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

What Desert Cities Can Teach Us About Water

An interview I did with Rudri Bhatt Patel for the JSTOR Daily on sustainability in desert cities is out! “In many ways, Phoenix and Tucson are on the cutting edge of sustainability because they were forced to confront water scarcity decades ago. The Southwest is fertile ground to create solutions.” Check out the full article… Continue reading What Desert Cities Can Teach Us About Water

Interview with Mark Brodie on KJZZ on the Growing Concern of Extreme Heat

I did an interview with Mark Brodie on Phoenix NPR affiliate, 91.5 KJZZ’s The Show, where we discussed the Urban Land Institute’s Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate report and how more cities and developers are taking extreme heat as a climate risk seriously. Take a listen!

Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Matthew Roach

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… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Matthew Roach