10:30am - 11:30am GMT
Monday 27 March 2023
The Basics of Urban Cooling
Associate Professor Sebastian Pfautsch joins us from the Urban Tranformation Research Centre at Western Sydney University to discuss his work.
Free
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
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Urban overheating is a global phenomenon. Driven by densification and expansion of cities the phenomenon is accelerated by regional climate change impacts. In this talk, Associate Professor Pfautsch will explain how the issue of urban overheating is tackled at Sydney Olympic Park. His project, called SIMPaCT (Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns), combines environmental sensing, machine learning and geo-spatial modelling to maximise transpiration cooling, turning a 42-hectare parkland into a natural air conditioning system.
This visit was made possible through a Fellowship awarded by Surrey's Institute of Advanced Studies.
Speaker
Associate Professor Sebastian Pfautsch
Associate Professor at Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia
Biography
Dr Sebastian Pfautsch is an Associate Professor at the Urban Transformations Research Centre at Western Sydney University. His trans-disciplinary research is built around the complex issue of urban heat. He develops innovative and practical solutions for government organisations and industry to cool urban spaces at a range of spatial scales – from small playgrounds to entire district council areas. His high-quality research is documented in the form of more than 100 papers, reports and books. His work regularly features in the media (even the BBC: Life at 50C) and in 2021 alone led to more than 350 headlines in 21 countries, published in 5 languages and reached more than 1 billion people
