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[Video: Daniel Johnson shows speaking at a desk with camera on his left.]
Daniel Johnson speaks in voiceover: My main research focus is on how environmental vulnerability is and social vulnerability interact.
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Daniel Johnson speaks: So, I've been studying extreme heat for over, over 15 years. My name's Dan Johnson. I'm a professor in the Department of Geography at IUPUI.
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Daniel Johnson speaks: We're probably almost ground zero for Midwest, at least, for climate change.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: The extreme heat situation has just become a much bigger deal
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: I think, even than I thought it would be 15 years ago.
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Daniel Johnson speaks: These things contribute to public health, too, or environmental disparities as well.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: This is directly affecting Hoosier lives, right.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: I mean, we know there's connections in between the environment and health.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: We know there's problematic environments.
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Daniel Johnson speaks: And trying to figure out what all that interconnectedness is. And that's what a lot of my work tends to try to do, to help the general public prepare for extreme heat
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: Prepare for where it's more likely to be a problem.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: As the climate changes,
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: all of these things are just going to become more and more of an issue.
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Daniel Johnson speaking in voiceover: All the machine learning, artificial intelligence
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Daniel Johnson speaking: types of modeling that we're able to do the amount of data we're able to start getting it going to be a game changer in a lot of situations. I do this work to increase awareness to environmental injustices in especially vulnerable communities, across the United States.
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