A city’s land cover and tree canopy can both change in ways that make a city hold more heat than it used to. Scientists call this the urban heat island affect. Kat Camplin describes how this phenomenon affects her community, the City of Redding, in an article that appeared in a recent newsletter of the Shasta Environment Alliance.
A deeper dive in Camplin’s research can be found here on the Shasta Environmental Alliance website. Camplin serves on the Council of Stewards of the Shasta Environmental Alliance. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Natural Resources from Oregon State University and completed a Geographic Information Systems certificate at Shasta College. The photo taken during a heatwave in Tokyo is by Sergiy Galyonkin and released via Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0