was little more than an idea. Bruner teaches students how to apply the valuable information it contains, calculating climate risk for real-world scenarios at data centers, on tribal lands, in real estate and beyond. By making this information publicly available and at zero cost, Bruner hopes to enable other businesses to plan for their future, for the good of communities and the economy.