Sixteenth RECLAIM webinar - Urban Heat Islands & Soil Environment

Tristan Kershaw is a lecturer in climate resilience, within the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. A physicist by training his research now focuses upon the topics of building physics, sustainability, climate change adaptation and the urban heat island mitigation. This talk presents some highlights from recent and ongoing research being carried out by Tristan and his research students into how green and blue space can alter the urban microclimate, mitigate the urban heat island and offset the effects of climate change, making urban areas a healthier place to live.

Dr. Wang is a Professor at Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has worked at Munich Technical University, RWTH Aachen University, Helmholtz Munich Center, and Michigan State University. Her research focuses on soil pollution and remediation. She has published 200 articles in The Innovation, Environ Sci Technol, Water Research, etc. She has been awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellow for Experienced Researcher from Germany; Shennong Young Talent from China; and Young Talent of Lu Jia-Xi from Chinese Academy of Sciences. She serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Environ Technol Innov, Associate Editor of Sci Total Environ, Academic Editor of The Innovation. She is Executive Chair of Committee of Collaboration between Soil Science Society of China and Soil Science Society of America, leader of Remediation Group of UN FAO International Network on Soil Pollution, and a member of International Panel on Chemical Pollution