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In partnership with Communities for a Better Environment, a community-based organization leading the advancement of zero-emission technologies and green infrastructure in environmental justice communities, our...

Daytime average land surface temperature over June 2022 from ECOSTRESS, an instrument on the ISS. Warm colors highlight the City of Huntsville, which is surrounded by central North Alabama. In both color gradients, darker colors represent higher temperatures. The Tennessee River, together with Wheeler Lake (left) and Lake Guntersville (right), appear black. Surface temperature is one factor that can help the local government decide where to focus tree-planting efforts to mitigate urban heat.

Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Map the Urban Heat Island and Evaluate Heat Vulnerability in Huntsville, Alabama

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DEVELOP

Huntsville Urban Development II (Summer 2023) Team: James Karroum (Project Lead); Awroni Bhaduri, Kindrea Gibbons, Natalie O'Kraski Summary: Huntsville, Alabama has seen a boom in...

NDVI-processed image from Landsat 8 OLI June 2022 data. Black and magenta indicates Portland's built landscape, with the bright magenta depicting the highest concentrations of impervious surfaces. In light pink, the Willamette River dissects the city with surrounding green vegetation. The NDVI conveys areas with high urban build-up with a lack of access to greenspace, illustrating lived experiences of urban heat and contributing to Depave's knowledge of areas that are in most need of depaving.

Quantifying and Visualizing Urban Heat Island and Compounding Vulnerabilities in Portland, Oregon to Support Community Depaving Initiatives

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DEVELOP

Portland Urban Development (Summer 2023) Team: Keegan Kessler (Project Lead), Hadwynne Gross, Jordan Larson, Adam Nayak Summary: Urban heat is a pressing concern in Portland...

Census tract map of Corpus Christi and runoff factors.

Toward Environmentally and Socially Equitable Stormwater Management Fees: The Case of Corpus Christi in Texas

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Disasters

Water Resources

Team: • Jim Lee (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), co-I • Yuxia Huang (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), co-I • Lapone Techapinyawat (Texas...

Study area and percent poverty by census tract. The zip code and Tucson boundary are from Pima County GIS.

GPM, IMERG Precipitation Estimate in an Arid Environmental Justice Area of Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Water Resources

Team Members: Theresa Foley (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Palmira Henriquez (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Flor Sandoval (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Rachel Spitz (Sonora Environmental Research...

Green infrastructure solutions to support flood mitigation and adaptation in coastal low-lying disadvantaged communities

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Risk & Resilience

Disasters

Team Members: Narcisa G. Pricope (University of North Carolina Wilmington and Mississippi State University), Leah Mayo (University of North Carolina Wilmington), Joanne Halls (University of...

Maximum Temperature across Baltimore City, Summer 2022

Equity, Environmental Justice, and Extreme Heat: Leveraging Earth Observations to Strengthen Community Driven Climate Mitigation Strategies

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Team Members: Jaime Madrigano PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Darryn Waugh PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Benjamin Zaitchik PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Bianca Corpuz...

Thermal imagery of Denver bus stop in the afternoon displaying large variability in surface temperatures due to land cover types and shading. Tripods in center of image are recording wet and dry globe temperatures and windspeed. Combining fine-scale surface temperature data, with high-resolution land cover data, we can build a land cover regression to downscale Landsat thermal imagery for all metropolitan transit locations in Denver.

Unequal distributions of commuter exposure to extreme heat and air pollution at neighborhood microscales

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Team: Peter Ibsen (US Geological Survey), Priyanka DeSouza (UC Denver), Jay Diffendorfer (US Geological Survey), Travis Warziniak (US Forest Service), Cody Bingham (University of British...

Land surface temperatures for study area (Cuyahoga County, Ohio), as derived from Landsat. Black lines show boundaries of census blocks. Blue dots show the greenspaces and census blocks where the on the ground tree surveys have been conducted, with one census block highlighted as an inset. Image Credit: Rob Moore (Cleveland State).

Improved monitoring and management of urban tree equity: integrating metrics of tree quality with tree cover

Topic

Climate

Ecological Conservation

Team: Kevin Mueller (Cleveland State University), Brice Grunert (Cleveland State University), Thomas Hilde (Cleveland State University), Kaiguang Zhao (Ohio State University), Daniel Meaney (Cuyahoga County...

Map of SEMCOG study area showing regions identified by SEMCOG as areas of persistent poverty, overlaid on a map of percent impervious surface for the seven county region.

Addressing Inequitable Flood Risks in Southeast Michigan through Green Infrastructure

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Climate