CATCH team member Jonathan Lee presented at the "Scaling Extreme Heat Solutions" panel at Climate Beacon's annual conference on work aiming to better understand extreme heat warnings at neighborhood scales, effects of shade interventions, and exposures at early childhood education centers. This work is part of the B-COOL project, which launched in 2024 as a multi-sector collaboration between Boston University, the City of Boston Office of Climate Resilience, and A Better City, with funding from The Boston Foundation.
Other panelists included David Sittenfeld from the Museum of Science, Kendra White from the City of Cambridge, Zoe Davis from City of Boston Office of Climate Resilience, Devanshi Purohit from CBT, Genea Foster of Groundwork USA, and Nathaniel Jones of Arup.