UofA Heat Resilience Initiative

UofA Heat Resilience Initiative

@heatresilience.bsky.social

Advancing global heat resilience through research, education, and outreach. https://heat.arizona.edu

48 Followers 14 Following 25 Posts Joined Apr 2025
1 week ago
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Our February newsletter is now available, featuring the 3rd SoAZ Heat Summit, introducing our RISE Intern Ryan Green, and exciting upcoming events. Subscribe to the newsletter by visiting heat.arizona.edu. ☀️ #extremeheat #heatresilience Read the newsletter: view.comms.arizona.edu?vawpToken=EF...

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3 weeks ago
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The 3rd Annual Southern Arizona Heat Summit was a smashing success. We were proud to participate and will continue working with the City to capture the impact of this event. A huge thank you to everyone who attended, contributed, and worked hard to make this possible.☀️ lnkd.in/gTwWVVdh

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1 month ago
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Our January newsletter is out now, featuring our heat resilience resources, and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?vawpToken=SP... #heatresilience #extremeheat

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1 month ago
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Our first event of the year is an APA Sustainability Webinar, featuring our Director, @laddkeith.com. Listen in on Friday, January 16th, from 11:00 - 12:30 PM. Learn why planners are uniquely positioned to lead heat resilience and adaptation efforts. Registration:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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2 months ago
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Our December newsletter is out now, featuring our yearly impact recap, and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=9a775ebdd... #heatresilience #extremeheat

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2 months ago
Holiday lunch with University of Arizona heat resilience initiative team happy holidays cake

Holiday lunch with (most of) my @uarizona.bsky.social @heatresilience.bsky.social research team today! ☃️❄️🎄 #uarizona

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3 months ago
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Our November newsletter is out now, featuring SW-IFL's Heat Mappers Program and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=a6e0f4add... #heatresilience #extremeheat

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4 months ago
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How U of A students braved the summer sun to help communities become heat resilient More than 150 students across all three state universities have been involved in a Department of Energy program to help communities understand and respond to extreme heat. Their work, researchers said...

Check out the new @uarizona.bsky.social feature on the climate research we're doing across the state's three universities and with our students through the SW-IFL to help make Arizona more resilient. news.arizona.edu/news/how-u-s... #climatechange #extremeheat #heatresilience

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4 months ago
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Our October newsletter is out now, featuring PCDH's Hotwash event and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter directly here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=993e3e1db... #heatresilience #extremeheat

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5 months ago
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Our September newsletter is out now, with info SW-IFL's All Hands meeting and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter directly here 🌇 : view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=b37a46883... #heatresilience #extremeheat

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6 months ago
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August 2025: Southwest Climate Outlook The Southwest Climate Outlook is published by the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), with support from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, and the New Mexico State Climate office....

AUG2025 @CLIMAS_UA SW Climate Outlook: Temperature & Precipitation, Drought, AZ & NM Reservoirs, ENSO Tracker, Seasonal Forecasts, Wildfire, Public Health Corner, SW Climate Podcast, #SWclimate #AZWx #NMWx : arcg.is/0vaXva1

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6 months ago
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Our August newsletter is out now, with info on a strategic planning meeting by global heat experts and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter directly here 🌇 : view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=7581edf0e...

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7 months ago
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@laddkeith.com, director of UA’s Heat Resilience Initiative within the Arizona Institute for Resilience, has been appointed to Governor Katie Hobbs’s Workplace Heat Safety Task Force. “We are taking action to protect Arizonans from heat risk in the workplace,” said Hobbs. Read more: lnkd.in/gxTewxQi

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7 months ago
University of Arizona Newsletter

Access our July newsletter directly at view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=51c0bbb55...

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7 months ago
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The latest Arizona Institute for Resilience's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter is out, with info on an extreme heat roundtable held by @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe now at heat.arizona.edu ☀️ #extremeheat

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8 months ago
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The latest Arizona Institute for Resilience's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter is now out, with info on @uarizona.bsky.social's Big Idea Challenge winners and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe now at heat.arizona.edu ☀️ #heatresilience #extremeheat

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8 months ago
Heat safety flyer

We are headed for some high temps across Arizona, so here are some quick heat safety tips from our partners at the National Weather Service Tucson Office!

🏠Stay indoors with AC
🥤Stay hydrated
🚗🚫🧑‍🤝‍🧑Never leave children, pets, or anyone in the car
🥵Know the signs of heat stroke and call 911!

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9 months ago
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HEAT Action Day

Today is Heat Action Day! Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer, hotter and deadlier due to the climate crisis. That is why The Red Cross is bringing awareness on how to identify and prevent heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Learn more at their page here: www.redcross.org/red-cross-yo...

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9 months ago
University of Arizona Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is at view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=f742b0357...

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9 months ago
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The latest Arizona Institute for Resilience's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter is now out, with info on Arizona's Heat Awareness Week and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe now at heat.arizona.edu ☀️ #heatresilience #extremeheat

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10 months ago
Old Main at the University of Arizona

Have any media questions about stories about extreme heat this summer? Feel free to reach out to our experts from a range of disciplines at the @uarizona.bsky.social! news.arizona.edu/press-releas... #extremeheat #heatresilience #heathealth

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10 months ago

If you live in Arizona, be sure to check out the Arizona Department of Health Heat Safety's new Central Heat Resource Hub to learn how to keep yourself and your community safe from extreme heat. ☀️ heat.azdhs.gov

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10 months ago
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AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes, and today is future activities! SW-IFL soon begins its Intensive Observation Period along the Oracle Road Corridor in Tucson. 5 UA students received the HeatMappers fellowship, where they will be working with researchers from NAU, ASU, and UA.

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10 months ago

AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes, and today is Take Action. Tucson is a city that is taking action for heat resilience. The @cityoftucson.bsky.social's award-winning Heat Action Roadmap was made with collaboration from researchers at UArizona. Read it here: tinyurl.com/heatroadmap

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10 months ago
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Planning for Urban Heat Resilience Planners seeking to increase their communities’ urban heat resilience can equitably prepare for and adapt to both chronic and acute heat risk through heat mitigation and management strategies.

AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Take Action. @laddkeith.com and @sarameerow.bsky.social wrote Planning for Urban Heat Resilience, a report providing holistic guidance to help increase urban heat resilience equitably in communities across the U.S. tinyurl.com/plan-heat

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10 months ago
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The manufactured housing mosaic: an intersectional approach to measuring social vulnerability This article presents a novel method for identifying and analysing the diverse pathways through which housing type is linked to social vulnerability. We use manufactured housing (MH) to challenge e...

Arizona's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Awareness. Residents of manufactured homes are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme heat. @mtfkear.bsky.social uncovers complexity within MH communities and discusses their resilience to heat and hazards. tinyurl.com/kear-mh

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10 months ago
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Development of a geographic human heat balance equation to support public health analyses: An Arizona urban sun corridor application Land surface temperature (LST) estimates often serve as urban heat islands maps and to infer human thermal comfort. Parallel to this, physiological he…

Arizona's official Heat Awareness week has five themes, and today is Environment. Did you know that the temperature on your thermometer is not always a good measure of the heat that your body feels? Read about how the Body Heat Storage model can capture the human heat experience. tinyurl.com/uofabhs

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10 months ago
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Rural heat health disparities: Evidence from the U.S. National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) Increasing average temperatures and extreme heat events due to climate change have adverse effects on human health. Previous studies focus on the heat…

Arizona's official Heat Awareness Week has five themes for five days: today is Health! Researchers at @uarizona.bsky.social found a rural-urban heat health disparity, calling attention to the impact of climate change-fueled heat impacts on communities of all sizes.
Read the paper: lnkd.in/gdSdxqrT

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