Events and service

Miami Climate Week panel on heat-healthy homes

event

I participated in a panel for Miami Climate Week and the Resilience 365 conference called ‘Heat health: Innovative strategies for safer homes’. In my remarks, I tried to connect the science of heat and quality of life impacts to the lived experiences and applied work of the other panelists, who were community members and local leaders.

Resilience 365 Conference

Workshop on the home energy transition: The heat pump

workshop

I co-organized a workshop foucsed on identifying opportunities in and barriers to home decarbonization and the residential heat pump transition in New England.

Leveraging the National Climate Assessment to Empower Communities

workshop

I co-organized a workshop for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The workshop’s goal was to help broaden the reach of the National Climate Assessment and increase its impact and use at local and regional levels. We focused on highlighting future opportunities to improve community engagement at all stages of the report’s development and dissemination.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Multisector dynamics: Confluence of societal and environmental change in urban areas

conference convening

I co-convened a session at the 2023 American Geophysical Union with members of the MultiSector Dynamics community.

American Geophysical Union 2023 Meeting

Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment

service

I served as a chapter author for the Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment for Chapter 18: Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems.

United States Global Change Research Program

Climate Café Series

education

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I participated in an educational event that sought to create a casual environment to have scientifically-grounded conversations with the public about climate change science.

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Thinking forward together: Emerging technologies and a changing energy sector

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I helped organize three deliberative conversations with community members in Kern County as a Summer Associate at the RAND Corporation. The conversations intended to create structured conversations around difficult topics involving Kern County’s changing energy sector.

RAND Corporation and Cal State University Bakersfield

Heat check: Communities work to protect public health under hot conditions

education

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workshop

I participated in an educational workshop hosted by the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources. My charge was to help the journalists better understand the science of extreme heat response.

Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

Science as Actionable Knowledge video series

education

service

I participated in an educational video series focused on teaching co-production methods for action-oriented scientific research.

Global Council for Science and the Environment, NASA Applied Sciences

Miami-Dade County Climate and Heat Health Taskforce

education

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I served on Miami-Dade County’s Climate and Heat Health Taskforce. The taskforce aimed to identify short-term actions, create a framework for prioritizing future actions and for monitoring progress, and make recommendations for how to respond to extreme heat in the county. We hosted several public conversations to learn more about the community’s needs and concerns regarding extreme heat.

Miami-Dade County and the Miami Foundation

Heat-health messaging campaign for pregnant women in Miami

education

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I served as a scientific advisor for a messaging campaign organized by the Miami-Dade Women’s Fund. The goal of the campaign was to increase awareness of the dangers of extreme heat and effective cooling strategies for pregnant women.

The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade