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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 and the NIHHIS YouTube Channel. We look forward to your participation in this series.

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Investigate Options 4 - Community Engagement, Outreach, Education

Date: October 12, 2021 | Time: 4:00 PM Eastern

Essential to our ability to advance heat mitigation actions is effective engagement of communities, institutions, politicians, and the press. Such inter-sectoral networks offer a means for socializing the concept of urban heat specifically, and also advancing a collaborative governance model for climate adaptation more generally. Though what are promising and effective practices for developing collaborative networks in urban heat planning? How might municipal agencies partner with community-based organizations, universities, and other regional institutions to increase the likelihood of heat mitigation planning? Join us for an insightful discussion with three municipal managers who are engaging in collaborative approaches to urban heat planning, and identify ways that may be helpful for your climate outreach efforts. 

Moderator

Vivek Shandas
Professor and Advisor for CAPA Strategies

Vivek Shandas is the owner of CAPA Strategies LLC and global environmental consultancy that supports communities in improving adaptation to extreme climate-induced events. He is also a Professor of Climate Adaptation and Founding Director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab at Portland State University. He has published over 100 articles, three books, and his research has been featured in the NYTimes, National Geographic, Scientific American, and other national and local media. Dr.Shandas serves as Chair of the City of Portland's Urban Forestry Commission, technical reviewer for Federal and State agencies, and a board member on several non-profit organizations.

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Keeping it Real...Cool

Speakers:

Lara Whitley Binder
Climate Preparedness Program Manager, King County

Lara Whitely Binder is the Climate Preparedness Program Manager for King County, Washington. In this role, Lara is responsible for working with King County agencies to prepare for the impacts of climate change and strengthening regional partnerships to address shared challenges and opportunities around climate preparedness.

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Building Partnerships for Action through Heat Mapping

King County (WA), the City of Seattle, and Seattle Public Utilities completed a county-wide heat mapping effort in July 2020. This presentation will describe how that partnership and the resulting heat mapping products are being leveraged to move from awareness to action around heat mitigation, particularly in the wake of the deadly June 2021 heat wave event.

Oliver Kroner
Sustainability Manager, City of Cincinnati

Oliver Kroner is the Sustainability Manager for the City of Cincinnati. His work focuses on climate science and urban policy, including energy, transportation, waste, and food systems. He leads collaboration of government and community partners to advance and track the sustainability, equity, and resilience strategies of the Green Cincinnati Plan.

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Sweat Equity - How citizen science and partnerships are beating the heat

Things are heating up in Cincinnati. Local partnerships have helped the City expand support for community resilience and equity efforts. Along the way, our understanding of the role of community expertise, and our definitions of equity have evolved.


Marc Coudert Environmental Program Manager, City of Austin Office of Sustainability

As an employee of the City of Austin Office of Sustainability, Marc works with city departments to embed climate adaptation strategies into long term operation and asset management planning. In this role, he also supports community organizers to increase climate resilience in the Eastern Crescent.

 

 

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Heat & Equity in Austin, Texas

Connecting data with lived experience to integrate the voices of at-risk stakeholders into heat mitigation strategies.


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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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