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NIHHIS Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series

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This summer, 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. Each webinar will be themed to follow the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit’s (CRT) Steps to Resilience framework and how cities are working to address extreme heat risk.

These webinars will be recorded and the video will be available on this page after the presentation. We look forward to your participation in this series.

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Investigate Options 3 - Green Cooling Infrastructure

Date: September 2021 | Time: TBD

One of the most popular interventions is planting trees, and creating accessible green spaces and water features to mitigate heat, long term. This session will cover tree canopy assessment, planting and cooling strategies, combined with strengthening community cohesion and resiliency. Threaded throughout is the intersection with environmental justice, public health, crime reduction, and equitable approaches to improvements that benefit current residents.

Moderator

Eric Greenfield
Acting Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator Northeast States

After an early career teaching, serving local government and working on watershed protection policy, Eric Greenfield joined the Forest Service Northern Research Station after earning his PhD at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2005. He has served as a forester supporting urban forestry research as a part of the team led by Dr. David Nowak in Syracuse, NY. Over the last 15 years on the team, Greenfield has worked on iTree, Resource Planning Act reporting, the Environmental Protection Agency’s EnviroAtlas, and several research manuscripts. He is currently serving on a detail in the Forest Service as Acting Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator for Northeast States.

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Past Webinars

How the Heat Watch Campaigns are Conducted [recording | slides]
Vivek Shandas (CAPA Strategies)

What happens when you go “hyperlocal” – the legacy of inequitable heat exposure in US cities [ recording ]
Jeremy Hoffman (Science Museum of Virginia) and Vivek Shandas (Portland State University)

Register For Full Webinar Series

For questions about the webinar series, please contact Noura Randle.

*More details describing each webinar will be available soon; this page is under active development. If you have a suggested topic or interest in speaking in this webinar series, please reach out to Noura Randle - NOAA Affiliate

 

 

The Urban Heat Island Citizen Science Campaigns are made possible by:

SMV

CAPAHeatWatch

NOAA

NIHHIS is made possible by our participating agencies.

ASPR

CDC

EPA

FEMA

NIOSH

NOAA

OSHA

SAMHSA

 

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About Us

NIHHIS is an integrated information system that builds understanding of the problem of extreme heat, defines demand for climate services that enhance societal resilience, develops science-based products and services from a sustained climate science research program, and improves capacity, communication, and societal understanding of the problem in order to reduce morbidity and mortality due to extreme heat.  NIHHIS is a jointly developed system by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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