April 2024 SW-IFL Newsletter by Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory

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2024

SW-IFL UPDATES

UPCOMING EVENTS

Apr 16-17: DOE ESS PI Meeting

Apr 16-20: 2024 AAG Meeting

May 8: Leadership Team Meeting

May 9: Resilient Solutions Team Meeting

May 10: Modeling Team Meeting

May 14: Cross-UIFL Seminar: Air Quality

May 14: Oracle Test Bed Office Hours

May 17: Observations Team Meeting

Jun 7 - Jul 7: Summer IOPs

Jun 11: Oracle Test Bed Office Hours

Jun 12: Leadership Team Meeting

Jun 13: Resilient Solutions Team Meeting

Sep 25-27 SW-IFL 2024 All Hands Meeting in Tempe, Arizona

Cross-UIFL Seminar Series

Summer Field Campaigns

2024 SW-All Hands Meeting

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

I am very excited for the entire SW-IFL community! We are only about 6 weeks from the SW-IFL summer Intensive Observation Period (IOP), and things are coming together nicely I really appreciate the hard work and serious coordination that has gone into planning this activity, and the many long days that some of you will be putting in throughout the IOP

We have seen great results from the SW-IFL already, and this summer’s IOP will certainly set the stage for some very impactful outcomes and publications Stock up on your sunscreen and water bottles now!��

Thank you again to the SW-IFL Leadership and all those who contributed to our quarterly progress report to the Department of Energy. Not only was our program manager, Sally McFarlane, very impressed with your accomplishments, so were we.

A special thank you goes out to Ladd Keith (UA), Katia Lamer (BNL), Enrique Vivoni (ASU), and Kevin Gurney (NAU) for their amazing job on presenting the outstanding work of the three research teams

Dave

*If you’d like a physical copy of this newsletter, please contact Shannon Zweig

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OFFICE OF SCIENCE VISIT SW-IFL

On February 14th, 2024 Dr Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, the Director of the Office of Science, and a contingent of representatives from the Department of Energy and various national labs, visited Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, giving the SW-IFL team an opportunity to showcase all our recent work

The visit included tours to Enrique Vivoni’s lab and Jennifer Vanos’s biometeorology lab at the Walton Center for Planetary Health While on campus, our visitors were able to discuss SW-IFL research during the poster session held at ASU’s ISTB4's third floor Crater Carpet Area

After lunch, visitors were taken offsite to tour our Maryvale Flux Tower site and visit Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) and South Mountain Community College (SMCC)

At the conclusion of the visit, the SW-IFL team garnered a good deal of positive feedback, including a very complimentary note directly from Dr Berhe

The DOE’s visit inspired the following: Questions from SMCC students that highlighted a need for air quality data in the Diné community an overall $8M proposal opportunity to the EPA 11 students from EMCC applied for DOE internship opportunities

ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL STRESSORS THROUGH RESILIENT SOUTIONS & NEXTGENERATION PREDICTIVE TOOLS

PROJECT LEADS

David Sailor, ASU

Jean Andino, ASU

CROSS-UIFL SEMNIARS SW-IFL

The four Department of Energy’s Integrated Field Laboratories have come together to offer a Cross-Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (UIFL) Seminar Series These are 90 minute webinars that incorporate two presenters from the IFL’s on various topics. The objective is to facilitate technical exchanges and collaborations between the DOE’s UIFL teams, and they are recorded and open to all.

The next scheduled webinar is on Air Quality and is scheduled for May 14th at 9:30 MST via Zoom You can find the webinar’s Zoom link in the SW-IFL Google Team Calendar.

The inaugural session on Climate Projections occurred on February 13th, 2024 and was presented by Rao Kotamarthi from the CROCUS team (Chicago) and Matei Georgescu from the SW-IFL team (Arizona) If you would like to view the recording, you can do so HERE

SUMMER INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS (IOPS)

The CMAS2 mobile lab is ready for its first field deployment! In June, the CMAS mobile labs and the Brookhaven National Lab team, led by Katia Lamer, will roam the streets of Phoenix and Tucson collecting new observations of the atmosphere and of land and building surface to help answer questions related to extreme heat as it relates to community resilience.

Check out the Southwest Integrated Field Laboratory’s new logo, courtesy of the Department of Energy.

Above: CMAS2 mobile lab Right: BNL Team

As SW-IFL researchers span five different organizations, we have created a SharePoint page that captures important links, such as the SW-IFL Google Team Calendar, the SW-IFL Project Master, IRB Process, and many, many more in one location

On January 25th, emails were sent to the SW-IFL team and Advisory Board This email for non-ASU staff (see example below) contained a link to set up your password on the login page. If you did not receive this email, please check your spam folder. You may contact Shannon Zweig (Shannon Zweig@asu edu) to re-issue your invitation to establish your account

Once you click on the link, it should take you to the login page Please use the email your account confirmation was sent to as this will be the email address associated with your account. You will need to create a password. Once you have completed the email and password fields, click on the maroon “SAVE” button

You will be taken to the following screen (see below), where you can click on the down arrow in each section to expand. If that screen does not appear, refresh your page or go to: https://sw-ifl asu edu/user to login

Please bookmark https://sw-ifl.asu.edu/user to access this SharePoint page moving forward

ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL STRESSORS THROUGH RESILIENT SOUTIONS & NEXTGENERATION PREDICTIVE TOOLS

David Sailor, ASU

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PROJECT LEADS

Jean Andino, ASU

RESILIENT SOLUTIONS TEAM

TEAM LEADS

Ladd Keith, UA

Patricia Solis, ASU

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

TESTBEDS

Team members continue to work with community partners to develop testbed activities and interventions that address SW-IFL research objectives and community partners’ needs.

Team members have developed a preliminary schedule for measurement activities that will take place in the testbeds across the SW-IFL during the summer Intensive Observation Period

Oracle Road Corridor Testbed: Summer 2024 Focus Areas include home thermal security, green stormwater infrastructure interventions, cool pavement interventions, and air quality.

Jackson Street Testbed: Summer 2024 Focus Areas include 3M reflective film on roof and living conditions of the residents

URBAN RESIDENTIAL DISCOVERY

Continued to identify specific sites for household recruitment for home thermal security research activities

Initiated collaboration to explore funding through HUD's Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) competition

MOBILITY DISCOVERY

Submitted IRB Human Subjects Research Application for initial university review. Once approved, this will allow for access to the National Household Travel Survey’s (NHTS) limited dataset

Prepared archived weather data and now refining that data to merge it with the National Household Travel Survey’s (NHTS) limited data set as part of the SW-IFL Travel Behavior Survey.

Completed a literature review, which will be submitted to the USDOT as part of Ashley Avila’s Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship.

PLANNING DISCOVERY

Completed data analysis for the cities of Flagstaff, Nogales, and Casa Grande for the Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience reports, which includes the plan analysis results from the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) for Heat and Plan Quality Evaluation for Heat Resilience.

ASU Urban Climate Research Center Poster Event presentations: Malini Roy, “Spatial Patterns of Heat Mitigation Planning,” first prize for the postdoctoral category

Karlie Barrett, “Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience,” third prize for undergraduate category.

ASU Urban Climate Research Center Poster Event. Malini Roy, Sara Meerow, and Karli Barrett.

PIRS™ for Heat results for Phoenix

RESILIENT SOLUTIONS TEAM

Ladd Keith, UA

Patricia Solis, ASU

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS CONTINUED TEAM LEADS

DISCOVERY FELLOWS & HEATMAPPERS

Three Discovery Fellows have been recruited and selected to provide embedded support to the three SW-IFL research teams

Students have been recruited and finalists have been selected for the HeatMappers program.

K-12 ENGAGEMENT

Arizona Project WET initiated the development of 4th grade Arizona STEM curriculum, which will be included in educator workshops with the statewide Water Festivals.

ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION

“Assessing Cool Corridor Heat Resilience Strategies for Human–Scale Transportation.” National Institute for Transportation & Communities Virtual Kristi Currans and Ladd Keith March 14, 2024

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Testbeds: First summer Intensive Observation Period in partnership with stakeholders and community and media outreach

Urban Residential Discovery: First summer data collection, May - June

Mobility Discovery: Analysis of weather data and National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)

Planning Discovery: Complete and deliver Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience reports to Flagstaff, Nogales, and Casa Grande

Complete data analysis for Mesa Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience report. Pilot multihazard planning evaluation

Discovery Fellows & HeatMappers: Discovery Fellows to be placed in research sites March – August, HeatMappers orientation is scheduled May 7-9.

K-12 Engagement: Arizona Project WET and SW-IFL researchers will finalize choices for STEM curriculum that includes SW-IFL research area content

of Oracle Road Corridor and data collection points

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