Grant for planning Heat Resilience Roadmaps - webinar today (11/21) at 4
Pettit, Kathryn
Sharing this grant opportunity to help communities get support to develop Heat Resilience Roadmaps – open now and closing in late January. I’d think a proposal with neighborhood level data would be more competitive 😊
This website has lots of resources – including a couple maps with downloadable data (that I haven’t personally worked with) https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/ - https://geoxc-apps2.bd.esri.com/Climate/HeatVulnerability/index.html (which seems broken at the moment)
You can sign up at heat.gov to receive updates directly.
-Kathy
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Proposals, & More
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The newsletter for the National Integrated Heat Health Information System
Opportunities
Apply to the NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities
The Center for Heat Resilient Communities has opened applications for communities across the U.S. to get support to develop Heat Resilience Roadmaps. Selected communities will receive $10,000 and technical assistance to help them determine and communicate the impacts of extreme heat in their communities, assess their capacity to respond, and design a locally tailored blueprint for heat resilience.
Participating communities will craft locally-tailored blueprints outlining strategies for planning, funding, and decision-making to prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. These strategies will help protect communities from harmful heat impacts, such as heat-related deaths and infrastructure damage.
The application window for this opportunity is open now and closes on January 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. The center will host an informational webinar on November 21 at 4:00 PM ET. Information about additional Q&A sessions are posted on heat.gov.
Learn more in the full press release.
Apply to work with the Center for Heat Resilient Communities
Apply to the NIHHIS Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring
The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring has opened applications for communities across the U.S. to monitor and evaluate factors influencing local heat risk. Selected communities will receive $10,000 and technical support to collect heat distribution data through community-led campaigns. The campaigns can help inform local cooling solutions, decision-making, advocacy, and education on heat resilience.
The application window for this opportunity is open now and closes on January 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. The center will prioritize applications from communities that have experienced historical patterns of discrimination, underinvestment and disenfranchisement and have limited resources to conduct heat monitoring on their own. Rural communities, tribal nations, U.S. territories, and communities that have not previously undergone heat mapping are especially encouraged to apply. There will be an informational webinar about the center on Thursday, November 21st, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Learn more in the full press release.
Apply to work with the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring
Save the Date: 4th Annual NIHHIS National Meeting
Save the date for the 4th Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting! The virtual meeting will take place from April 15-17, 2025.
The NIHHIS National Meeting aims to bring together multiple stakeholders (including federal agencies, state and local governments, private and public partners, community leaders, and more) to discuss heat and health with the goal of reducing risk across multiple timescales and geographic scales. The meeting is focused on engaging communities and developing a shared vision for community heat resilience. The meeting will be virtual and free to attend. Registration to come.
Research Proposals: Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency
The Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence, is seeking research proposals that will respond to challenging problems and offer innovative solutions to issues faced by decision-makers in the Homeland Security Enterprise. The submission deadline is Monday, December 2nd at 5:00 p.m. MST.
Research proposals should address issues and challenges identified by CAOE, DHS, or its federal partners. There are several opportunities for heat-related proposals including in the following areas:
- Conducting a comprehensive study on the effectiveness and economic viability of various extreme heat adaptation measures
- Designing an interactive platform to assist communities in developing and implementing effective extreme heat mitigation plans
- Developing a more robust Benefits-Cost Analysis model that would include the economic costs of extreme heat related mortality, injury, and/or hospitalizations
News and Events
NIHHIS Centers of Excellence Informational Webinar
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) Centers of Excellence are working to 1) conduct community science research projects designed to improve equitable community heat resilience and expand actionable, place-based climate information and 2) improve the state of the science and practice by learning from, scaling up, and openly sharing approaches, policies, protocols, and lessons to benefit all communities. Applications to work with the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring and the Center for Heat Resilient Communities are open now.
On Thursday, November 21st, 2024 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET, there will be an informational webinar to learn more about the NIHHIS Centers of Excellence. Join the webinar to learn more about upcoming opportunities to work with the centers and how you can apply. ASL interpretation will be available.
New Research Finds Rising Heat Driving Western U.S. Droughts
Higher temperatures made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
The scientists found evaporative demand, or the thirst of the atmosphere, has played a bigger role than reduced precipitation in droughts since 2000. Historically, drought in the West has been caused by lack of precipitation, while evaporative demand played a smaller role. Droughts induced by natural fluctuations in rainfall still exist, but there’s more heat to suck moisture from bodies of water, plants, and soil. The researchers predict that droughts will last longer, cover wider areas, and become more severe as the climate warms.
AGU 2024 Annual Meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is hosting its 2024 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. from December 9-13, 2024. The theme of the conference is "What's Next for Science?". Registration is currently open.
There will be several sessions on extreme heat during the conference, including the following:
- Exploring the Interplay of Extreme Heat, Heat Waves, and Urban Heat Islands in Public Health: Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies
- Changing Heat Waves in a Warming World: Mechanisms, Predictability, Interconnectedness, and Impacts on Society and Environment
- Consequences of Drought and Heat Stress for Terrestrial Vegetation: From Physiology to Global Feedbacks
- Heat Waves Behind the Scenes: Drivers, Mechanisms, Changes, and Impacts
November Climate & Health Outlook
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) recently released its November 2024 Climate and Health Outlook. The Climate and Health Outlook helps inform health professionals and the public on how health may be affected in the coming months by climate events and provide resources to take proactive action. There is also an associated portal to interact with maps of county-level data on these climate hazards and individual-level risk factors for health impacts.
Check out this edition to learn about:
- Your region's forecast for heat, flooding, drought, and wildfires and how to protect yourself and others' health from these climate hazards
- Stories from climate resilience hubs
- Winners of the HHS Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge
- An opportunity to comment on a NIOSH draft hazard review document on wildland fire smoke exposure among farmworkers and other outdoor workers
From the Archives: The Power of the Pen
In 2021, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and partners hosted an Urban Heat Island Community of Practice Webinar Series. The webinars featured case studies showing how communities have used urban heat island maps to advance heat resilience.
The third webinar of the series focused on "The Power of the Pen: Policies, Standards, and Codes". Mapping the heat hazard is an important first step to understanding where to start addressing heat health issues in a city, but risk also involves exposure and vulnerability. Beyond including heat in planning documents, what concrete policies can be put in place in municipalities to ensure that heat risk reduction actually happens and how they are enforced? What are strategic partnerships that can be made to effect these policies? What climate and other data is needed to set thresholds and evaluate, enforce action/compliance? This session featured resources from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as case studies from Washington D.C. and Denver, Colorado that show the many policy instruments possible for moving communities in a heat resilient direction.
News and Research Articles
- Study: heat, not lack of precipitation, is driving western U.S. droughts (NOAA)
- Urban Pollution and Heat: Houston, We Have a Problem (NASA EarthData)
- Richmond’s plans to combat urban heat (Bay Journal)
- Feeling the Extreme Heat - New Orleans (JHU Public Health)
- New U of A Initiative Leads the Way to Combat Extreme Heat (University of Arizona)
- Oklahoma City Addresses Extreme Heat Using GIS-Powered Tools (ESRI)
- ‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef (The Guardian)
- To Cope with Extreme Heat, Paris Will Swap Parking Spaces for Trees (Yale Environment360)
