We work with American communities to learn how heat is affecting them right now.
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What does the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring (CCHM) do?
The CCHM supports American towns, cities, and rural areas 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 our partners 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 work with the CCHM?
We consider all our local partners as equal collaborators in a participatory, collaborative process that centers local concerns and priorities. 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 efforts to address extreme heat?
The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring builds on eight years of work supported by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) 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 local needs and priorities 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.
