New Q&A feature by Luke Antoniou of SmartCitiesWorld on this summer's record-breaking heat and the latest advances in addressing extreme heat: “It’s all about taking action now to protect our communities, mitigate heat-related risks, and enhance our urban environments for a more sustainable and resilient future.”

https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/climate-action/tackling-extreme-heat-isnt-a-summertime-job--its-a-year-round-effort-9244

#extremeheat #urbanheat #heatplanning #heatgovernance #heatresilience

Photobombed!! By a passing dog!!! But that’s okay. We visited Gilpin park in Brunswick today. Had time in the off-leash dog park socialising with the other dogs.
Dad used to bring former dogs Hamish, Nutmeg and Sheba here in the 1990s. Many of These trees were planted then, and now they are a young urban forest to combat #urbanheat and fight #climatechange.
And more trees to send our peemails!!!

#DogsOfMastodon
#ChihuahuasForClimateAction
#Chihuahuas
#urbanforest
#Merribek

It was a pleasure to join today's live Buckmaster Show on KVOI radio to discuss this summer's record-breaking heat, heat policy and governance. https://www.buckmastershow.com/2023/08/01/buckmaster-show-8-1-2023-how-cities-are-battling-extreme-heat/ #extremeheat #urbanheat #heatwaves

Street trees from Inkcap Journal (worth a subscription if you like wildlife/environment) and the effect of global warming on trees and subsidence.
#trees #streetTrees #ClimateChange #UrbanHeat
https://www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/how-londons-trees-became-chronicles-of-climate-change/

“Everybody agrees that those trees need to be protected, but there’s nothing currently that we have on the books that protects them,” Arroyo said.

How a #TreeOrdinance for Boston will fight #UrbanHeat for #TreeEquity! 🌳💚
@Trees_Boston
@AmericanForests

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/23/metro/bostons-first-law-expand-citys-tree-canopy-is-works/?event=event25

Small quote in this new The Guardian piece: "If climate change continues at its current pace, cities in the southwest such as Tucson could experience as much as 45 days more per year with temperatures above 90F [32C] by 2100."

#climatechange #urbanheat #extremeheat #heatresilience

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/urban-food-forest-dunbar-spring-tucson-arizona-climate-crisis-drought

Although our pre and post survey didn't find many statistically significant outcomes, players expressed that they enjoyed the game and that it helped them better understand heat planning strategies and the environmental, social, and economic tradeoffs associated with them.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy of the paper and test out Chill City at https://chill-city.com

#extremeheat #urbanheat #heatplanning #heatresilience #gaming

📢 New paper out with Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Ida Sami, and Gregg Garfin, where we use a design-based research methodology to develop an interactive educational game, Chill City, which teaches players about heat mitigation planning strategies and their tradeoffs. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2023.2183173

#extremeheat #urbanheat #heatplanning #heatresilience #gaming

"B.C.’s ‘heat dome’ of 2021 was a frightening foretaste of global warming. Since then, builders and researchers have stepped up pressure on authorities to make sure buildings have better defences against rising temperatures" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-extreme-heat-wave-buildings/ #extremeheat #heatresilience #urbanheat

Another good news story on #ClimateAdaptation
CB Smith Reserve car park in Fawkner is getting a makeover by Merri-bek City Council with additional places for canopy tree plantings to address the urban heat of the local area.

#UrbanHeat #Merribek

https://climateactionmoreland.org/2023/02/17/tackling-urban-heat-at-cb-smith-reserve-with-more-trees/

#CarbonSequestration;
Flood Control; Water Table Support; Water Purification; #Biodiversity Booster;
#UrbanHeat Cooling;
Support for Migrating Birds;
#ClimateCrisis easing . . .

#Wetlands - What's. Not. To. Love #NovaScotia Minister of #Environment + #ClimateChange Timothy Halman???

"Europe kicks off 2023 with a record-setting heat wave" via @grist https://grist.org/climate/europe-kicks-off-2023-with-a-record-setting-heat-wave/ #extremeheat #urbanheat #heatwave

Meet Ash Avila, one of the students I'm working with on our #NITC-funded work. She's presenting her research on the effect of vehicles on personal heat exposure at #TRB next week

https://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/news/ua-student-ash-avila-studies-climate-crisis-support-nitc-diversity-grant

#heatresilience #urbanheat #extremeheat #heathealth #uarizona @TRECpdx

RT @PieterDeFrenne@twitter.com

Interested in #climatechange #urbanheat #microclimate and #plants🌱🌳 & #arthropods🐜?

We have 2 open PhD vacancies @ForNaLab@twitter.com with @BGM_coll_res@twitter.com @RBINSmuseum@twitter.com @meteobenl@twitter.com @INBOVlaanderen@twitter.com on #FOURCAST project

Deadline = 21 Dec

➡️https://www.fornalab.ugent.be/
➡️https://www.naturalsciences.be/nl/about-us/organisation/jobs

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PieterDeFrenne/status/1600412750760460288

📢 Searching for two postdocs to work with me and my fantastic colleagues on heat research at the University of Arizona funded by our NOAA CLIMAS and DOE SW-IFL programs!

* Postdoctoral Research Associate (CLIMAS) https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/12721

* Postdoctoral Research Associate (SW-IFL) https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/12674

#postdoc #postdoctoral #climatechange #heat #extremeheat #urbanheat #urbanplanning #publichealth #geography #uarizona

Thus, the electricity generated by #solarroofs more than compensates for their somewhat weaker cooling efficiency (compared to #coolroofs) for the study period and location if we are primarily targeting the energy impacts of #urbanheat (versus outdoor #health impacts).

There are several other considerations and trade-offs (and, of course, uncertainties in representation of these processes in the model), which are discussed more thoroughly in the paper.

Another aspect of #urbanheat is its impact on cooling energy demand. #Coolroofs reduce energy demand the most and #solarpanels reduce it the least.

However, through #energy production, #solarroofs can cover almost half of the total cooling energy demand over the day.

I presented the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat results for the City of Tempe, Arizona with @SaraMeerow recently, where we found that heat mitigation policies are targeting the socially vulnerable areas of the city but often not the hottest areas. The full report is online at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/666700 #urbanplanning #extremeheat #urbanheat #heatresilience #planintegration

In case you missed it, here's a round-up of articles published in PLOS Climate this month!

#CitizenScience in #hydrology: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000088

#RenewableEnergy and #NetZero ambition: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000094

Co-benefits of forest #conservation in Colombia: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000093

Rural livelihood diversification: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000051

The human climate niche: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000086

#UrbanHeat stress: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000104

Development needs in C. America: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000105

#Introduction hi! i'm a #BostonMA resident interested in all things #UrbanEcology 🌻🌃

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