About the Event
The Center for Health and Environment: Education and Research (CHEER) Seminar Series highlights environmental health-related work at UT and in the Austin metropolitan area.
Jane W. Baldwin, Ph.D., presents “Projecting Heat: Health Impacts in a Changing Climate.” Her presentation covers:
- What is known of the evolving physical characteristics of heat waves, including recent research highlighting the growing hazard of compound heat extremes as well as humid heat, back-to-back heat waves and heat waves occurring after hurricane landfalls.
- Collaborations with physiologists to develop more nuanced projections of heat-health outcomes that account for population diversity and move beyond “survivability” to project “livability” in the heat-constraining limits to safe physical activity levels as the climate warms.
- Deep uncertainties regarding the role of humidity in heat-health outcomes that pose an ongoing challenge to projecting future heat impacts, with a call-to-action for further collaboration between weather/climate and health researchers to resolve these debates.
Baldwin is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine. She leads a research group focused on climate dynamics and extreme event risk.
Register to attend in-person or virtually via Zoom.
In-person attendees may enjoy a reception with refreshments at 3 p.m. The presentation begins at 3:30 p.m.
For questions, email Jeanne Holmes.