Advancing Risk-Based Policy Through Computational Approaches, Remote Sensing, and Mechanistic Understanding of Climate-Driven Environmental Health Threats Including Emerging Contaminants, AMR, and Water-borne Disease
Advancing Risk-Based Policy Through Computational Approaches, Remote Sensing, and Mechanistic Understanding of Climate-Driven Environmental Health Threats Including Emerging Contaminants, AMR, and Water-borne Disease
Session ID#: 281856
Session Description:
Emerging contaminants (PFAS, microplastics, glyphosate), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and waterborne disease vectors pose escalating threats to ecosystems and public health. These risks are amplified by climate variability and extreme events that alter environmental transport pathways. However, traditional global monitoring faces significant cost and spatial constraints. To address these challenges, remote sensing combined with in-situ observations and computational tools offers powerful solutions for tracking contamination sources, mapping transport pathways, and generating risk indicators. This integrated approach supports environmental surveillance, early warning systems, and climate-resilient policy decisions. This session invites studies advancing: (1) remote sensing-informed risk mapping, (2) understanding contaminant behavior and AMR/disease dynamics following extreme events, and (3) developing satellite and field-based proxy indicators. These innovations integrate novel technologies (biosensors, eDNA, multi-omics) with advanced analytical approaches including machine learning, data fusion, and Bayesian spatial methods, ultimately enabling actionable risk assessment and evidence-based decision-making for protecting water security and public health.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- H - Hydrology
- NH - Natural Hazards
- OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:
0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Sunil Kumar, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners: Katherine Deliz Quinones, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Sunny Jiang, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States and Joshua Glasser, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
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