🎉 Some incredible news to announce! 🎉 We have been awarded a $25 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL), a partnership led by Arizona State University with the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and IBM… Continue reading Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL)
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Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat
Excited to share our new Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat guidebook, by myself, Sara Meerow, Phil Berke, and Joseph DeAngelis, AICP and our students including Lauren Jensen, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, and Stephanie Smith. PIRS™ for Heat provides an integrated planning approach that coordinates strategies across community plans and uses the best available heat risk… Continue reading Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat
Won the APA-AZ Applied Research Award
Excited to share that Sara Meerow and I won the American Planning Association, Arizona Chapter’s Open Category (Applied Research) award for Planning for Urban Heat Resilience (APA PAS Report #600). Our report draws from our collaborative research on heat including literature reviews, a national survey, interviews, and planning case studies, and provides an overview of… Continue reading Won the APA-AZ Applied Research Award
Greening Up For Mosquitoes: A Comparison of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in a Semiarid Region
Excited to share a new paper published on the potential for green stormwater infrastructure as a climate maladaptation in the Journal of American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) with Heidi Brown, Valerie Madera-Garcia, Anissa Taylor, Nicholas Ramirez, and Irene Ogata! We engaged a group of interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students across the University of Arizona through… Continue reading Greening Up For Mosquitoes: A Comparison of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in a Semiarid Region
Planning for Urban Heat Resilience
I am thrilled to share that Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Report 600: Planning for Urban Heat Resilience has been published by the American Planning Association! My co-author, Sara Meerow, and I argue that the planning profession has a critical role to play in equitably addressing increasing heat risk and lay out the steps communities can… Continue reading Planning for Urban Heat Resilience