Trainings & Events

The Yale School of the Environment Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability will host a webinar to explore impactful tree planting strategies to mitigate heat inequalities in Connecticut on Tuesday, June 25, from 1-2 p.m.

A NASA-funded research team at Yale has produced high resolution maps of tree canopies and land surface temperatures over 30 years for Connecticut’s ten largest cities. Dr. Shijuan Chen will discuss the relationship of tree cover to land temperatures and how it is changing in our state. Colleen Murphy-Dunning, director of the Hixon Center, will share how New Haven is applying Dr. Chen’s data to prioritize tree planting and address environmental inequities to achieve the greatest impact. The New Haven framework identifies both areas for planting to achieve the greatest impact as well as ease of implementation. This helpful framework can be replicated in other Connecticut cities and beyond.

This webinar is free and open to the public. It's co-convened with the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG), and Sustainable CT.