In this episode of Talking Under Water, co-host Katie Johns spoke with Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, director of Impact Evaluation and Community Science at Groundwork USA, about water's role in climate resilience. Dr. Hoffman spoke about his research with Groundwork USA, including heat and flood data; touches on the importance of community engagement and shares what challengees the industry is facing when it comes to resiliency.

• Cooling urban heat islands with smart stormwater systems
• Resilience isn’t one-size-fits-all: Rethinking resilience for locally impactful solutions
• New report finds water infrastructure investment could add $3.9 trillion to U.S. GDP
• Transforming wastewater into renewable natural gas and advancing the circular water economy
• Groundwork USA

• Intro | 00:08
• Hoffman's climate science background | 01:06
• Overview of Groundwork USA and its mission | 04:09
• NOAA’s Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaigns | 05:06
• Water’s central role in climate resilience | 08:47
• Challenges of addressing climate change |16:42
• How environmental conditions drive disparities in life expectancy across neighborhoods | 19:03
• Defining climate resilience | 21:01
• Closing thoughts | 23:55
• Housekeeping | 25:26

• WWD Q3 Trump Performance Poll
• WaterWorld Subscription
• StormCon Call for Abstracts

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