Year 12 Agriculture 2021
Urban Microclimate project
On Thursday, Year 12 Students began to work on the Urban Microclimate project Urban Microclimate Project. This project, administered by RMIT University, in collaboration with University of New South Wales, and supported by the Blacktown Council, is one of the successful grants announced by the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. It aims to measure urban heat island, overheating, and local climate change, providing the data required for citizens to understand, mitigate and adapt to extreme heat; and for policy makers to predict future health and energy needs and plan the urban built environment and open spaces. Our Agriculture students are particularly interested in what implications this has for urban farming and food security now and in the future, especially given the increase in urbanisation and the ideas around food security.
Here are some of our students constructing and setting up the experiments. We will collect the data for the next 24 hours at the Nirimba Campus. It's Year 9’s turn at Schofields next week. We will then attempt to do this at a later date to replicate our experience and collect more data.
