Museum of Science Will Provide Technical Support to 2025 Community Science Partners Through the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring
The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring (CCHM) has selected eleven Community Science Partners to collect vital data on local heat patterns. These data will help communities develop strategies to reduce heat-related illness and death, infrastructure damage, and other heat risks.
The CCHM is a unique national partnership of science museums and technical experts. Over the next three years, the CCHM will work directly with 30 U.S. communities to co-create heat data collection projects. The CCHM expands upon the NOAA heat mapping work done by the NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island Mapping (UHI) Campaign Program, which has collected outdoor temperature and humidity data in more than 80 communities and 37 states.