by Chester Ling | Sep 12, 2023 | Climate, Data, Featured, Sustainability, Urban Index, Urbanization
This blog was written by Chester Ling, a DDL Student Research Assistant and undergraduate student in Environmental Earth Systems Science at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. When I first came across the concept of measuring equity and resilience, I...
by Ella Feathers | Dec 12, 2022 | Data Visualization, Featured, GHGs, Uncategorized, Urbanization
Read the paper published in Nature. This blog was originally published in the Springer Nature Sustainability Community. Cities have risen to prominence as climate actors in recent years, signing on to international climate initiatives and making pledges and taking...
by Ella Feathers | Nov 7, 2022 | Data Visualization, Featured, Urban Index, Urbanization
The Data-Driven EnviroLab has been awarded two grants to continue work on two groundbreaking research projects: the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) and Net Zero HERO: High-Performance Extraction and Retrieval Operation (NZT HERO). Both projects...
by Kayla Guilliams | May 18, 2022 | Climate, Data, Data Visualization, Urbanization
On April 23, nearly 40 community members came together to hack solutions to urban heat in the Research Triangle as part of Data-Driven EnviroLab’s Heat Hack 2022. In partnership with the NC Museum of Life and Science and as part of the NC Science Festival, we opened...
by Kayla Guilliams | Mar 7, 2022 | Climate, Data, Featured, Publications, Urbanization
On August 28, 2021, we sent nearly 40 volunteers armed with handheld sensors, smartphones, and smartwatches to help collect urban heat data around town. This citizen science campaign was in partnership with the NC Museum of Life and Science and the Town of Chapel...
by Kayla Guilliams | Feb 15, 2022 | Climate, Data, Energy, Featured, Urbanization
DDL is joining forces with other researchers across UNC to investigate the nexus of urban heat, electric grid infrastructure, and health equity with $5,000 in seed funding from a UNC Creativity Hub grant. The hottest days in the summer are exposing numerous...
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