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Thompson, C.F., Jones, C., Biggs, T., Quintana, P.J.E., Perez, M.A.Z., De Sales, F., Roberts, D., Parajuli, S., Ciborowski, H., McMahon, C., 2025. A Climatology of Summertime Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in California’s Imperial Valley. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0199.1

Parajuli, S.P., Biggs, T., Galvez, N.L., Quintana, P., Ciborowski, H., De Sales, F., Zavala Perez, M.A., Jones, C., Thompson, C., Hurtado-Gonzalez, S., *Madonia, S., Shen, S.S.P., 2025. Heat-related rest-break recommendations for farmworkers in California based on wet-bulb globe temperature. Commun Earth Environ 6, 359. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02327-9

Parajuli, S.P., Biggs, T., De Sales, F., Zavala Perez, M.A., He, C., Jones, C., Thompson, C., Galvez, N.L., Ciborowski, H., Quintino, T., Di Napoli, C., Montazar, A., Yazdi, T.H., Soucier, M., 2024. Impact of irrigation on farmworkers' heat stress in California differs by season and during the day and night. Commun Earth Environ 5, 787. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01959-7

Conference Presentations

Thompon, C.F., Jones, C., Biggs, T, De Sales, F, Zavala Perez, M.A., Roberts, D. and Parajuli, S. Mapping Heat Stress and Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in California’s Imperial Valley using High Resolution Climate Modelling. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2024.

Trent W Biggs, Sagar Parajuli, Penelope Quintana, Callum Thompson, Miguel A Zavala, Haley Ciborowski, Dr. Fernando De Sales, , Charles Jones, Dar A Roberts, Samuel Shanpu Shen, Conor McMahon, Samantha Madonia, Daniel Sousa, Dexter Hamilton, Ryan Laflerand Nicolas Lopez-Galvez. Rural heat matters: Integrative analysis of farmworker exposure to heat stress in the Imperial Valley American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting,
December 2024.

News + Media

"SDSU finds Imperial Valley farmworkers at risk without longer rest breaks"
June 4, 2025
KYMA News (CBS 13)

"The heat is on: How irrigation affects farm workers' exposure to heat stress in Imperial Valley."
February 1, 2025
Imperial Valley Press