Professor Hutyra publishes an article with EE students
Dr. Lucy Hutyra, in conjunction with several BU EE students published “A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation.” The paper explores the urgent public health threat that heat poses to dwellers of cities. The City of Boston has attempted to expand its urban canopy, yet maintenance costs and high tree mortality have hindered successful canopy expansion. Here, we present an interactive web application called Right Place, Right Tree—Boston that aims to support informed decision-making for planting new trees. To highlight priority regions for canopy expansion, we developed a Boston-specific Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) and present this alongside maps of summer daytime land surface temperatures. Read more here