Thank you Cities and the Environment Journal for publishing the final of 3 studies in my dissertation! Big thanks for initial insights re: methods from Kelly Turner and @ClumpedIsotopes, and especially to Alan Barreca for guidance throughout. More 🌳🌲 = less 🥵 and more livable communities!

A nuanced perspective on the use of #coolpavement in #urbanheat mitigation from Bloomberg CityLab

Kids need extra attention when it’s hot, esp. if they’re active & playing outside. But as heat rises, so is awareness, thanks to local efforts of LARC LA Public Health Kelly Turner UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and coverage by @mrmattsimon @wired #HeatSafeLA wired.com/story/extreme-…

"Lower-income communities—which tend to be those that have a larger preponderance of impervious surfaces, buildings, and asphalt, and a lower cover of trees and other vegetation—those do tend to be the hotter ones,” Ag&Natural Resources specialist Edith de Guzman tells Matt Simon

Keep your furry friend happy and healthy by taking extra care of them during extremely hot days. You can follow this easy rule: if you wouldn’t be happy, your pet wouldn’t like it either! #HeatSafeLA #HeatRelief4LA

Extreme heat is a year-round issue in Los Angeles, especially now with climate change. Check out the hashtag #HeatSafeLA for tips to stay safe on hot days and for staying involved in cooling LA!

Get the word out to help UC Irvine fill this position, if only so I can have a colleague with a Ag&Natural Resources position similar to mine on a So Cal campus!

Happening this Thursday 5-7pm. If you're a UCLA grad student working on environmental issues, stop by and say hello!

Lunch panel with this year’s UCLA Environment #Pritzker Emerging Environmentalist Award nominees Hana Raza, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, and Iroro Tanshi, PhD. The winner will be announced tonight! ioes.ucla.edu/pritzker-geniu…

Extreme heat is a problem for California’s schools — hot classrooms and schoolyards prevent students from thriving on hot days. Our new fact sheets and infographics show how the state can support heat-resilient schools: buff.ly/3Qnx2JP #ExtremeHeat #UCLAHeatEquity

Its 85 degrees on Nov. 1. Summer weather is now a Fall reality. Schools will need to adapt to a hotter future #extremeheat tiktok.com/t/ZT8BEqvRM/

Thanks Union of Concerned Scientists for inviting me to be a guest blogger to uplift LA's work on heat equity and urban forest equity! All in partnership with City Plants CAPA Strategies, LLC UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Ag&Natural Resources North East Trees TreePeople South LA Tree Coalition CAL FIRE usfs_r5 ARLA...and more.

Check out UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation co-director Greg Pierce’s interview with CBS News that aired across their networks nationally! He talks about “sponge cities” and how goals for stormwater collection and use have changed. UCLA | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Happy to share a new report which Edith de Guzman & I @luskincenter UC Water Institute @uclawater produced w LA Waterkeeper. It synthesizes recommendations from 20 technical advisory committee members to increase the impact of LA County’s major current recycled water investments .

This interactive show is supported by UC Water Institute and curated by Water Equity and Adaptation Policy Cooperative Extension Specialist Edith de Guzman. RSVP tinyurl.com/Chinatown25

Learning and unlearning at #UrbanForestry Symposium organized by my amazing colleague Edith de Guzman UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation #UCLALuskin in collab with partners USDA Forest Service USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences Public Exchange and many others heyzine.com/flip-book/96c6…

Appreciating my #UCLALuskin colleague @kirsten_schwarz and her collaborative, community-engaged research to advance healthy, resilient urban environments. Underscoring importance of not just seed funding but soil funding to invest in the relationships from which all else grows.

Join the recycled water conversation convened by Council for Watershed Health on October 15⬇️ Edith de Guzman & I will be representing UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation UCLA Water on the Lessons Learned and Community Considerations panels.

If you're in LA, come out Sun. 9/29 3-6pm for a last chance to see What's On Tap: LA's Water Story...Source to Spigot. Panel discussion on local water at 4pm at El Tranquilo Gallery on Olvera St with Mark Gold, Conner Everts, @mullinmeg and Amanda Begley 🚰