Environmental Internship Program - 2023 Booklet

Isabella Gomes ’25
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Certificate: Urban Studies
PROJECT TITLE
Fine Spatio-temporal
Variation in Intra-urban
Heat Stress in U.S. Cities
ORGANIZATION(S)
Urban Nexus Lab,
Department of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering, Princeton
University
LOCATION(S)
Princeton, New Jersey;
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Urban Nexus Lab aims to advance
sustainable, healthy and equitable cities through
knowledge co-production and nexus modeling
of key transboundary infrastructure and food
systems. I worked on a project that is assessing
fine-scale temperature and humidity data to
study variations in intra-urban heat stress in
different cities in the United States. My role
was to analyze fine-scale air temperature and
humidity data downloaded from PurpleAir,
a crowdsourced sensor network. Along with
data analysis for different U.S. cities, I worked
on downloading land surface temperature
data from Google Earth Engine to aid the
lab’s work on comparing the accuracy of air
and land surface temperature observations
for determining human heat stress. I hope to
continue researching sustainable development
and the impacts of climate change on the urban
environment.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
MENTOR(S)
Anu Ramaswami,
Sanjay Swani ’87
Professor of India
Studies, Professor of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering, Princeton
Institute for International
and Regional Studies and
the High Meadows
Environmental Institute
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