Hosted by School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Extreme heat is the most deadly of weather disasters and individual exposure depends on individual location through the day and night. Anonymized location data from smartphone users makes possible investigations of individual-level extreme heat exposure patterns and heat-refuge strategies that were previously unimaginable. Using a two-month dataset of smartphone locations in Los Angeles County during the record-breaking summer of 2017, we explore exposure and refuge-seeking strategies surrounding cooling centers, parks, and pedestrian shade use to gain insights on adaptation and mitigation strategies to protect public health in communities facing extreme heat events.
Sahar Derakhshan
Assistant Professor of Geography, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Travis Longcore
Adjunct Professor of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA