Dr. Kerry Nice, Monash University / University of Melbourne

Dr. Kerry Nice

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Position

Research Fellow (Monash University/CRC for Water Sensitive Cities)
Research Fellow (Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) research group, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne)

Contact


Building 28, Room No 230, Clayton, VIC
Room 415, Level 4, Melbourne School of Design (Building 133), The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
Email: Kerry.Nice@monash.edu

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Qualifications

Research Topic:

Urban micro climate modelling. Effects of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) on urban climates and human thermal comfort (HTC).

Urban design, transport, health, and micro-climates. Urban green space typology. Neural network machine learning. Agent based modelling.

Publications

Nice, K. A., Coutts, A., and Tapper, N.J. (2018), Development of the VTUF-3D v1.0 urban micro-climate model to support assessment of urban vegetation influences on human thermal comfort. Urban Climate. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2017.12.008. Journal article

Nice, K. A. (2016) Development, validation, and demonstration of the VTUF-3D v1.0 urban micro-climate model to support assessments of urban vegetation influences on human thermal comfort. PhD Thesis. Monash University. Thesis

Nice, K. A. (2011), The micro-climate of a mixed urban parkland environment. Masters Thesis. Monash University. Thesis

Conference Presentations

Nice, KA. Designing liveable cities through heat mitigation: tools to translate knowledge into design. In: 3rd Water Sensitive Cities Conference, 18-20 July 2017, Perth. Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., and Beringer, J. A micro-climate examination of the temperature moderating potential of increased vegetation and water in urban canyons using VTUF-3D. In: 29th VUEESC Conference, 3-4 November 2016, Melbourne.

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., Krayenhoff, S., Duursma, R., and Beringer, J. A micro-climate examination of the temperature moderating potential of increased vegetation and water in urban canyons using VTUF-3D. In: Joint CRC Low Carbon Living & CRC for Water Sensitive Cities Workshop on Urban Micro-Climates and Adaptive Urban Design, 21-22 March 2016, Melbourne. Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., Krayenhoff, S., Duursma, R., and Beringer, J. A micro-climate examination of the temperature moderating potential of increased vegetation and water in urban canyons using VTUF-3D. In: 2nd International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity, 22-24 February 2016, Melbourne. Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., Krayenhoff, S., Duursma, R., and Beringer, J. A micro-climate examination of the temperature moderating potential of increased vegetation and water in urban canyons using VTUF-3D. In: AMOS/ARCCSS National Conference 2016. 8-11 February 2016, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Presentation

Nice, KA. (Improved) micro-climate modelling assessment of the influence of water sensitive urban design on human thermal comfort: Pre-submission presentation. Monash University. 17 September 2015 - Melbourne, Australia. Presentation

Nice, KA. Microclimate Models and Application in the Urban Environment. In: Guest lecture - ATS3887/APG4887 - Designing Urban Futures: Urban Climate, Water and Adaptation. Monash University. 16 September 2015 - Melbourne, Australia. Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., Beringer, J. and Krayenhoff, S. VTUF-3D: An urban micro-climate model to assess temperature moderation from increased vegetation and water in urban canyons. In: 2nd Water Sensitive Cities Conference 2015. 8-9 September 2015 - Brisbane, Australia. Poster 1 Poster 2 Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A., Tapper, N., Krayenhoff, S. and Beringer, J. VTUF-3D: An urban micro-climate model to assess temperature moderation from increased vegetation and water in urban canyons. In: ICUC9 - 9th International Conference on Urban Climate 2015. 20-24 July 2015 - Toulouse, France. Presentation

Nice, KA, Tapper, N., Beringer, J.,Coutts, A. and Krayenhoff, S. An urban micro-climate model for assessing impacts of Water Sensitive Urban Design. In: Water Sensitive Cities Conference 2014. 21-23 October, 2014 - Melbourne, Australia. Poster

Nice, KA, Tapper, N., Beringer, J.,Coutts, A. and Krayenhoff, S. An urban micro-climate model for assessing impacts of Water Sensitive Urban Design. In: 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment, 94th AMS Annual Meeting, 2-6 February 2014, Atlanta, GA. Poster

Nice, KA, Coutts, A, Beringer, J, Tapper, N and Krahenhoff, S. Introducing the TUF-3D/MAESPA urban micro-climate model. In: 8th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference 2013. 25–29 November 2013 - Gold Coast, Australia. Presentation

Nice, KA, Coutts, A, Broadbent, A, Beringer, J, Tapper, N and Krahenhoff, S. Evaluation of WSUD modeling strategies. In: 8th International Conference on Urban Climate – ICUC 8 and 10th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 6th - 10th August 2012 - Dublin, Ireland. Presentation

Nice, KA and Isaac, P. The micro-climate of a mixed urban parkland environment [online]. In: WSUD 2012: Water sensitve urban design; Building the water sensitve community; 7th international conference on water sensitive urban design, 21 - 23 February 2012, Melbourne Cricket Ground. Barton, A.C.T.: Engineers Australia, 2012: 719-739. ISBN: 9780858258952. Presentation

Reports

Nice, K. (2012), Urban climate model selection for modelling WSUD features. Technical report, Cities as Water Supply Catchments, Project 3: Green Cities and Micro-climate.

Grants

2016 Graham Treloar Early Career Researcher Fellowship/ABP Research ECR Project Grant (The University of Melbourne) for the development of your project "Urban canyon mean radiant temperatures predictions through mining Google Street View imagery and neural network machine learning".