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“Heat is often spoken about as this one thing, but if you look at the American Meteorological Society’s definition of heat, it’s a verb. It’s a process.”

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Are you interested in urban heat and its effects? What do you think about heat as a verb? How can we increase our thermal literacy?

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Interview with Kelly Turner, Associate Director and Professor of Urban Planning and Geography at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban heat, heat as a verb, thermal literacy, resource management, and many more.

V. Kelly Turner is the Associate Director and Professor of Urban Planning and Geography at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation. She leads the Center’s heat research, delivering evidence-based strategies to protect vulnerable populations from extreme heat through governance, resilient planning, and actionable data. Her work appears in Nature and other leading journals, informs policy at local, state, and national levels, and reaches broad audiences via media, op-eds, and community murals.

Find out more about Kelly through these links:

• V. Kelly Turner on LinkedIn
• V. Kelly Turner website
• V. Kelly Turner on Substack
• V. Kelly Turner on Youtube
• @hotgrrrlagenda as V. Kelly Turner on Instagram
• V. Kelly Turner on Google Scholar
• UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation website
• V. Kelly Turner at UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
• How to live in extreme heat – V. Kelly Turner at TEDx UCLA

Connected episodes you might be interested in:

• No.391R – Reports by Professor Sebastian Pfautsch about being climate smart
• No.392 – Interview with Professor Sebastian Pfautsch about urban heat and being climate smart
• 471R – More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure inhyper-local land system

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