Kripa is an interdisciplinary social scientist, and her work focuses on improving the ‘usability of science’ for decision-making. Her specific fields of research include co-production of actionable science, the science of actionable knowledge or SOAK, and climate change adaptation & climate-resilient planning. In her work Kripa uses a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and participatory research methods including interviews, surveys, focus groups, workshops as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

At LBL, Kripa co-leads the co-production engagements for the Department of Energy (DOE) funded project - HyperFACETS as well as the California Energy Commission (CEC) funded project - Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine. The HyperFACETS project brings together water, energy, and land resource managers with a diverse group of climate scientists to develop management-relevant climate modeling approaches and data. The Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine project brings together electric utilities and other energy sector decision-makers, with climate scientists and tool developers, to co-produce a suite of decision-support tools and analytics. In addition, Kripa is also working on a lab directorate funded project to develop institutional activities for scaling-up engaged research and actionable sciences at EESA.

Kripa was a contributing author for two adaptation chapters (Ch. 16 & 17) for IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Working Group II where she co-wrote the sections on equity in adaptation practice. She was a Chapter Author (Ch. 18 on Complex Systems) for the Fifth US National Climate Assessment report. Kripa is also the current President-Elect of the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Science and Society Section (Jan 2023 onwards), and serves on the AGU’s Council Leadership Team (CLT).