Urban Heat Island Summit
Agenda and presentations
   

Metro Hall Council Chambers
55 John Street
Toronto, Ontario


Wednesday, May 1, 2002

7- 9:30 p.m. Summit Registration.
Welcome and Introduction - Eva Ligeti, Executive Director, Clean Air Partnership.
"Urban Heat Islands: Opportunities and Challenges for mitigation and adaptation" (PDF 3.8MB) presentation by Dr. David Sailor, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, Tulane University.

Day 1: Thursday May 2 , 2002
"What, if anything, is the problem?
What is the research telling us?"

9 a.m. Registration, orientation
10 a.m. Welcome addresses
Joe Pantalone, Toronto Councillor and Tree Advocate
Tony Ianno, MP
10:15 a.m. "Creating the linkages: problems and solutions facing cities in the 21st Century"
Eva Ligeti, Executive Director, Clean Air Partnership
10:45 a.m. "Urban Heat Islands, an overview of the research and its implications" (PDF 985KB);
Dr. Timothy Oke, University of British Columbia
11:15 a.m. Questions
11:45 a.m. Poster session and lunch break, sponsored by
YMG Capital Management
12:45 p.m. UHI Phenomenon and Strategies for Mitigation (PDF 794KB)
Keynote: Art Rosenfeld, California Energy Commission
1:15 p.m. Presentation of papers
Moderator: John Warren, City of Toronto
  • Dr. Jeffrey Luvall - "Urban Surface Radiative Energy Budgets determined using aircraft scanner data"
  • Dr. William Solecki - "Current and future UHI effect in the Greater Newark, New Jersey region and potential adaptations" (PDF 3MB)
  • Dr. William Gough - "Impacts of Expanding Urbanization on Toronto's Temperature record" (PDF 2MB)
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    2:20 p.m. Questions
    3 p.m. Break
    3:20 p.m. Human Health Impacts of Heat Islands, Heat Stress and Air Quality (PDF 4.8MB)
    Keynote: Dr. Laurence Kalkstein, University of Delaware
    3:40 p.m. Presentation of papers
    Moderator: Christopher Morgan, City of Toronto
  • Dr. Quentin Chiotti - "Feeling hot, hot, hot: assessing the health risks and response opportunities under climate change" (PDF 432KB)
  • Dr. Gerd Jendritzky - "How to deal with the relationship between urban development, urban climate and human health - a contribution to methodology" (PDF 7.9MB)
  • Dr. Ivan Cheung - "Extreme heat, ground level ozone concentration, and the UHI effect in the Washington DC metropolitan area" (PDF 3MB)
  • Dr. Douglas Hill - "Castaways on the Urban Heat Island" (PDF 567KB)
    • 5 p.m. Questions
    5:30 p.m Adjourn

    Day 2: Friday May 3, 2002
    "What are the possible solutions in terms of institutional response and policy applications?"

    9 a.m. Registration/Orientation
    9:30 a.m. Putting Research into Practice - Policy and Action
    Moderator: Pamela Kertland, NRCan
  • Eva Wong - "The US E.P.A's Heat Island Reduction Initiative (HIRI): Status and Future Directions" (PFD 232KB)
  • Brad Bass - "Mitigating the UHI with green roof infrastructure" (PDF 3.2MB)
  • Dr. Hashem Akbari - "Heat Island Reduction Strategies offer over $10M per year energy savings in Toronto, Canada" (PDF 184KB)
  • Meryl Redisch - "Grassroots groups get involved in national research" (PDF 5.1MB)
    • 11:15 a.m. Questions
    11:45 a.m. Poster session and lunch break, sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment
    12:45 p.m. Community Response to Extreme Summer Heat (PDF 364KB)
    Keynote: Dr. Sheela Basrur, Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto
    1:05 p.m. Presentation of papers
    Moderator: Dieter Riedel, Health Canada
  • Dr. Scott Sheridan - "The development of the new Toronto Heat-Health Alert system" (PDF 80KB)
  • Dr. Brian Stone - "Residential land-use and the UHI effect: how the American Dream is changing regional climate" (PDF 3.3MB)
  • Daniel Rainham - "Atmospheric risks to public health- what is the evidence?" (PDF 1.2MB)
    • 2:05 p.m Questions
    2:40 p.m. Break
    3:00 p.m. Challenges to Implementation: What municipalities can do (PDF 23KB).
    Keynote: Councilor Ray Tretheway - Sacramento City Council
    3:20 p.m. Presentation of papers
    Moderator: Heather Auld, Environment Canada
  • Steven Peck - "Lessons from Toronto's Green Roof Research and Demonstration Project" (PDF 1.7MB)
  • Dr. Lisa Gartland - "Help wanted: research needed to Support Cool Communities" (PDF 827KB)
    • 4:40 p.m. Questions
    5 p.m. Closing ceremonies

    Download the Final Papers