Götz Hoeppe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo. He has written the books Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (2007, Princeton University Press) and Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen’s Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India (2007, Berghahn Books). He works on collaborative uses of digital scientific data and practices of knowledge-making and communication in Earth systems research.