Extreme Heat in Texas at the Planet Texas 2050 Symposium

A group of scholars, community leaders, and City of Austin representatives will discuss the challenges and potential solutions for adapting to extreme heat in Texas, including considerations of public health and disease prevention, racial and economic justice, planning, and ecology. This discussion will include audience Q&A.

Moderators: Marc Coudert (City of Austin) and Katherine Lieberknecht (Community & Regional Planning)  

Katherine Brown of the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Oden Institute will be joined by: 

• Dev Niyogi (Jackson School of Geosciences) 
• Ashley Hawes (City of Austin) 
• Maggie Hansen (Landscape Architecture) 
• Kenneth Thompson (Community Activist)

The annual Planet Texas 2050 symposium brings together university faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation and environmental justice. Resilience Research in Action highlights the work of PT2050 project teams and partners, as well as that of other researchers and students exploring diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience.