One of the dominant challenges for California’s future will be its changing climate, the result of human-induced alterations of natural landscapes and global climate disruption. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography has prepared 50-year forecasts for regional climate change throughout California. From these studies, it appears that there will be severe disruptions to water availability, growing threats from wildfires, and increased erosion, flooding and pollution of coastal regions. CALIT2 believes the digital transformation of monitoring and modeling the environment can provide solutions to these challenges.