Xuhui Lee, PhD
Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor at the School of the Environment
One of Dr. Lee’s research areas focuses on mitigation of and adaptation to climate warming in the urban environment. He is establishing a large database on urban heat islands for global cities to support climate adaptation efforts. The database will include satellite-derived data layers, city morphological attributes, and data from urban weather station networks. He is working with collaborators to collect street-level temperature and humidity data, using bicycle-mounted smart thermometers, in cities in different climate zones around the world. So far, urban warming studies have been restricted almost exclusively to temperature, but humidity also affects human comfort in heatwave events. He wants to quantify the combined contribution of temperature and humidity to heat stress on urban residents.