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Topic: Heat island

Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

NOAA and partners release 2022 urban heat island mapping results

November 10, 2022

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Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

NOAA seeks applicants for 2023 urban heat island initiative

October 18, 2022

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Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

Volunteers Octavia Jones and her two children Taegan and Tristen Harris used the sensor attached to car to collect heat data in the Bronx as part of the NOAA and partner Heat Island Mapping Campaign, July 2021. Courtesy of Octavia Jones (Ms. Jones signed a permission to allow her photo to be used by NOAA and others to tell the story of the Heat Island Mapping Campaign)

NOAA summer urban heat mapping

May 27, 2022

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media teleconference

Volunteers Octavia Jones and her two children Taegan and Tristen Harris used the sensor attached to car to collect heat data in the Bronx as part of the NOAA and partner Heat Island Mapping Campaign, July 2021. Courtesy of Octavia Jones (Ms. Jones signed a permission to allow her photo to be used by NOAA and others to tell the story of the Heat Island Mapping Campaign)

A community volunteer attaches the heat sensor that will collect heat data as part of NOAA’s Heat Island Mapping Campaign in Kansas City, Missouri on Aug. 6, 2021.

NOAA seeks applicants for 2022 urban heat island initiative

November 17, 2021

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A community volunteer attaches the heat sensor that will collect heat data as part of NOAA’s Heat Island Mapping Campaign in Kansas City, Missouri on Aug. 6, 2021.

A man exercising along an urban waterfront bends down due to the extreme heat.

NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 11 states

April 14, 2021

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A man exercising along an urban waterfront bends down due to the extreme heat.

Suzanne Simpson from Bayou Land Conservancy and Erin Valley Donato from the Houston Zoo were part of the volunteer team that collected heat data in the Houston area last summer to help produce Heat Island maps for the community.

Media Briefing: NOAA Summer 2021 urban heat mapping

April 6, 2021

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media teleconference

Suzanne Simpson from Bayou Land Conservancy and Erin Valley Donato from the Houston Zoo were part of the volunteer team that collected heat data in the Houston area last summer to help produce Heat Island maps for the community.

Sara Benson (right) and Roxanne Lee, of the Boston Science Museum, using a CAPA Heat Strategies sensor to investigate extreme heat in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 24, 2019.
Alt text: Two women stand together near a car door as they attach a temperature gauge to the glass window of the car door.

NOAA leads community scientists in mapping hottest parts of 13 U.S. cities

June 3, 2020

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Sara Benson (right) and Roxanne Lee, of the Boston Science Museum, using a CAPA Heat Strategies sensor to investigate extreme heat in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 24, 2019.
Alt text: Two women stand together near a car door as they attach a temperature gauge to the glass window of the car door.

Summer sunset and the "Ed Koch"(Queensborough) Bridge in New York City as seen on June 6, 2011.

Citizen scientists take to the streets to map the hottest spots in 10 U.S. cities

July 24, 2019

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citizen science

Summer sunset and the "Ed Koch"(Queensborough) Bridge in New York City as seen on June 6, 2011.

Youth from Groundwork RVA join with Jeremy Hoffman to look for hot spots in Richmond, Virginia, using a forward-looking infrared thermal camera.

Science and education partners reveal the hottest places in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore

May 24, 2019

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citizen science

Youth from Groundwork RVA join with Jeremy Hoffman to look for hot spots in Richmond, Virginia, using a forward-looking infrared thermal camera.

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