Lily Weaver ’26

Major

Computer Science

Project Title

Fine Spatio-temporal Variation in Intra-urban Heat Stress in U.S. Cities

Certificate(s): Engineering Biology, Statistics and Machine Learning

The Urban Nexus Lab aims to advance sustainable, healthy and equitable cities through knowledge co-production and nexus modeling of key transboundary infrastructure and food systems. I worked on a project to examine intra-urban heat stress patterns in various U.S. cities. I created a data download tool to access temperature and humidity data from PurpleAir, a crowdsourced sensor network that collects air quality data. I also worked on analyzing and creating visualizations for the PurpleAir data to help us determine the viability of PurpleAir sensors to measure fine-scale intra-urban temperature variation. I’m grateful I had the opportunity to learn from the outstanding professors and graduate students at the Urban Nexus Lab and I hope to continue researching urban sustainability in the future.



Internship Year

2023

Project Category

Environment and Society and Urban Sustainability

Organization(s)

Urban Nexus Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey

Mentor(s)

Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute