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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr N. Meili
DTSTART:20210915T090000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Naika Meili\n09:00 – 10:00 – Dr Naika Meili\nPostdoctor
 al Research Fellow\, National University of Singapore\n\nVegetation effect
 s on urban climate\n\nCurrently more than half of the world’s population
  is living in cities\, which exhibit urban heat and dry islands. Such alte
 red climatic conditions can decrease human health and well-being\, increas
 e energy demand for cooling\, and impact urban ecology. Increasing urban v
 egetation cover is often proposed to mitigate excessive heat and low outdo
 or thermal comfort. Numerical urban climate models are one of the methods 
 used to predict the effects of urban form\, land cover\, and design on urb
 an climate. However\, many of the early models did not or only include a s
 implistic representation of urban vegetation and lacked components of the 
 hydrological budget. Hence\, they were not well suited to investigate the 
 effects of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology.\nIn this talk\, I wi
 ll first introduce a novel urban ecohydrological model\, which is able to 
 assess the combined climatic and hydrological effects of vegetation in cit
 ies as well as the feedback of the urban environment on plant performance.
  Subsequently\, the effects of vegetation cover fraction\, type\, traits\,
  and processes on climate variables\, such as outdoor thermal comfort\, te
 mperature\, and humidity are assessed with the use of numerical simulation
 s. The results are synthesised to give recommendations for urban landscape
  planning and future research directions.\n\n\nShort bio:\nNaika Meili is 
 a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmenta
 l Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuse
 s on the quantification of the effects of urban climate mitigation strateg
 ies\, such as blue-green infrastructure\, on microclimate\, energy consump
 tion\, and resource use with the aim to provide knowledge for sustainable 
 urban planning.\nNaika Meili did her PhD as part of the Ecosystem Services
  in Urban Landscapes group at the Futures Cities Laboratory\, Singapore-ET
 H Centre in Singapore and the Chair of Hydrology and Water Resources Manag
 ement\, Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich. During her P
 hD\, she developed the novel urban ecohydrological model Urban Tethys-Chlo
 ris to quantify vegetation effects on urban climate and hydrology. She fur
 ther collaborated in a project\, which analysed various ecosystem services
  of urban landscape designs as part of a multi-disciplinary team\, consist
 ing of researchers in the field of ecology\, architecture\, remote sensing
 \, and climate modelling. Naika Meili holds a master’s degree in Environ
 mental Engineering from ETH Zurich.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64709179185
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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