The SoCal Heat Hub is excited to welcome Nicole Fassina onboard! Nicole is a College Corps fellow who is supporting the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative (SDRCC) on their research and outreach efforts. She will be working with the Heat Hub team to help contribute to communications materials within our blog and newsletter. Nicole is a senior at the University … Read More
Hub Manager Maren Hale Presents at San Diego’s first Heat and Human Health Summit
Written by: Maren Hale Saturday, August 12, 2023 was a landmark day for the field of heat and health in San Diego. For the very first time in our region, several groups came together to put on a full-day summit focused solely on the impacts of extreme heat on human health and heat wave response. The event, called H3SD, or … Read More
Hub Researchers Interviewed in ‘Wired’ Article About Heat and Humidity
Written by: Maren Hale Have you ever wondered why the heat feels so much more unbearable when it’s humid out? Or how climate change is affecting humidity levels not just in California, but around the world? These questions and more are answered in a recent article for Wired by Matt Simon, which interviewed Hub researchers Dr. Sasha Gershunov and Dr. … Read More
Researcher chat: Dr. Sasha Gershunov Takes Us Through a Year in the Climate of Southern California
Written by: Maren Hale I recently sat down with Dr. Sasha Gershunov, climate scientist and Heat Hub researcher, for a discussion about the local Southern California climate regime. In our conversation, Dr. Gershunov outlined the unique climate of the region and how it typically changes over a year, he discussed the unusual winter we experienced at the start of 2023, … Read More
Dr. Rachel Clemesha Publishes First Hub-Associated Research Article on California’s Coastal Low Clouds and the North American Monsoon
Written by: Maren Hale Hub researcher Dr. Rachel Clemesha, along with colleagues including Hub researcher Dr. Sasha Gershunov, recently published a new article entitled “North American Monsoon Impacts Southern California’s Coastal Low Clouds” in the June 28th issue of Geophysical Research Letters. This article represents the first published work as part of the CoPe SoCal Heat Hub. The paper describes … Read More
SoCal Heat Hub Hosts First Community Partner Event
Written by: Maren Hale April 25th marked an important milestone for the SoCal Extreme Heat Research Hub: our first community partner workshop. The event, which was hosted at the San Diego Natural History Museum, provided an opportunity for community partners from across the county to learn about Hub research priorities and opportunities for input and support. The event started with … Read More
Climate Champions Design Summit Convenes Local Educators Around Heat Hub Science
Written by: Nan Renner & Maren Hale On March 14th and 15th, the SoCal Extreme Heat Research Hub participated in an education design summit led by Climate Champions and the San Diego Science Project (SDSP). The summit, which represents the hub’s first major education activity, was led by education team members Alec Barron of SDSP and Jessica Bean, leader of … Read More
Scripps and UCSD Cover Hub Research in New Press Releases
Press releases published on both UC San Diego Today and Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s explorations now news websites cover our new coastal extreme heat-focused research hub as well as another NSF CoPe project with personnel located at UCSD. Read the UC San Diego Today piece here and the explorations now piece here.