Our team will demonstrate how to use the NYC Urban Heat Portal for heat resilience advocacy. The NYC Urban Heat Portal maps and visualizes several outdoor heat exposure data layers. We will show users how to navigate the website, map, and data visualizations, understand weather station data, evaluate neighborhood profiles, and how to download data for further analysis. You will learn about the fundamentals of urban heat and about how to use data available through the NYC Urban Heat Portal.
If you are interested in heat resilience and the ways we can measure it, this workshop would be useful for you. You will learn about heat mitigation resources in different neighborhoods.
Participants will have the opportunity to work with the data, and download specific data layers. We suggest that participants bring a laptop for hands-on experience.
This portal is designed by Hunter College's Urban Policy and Planning department, BetaNYC, and Penn State University in collaboration with community partners such as WE ACT and Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice.
The speakers:
- Ashley Louie, former Beta NYC CTO
- Mehdi Heris, Assistant Professor at Hunter College City University of New York
- Andrew Kittredge, Beta NYC - Civic Innovation Lab Director
- Lun Hung, Beta NYC - Civic Innovation Lab Associate, Frontend Developer
- Hailee Luong, former Beta NYC Civic Innovation Lab Associate, User Experience Designer
- Zhi Keng He, Beta NYC - Software Engineer
