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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/events/energy-webinar</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/events/workshop-local-and-regional-climate-resilient-planning-in-stuttgart-and-northern-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-07-23</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/how-virginia-endangered-shark-species-help-protect-our-climate</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-07-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - An unexpected hero: how Virginia’s endangered shark species help protect our climate - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Identification chart for the sandbar shark, Virginia’s most common large shark species. Source: Virginia Institute of Marine Science</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - An unexpected hero: how Virginia’s endangered shark species help protect our climate - Paige Epler, MSE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Paige Laura Epler is a biomedical engineer and researcher specializing in translational cell and tissue engineering. She earned her Master of Science in Engineering degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2022, and is the founder and director of the independent Save the Sharks conservation advocacy campaign.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/winter-biting-cold-more-biting-insects-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-07-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could the winter’s biting cold lead to more biting insects? - What Virginia can expect this summer - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Climate conditions in Virginia are becoming increasing suitable for mosquitoes. Source: Climate Central</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could the winter’s biting cold lead to more biting insects? - What Virginia can expect this summer - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Times of year when tick stages in Virginia are active. Source: Virginia Department of Health</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could the winter’s biting cold lead to more biting insects? - What Virginia can expect this summer - Dr. Amira Roess</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Amira Roess is an epidemiologist and professor of global health at George Mason University. Dr. Roess is an expert on emerging zoonotic (animal to human) infectious diseases and their risk factors. She has led the Pew Policy Commission on Industrial Food Animal Production as the science director, served as a CDC epidemic intelligence service officer, and provided guidance for preparedness and response to H5N1 bird flu in 2006. Roess was a leading source during the COVID-19 pandemic and is an in-demand public health consultant.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could the winter’s biting cold lead to more biting insects? - What Virginia can expect this summer - Dr. Benjamin Cash</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Benjamin Cash is a climate scientist and research professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences at George Mason University.  He studies the predictable and unpredictable components of climate variability, particularly in relation to phenomena such as droughts, floods, and large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Dr. Cash is an expert on prediction and predictability of the climate system and the influence of climate on infectious disease.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could the winter’s biting cold lead to more biting insects? - What Virginia can expect this summer - Dr. Holly Gaff</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Holly Gaff is a professor and chair of Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University and a leading researcher in the ecology of ticks and tick-borne diseases. Her work integrates field biology, ecology, and computational approaches, and she leads the ODU Tick Research Team, which conducts long-term surveillance and mapping of tick populations in Virginia to better understand their spread and associated health risks. Through this interdisciplinary research, Dr. Gaff has contributed extensively to the study of vector-borne diseases and public health, publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles and collaborating with agencies such as the NIH, CDC, and USDA.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/virginia-winters-warmer-colder-weirder</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Winters in Virginia - Warmer, colder, or weirder? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1: Comparing Winter 2025-2026 to historical records show both cold and warm extremes across all of Virginia’s Climate Divisions.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Winters in Virginia - Warmer, colder, or weirder? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2: Trends in days below freezing across Virginia’s Climate Divisions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 3: Magnitude of the trends in winter cold temperatures by percentile.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 4: The NOAA Climate Divisions of Virginia.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/drought-virginia-economy</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - It’s not just farms - Examples of drought impacts across Virginia’s economy - Drought can look like this...(Mojave Desert, CA)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo credit: © Kiptoo Addi via Pexels, used under Creative Commons license CC0)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - It’s not just farms - Examples of drought impacts across Virginia’s economy - ...Or like this. Note the exposed rocks in the riverbed. (James River, Richmond, VA)</image:title>
      <image:caption>(Photo credit: © Taber Andrew Bain via Flickr, used under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/climate-signal-food-systems</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - From farm to table - The climate signal showing up in our food systems - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Deviations in average dates of last Spring frost, first Fall frost, and growing season. Figure source: The First Virginia Climate Assessment; Data source: NOAA nClimGrid-daily</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - From farm to table - The climate signal showing up in our food systems - Foraged fiddlehead ferns</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - From farm to table - The climate signal showing up in our food systems - Dr. Mitcham teaching about the role of foraged food as part of a workshop in southwest Virginia</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/cities-linked-to-summer-afternoon-downpours</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could cities be linked to pesky summer afternoon downpours? - A Richmond case study</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1: Mean Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) intensity (°C) on clear-sky summer afternoons (11 years). The dot marks Downtown Richmond, which consistently shows the strongest heat signal. The dashed polygon outlines the urban core (Global Human Settlement Layer built-up surface). The 53 km circular domain includes the core city plus surrounding suburban and rural buffers to enable urban–non-urban comparison.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could cities be linked to pesky summer afternoon downpours? - A Richmond case study</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2: This boxplot shows the hourly Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) intensity (°C) during clear-sky summer afternoons over 11 years. The analysis is limited to the urban core of the Greater Richmond Metropolitan Area, as defined by the built-up surface extent in Figure 1.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Could cities be linked to pesky summer afternoon downpours? - A Richmond case study</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3: Extreme-rain intensity (% anomaly) on hot-city hours compared to typical clear-sky summer hours (computed using RI95 = top 5% of hourly rain rates from 2011–2021). The anomaly is the percent difference between the hot-city composite and the typical composite. Blue tones indicate heavier extremes than typical (up to ~30% higher), while red tones indicate lighter extremes. The dashed polygon outlines Richmond’s urban core (GHSL built-up surface), the arrow shows the average mid-level wind (~700 hPa), and the grey circle (~53-km radius) defines the analysis domain. The strongest positive anomalies appear downwind of the urban core, whereas upwind sectors hover near zero or negative.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/diving-into-equity-road-closures-in-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Diving into equity: Examining flood-related road closures in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1: All VDOT reported road closures (smaller gray points, total 99,017 points), highlighting flood-specific closures (larger blue points, 6,144 total points) between 2020 and 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Diving into equity: Examining flood-related road closures in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2: Social vulnerability data considered in this study, including (A) Fraction of the population experiencing poverty in 2022, and (B) Fraction of the population that is non-white in 2022. Values are plotted on a scale of 0 to 1 such that 0 denotes no social vulnerability while 1 denotes significant social vulnerability. Both maps show data processed from publicly available US Census Bureau data.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/changing-tornado-activity</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Investigating the whirlwind of changing tornado activity in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1: Shows the number of tornado occurrences in Virginia from 1950 to 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Investigating the whirlwind of changing tornado activity in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2: Shows decadal variation in the monthly distribution of tornado occurrences, highlighting trends and seasonal patterns in tornado frequency over time.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/feeling-the-heat-at-george-mason</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling the heat at George Mason University - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1: The walking urban heat mappers. From left to right: Aahelee Sarker (Climate Dynamics PhD), Luis Ortiz (AOES Faculty), Ivy Stempkovski (Climate Dynamics PhD), Austin Reed (Climate Dynamics PhD), and Debanjana Das (AOES affiliate faculty).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling the heat at George Mason University - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2: George Mason University Student Michael G. Clark, with an early prototype of the vehicle-based urban heat island sensor.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling the heat at George Mason University - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3: Backpack and Vehicle Urban Heat Sensors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling the heat at George Mason University - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 4: Temperature data collected by the Virginia Climate Center team.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling the heat at George Mason University - Make it stand out</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/kentucky-horses-help-virginia-climate</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - From Bluegrass to Blue Ridge: How Kentucky’s horses can help Virginia communities gain climate resilience - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kentucky horse farm. Source: Eva Varlioglu</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - From Bluegrass to Blue Ridge: How Kentucky’s horses can help Virginia communities gain climate resilience - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>UK ASTeCC building, home to the UK Innovate office. Source: University of Kentucky</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/extreme-heat-survey</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Surveying communities’ lived experiences with extreme heat in the City of Alexandria - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) activations by county in Virginia. Dark brown colors represent higher than average EMS activations for heat-related medical emergencies. Source: NEMSIS</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/wildfire-risk-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-07-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Addressing the increasing wildfire risk in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rocky Branch Fire in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Source: National Park Service via FOX Weather</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Addressing the increasing wildfire risk in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure A – The Northern region (NOAA Climate Division 4) of Virginia has a history of prolonged and severe droughts (represented by negative PDSI values in yellow), contributing to the high risk of wildfires. Similar conditions prevail in the Eastern and Western Piedmont regions.  Source: NOAA</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Addressing the increasing wildfire risk in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure B – Average April temperatures in the Northern region of Virginia are increasing as represented by the blue trend line. Source: NOAA</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Addressing the increasing wildfire risk in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure C – Historical and projected maximum number of consecutive dry days in Page County, Virginia. Source: CMRA</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/nca5-message-to-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-03-13</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>NCA5 designated regions. Source: NCA5</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - NCA5’s message to Virginia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mitigation activities across the US as of 2022. Source: NCA5</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - NCA5’s message to Virginia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Adaptation activities across the US as of 2022. Source: NCA5</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/proposed-power-plant-chesterfield</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Proposed power plant in Chesterfield County lands Virginia at a crossroads - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dominion Energy natural gas power plant in Greensville County, VA. Source: Dominion Energy</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/faces-climate-change-virginia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - The many faces of climate change in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: Climate Central</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The many faces of climate change in Virginia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: US Drought Monitor</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/case-of-held-montana</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - The case of Held v. Montana - What is the Treasure State’s true treasure? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plaintiffs sit in on a hearing for Held v Montana. Source:  AP News</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/the-young-and-the-bold</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-09-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - The young and the bold - Supporting our youth taking on climate change - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - The young and the bold - Supporting our youth taking on climate change - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Data from 4C research displaying the change in climate change attitudes and support since 2012. Source: 4C</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Data visualization from 4C showing younger generations support for organizations engaging in non-violent civil disobedience for climate action. Source: 4C</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/lessons-community-engagement</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-08-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Lessons from the origins of community engagement - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Lincoln Memorial shrouded in a dust cloud likely taken on either March 6 or March 21, 1935. Photographed by Science Service Photographer John Hugh O'Neill. Source: NCSU</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A person walks near the Lincoln Memorial under a blanket of haze in Washinton on June 8, 2023. Source: Phys.org</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Lessons from the origins of community engagement - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/measuring-heat</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-08-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - The ins and outs of measuring heat - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photograph of a typical weather station temperature sensor with solar radiation shielding. Source: National Weather Service</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Surface temperature map derived from the European Sentinel satellite mission over Spain. Surface temperatures in Spain reached over 60°C (140°F), although air temperatures peaked at around 45°C (113°F). Source: Copernicus</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/dont-need-to-be-a-climatologist</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-07-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - You don’t need to be a climatologist to know, the times they are a-changin’ - Annual mosquito days in Roanoke, VA</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - You don’t need to be a climatologist to know, the times they are a-changin’ - Annual average hourly rainfall in Norfolk, VA</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/keep-cool-in-the-growing-virginia-heat</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-07-05</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Source: NOAA</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vaclimate.gmu.edu/blog/protecting-ourselves-and-our-families-from-wildfire-pollution</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-06-28</lastmod>
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