Ladd Keith, Ph.D.

Tag: Extreme Heat Network

  • Extreme Heat Webinar with the Urban Land Institute and Design Workshop

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    Extreme Heat and Real Estate We were joined by Katharine Burgess, Vice President of Urban Resilience and Elizabeth Foster, Manager of Urban Resilience at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Alex Ramirez, Office Director and Associate at Design Workshop for our latest Extreme Heat Network webinar. Our presenters discussed how private and public sector real…

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello

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    Rapid Production of Urban Heat Island Maps for the U.S. Pete Aniello joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to present The Trust for Public Land‘s new urban heat island dataset. The publicly accessible dataset is analysis-ready and contains the relative heat severity for every pixel for 14,000 cities, towns, and census-designated places in the…

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Jeremy Hoffman, PhD

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    Community-based participatory research campaigns to build climate resilience Jeremy Hoffman, PhD joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss how community-based participatory research campaigns, known as “citizen science”, can aid in the creation of urban heat island maps and increase extreme heat resilience. He will discuss the impacts of campaigns in Richmond, VA, Baltimore,…

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Daphne Lundi

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    Extreme Heat Resilience in New York City Daphne Lundi joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss New York City’s efforts to increase resilience to extreme heat. She discussed Cool Neighborhoods NYC, the city’s heat adaptation plan, and updating building regulations and zoning regulations with heat in mind. Daphne Lundi is Senior Policy Advisor…

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Matthew Roach

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    Heat-Health Information on Arizona’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Portal Matthew Roach, Epidemiology Program Manager at Arizona Department of Health Services, joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss Arizona’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) portal on heat risk factors and heat illness. The EPHT has data from national and local sources to view…