TEX September e-Update Survey
Author: tdorsey
Scientists and Communities Working Together to Solve Environmental Challenges
Raj Pandya, Program Director of the American Geophysical Union’s Thriving Earth Exchange, was a keynote speaker at the National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC) on 9 August 2016. The NEMC provides a forum for scientists and…
Bridging the Gap to Effective Scientific Partnerships
On 25 July 2016, Natasha Udu-gama, Director of Community Partnerships for the American Geophysical Union’s Thriving Earth Exchange, moderated a panel on “Effective Scientific Partnerships with Frontline Communities” for the AAAS Science and Human Rights…
100 Resilient Cities (100 RC) and TEX
In recent months, TEX has matched scientists to attend and present at Lisbon, Portugal’s Agenda Setting Workshop and Medellìn, Colombia Strategy Release Event. Upon 100RC’s request, Dr. Pedro Manuel Alberto de Miranda of Universidade de…
Las Vegas Develops a Scope of Work for its Drought Vulnerability Assessment
Since June 2016, Marco Velotta and Lorenzo Mastino from the City of Las Vegas Planning Department have been working with Dr. Ajay Kalra of Southern Illinois University to do a drought vulnerability assessment for the…
DC Obtains 9-1-1 Data to Advance UHI Project
The DC team obtained a list of 9-1-1 calls from March 2010 to March 2015 to determine the locations with the greatest density of heat-related incidents in the District. While evaluating the 9-1-1 data, the…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
As an organization that works closely with communities of all types, TEX is always interested in learning the latest strategies and theories regarding their development and structure. According to the authors of Urban Neighborhoods…
National Geographic Features Pamir Mountains
National Geographic took an interest in TEX’s project with the Pamir Mountains, and has recently published an article on Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam’s work with the region’s ecological calendars. Read more here!
DC gathers data, protects human subjects
The DC team is taking steps towards gathering heat-related data while maintaining the integrity of human subjects. Alexis Goggans notes that the team intends to overlay different layers of relevant data for determining heat vulnerability…
Brookline Regroups, Welcomes Maria Morelli
With the departure of former city lead, Laura Curtis Hayes, the Brookline team is working with Maria Morelli (Planner, Brookline). The Brookline project will map the impacts of extreme temperature projections on public health, including…
A Scientific Panel in Jackson
The Fish Creek Stakeholders Group has recently begun to organize an internal scientific advisory committee. The goal of this group is to provide scientifically based opinions to inform remediation options for Fish Creek. Carlin Girard…
An Abundance of Resilience in Oakland
Oakland, California is facing a unique challenge increasingly faced by cities inundated by offers to increase their resilience. In Oakland’s case, competing demands from resilience organizations are precluding the team from being able to define…
Greenhouse Gas inventory and Particulate Matter sampling
Granite City plans to have their sustainability plan complete by June 2016. Dr. Jay Turner has been instrumental in helping the city review its sustainability plan. Because of his work with the city, Turner will…
Materials for Corrosion Prevention, and Boise’s Failure Analysis Report
Jon Gunnerson and Dr. Brian Anderson are collaborating on materials selection strategies for geothermal systems. The city and the scientist were matched by TEX through our TEX Lite process. As of May 2016, the…
Mapping in the Ziway basin
TEX scientist Dr. Stéphanie Horion is working to identify a series of optimal maps and spatial data layers related to land use/land cover change and soil characteristics for HoAREC&N. In collaboration with a HoAREC&N consultant…
Mapping Data Acquired
The DC team has received new data, and is well on their way to creating the maps needed for their analysis. Updated LIDAR data will provide Juan Declet-Barreto with the land use/land cover information…
Data Collection Complete
The Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart (TNH2H) team has made significant progress in the past several months. They have completed their data collection and now have radon and PERC (two volatile organic compounds) data…
Project Scope Deliberation, a Field Traverse, and New Goals
As of March 2016, the Oakland Team has made significant progress on defining their project. Since their last meeting, TEX scientific partners, Patrick Hubbard and Brian Rowley, conducted a field traverse of one…
What is TEX all about anyway?
TEX is about an urgent need to be innovative in how our science, Earth and space science, connects to society. We face enormous collective challenges over the next several decades – challenges that include…
Close Contact, Data Acquisition, and the Dutch Consulate
During the April check-in call with TEX, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) team conveyed that it has kept in very close contact with Chris Watson since the introductory call in February 2016. Regardless…
EOS Publishes Article on Pamir Mountains Project
A new article entitled “Villages Must Recalibrate Time to Survive in the Pamir Mountains” has just been published by AGU’s EOS online. If you would like to read it, click here.
Pamir Mountains Project Update: Team Receives Research Funding through the Belmont Forum
Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam and collaborators have received grant funding through the Belmont Forum, a group of the world’s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. Learn more. Dr. Kassam states the grant will “contribute…
The Acre Group
By: Kylie Caesar In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in either…
Shellfish Harvesters and College Students Working Together in the Kennebec Estuary
By: Gabi Serrato Marks In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in…
Accomplishments and Goals
What we’ve accomplished: TEX met with TNH2H leaders and community members several times to understand local priorities and explore how environmental factors contributed to community health and well-being. TNH2H leaders led a workshop at…
Community Science Improves Usability of Coastal Erosion Assessment in Arctic Alaska
By: Clayton Elder In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in either…
Dr. Rice speaks to Eugene’s City Council
Current events Eugene’s climate recovery ordinance has received overwhelming support from a number of sources. The City Council has already met several times to discuss the details of this ordinance, and these meetings can…
Boston, MA
The Challenge The Metro Boston region, an area where civic leaders have been at the forefront of climate resilience initiatives in recent years, is seeking a comprehensive flood vulnerability assessment of its food distribution networks north…
Mapping Extreme Heat
TEX and ICLEI partner city, Washington, D.C., are interested in understanding how extreme heat might be mitigated as part of the city’s first climate adaptation plan. The city began mapping heat vulnerability with a…
Horn of Africa
Image Courtesy of: Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Centre and Network [ezcol_1half] The Challenge The Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N) seeks expertise to help them develop, implement and operationalize transboundary…