Project Updates

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

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

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from across the Earth sciences attend the AGU annual meeting every year to learn about and share new, often unpublished, … Read More

Written by: Zhuohan Fang In October 2024, I had the opportunity to present my work developing the Ecohydrology and Heat Explorer (EHE) app at a Teacher/Researcher Collaborative event at the Birch Aquarium. I had the pleasure of working with Morgan Levy within UCSD’s SoCal Heat Hub to develop the app. The EHE is a public online map tool that enables … Read More

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

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

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

Written by: Nicole Fassina Terms to Know Green Space: Designated vegetated open areas, either within or outside cities, including plant life, water, and various natural elements. These areas are typically accessible to the public but can also be privately owned. Examples include parks, open fields, beaches, community gardens, and hiking trails (Mehhdi et al., 2017).  Urban Green Space: Green spaces … Read More

Maren Hale, Heat Hub project manager and researcher, published her first lead author paper alongside co-authors Mark Merrifield, Rachel Clemesha, Sasha Gershunov, Kristen Guirguis, Tarik Benmarhnia, Clive Dorman, and Sam Iacobellis, in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. The paper, “Mean Summer Land Temperatures in the Southern California Coastal Zone: Connections With Ocean Processes” focuses … Read More