- Member, New York City Panel on Climate Change (2024 - Present)
- Member, External Advisory Board, CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (2024 - Present)
- Co-Chair, New York City Panel on Climate Change (2019 - 2024)
- Health & Safety Sector Advisor, New York State Climate Impacts Assessment (2022 - 2023)
- Member, Climate Advisory Committee, Trust for Governors Island (2022 - 2023)
- Member, Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Chicago Department of Public Health (2021 - 2022)
- Member, Committee for the Conference on Education, American Meteorological Society (2020 - 2022)
- Co-Lead, Climate and Environmental Health Group, Goddard Applied Sciences (2020 - 2021)
- Principal Investigator, Climate Change Research Initiative, Goddard Institute for Space Studies (2018 - 2022)
Christian V Braneon
(RSCH AST, EARTH SCIENCES REMOTE SENS)
| Email: | christian.v.braneon@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 611 |
| Address: |
NASA/GISS Mail Code 611 New York, NY 10025 |
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Professional Service
Awards
AXA Award for Climate Science | 2021
Robert H. Goddard Honor Award | 2021 Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI) Team
Team Excellence Award | 2019 Earth Science Partnerships Team, NASA Headquarters
Public Participation Award | White House Climate Action Plan
Education
PhD in Civil Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology
MS in Civil Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology
BS in Civil Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology
BS in Applied Physics | Morehouse College
Selected Publications
Refereed
2024. "NPCC4: Tail risk, climate drivers of extreme heat, and new methods for extreme event projections." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [10.1111/nyas.15180] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Building Risk‐Informed Communities: Case Studies on the Applications of Earth Observation Data." Geophysical Monograph Series 119-132 [10.1002/9781119536789.ch7] [Article in Book]
2022. "Sea Level Rise and City-Level Climate Action." European Journal of Environment and Public Health 6 (2): em0111 [10.21601/ejeph/12046] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Embedding Climate Change in Urban Planning and Urban Design in New York City." Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities 45-70 [10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_3] [Article in Book]
2022. "A quasi-experimental approach for evaluating the heat mitigation effects of green roofs in Chicago, Illinois." Sustainable Cities and Society 76 103376 [10.1016/j.scs.2021.103376] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Adaptation to climate change in coastal towns of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants." Ocean & Coastal Management 212 105790 [10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105790] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Towards Disentangling Lockdown-Driven Air Quality Changes in the Northeastern U.S." Journal of Extreme Events 2150017 [10.1142/s2345737621500172] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Spatiotemporal Associations Between Social Vulnerability, Environmental Measurements, and COVID‐19 in the Conterminous United States." GeoHealth 5 (8): [10.1029/2021gh000423] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Rapid Research and Assessment on COVID-19 and Climate in New York City." Journal of Extreme Events 2150010 [10.1142/s234573762150010x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Opinion: Compound risks and complex emergencies require new approaches to preparedness." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (19): e2106795118 [10.1073/pnas.2106795118] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Evaluating Drought Responses of Surface Ozone Precursor Proxies: Variations With Land Cover Type, Precipitation, and Temperature." Geophysical Research Letters 48 (7): [10.1029/2020gl091520] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Earth Observations Informing Cities’ Operations and Planning." Eos 101 [10.1029/2020eo146808] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2024. "NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future | Conclusions." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [10.1111/nyas.15150] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future | Introduction." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [10.1111/nyas.15149] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Chapter 4.2 States and cities for climate action. [In America's Zero Carbon Action Plan]." America's Zero Carbon Action Plan 122-161 [Report]