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Heat Waves and COVID-19
Dr. Dana Habeeb featured in a Bloomberg Law article on summer heat waves and those most at-risk of COVID-19.
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NSF CRII Grant
Dr. Dana Habeeb is awarded the NSF CRII grant for her work on using environmental sensing to understand local heat exposure and response.
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Heat wave research highlighted in latest National Climate Assessment
One of the most prominent conclusions and highlights from the climate report is that extreme hot weather is getting more common, and cold weather more rare. In the first chapter of the report, the National Climate Assessement states that heat-wave season has expanded by more than 40 days since the 1960s. Dr. Habeeb's work on heat wave indicators was directly used as a foundation for the assessments stated in the report.
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