NASA GRANT TO AID STUDY ON HEAT ISLANDS AS A JUSTICE ISSUE

Chapman University faculty member Jason Douglas has been awarded a grant from NASA to study the public health impacts of higher temperatures and air pollution in southeast Los Angeles as well as services that would promote environmental equity in that community.

Douglas, assistant professor of public health in Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, was recently awarded the grant totaling almost $250,000 for his two-year project “Communities for a Better Environment: Triangulating NASA Data and Participatory GIS with Local Organizing to Advance Environmental Justice in Los Angeles.”