Clima is Spanish for climate. Coder is English for codificador. We belong to both worlds, and neither fully. Ni de aqui, ni de alla. Our hearts belong to Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, El Salvador — but we also belong here in the United States. We carry both worlds with us, and we build from that in-between place.

We're ClimaCoder — building climate research outside the walls of universities and institutions. Too often, Latin America is left out of the story: research is shaped by distant priorities, while the communities most at risk are treated as an afterthought. We refuse to accept that.

For us, Guatemala is both a root and a reminder — that the struggles of our families and our people gave us the chance to be here. We carry that forward by creating tools and insights that are open, unaffiliated, and shaped by love for the places we come from.

ClimaCoder is small, scrappy, and urgent. We work nights, weekends, and whenever we can, because climate change isn't waiting — and neither should we.

The ClimaCoder team

Miami, 2024

Elif Kılıç

Environmental engineer, linguist, and the person behind ClimaCoder. I work across climate models and datasets, building heat-stress maps and analysis tools for the communities I come from. My work has taken me through Latin America — Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador — and I'm committed to making research accessible, not locked behind institutional gates. I build with ERA5 climate data, develop extended heat index models, and I believe that what you measure shapes who you protect.

Jonathan Martinez

Pure mathematician, software engineer, and co-founder of this effort. Guatemalan and Mexican, Jonathan carries the same roots this work is built for. He brings the rigour that keeps ClimaCoder honest — turning climate physics into working code, catching the edge cases, and building the systems that make the research actually run. He believes that mathematics is a tool for justice as much as it is for precision, and that the hardest problems deserve the most careful thinking.

A running record of federal actions affecting climate science, environmental protection, and vulnerable communities.

climate policy rollbacks

A running record of what this administration has done to climate science, environmental protection, and the communities most at risk. An interactive timeline with sources.

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