Session: DOE’s Urban Integrated Field Laboratories: Improving Climate and Environmental Predictability for Urban Regions (104th AMS Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 1 February 2024: 12:15 PM-1:15 PM

Holiday 6 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)

Host: Agency Updates

Cochairs:

Robert Vallario, DOE, Office of Science, Germantown, MD; Gerald Geernaert, DOE, Office of Science, Germantown, MD and Sally McFarlane

Speakers:

Scott M. Collis; Paola Passalacqua, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering,, Austin, TX; David J. Sailor and Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD

In 2022, DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program announced a new initiative, Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFLs), to support multi-institutional team efforts to improve the science underpinning the understanding of climate and environmental predictability across complex and variable urban regions. Four urban IFL projects have been established – with research focusing on the urban regions of Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX; and Tucson-Phoenix-Flagstaff, AZ. The urban IFL projects combine field observations, urban modeling, and community engagement to integrate research over three themes: spatial variabilities affecting urban communities; observing and modeling biogeochemical cycling and atmospheric composition in urban systems; and quantifying the benefits of equitable solutions that are applied to heterogeneous urban regions in addressing the climate crisis. This Town Hall will provide an update on BER’s growing portfolio of urban research (https://ess.science.energy.gov/urban-ifls/) and provide time for discussion on how BER seeks to grow and connect the Urban IFL research community.

Papers:

Introductory Remarks

12:15 PM

Scott Colis

12:25 PM

Paola Passalaqua

Handout (3.0 MB)

12:35 PM

David Sailor

12:45 PM

Benjamin Zaitchik

Recorded Presentation