Gerald Mills is a physical geographer based in the School
of Geography at UCD (Ireland). His research focus is on climatology,
specifically the climates of urban areas. He publishes in the areas of
urban climates, climate change and urban greening and is co-author of Urban
Climates (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and of The Urban Heat Island: A
guidebook (Elsevier, 2021). He has served as President of the International
Association for Urban Climates (IAUC) from 2010-2013 and organised the
International Conference on Urban Climates in Dublin (ICUC8) in 2012.
He works with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Integrated
Urban Services initiative which seeks to co-ordinate hydrological and
meteorological services at an urban scale. In 2021 he received the IAUC's Luke
Howard Award; this award is presented annually to an individual based on
lifetime contributions to the development of urban climate science.
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