Detecting, mitigating, and adapting to localized heat and cold in cities
Tuesday, August 28, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: COOR 5536
For the first colloquium of the 2018-2019 school year, we are excited to welcome Jannik Heusinger as our first speaker. A postdoctoral researcher with the Urban Climate Research Center, Jannik’s work focuses on urban heat mitigation and urban surface-atmosphere exchange.
His talk is titled “Detecting, mitigating, and adapting to localized heat and cold in cities.”
About the talk:
Urban climatologists work on describing the climate within a very complex and ever-evolving system – the city. Our motivation is to increase the well-being of humans living within this system. In Phoenix, our work concentrates on understanding the effect of different materials and their geometric arrangements on localized heat, with the goal of being able to accurately model physical dynamics of the urban climate system. Analogous challenges exist in higher latitudes where cold thermal environments pose challenges, which are underrepresented in the scientific literature and discourse.
In this seminar, Jannik will share contributions to the study of hot and cold environments in cities as part of ASU’s Urban Climate Research Center. In addition to highlighting particular research initiatives, he will raise questions about how we can more holistically think about increasing the well-being of humans’ thermal experiences in cities, working toward adaptation and mitigation in both hot and cold environments.