ASU is launching a new Center for Heat Preparedness.
The university already has researchers from many different disciplines studying aspects of extreme heat. The goal of the new center is to bring them together to collaborate, said Scott Barclay, interim vice president of research in ASU's Knowledge Enterprise.
“We want a coherent conversation that puts it all on the table and shows the connection points so that we can work faster and better,” Barclay said during opening remarks at the center’s inaugural symposium event in Phoenix on Tuesday.
Barclay said extreme heat is an urgent threat that warrants research.
“Heat is a killer. In Phoenix you don’t have to have that reminder,” Barclay said.
The center will focus research on ways extreme heat impacts public health, energy, infrastructure and the economy.
ASU leadership calls the Center for Heat Preparedness the first of its kind in the nation.
The center is funded by a $2 million federal investment first announced in May by U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari.
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