Dr. Natasha Picone from the Instituto de Geografía, Historia y Ciencias Sociales (IGEHCS), CONICET – UNCPBA, in Argentina is a visiting scholar at UBC Geography until May 2016.
Dr. Natasha Picone is an urban climatologist. She studies urban heat islands using ground-based surveys and space-based satellite measurements, and teaches courses in geographical information science and remote sensing.
During her visit with our micrometeorology group at UBC Geography, she will develop prototypes of low-cost, distributed mobile sensors based on the Arduino processor to map the urban heat island on bikes and cars using GPS and temperature / humidity sensors.
