TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 16 -- Florida State University issued the following news release:
A collaborative, interdisciplinary team with researchers from Florida State University's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy has received an $840,000 grant from NASA's Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.
The project will advance urban heat island mapping and work with local governments to accelerate the development of extreme heat action plans.
The project is led by FSU Professor of Geography and Public Health Chris Uejio in collaboration with Leiqiu Hu at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Xiaojiang Li at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Extreme heat contributes to the deaths of more Americans than any other weather haz...