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Research

Public Facing Research Output

Intra-Urban Heat Islands

Characterizing and mitigating extreme heat in San Antonio, TX described on the  Beat the Heat website and Report and NSF CIVIC project.

Texas Energy

Contributed to development of energy scenarios for Texas. Future of Texas Energy for Texas 2036.

Current Research Projects

Variability in Urban Environments

  • Evaluating air quality differences across a large city (San Antonio)

  • Identifying intra-urban heat islands

  • Optimizing mitigation plans

Mitigating the Duck Curve

  • Allocating charging infrastructure in a renewable-heavy, islanded grid

  • Identifying barriers to EV adoption

Energy - Atmospheric Modeling

  • Creating tools to improve the connectivity of TIMES and CMAQ modeling

  • Evaluating the effect of energy emission changes on future US air quality

  • Improving the utility of energy scenario modeling

in the field

  • GitHub

©2018 by Kristen E. Brown, Ph.D.

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