Marc Coudert

Lecturer

As the Climate Resilience and Adaptation Manager in the City of Austin Office of Resilience, Marc Coudert works with city departments to embed climate adaptation strategies into long-term operation and asset management planning. In this role, he also supports community organizers to increase climate resilience in the Eastern Crescent.  

Marc received a Certificate in Climate Change and Health from the Yale School of Public Health, a Master of Science in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning from Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. 

EDUCATION

  • Master of Science in Sustainable Design, University of Texas at Austin
  • Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning, Arizona State University

PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

From Comfort to Survival: Indoor Heat Vulnerability During Extreme Events. 
Lin, Calvin and Crawley, Dru and Coudert, Marc and Niyogi, Dev and Nagy, Zoltan,  Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5290377          

Heat vulnerability of Latino and Black residents in a low-income community and their recommended adaptation strategies: A qualitative study 
Kevin Lanza, Jessica Jones, Frances Acuña, Marc Coudert, R. Patrick Bixler, Harsh Kamath, Dev Niyogi.    
Urban Climate Volume 51, September 2023, 101656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101656

Human heat health index (H3I) for holistic assessment of heat hazard and mitigation strategies beyond urban heat islands 
Harsh G. Kamath, Alberto Martilli, Manmeet Singh, Trevor Brooks, Kevin Lanza, R. Patrick Bixler, Marc Coudert, Zong-Liang Yang, Dev Niyogi, Urban ClimateVolume 52, November 2023, 101675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101675

Heat vulnerability and recommended adaptation responses of Latino and Black residents in a low-income U.S. community 
Lanza, K., Jones, J., Acuña, F., Bixler, P., Coudert, M., Kamath, H., & Niyogi, D. (2023). 
International Congress of Biometeorology. Tempe, AZ. 10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101656 (DOI)

DownScaleBench for developing and applying a deep learning based urban climate downscaling- first results for high-resolution urban precipitation climatology over Austin, Texas 
Manmeet Singh, Nachiketa Acharya, Sajad Jamshidi, Junfeng Jiao, Zong-Liang Yang, Marc Coudert, Zach Baumer & Dev Niyogi 
Comput.Urban Sci. 3, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00096-9

Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas 
R. P. Bixler, M. Coudert, S. Richter, Jessica M Jones, Carmen Llanes Pulido, Nika Akhavan, M. Bartos, P. Passalacqua, D. Niyogi, Economics, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 9 December 2022 

Urban precipitation downscaling using deep learning: a smart city application over Austin, Texas, USA 
Manmeet Singh, N. Acharya, S. Jamshidi, Junfeng Jiao, Zong‐Liang Yang, M. Coudert, Z. Baumer, D. Niyogi,  
Environmental Science, 15 August 2022

Mapping Austin’s heat exposure using remote sensing techniques. 
Kamath, H., Singh, M., Yang, Z., Jones, J., Coudert, M., Bixler, P., Lanza, K., Nagy, Z., Jiao, J., Magruder, L.A., & Niyogi, D. (2022).   
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL.    

Boundary crossing for urban community resilience: A social vulnerability and multi-hazard approach in Austin, Texas, USA. 
R. Patrick Bixler, Euijin Yang, Steven M. Richter, Marc Coudert,  
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 1 December 2021

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