CAREER: Thermal Inequality, Health, and the Built Environment

暴露在高温下被描述为与气候相关的不平等的一个主要指标。对于居住在城市的人来说，高温是一个特别的问题，城市通常比非城市地区更热，这在很大程度上是由于建筑环境在保温方面的作用。暴露在高温下会导致一系列健康问题，甚至可能导致死亡。这个项目旨在帮助理解如何将普通的炎热体验转化为关于城市气候的专家对话，进而有助于制定关于我们如何在城市生活的政策。该项目还包括一个重要的教育部分，包括建立一个渠道，培训下一代跨学科的科学家、学者和政策制定者。这一教育部分包括为学龄儿童开发以气候为重点的课程丰富模块，以及一个本科生热实验室，学生将通过该实验室学习进行跨学科研究。通过这项研究产生的数据将被分享，以提供信息并推动与城市热缓解和适应相关的政策。在教师早期职业发展(CALE)奖的支持下，研究人员将对城市热、人体和建筑环境之间的关系进行为期五年的研究。许多衡量城市环境中热反应的广义指标都存在抽样偏差，这使得它们更难解释不同城市背景下的变异性。这个项目关注的是历史、文化和建筑环境的相互作用如何潜在地塑造炎热的体验。它采用了混合方法，包括民族志、口述历史、档案研究和基于地理信息系统的地图绘制。这些多种形式的数据的分层将提供对城市热体验如何受到环境和文化因素影响的更有力的理解，并提供对这些影响热暴露分布的因素的更接近体验的视角。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Exposure to heat has been described as a major index of climate-related inequality. Heat is a particular problem for those who live in cities, which are typically hotter than non-urban areas, largely due to the role of the built environment in retaining heat. Exposure to heat can contribute to a range of health issues and can even lead to death. This project aims to contribute an understanding of how the ordinary experience of heat might be translated into expert conversations about urban climate that in turn contribute to shaping policies about how we live in cities. The project also has a significant educational component that involves establishing a pipeline to train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists, scholars, and policy makers. This educational component includes developing climate-focused curricular enrichment modules for school-age children and an undergraduate Heat Lab through which students will learn to conduct interdisciplinary research. The data generated through this research will be shared to inform and advance policy related to urban heat mitigation and adaptation.With the support of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the researcher will undertake a five-year study of the relationship between urban heat, bodies, and the built environment. Many generalized measures of heat response in urban environments suffer from sampling biases that make them less equipped to explain variability across different urban contexts. This project focuses on how experiences of heat are potentially shaped by the interaction of history, culture, and the built environment. It employs a mixed-methods approach, including ethnography, oral histories, archival research, and GIS-based mapping. The layering of these multiple forms of data will offer a more robust understanding of how the experience of urban heat is shaped by both environmental and cultural factors, as well as provide a more experience-near perspective on these factors that shape the distribution of thermal exposure.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.