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DESCRIPTION:Title: Climate-resilient cities: science and solutions for glob
 al urban heat stress\n\n \n\nAbstract: Extreme urban heat\, driven by clim
 ate change and rapid urbanization\, poses a growing threat to public healt
 h\, energy systems\, and economic productivity. Yet effective urban heat m
 itigation is hindered by two key gaps: limited mechanistic understanding o
 f urban heat environment across global cities\, and a lack of robust tools
  to assess the climate and economic tradeoffs of heat mitigation strategie
 s. \n\nMy research bridges these gaps by combining urban climate\, global 
 climate modelling\, and econometric analysis to inform climate-resilient u
 rban planning. In this talk\, I first examine how urbanization reshapes su
 rface climate and humid heat stress across global cities\, highlighting an
  overlooked humid heat risk in tropical cities where informal settlements 
 lack access to cooling facilities. I then evaluate the climate and energy 
 impacts of novel building materials under various background climates. Fin
 ally\, I extend these physical climate insights into policy-relevant outco
 mes by quantifying the economic costs of the urban heat island\, which sup
 ports economically rational decision-making in heat interventions. \n\nTog
 ether\, my work provides a scientific and decision-making foundation for d
 esigning effective and equitable heat mitigation strategies in a warming w
 orld.\n\nKeer Zhang is a postdoctoral research associate in the High Meado
 ws Environmental Institute at Princeton University\, working with Professo
 r Elie Bou-Zeid. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Yale
  University in 2024 under the supervision of Professor Xuhui Lee\, and her
  B.S. in Atmospheric Science from Sun Yat-sen University\, where she worke
 d with Professor Jian Hang. She has an interdisciplinary background in urb
 an climate\, climate modelling\, and climate economics. Her research inves
 tigates the drivers and impacts of urban heat stress and evaluates evidenc
 e-based heat solutions for climate-resilient cities. In 2023\, she receive
 d the Andrew Slater Award from the CESM Land Model Working Group.
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LOCATION:Y2E2 Building\, 299
SUMMARY:Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar Series
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/civil-environmental-enginee
 ring-seminar-series-6809
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