15: Lights Out: Climate Change and Infrastructure Risk
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On today’s episode, We welcome Dr. Evan Mallen who is a researcher with Georgia Tech’s Urban Climate Lab where he focuses on urban heat island mitigation and the public health response. He is also an ORISE Fellow in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate and Health Program.
We’re talking about his paper “Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heatwave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona” recently published in the journal “Urban Climate” with co-authors Brian Stone, Mayuri Rajput, Ashley Broadbent, Scott Krayenhoff, Godfried Augenbroe, Matei Georgescu
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100787
Urban Climate Lab: https://urbanclimate.gatech.edu/
Twitter: @UrbanClimateLab
CDC Climate and Health Program: https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm
Artwork: EmilyHIllustrations
Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear
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