Ladd Keith
@laddkeith
Climate planner | Associate Professor & Director, Heat Resilience Initiative, University of Arizona | Helping cities plan for extreme heat 🏜️🏳️🌈
📢 Heat impacts all communities, not just large cities. In our new American Planning Association PAS Memo, we explain the need for rural heat resilience and outline actionable principles and strategies for rural communities and small towns. www.planning.org/pub... #extremeheat #heatresilience
I joined CNN International primetime to discuss the current heat wave impacting Europe. When asked about the cost to address extreme heat: "To that, I would just say the cost of inaction is even greater." #extremeheat #heatwave #climatechange #heatresilience
Today is #ShowYourStripes day created by @edhawkins.org to show how temperature has changed over time due to #climatechange. Find your stripes at showyourstripes.info
☀️ ICYMI: Check out my new commentary with @sarameerow.bsky.social, where we argue that "we are living through a 'heatshed' moment, a critical turning point in which heat must be rapidly addressed to protect health and livelihoods worldwide." doi.org/10.1080/0735... #extremeheat #climatechange
Busy day today as we took our new MaRTy cart out for its first trial run to better understand the microclimates of the @uarizona.bsky.social main campus to identify hotspots and cool refuges. #extremeheat #heatresilience #universityofarizona #beardown
📢 Our new open-access paper is out in Urban Climate on using three plan evaluation approaches to better understand how Arizona cities are advancing heat resilience. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #extremeheat #heatresilience #urbanplanning
📢 This is our “heatshed” moment. Check out my new commentary with @sarameerow.bsky.social in the Journal of Urban Affairs' special issue on Extreme Heat in Cities. doi.org/10.1080/0735... #extremeheat #heatresilience #heatplanning #heatgovernance #climatechange
Celebrated Earth Day with an inaugural documentary screening and panel discussion with Kathy Jacobs and Fatima Luna at the new @azpm.org building this week.
Honored to receive the @uarizona.bsky.social's Convergence Award for Excellence in Applied Research and Engineering! research.arizona.edu/convergence-... #uarizona #research
New co-authored open access paper out on the role of public health during wildfires. doi.org/10.1007/s103... #publichealth #wildfire #climatechange
It's hot out there! Tucson just broke our earliest 100°F on record today, previously set on April 11, 2025. Average first 100°F is supposed to be mid-May. Surface temperatures are much higher of course, this was a random reading of an asphalt road I took. #heatwave #azwx #extremeheat
Wrapped up the @nationalacademies.org Frontiers of Science symposium this weekend as a FoS Fellow, what a fantastic event! Leaving with new ideas and colleagues at the forefront of U.S. science. #science #nasfrontiersofscience
Holiday lunch with (most of) my @uarizona.bsky.social @heatresilience.bsky.social research team today! ☃️❄️🎄 #uarizona
Check out our new rural heat resilience literature review, by @anneliseb.bsky.social, @mwahn.bsky.social, myself, and Heidi Brown! www.researchgate.net/publication/... #extremeheat #ruralheat #heatresilience
Honored to be hosted at the National Institute of Technology, Patna, India by Dr. Shailendra Mandal for my Fulbright Specialist Program and working with their faculty, students, and local practitioners on heat resilience. #fulbright #usief #nitpatna #uarizona
We hosted the SW-IFL All Hands Meeting at the @uarizona.bsky.social with over 65 researchers, students, and stakeholders from across the state yesterday, and finally had a chance to get a group photo of our current Planning Discovery research team, led by @sarameerow.bsky.social and me!
Kicking off our SW-IFL All Hands meeting hosted here at the @uarizona.bsky.social with researchers and students from our three state universities! sw-ifl.asu.edu #uarizona
Sharing my @uarizona.bsky.social TEDx Talk about how the world is currently experiencing a "heatshed" moment and we need more research and action on heat mitigation, heat management, and heat governance to advance equitable heat resilience. youtu.be/U8RErIjDWWc #heatresilience #extremeheat
Highly recommend my fellow American scholars read the new Anti-Autocracy Handbook on this 4th of July, a "call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism." zenodo.org/records/1...
Spent the last two days at NCAR in beautiful Boulder, CO for a NSF extreme heat workshop with fellow heat scholars and inspiring early career academics. Here's @sarameerow.bsky.social presenting our heat governance work! #extremeheat #heatgovernance #heatresilience
The latest @uarizona.bsky.social's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter is now out, with info on how Arizona is kicking off the heat season and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. view.comms.arizona.e... #extremeheat #heatresilience #universityofarizona
Appreciate Fatima Luna, Chief Resilience Officer at @cityoftucson.bsky.social, making time in her busy schedule to speak to my Climate Action Planning class about the city's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase community resilience!
Juniors and seniors at the @uarizona.bsky.social, join our research team exploring heat policy, planning, and governance through the Udall Center's Mo's Policy Scholars program! #extremeheat #universityofarizona #heatresilience udallcenter.arizona....
The latest @uarizona.bsky.social Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter is now out, featuring the Southern Arizona Heat Summit and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. tinyurl.com/heatresilien... #extremeheat #heatresilience #universityofarizona
New open access paper led by @mwahn.bsky.social with Heidi Brown documenting rural heat health disparities with evidence from the U.S. National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS). doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... #extremeheat #rural #heatresilience
Rule 1. Do not obey in advance, Rule 4. Take responsibility for the face of the world, Rule 10. Believe in truth. Do better @nature.org
Check out this month's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter, with the latest extreme heat-related news, research, and upcoming events! tinyurl.com/heatresi... #extremeheat