Ladd Keith

U of A heat policy experts to present at annual Frontiers of Science symposium The National Academy of Sciences event, designed to highlight the work of early-career scientists, will include a panel featuring Ufuoma Ovienmhada and her work on heat health in prisons. Ladd Keith, ...

Honored to be selected as a @nasonline.org Frontiers of Science (FoS) Fellow and serve as an introductory speaker for the heat and human health panel during next week's FoS Symposium!

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Our February newsletter is now available, featuring the 3rd SoAZ Heat Summit, introducing our RISE Intern Ryan Green, and exciting upcoming events. Subscribe to the newsletter by visiting heat.arizona.edu. ☀️ #extremeheat #heatresilience Read the newsletter: view.comms.arizona.edu?vawpToken=EF...

Southern Arizona Heat Summit highlights youth voices while helping Tucson prepare for extreme heat The Southern Arizona Heat Planning Summit helps officials prepare for and protect vulnerable citizens during increasing extreme heat events and has led to an international reputation for excellence in...

"There's not any other city in the US that's doing a continual heat summit like this with the range of partners that we have, so I think that's something to be really proud of. That said, of course, we still have a lot more work to do which is why we're all here." news.arizona.edu/news/souther...

A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

"The US National Science Foundation said on Thursday that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 4,000 climate and weather scientists across the country would be transferred from a leading research lab to an undisclosed third party." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c... #NCAR

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

"If the E.P.A.’s decision holds, it could increase the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent over the next 30 years" @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c... #climatechange

New co-authored paper out where we find heat-related emergency medical service activations increased 65% from 2019 to 2024 across the U.S. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #heathealth #extremeheat #heatresilience

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on #climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.
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"It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell.

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

"More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion." www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #science #fundscience #researchfunding

"It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes."

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

"Minnesota is under siege. It might not yet be a civil war, but what the White House has dubbed “Operation Metro Surge” is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Check out the latest America Adapts podcast focused on climate adaptation across Arizona, featuring me and adaptation leaders in Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff! #climatechange #adaptation #resilience

Check out our last @heatresilience.bsky.social newsletter of 2025!

Holiday lunch with University of Arizona heat resilience initiative team

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Holiday lunch with (most of) my @uarizona.bsky.social @heatresilience.bsky.social research team today! ☃️❄️🎄 #uarizona

The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.

"Whether or not Americans know it, research at the center has contributed to enormous advances in the weather forecasts they consult each day." www.theatlantic.com/science/2025... #ncar #climatescience

It's difficult to convey how much harm dismantling NCAR would inflict on the U.S. scientific enterprise and our global leadership in climate science. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... #climatescience #climatechange #ncar

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

We find that outdoor workers, the elderly, Indigenous people, and visitors in rural regions are vulnerable; rural heat risks are often shaped by the intersectional vulnerabilities of rural communities; and rural heat governance remains underdeveloped in many areas.

Number of publications by year

Check out our new rural heat resilience literature review, by @anneliseb.bsky.social, @mwahn.bsky.social, myself, and Heidi Brown! www.researchgate.net/publication/... #extremeheat #ruralheat #heatresilience

Our November newsletter is out now, featuring SW-IFL's Heat Mappers Program and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=a6e0f4add... #heatresilience #extremeheat

NIT-P kicks off 10-day program on heat resilience | Patna News - The Times of India Patna: The architecture and planning department of National Institute of Technology Patna (NIT-P) on Wednesday kicked off a ten-day Fulbright speciali.

Our collaboration made the news in the Times of India: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/n... #fulbright #usief #nitpatna #uarizona

NIT Patna Director, Dr. Shailendra Mandal, and Dr. Ladd Keith lighting ceremonial candles.

NIT Patna faculty and students

Dr. Ladd Keith speaking to NIT Patna architecture and planning faculty and students.

Honored to be hosted at the National Institute of Technology, Patna, India by Dr. Shailendra Mandal for my Fulbright Specialist Program and working with their faculty, students, and local practitioners on heat resilience. #fulbright #usief #nitpatna #uarizona

I appreciate our colleagues at the @climateresilience.bsky.social further supporting the communities we had begun critical heat action planning with at the NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities.

The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center appoints Jane Gilbert as Chief Heat Ambassador The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center announced the appointment of Jane Gilbert as its first chief heat ambassador.

Excited to join the @climateresilience.bsky.social's new Heat Resilience Exchange as a Senior Advisor, along with @vkturner.bsky.social and @sarameerow.bsky.social! onebillionresilient.org/2025/11/06/a... #heatresilience #extremeheat #heatactionplanning

How Arizona Scientists Are Tackling Extreme Heat YouTube video by The University of Arizona

And don't miss the great video they produced about our summer research! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2vL...

How U of A students braved the summer sun to help communities become heat resilient More than 150 students across all three state universities have been involved in a Department of Energy program to help communities understand and respond to extreme heat. Their work, researchers said...

Check out the new @uarizona.bsky.social feature on the climate research we're doing across the state's three universities and with our students through the SW-IFL to help make Arizona more resilient. news.arizona.edu/news/how-u-s... #climatechange #extremeheat #heatresilience

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Yes, it is this scary in science. We were world leader only 10 months ago.

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Our October newsletter is out now, featuring PCDH's Hotwash event and this month's heat-related news, research, opportunities, and events. Subscribe at heat.arizona.edu, and access the newsletter directly here 🌇: view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=993e3e1db... #heatresilience #extremeheat