Led by Travis Flohr at Penn State as part of the Ecology Plus Design (E+D) Research Center and Mehdi Heris at Hunter College, the geo4eco lab works to conduct fieldwork and to use GIS data and statistical models to envision and create a thermally comfortable and biodiverse future.
The goal is to collaboratively plan and design healthy, climate-resilient, and biodiverse communities by leveraging community participation, spatial data analyses, ecology, and design to mitigate extreme heat and biodiversity loss.