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… Continue reading Extreme Heat Webinar with the Urban Land Institute and Design Workshop
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Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello
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… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello
America Adapts Podcast Episode on Extreme Heat
I’m very excited to share that I was a guest on the America Adapts podcast for its first episode focused on extreme heat! America Adapts is a podcast hosted by my colleague and friend, Doug Parsons, with over a hundred episodes exploring climate change, its impacts, and our responses with scientists, activists, policymakers, and climate… Continue reading America Adapts Podcast Episode on Extreme Heat
Planning for Extreme Heat Survey
My colleague Sara Meerow, PhD, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, and I are studying how urban planners address extreme heat. Our goal is to survey planning professionals from a wide range of U.S. communities to better understand how extreme heat risk perceptions, current planning activities, and barriers to action vary across the country. This… Continue reading Planning for Extreme Heat Survey
Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Jeremy Hoffman, PhD
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,… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Jeremy Hoffman, PhD