Yale News

December 5, 2019: A group of Yale professors are using bicycles to measure heat stress in New Haven. read Full Story in the fall 2019 issue of the F&ES alumni magazine Canopy.

January 25, 2019: A digital media wall, sponsored by the Center for Science and Social Science Information, features a wide range of digital geospatial activities on campus, including aerial and satellite remote sensing in the Yale Center for Earth Observation. Full Story

December 6, 2018The concept of an urban heat island (UHI) is not new. The methodology for estimating UHIs, however, is constantly changing, creating a wide array of differing data points. Now, global UHI estimates based on a consistent methodology are available for public consumption — in a way that’s more detailed and easier to understand than ever before. Full Story

November 2, 2018Researchers at Yale are looking to a future where bike-share programs and data collection work hand in hand. Full Story

June 28, 2018: The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) this week announced the winners of the first Leitner Awards for Uncommon Environmental Collaborations, a grant fund that promotes collaborations for environmental teaching and research across the Yale campus. The research grant will support measurement of urban heat stress using “smart thermometers”. Full Story 

May 2, 2018: Global lake evaporation will increase 16 percent by the end of the century as a consequence of climate change, a new Yale study finds. But the specific mechanisms that will drive that phenomenon are not quite what scientists expected, according to a new study published in the journal Nature GeoscienceFull Story

September 14, 2017In a new interview, Xuhui Lee, the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology at F&ES, says that it’s difficult to link climate change to two recent hurricanes that devastated parts of the U.S. and the Caribbean. But decades of scientific research do suggest that weather extremes such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma will become more common. Full Story

January 26, 2017:  At a time when Earth information is “more important than ever,” the Yale Center for Earth Observation is marking 25 years as the only Yale center exclusively devoted to remote sensing. Full Story

October 27, 2016: It can sometimes be difficult for graduate students to see how their coursework relates to the “real world.” But for those who enrolled in “Cities in Hot Water: Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation,” a recent course at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), there’s little question that their work will have a positive impact in New Haven. Full Story

August 23, 2016: A satellite and climate model-based study reveals that haze pollution plays a surprising role in the warming of Chinese cities. The study’s authors argue that cleaning up has a co-benefit: It helps improve human health, but it also helps to cool the local climate. Full Story

March 29, 2016: This past fall Prof. Xuhui Lee, F&ES, taught a semester-long workshop “Remote Sensing with Drones” that included several guest lecturers and a couple of drone flights near the campus.  Juliana Hanle, YIBS Science Communication Fellow,  has published a news feature about the course. Read her story

July 9, 2014: A new Yale-led study quantifies for the first time the primary causes of the “urban heat island” (UHI) effect, a common phenomenon that makes the world’s urban areas significantly warmer than surrounding countryside and may increase health risks for city residents. Full Story

August 8, 2012: Diseased trees in forests may be a significant source of methane that causes climate change, according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.  Full Story

March 29, 2012: Xuhui Lee has recently been appointed as the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology. Lee studies biophysics and biometeorology of natural and human-dominated ecosystems, including agricultural systems. Full Story     

November 21, 2011: Deforestation, considered by scientists to contribute significantly to global warming, has been shown by a Yale-led team to actually cool the local climate in northern latitudes, according to a paper published Nov. 17 in Nature. Full Story

November 18, 2011: The study of local climate looks to understand how local environmental feedback loops affect local climate. This microscale approach to climate allows for an investigation of how certain factors, particularly ground cover, cause a deviation from the climatic conditions that one would anticipate for the region. Full Story

June 29, 2006: The amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere in the Northeast fluctuates annually depending on activity in the electric power industry, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Full Story