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Session Proposal: Air Pollution Health Risk in a Changing Climate (AGU25)

GH005
Air Pollution Health Risk in a Changing Climate

Session ID#: 248863

Session Description:
This session will explore the extent that air pollution emissions, concentrations, and health impacts are sensitive to climate variability and change. Natural and anthropogenic emissions sources are temperature-dependent; for example, warmer, drier conditions increase the likelihood of dust storms and wildfires that emit large amounts of fine particulates and gases. Temperature-dependent emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are expected to increase under climate change, which will accelerate the formation of O3 and PM2.5. Indoor air pollution and emerging pollutants of concern such as microplastics are also temperature dependent. Characterizing the health risks associated with new pollutant mixtures and environmental conditions is a challenge that requires innovative exposure modeling and epidemiological methods. In this interdisciplinary session, we invite researchers studying the intersection of climate change with air pollution emissions, atmospheric chemistry, exposure assessment, epidemiology, and risk assessment.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Primary Convener:  Lucas Henneman, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Yunyao Li, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, Kelvin Fong, Dalhousie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada and Rebecca Saari, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Student/Early Career Convener:  Qindan Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
 
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Kai Chen1, Siqi Zhang2, Yongfei Wang3, Jing Wei4, Harlan M. Krumholz5 and Yuan Lu5, (1)Yale University, Yale School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, New Haven, United States, (3)Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (5)Yale University, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
 
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Dinesh Neupane1, Lucas Henneman1 and Viviana Maggioni2, (1)George Mason University, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
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Yolanda J McDonald1, Amy Podraza2, Kennedy Cross2, Ethan Paik2, Ferna Alvarez-Carrascal3, Vera Powell2, Anjuli Irvin2 and Jonathan M Gilligan4, (1)Vanderbilt University, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Science, Nashville, United States, (4)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Science, Nashville, TN, United States
 
Ambient air pollution during pregnancy and offspring cerebral palsy (1977413)
Haoran Zhuo1, Beate Ritz2, Jason G Su3, Joshua Warren4 and Zeyan Liew1, (1)Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, New Haven, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Epidemiology, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Health Sciences, Berkeley, United States, (4)Yale University, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, New Haven, United States
 
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Source Apportionment of PM2.5 across Contiguous United States for 2011-2020 (2001793)
Sumaiya Hussain, George Mason University Fairfax, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, Ting Zhang, George Mason University Fairfax, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, United States and Lucas Henneman, George Mason University, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, United States
 
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