We work with communities to learn how heat is affecting them right now.
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What does the CCHM do?
The CCHM supports communities who want to better understand the local impacts of extreme heat and heat exposure through community science heat data collection projects. The CCHM will work with communities to co-create a heat monitoring project that meets their needs, and provide stipends, training, and technical support from our partners. Follow this link to learn more.
Why should communities work with the CCHM?
By working with the CCHM, communities will be equal partners in a participatory, collaborative process that centers community concerns and priorities. We know that communities are the experts in their own lived experience. The CCHM can provide the technical, scientific, and financial support for starting up a new participatory monitoring project.
How does the CCHM relate to other federal efforts to address extreme heat?
The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring and the Center for Heat Resilient Communities are the inaugural NIHHIS Centers of Excellence to support community heat resilience through participatory science in communities that have been marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring builds on eight years of NIHHIS efforts to map urban heat islands in over 80 U.S. and international communities.
How you measure matters.
Heat doesn’t impact everyone in the same way, so one way of collecting heat data won’t work for everyone. We believe that projects designed with community in mind, where the data collected with and by people who are connected to the place being studied, on terms set by the community, ultimately leads to better science and more actionable outcomes.
