The summer heat is officially here. This week, 265 million Americans will experience record breaking heat with dangerous levels of humidity.
The extreme heat is expected across 40 states.
The George Washington University has experts who can talk about various topics related to climate change and the health impacts of extreme heat. To schedule an interview with an expert, please contact Katelyn Deckelbaum, katelyn [dot] deckelbaum
gwu [dot] edu.
Adam Singleton is a clinical assistant professor of surgery in the Ear, Nose, & Throat Center within the GW Medical Faculty Associates.
Adriana Glenn is an assistant professor in the GW School of Nursing. She can discuss how extreme heat can impact people – directly and indirectly – and how it can aggravate conditions in those individuals who are very young, older, and with chronic illnesses.
Mary Barron is an associate professor of exercise and nutrition sciences at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. An expert on sport-related youth injuries, she is available to discuss ways to mitigate heat illness during exercise.
Climate Change/Sustainability
Kim Roddis, professor emerita of civil and environmental engineering and a registered professional engineer, is an expert in distortion-induced fatigue of steel highway bridges and on the application of AI and advanced computing methods to civil engineering problem solving. "Heat can cause problems for energy, water, transportation, and other forms of infrastructure. Extreme heat can lead to the buckling of roadways and railways and can cause insufficient runway length at high elevations for planes to take off" said Roddis.
Susan Anenberg, is the director of the GW Climate & Health Institute, and professor and chair of the department of environmental and occupational health at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. Anenberg’s research focuses on the health implications of climate change. She can talk about how climate change is driving extreme heat and the health consequences.
Environmental Law
Emily Hammond, the Glen Earl Weston Research Professor, Faculty Directory of Academic Sustainability Programs, GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future. Hammond is a nationally recognized expert in energy, environmental and administrative law. Prior to teaching, Hammond was an environmental engineer bringing fluency between the intersection of law, science and policy. Hammond has held a presidential appointment at the Department of Energy, where they served as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Regulation and Enforcement as well as Deputy General Counsel for Environment and Litigation. Hammond’s publications include legal analyses of CWA issues and peer-reviewed hydrological studies.
Robert Glicksman, the J.B. and Maurice C Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the George Washington University Law School is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law issues. Glicksman’s areas of expertise include environmental and natural resources law. Glicksman has consulted on various environmental and natural resources law issues, including work for the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Rachael Jonassen is the director of the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management Program in the Environmental and Energy Management Institute at GW. From 1978 through 2006 she served as Professor of Hydroclimatology (developing and applying climate downscaling techniques). She served as Program Director for Carbon Cycle at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she also served as NSF representative to the US Global Change Research Program and helped manage it. Her areas of expertise include climate change science, greenhouse gas mitigation and carbon cycle research.
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