Sara Meerow
Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Working on urban resilience, climate change adaptation (especially heat and flooding), and green infrastructure
- Society, Earth system science, and my own work have all greatly benefited from NSF NCAR. I hope this will not come to pass and that I will be able to continue collaborating with amazing NSF NCAR scientists long into the future www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- I'm honored to be named one of 260 Highly Cited Researchers in the Social Sciences category globally by Clarivate in 2025. This would not have been possible without an amazing, long list of co-authors, mentors, and students over the past decade: clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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- Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!
- New open access publication with Paul Schulze based on his undergraduate thesis, which he completed in AZ as part of the NEURUS research exchange program! It looks at how local water planners in the Phoenix Metro are adapting to future water system uncertainties doi.org/10.1007/s110...
- New essay with @anoukfransen.bsky.social on the workshop we organized last spring in Detroit.
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- Over the years I've researched how #urban #resilience is conceptualized by different academic disciplines, practitioners, & the public. I synthesized my thinking on the concept in a book chapter based on a talk at the 2022 Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
- New article on #heat governance & climate services. We interviewed and surveyed heat practitioners from across the US about their challenges and decision-support needs: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
- It's hot almost everywhere & our team has 2 new studies of #heat #planning both led by former master's students: One on #Vienna, Austria and the other looking at 2 neighborhoods in #Boston: Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ... Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
- Some good news today: 2 of the geography PhD students in my lab successfully defended their dissertations! Congrats to new Drs. Philip Gilbertson and Alex Cliff for your persistence and important work on climate resilience!
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- An amazing way to kick off my month at NCAR in Boulder this summer!
- New paper led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social proposing a planning framework for navigating synergies and trade-offs between heat and flood resilience & applying it to evaluate Baltimore, MD's network of plans. Part of our team's new work on multihazard resilience authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIRw7t2zZ...
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- Reposted by Sara MeerowCities are adapting to increasingly long, frequent, and intense heat waves and their unequally distributed effects. PSC alum @sarameerow.bsky.social et al report on Phoenix, AZ, a city that epitomizes these challenges and innovations needed to address them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- As summer heats up and communities prepare, people often want to know what Phoenix, America's hottest large city, is doing to mitigate & manage heat. PhD student @shaylynntrego.bsky.social led this case study now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs: doi.org/10.1080/0735... @laddkeith.com
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- New #OpenAccess publication from our team led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social: Systematic lit review of methods for spatial planning of green infrastructure for #stormwater & #heat mitigation reveals siloed literatures & few multifunctional approaches #GreenInfrastructure #NBS doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
- Kicking off 4 days of #urban #greening curated track sessions at #AAG2025 in Huntington Place rm 320. Join us #UrbanForestry, #GreenInfrastructure, #NatureBasedSolution folks!
- Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
- Requirements for US climate change planning are now almost certainly going to have to come from state governments. Our research on California suggests that even a flexible, unfunded, & untracked mandate improves planning doi.org/10.1080/0194... 50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
- Amidst the chaos, the fantastic CAP LTER program at ASU is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Urban Social-Ecological Systems: apply.interfolio.com/163268
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- Do you work on #green #infrastructure or #urban #forestry #planning for a local government in the United States? If so I would greatly appreciate if you could complete this 10-minute survey for a research project I'm leading: asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- A little over a week left to apply to be part of the first cohort of the Center for Heat Resilient Communities!
- Communities can now apply to be part of the first cohort of our #NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities and get support for heat resilience planning. Apply by Jan 24 bit.ly/3OhSkIc
- As the end of my sabbatical fellowship in Munich rapidly approaches, I was able to squeeze in a quick first visit to the beautiful Sciences Po and participate in their inspiring Nature in the City conference! Lots of good discussions about #cities and #naturebasedsolutions
- Please share this opportunity with local governments and partnered organizations across the US: The application to join the 1st cohort of our Center for Heat Resilient Communities is open!
- Communities can now apply to be part of the first cohort of our #NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities and get support for heat resilience planning. Apply by Jan 24 bit.ly/3OhSkIc
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- Apply to be my colleague at ASU! Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning is hiring an assistant professor in GIS. Applications close in December! apply.interfolio.com/158285
- It’s been a busy week of @humboldt-foundation.de events, first with TUM Humboldt fellows in Munich and then with fellows from all over Germany in Erlangen!
- Communities can now apply to be part of the first cohort of our #NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities and get support for heat resilience planning. Apply by Jan 24 bit.ly/3OhSkIc
- Great opportunity for 2 PhD students to start in Fall 2025 in our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU working with one of my three great colleagues Aaron, Lindsay, or Jose-Benito on health disparities. For more details: lnkd.in/gWG_KQyB
- I now have more followers here than on the other place so HELLO world! I work on making cities more resilient to climate hazards like heat and flooding while at the same time more sustainable and just! My current research projects are mostly focused on heat governance & green infrastructure planning
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- “we have often had a more siloed, separated approach to dealing with heat, and I think this is a barrier to really efficiently and effectively addressing it” #heat #governance interview on KJZZ www.kjzz.org/the-show/202... about our new commentary doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…
- Has California's first-of-its-kind mandate for local #climate change #adaptation #planning (SB379) improved plan quality? Yes, but there is still room for improvement. New paper in JAPA based on PhD student Phil Gilbertson's 1st dissertation chapter: tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
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- Excited to share that I will be co-leading a new national Center for Heat Resilient Communities with Kelly Turner & @laddkeith.bsky.social, in collaboration with a great team from across ASU and the country: Press release: www.noaa.gov/news-release... ASU news: news.asu.edu/20240520-sci...
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- On sabbatical! I'll be a Humboldt Research Fellow working on urban green infrastructure and resilience in Munich through the end of 2024! Looking forward to catching up with European colleagues while I'm here, starting next week with the Human Geographies of Adaptation conference in Bergen #HGA2024
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- Our new paper in Annals of the AAG ties together the various pieces of our NSF-funded project on #flood #resilience #planning #networks. We explore the relationship between #governance networks, networks of plans, and resilience policies in 4 #coastal US #cities doi.org/10.1080/2469...
- Happy to share PhD student Shaylynn Trego's 1st lead-author publication "Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A collaborative application of PIRS™ for heat in Kent, WA, USA" Co-authored with @laddkeith.bsky.social & a product of our PIRS™ for Heat Project doi.org/10.1007/s425...
- The 5th National Climate Assessment is out today, an important synthesis of the state of climate change across the US. A huge undertaking by so many, I’m happy to have contributed in a very small way to the chapter on the built environment nca2023.globalchange.gov
- Reminder: Our school at ASU is hiring two tenure-track assistant professors this year! Get those applications in and come join us!
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