Assistant Professor Winston Chow from the Department of Geography and an adjunct researcher with IWP has been granted the FASS Award for Promising Researcher (APR) The award is presented to researchers who's research has shown promise and the potential for impact.
Dr Chow’s research focuses on the physical processes, impacts, and mitigation of urban heat islands, urban vulnerability to climate change, and sustainable urban climatology with a focus in tropical and subtropical cities.
The nomination for this award was primarily due to his article titled, “A multi-method and multi-scale approach for estimating city-wide anthropogenic heat fluxes” published in the journal Atmospheric Environment in 2014.