Boulder Urban Heat Mapping: A Story Map

An Update on Last Summer’s Volunteer-Based Urban Heat Mapping Effort:

Community Scientists Collected Urban Heat Data to Find Where Cooling Solutions are Needed in the City of Boulder

Photo credit: Brett KenCairn, Cool Boulder Team Lead

To view Boulder’s heat data and the Story Map, click here!

A note from the project organizer:

“This is a Story Map that shows the data and tells the story of the Urban Heat Mapping event that took place in Boulder on July 22nd, 2022. A Story map uses mapping software (GIS) with geospatial data and combines with text and other media to give a more detailed narrative of the data that was collected.

Boulder was one of 14 cities this year to participate in this international event in coordination with NOAA and CAPA Strategies, in which community scientist volunteers drove designated routes to collect temperature and humidity data. Those community scientists are the first members of the Boulder Heat Watch Team, who will be working with Cool Boulder to continue to track heat in the Boulder community.

This data will hopefully be used to help inform nature-based cooling solutions like tree planting. The project was put together by Adam Hall, who was the lead organizer for the urban heat mapping event in Boulder and is a graduate student at CU Boulder studying Urban Resilience and Sustainability at the Masters of the Environment Program.”

To see our initial blog post on the Boulder Community Heat Mapping event, click here!