I’m a professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. During that time, I've worked with a lot of bright and talented students and through our studies, we've come to understand the atmospheric environment in new and often surprising ways. We've studied how elements in the landscape modify the different components of the microclimate, and how the microclimate affects the thermal comfort of people. By integrating these landscape architects can design environments that modify the microclimate to create thermally comfortable outdoor environments. This is particularly important in the context of global climate change and the intensification of urban heat islands.