PhD Student Laney Wicker Shares Heat Hub Research at EGU in Vienna

Written by: Laney Wicker The European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference takes place each spring in Vienna, Austria. While slightly smaller than the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, it still draws nearly 20,000 participants for a week of sharing the latest advances in geoscience research. The convention center, located just outside Vienna’s city center along the Danube River, provides a scenic … Read More

Heat Hub Members Present at Third Annual San Diego Heat and Human Health Summit: We Break Down Everything that Happened at the Hottest Conference in Town

For the third year in a row, the San Diego Heat and Human Health Summit (H3SD) brought together healthcare practitioners, scientists, legislators, and concerned community members for a convening to discuss how extreme heat is affecting human health in San Diego in the face of climate change and what we need to do to address it. Hosted by UC San … Read More

Reflections from the Heat Hub’s 2025 Climate Science and Policy Graduates

Written by: Hale Brown and Pete Polonsky This academic year, the SoCal Heat Hub was proud to yet again work with two graduate students from the Masters of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Climate Science and Policy (CSP) program here at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). These students, Pete Polonsky and Hale Brown, worked closely with Heat Hub scientist advisors to … Read More

Empowering Students in the Science Community: Creating spaces for students to envision themselves as scientists. Their scientific work is not just a part of the classroom, but a valuable contribution to the scientific community.

This guest blog post was written by Rachel Davey, Middle School Science and AP Human Geography teacher at City Heights Prep, and a valued partner of the SoCal Heat Hub. Feel free to contact Rachel Davey for the weather diary resources at rdavey@cityheightsprep.org Local Phenomena-Based Curriculum  We are lucky to have a Davis Weather Station at our City Heights Prep campus … Read More

SoCal Heat Hub’s 2025 Community Partner Workshop

In February we hosted our third annual all-community stakeholder meeting with partners from across the county representing professionals in education, health, local and regional government, and NGOs. We gathered at the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park where we communicated research and education outcomes to date, gathered feedback on our work, and brainstormed how to achieve our project’s next steps … Read More

Ecohydrology Team Members Present Findings at AGU Conference

Written by: Laney Wicker, Xueli Yang, and Morgan Levy In December 2024, members of the SoCal Heat Hub’s Ecohydrology and Sustainable Greening team presented their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meeting in Washington D.C. Scientists and professionals from across the Earth sciences attend the AGU annual meeting every year to learn about and share new, often unpublished, … Read More

SoCal Heat Hub at H3SD: Research, Education, and Action for Climate Resilience

Written by: Nan Renner, Caitlin Jones-Ngo, A-bel Gong, and Maren Hale As extreme heat becomes a greater threat, how can we best prepare ourselves and our communities? What should everyone –including youth– in our region know about extreme heat? These are some of the questions that a diverse group of healthcare practitioners, academic researchers, community leaders, students, climate activists, and … Read More

Welcome Zhuohan Fang to the Team!

Zhuohan Fang, a recent graduate of UCSD’s School of Global Policy and Strategy specializing in Climate and Environmental Policy, will be joining the Heat Hub as a staff research associate working with Dr. Morgan Levy. Zhuohan began working with Dr. Levy earlier this summer as a graduate student researcher developing interactive map products as deliverables for the Heat Hub. In … Read More

UC San Diego Today Spotlights Dr. Tarik Benmarhnia’s Work on Wildfire Smoke and Heat

A story published in UC San Diego Today on September 3rd titled “Heat Waves Amplify Existing Inequities. Meet the Researchers Working to Change That.” spotlights researchers across the UC San Diego campus working in a variety of fields, but with a common research through line: understanding inequalities in the impacts of heat and finding solutions that will protect at-risk populations. … Read More