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At the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in New Orleans, ASU’s Qunshan Zhao was awarded the prestigious AAG J. Warren Nystrom Award “for his 2017 dissertation: Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment”.
Dr. Zhao’s work was performed under the guidance of his dissertation committee: Elizabeth Wentz (Chair), David Sailor, and Zhihua Wang, all affiliates of the UCRC.