Dr. Scott Krayenhoff
Scott is an emerging leader in the field of urban climatology, and his work informs the design of resilient, healthy and equitable cities. He is best known for his work on the physical mechanisms underlying the urban heat island and the cooling potential of infrastructure-based heat reduction strategies, especially street trees. His work has been published in Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Earth’s Future, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Urban Climate, Geoscientific Model Development and Science of the Total Environment, among other publications. In 2020 Scott was a recipient of the Timothy Oke Award for Original Research in Urban Climatology, the early-mid career research award from the International Association for Urban Climate. He particularly enjoys a diverse set of international collaborations on wide-ranging topics related to climates and meteorology near the Earth’s surface.
Scott grew up on a hobby farm on Vancouver Island one generation after his family immigrated from The Netherlands, Scotland and Cornwall. He continued a family tradition and made his way to the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he completed the Science One program. Scott’s strong interest in human-environment relationships led him to major in Atmospheric Science and discover his passions for canopy micrometeorology and urban climatology during research positions with Andy Black, Roland Stull, and Tim Oke. Scott completed a Masters at Western University with James Voogt, returned to UBC for his Doctorate with Andreas Christen and Tim Oke, and enjoyed a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative postdoctoral appointment at Arizona State University with Matei Georgescu – all in Geography departments. Additionally, he has had the privilege of ongoing mentorship from and collaboration with Alberto Martilli (CIEMAT). Scott has been a faculty member in the large and diverse School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph since 2018.
Contact: skrayenh@uoguelph.ca