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New Website for Adopt-a-Drifter
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New Website for Adopt-a-Drifter

 

The Adopt-a-Drifter website has been upgraded. This program also has a new coordinator: Dr. Emily Smith. She is promoting the program to get more schools involved. 

The Adopt-a-Drifter program is an effort sponsored by CPO's Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division to promote K-12 engagement.

Access website: www.adp.noaa.gov

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GHHIN hosts webinar on Dialogues on Heat in the City and in the Workplace 29 July 2020

GHHIN hosts webinar on Dialogues on Heat in the City and in the Workplace

On July 28th and 29th, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) hosted discussions on the urgent challenges of extreme heat in urban areas and in occupational settings. The discussions were moderated by Thomson Reuters reporters, and featured experts from government, academia, and industry.

2020 Heat Watch Campaigns Progressing, Innovating 24 July 2020

2020 Heat Watch Campaigns Progressing, Innovating

Throughout the summer, innovations from each of the 2020 Heat Watch cohort cities will be highlighted via NIHHIS and the Heat Beat Newsletter and shared for learning between campaign teams.

NOAA supports virtual symposium: Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental factors in the COVID-19 pandemic 22 July 2020

NOAA supports virtual symposium: Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental factors in the COVID-19 pandemic

The symposium will help determine how NOAA's climate, weather and environmental information can be usefully applied to and better serve the health community in predicting and managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Podcast: Can't Take the Heat 14 July 2020

New Podcast: Can't Take the Heat

GHHIN & NIHHIS Partner: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

The 'Can't Take the Heat' podcast explores how people will adapt to a warming world. Host Roop Singh approaches the biggest challenges posed by climate change, like more intense and frequent heatwaves, from a humanitarian perspective. How will the impacts of climate change affect people around the world? What are the big solutions that are in the works? How do we make them happen? The podcast features experts from around the world including leading scientists developing climate solutions, and humanitarian volunteers telling stories of climate change from the frontlines of disasters.

CDC Launches Heat & Health Tracker Tool 13 July 2020

CDC Launches Heat & Health Tracker Tool

NIHHIS Partner: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a first-of-its-kind online tool to help emergency and public health planners prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. The Heat & Health Tracker provides timely, user-friendly, local-level heat and health data and information.

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Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series continues with "Green Cooling Infrastructure"

Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series continues with "Green Cooling Infrastructure"

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and its partners are hosting a webinar series to feature case studies on what happens after communities conduct their urban heat island mapping campaigns. On September 30th at 3PM EDT, the fifth of the series, "Green Cooling Infrastructure" will take place and will feature communities that have implemented solutions to obtain heat resilience through green infrastructure. The session will highlight case studies from Philadelphia and Pawtucket and explore how they were able to implement green infrastructure, and by doing so, strengthen community cohesion and resilience. The intersection with environmental justice, public health, crime reduction, and equitable approaches to improvements that benefit residents will be threaded throughout the webinar.

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Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series Continues with "Community Engagement, Outreach, and Education"

Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series Continues with "Community Engagement, Outreach, and Education"

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and its partners are hosting a webinar series to feature community case studies on what happens after Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns are conducted. The sixth of the series, "Investigate Options 4- Community Engagement, Outreach, Education", will take place on October 12th at 4:00 PM EDT and will feature municipalities that have effectively engaged communities, institutions, politicians, and the press to advance heat mitigation efforts. The session will feature three municipality managers from Austin, Cincinnati, and King County, WA, who will explore how they engage in collaborative approaches to urban heat planning, and identify ways that may be helpful for your climate outreach efforts. 

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