Written by: Nicole Fassina Extreme Heat and Housing Insecurity Heat waves are extreme weather events characterized by long periods of high temperatures. Due to their climate-change driven frequency and severity in recent years, these natural phenomena have garnered increasing attention. While heat waves impact various regions across the globe, their relevance in San Diego County cannot be overlooked. San Diego … Read More
Heat Hub PhD Student Laney Wicker Presents Her Research at AGU
Written by: Laney Wicker In December 2023, 25,000 geoscientists from around the world flocked to San Francisco, California, to attend the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. The research presented at AGU covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from emerging satellite technology to climate adaptation strategies. Scientists present cutting-edge research techniques and findings, while policymakers and educators address how … Read More
Dr. Kristen Guirguis Publishes New Research on Prediction of Winter Extreme Weather Events
Hub researcher Kristen Guirguis, along with hub researchers Sasha Gershunov, Rachel Clemesha, and other colleagues, recently published a paper outlining a method for predicting extreme winter weather events in California at a subseasonal scale. The paper, titled “Subseasonal Prediction of Impactful California Winter Weather in a Hybrid Dynamical-Statistical Framework” describes a modeling approach in which historical information is combined with … Read More
SoCal Heat Hub Launches Weather Stations Education Project
Written by Nicole Fassina and Maren Hale Our education and research teams have been working together since early this summer on an exciting Hub sub-project to bring data science opportunities to schools through weather station installations. We hope to provide weather stations to various schools across San Diego County over the next several years, and co-design uses of weather data … Read More
Climate Champions Design Summit Integrates Local and Global Heat Phenomena
Written by: Maren Hale and Nan Renner On September 12th and 13th, Climate Champions and the San Diego Science Project (SDSP, at UC San Diego’s CREATE) hosted another summit in a series bringing together educators and scientists to explore heat phenomena within an Earth systems framework using Understanding Global Change (UGC). The event at Scripps Institution of Oceanography was led … Read More
Birch Aquarium’s Happy Hour Science Night
Written by: Nicole Fassina The Birch Aquarium’s Happy Hour Science Night event on July 19th was an engaging and enjoyable experience that brought together attendees for an evening of relaxation, socialization, and exploration. This event kicked off with two guest speakers from the SoCal Heat Hub, scientists Tarik Benmarhnia and Sasha Gershunov, who spoke on heatwaves and their health impacts … Read More
Welcome Nicole Fassina to the Team!
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
Reflections from 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
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. Tarik Benmarhnia for their … 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