Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
The Carolinas Collaborative on Climate, Health, and Equity (C3HE), a NOAA CAP/RISA team, helped local governments in North Carolina create equity-centered heat response protocols.
Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced a $5 million funding opportunity through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help communities address extreme heat, which is growing in intensity due to the climate crisis and affecting millions of Americans.
The Carolinas Collaborative for Climate, Health, and Equity (C3HE), a NOAA CAP/RISA team, Co-PI Miyuki Hino’s new sensor framework finds that flood frequency estimated from multiple drivers are higher than suggested by those only using tide gauges.
CPO Climate and Health Team co-organized this 1-day showcase to highlight the best climate and health presentations from the AMS and AGU annual meetings.
On August 7th, more than 100 volunteers in Montgomery County, MD participated in the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) “Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign”.
On July 26th, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) launched a new portal, Heat.gov, to provide the public and community decision makers with clear, timely, and science-based information to understand and reduce the health risks of extreme heat.
This effort, jointly supported by IRAP and RISA, explores the nexus of climate change, health, and migration in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and provides a better understanding of these relationships to inform research and policy agendas that build resilience and adaptive capacity at home and abroad.
The meeting brought together federal and global partners to create a shared vision for building resilience to extreme heat events in communities.
This dataset and tool are directly responsive to requests Dr. Spinrad heard from health practitioners at a NOAA Climate and Equity Roundtable event held in October 2021.
This Feb. 14 webinar will answer general questions about IRAP proposals