GeoHealth



GH001
AGU-AMS Joint Session on GeoHealth Risks: Detection to Attribution to Action
Primary Convener:  Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States


GH002
Assessment of Global Climate Variability and Hydroclimatological Processes on Infectious Diseases
Primary Convener:  Moiz Usmani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Jesse Eugene Bell, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, United States and Thanh H Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Moiz Usmani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States


GH003
Bio-Nano Interactions in Subsurface Environment: From Modeling to Field Scales
Primary Convener:  Shangping Xu, Univ of Wisc-Geosciences, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Conveners:  Iseult Lynch, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Appala Raju Badireddy, University of Vermont, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Burlington, United States and Xinyao Yang, Shenyang University, Shenyang, China
Primary Liaison:  Shangping Xu, Univ of Wisc-Geosciences, Milwaukee, WI, United States


GH004
Climate based infectious disease early warning system
Primary Convener:  Swadhin K Behera, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Conveners:  Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Masahiro Hashizume, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan and Glenn McGregor, Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Swadhin K Behera, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan


GH005
Coal and Coal Combustion Residuals Impacts on the Environment and Human Health: A worldwide problem of increasing concern
Primary Convener:  Avner Vengosh, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Convener:  Laura S. Ruhl, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Earth Sciences, Bentonville, AR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Avner Vengosh, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States


GH006
Differential Health Impacts of Heat Extremes on Individuals and Communities
Primary Convener:  Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rupa Basu, California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, United States, Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Adrienne Hollis, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


GH007
Earth System Interactions and Implications for Geohealth
Primary Convener:  Junran Jimmy Li, University of Tulsa, Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States and Heather Holms, Daniel Tong, Thomas E. Gill, and R. Scott Van Pelt
Conveners:  Heather Holmes, University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, Daniel Tong, George Mason University Foundation Inc., Columbia, MD, United States, Thomas E Gill, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States and Heather Holms, Daniel Tong, Thomas E. Gill, and R. Scott Van Pelt
Primary Liaison:  Junran Jimmy Li, University of Tulsa, Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States and Heather Holms, Daniel Tong, Thomas E. Gill, and R. Scott Van Pelt


GH008
Living Laboratory Experiments for Innovations to Improve Human Health Outcomes in Warming and Growing Cities
Primary Convener:  David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Chanam Lee, Texas A&M University College Station, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College Station, United States, Bruce Dvorak, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College Station, United States and Paul Coseo, Arizona State University, The Design School, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States


GH009
Environment, Pathogenic Agents, and Infectious Diseases
Primary Convener:  Rakibul Khan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Erin Mordecai, Stanford University, Department of Biology, Stanford, CA, United States and C. Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University, Providence, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rakibul Khan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


GH010
Extreme Heat: Vulnerability and Risk assessment, Exposure quantification, and Policy implications regarding the adverse effect of extreme heat on health, economy, and natural resources
Primary Convener:  Mohammadhassan Mohegh, George Washington University, Public Health, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States and George A Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mohammadhassan Mohegh, George Washington University, Public Health, Washington, DC, United States


GH011
Geochemistry to Health: Linking Geoscience to Exposures and Health Impacts of Nutrients and Toxicants
Primary Convener:  Miling Li, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Convener:  Sae Yun Kwon, POSTECH Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
Primary Liaison:  Miling Li, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada


GH012
Geohealth Action! Helping Communities Thrive on a Constantly Changing and Often Hazardous Planet Through Communication, Dissemination, and Application of Research Results
Primary Convener:  Janine Krippner, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Conveners:  Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and Kenneth W Hudnut, USGS, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Janine Krippner, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States


GH013
GeoHealth Research in the Global South: Themes and Priority Research Questions
Primary Convener:  Felix Kwabena Donkor, University of South Africa (UNISA), College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Johannesburg, South Africa
Conveners:  Kevin K Mearns, UNISA, CAES, Johannesburg, South Africa and Ram Krishna Mazumder, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Civil Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ram Krishna Mazumder, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Civil Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States


GH014
Global Warming and Public Health: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaption by Earth Observations
Primary Convener:  Yuei-An Liou, National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Kanagawa, Japan
Convener:  Kim-Anh Nguyen, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Primary Liaison:  Kevin Czajkowski, University of Toledo, Geography and Planning, Toledo, OH, United States


GH015
Impact of atmospheric transformation and ageing on the toxicity of anthropogenic and biogenic aerosols
Primary Convener:  Vishal Verma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Manabu Shiraiwa, University of California Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, United States and Arthur W. H. Chan, University of Toronto, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Vishal Verma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


GH016
Impacts of Mining on Human and Planetary Health
Primary Convener:  Karen Hudson-Edwards, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom
Convener:  Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Karen Hudson-Edwards, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom


GH017
Integrating Human Response into Air Pollution Studies
Primary Convener:  Cesunica Elizabeth Ivey, University of California Riverside, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Haofei Yu, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States and Fernando Garcia Menendez, North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cesunica Elizabeth Ivey, University of California Riverside, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Riverside, CA, United States


GH018
Measurement technologies for health relevant metrics of airborne fine dust and toxic gases
Primary Convener:  Ralf Zimmermann, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Conveners:  Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and Wolfgang F. Rogge, University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wolfgang F. Rogge, University of California Merced, Merced, United States


GH019
Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping of GeoHealth Indicators for Environmental Pathogens
Primary Convener:  Zhiqiang Deng, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States; Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Convener:  S Sherchan, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Zhiqiang Deng, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States


GH020
Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Health Impacts of Fire Emissions
Primary Convener:  Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States and Allison E Baer, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


GH021
Multi-hazard Health Disasters: Exploring the Causes, Consequences, and Remediation of Compound Health-impacting Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States
Conveners:  Hunter Jones, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States


GH022
PFAS Multi-media Measurements and Methods, Systems-level Fate, Transport, and Exposure Modeling, Human and Ecosystem Health, Remediation, and Science Communication
Primary Convener:  Kiran Alapaty, Environmental Protection Agency Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Conveners:  E Laurence Libelo1, Susan Glassmeyer2 and Marc Mills2, (1)US EPA, Arlington, VA, United States(2)US EPA, Cincinnati, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kiran Alapaty, Environmental Protection Agency Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


GH023
Satellites at the Intersection of Health and Air Quality: Seeing What You Breathe and Understanding Disease Exposures: NASA Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Public Health, Air Quality, Environmental Management, and Public Outreach
Primary Convener:  Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and John A. Haynes
Conveners:  John Haynes, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Washington, DC, United States and John A. Haynes
Primary Liaison:  Sue M Estes, NASA/UAH, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and John A. Haynes


GH024
The Grand Challenge of Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease from Legacy, Current, and Emerging Pollutants
Primary Convener:  Gabriel Michael Filippelli, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Convener:  Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom


GH025
Towards Healthy Resilient Communities: Public Health Impacts of Infrastructure Failures during Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Amin Kiaghadi, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Hanadi S Rifai, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Adrienne L. Katner, Louisiana State University, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hanadi S Rifai, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX, United States


GH026
Water in the Coupled Earth-Human System: Convergent science addressing societal water and health needs
Primary Convener:  Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Winston Yu, The World Bank & IWMI, Washington, DC, United States, Elise Pendall, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751, NSW, Australia and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States


GH027
Water is Life: Geogenic Groundwater Contamination and Public Health
Primary Convener:  Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
Conveners:  Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Mohammad A Hoque, University of Portsmouth, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, Portsmouth, United Kingdom and Katya Cherukumilli, University of Washington Seattle, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States


B029
Centennial: Biogeophysics - New Frontiers for Understanding Subsurface Microbial Processes from Their Geophysical Signatures
Primary Convener:  Estella A Atekwana, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States and Chi Zhang, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States


B049
Fate and Effects of Metals, Organic Matters, and Other Emerging Environmental Contaminants
Primary Convener:  Minming Cui, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Wenhong Fan, Beihang University, Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China and Jian Xu, CRAES Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Minming Cui, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States


ED012
Citizen Science: Increasing Diversity and Supporting Participant Action and Activism
Primary Convener:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, Tucson, AZ, United States
Convener:  Richard Hechter, University of Manitoba, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States


ED040
Making Science Relevant: Strategies for Communicating about Science to Broad Audiences
Primary Convener:  Regina Brinker, PolarTREC, Livermore, CA, United States
Convener:  Janet Warburton, ARCUS, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Regina Brinker, PolarTREC, Livermore, CA, United States


GC016
Climate, Wildfires, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Convener:  Marshall Burke, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States


GC018
Co-developed and co-implemented: Advancing transdisciplinary approaches to global change challenges
Primary Convener:  Erica Key, Belmont Forum, Montevideo, Uruguay
Conveners:  Heide Hackmann, International Science Council, Paris, France, Tobias Buser, Network for Transdisciplinary Research, td-net, Bern, Switzerland and Hilary Bradbury, SDG Transformations Forum Learning Futures Working Group, AR+, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States


GC021
Connecting cause and effect in data-driven analyses of coupled human and geophysical systems
Primary Convener:  Morgan C Levy, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Marc Muller, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States
Primary Liaison:  Morgan C Levy, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


GC033
Environmental changes and human migration: advances in data, modeling, and analysis
Primary Convener:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, Palisades, NY, United States and David Griffith, East Carolina University, Anthropology, Greenville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


GC045
Incorporating Human Sciences into Geophysical and Biophysical Global Change Research to Tackle Challenges at the Nexus of Food Insecurity, Water Scarcity, Human Health, and Conflict
Primary Convener:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Regan, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States


GC068
Quantifying impacts in socio-environmental systems through the application of remote sensing and machine learning
Primary Convener:  Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tamma Carleton, University of Chicago, Economics, Chicago, IL, United States and Jonathan Proctor, University of California Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC095
Water and Environment Challenges under a Changing Climate over the high-Himalayan Mountains, Nepal.
Primary Convener:  Kirsten N Nicholson, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States
Conveners:  Subodh Sharma, Kathmandu University, Aquatic Ecology, Dhulikhel, Nepal, Klaus Neumann, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States and Bangshuai Han, Ball State University, Geography, Muncie, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kirsten N Nicholson, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States


H064
Geogenic Contamination in the Groundwater System: Advances (and Challenges) in Assessment, Water Quality Modeling, Uncertainty, and Water Supply Management
Primary Convener:  Basant Yadav, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Pankaj Kumar Gupta, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Environment, Waterloo, Canada, Julian Koch, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark and Katherine Marie Ransom, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Basant Yadav, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom


H121
Science to Action: Broadening Hydrology Research Impacts through Engagement
Primary Convener:  Caitlyn A Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Anna Hermes, University of Colorado at Boulder, Environmental Studies Program, Boulder, CO, United States, Julia Guimond, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States and Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anna Hermes, University of Colorado at Boulder, Environmental Studies Program, Boulder, CO, United States


IN044
Technical, Social, and Ethical Dimensions of using Crowdsourced Data for Research and Practice
Primary Convener:  Carolynne Hultquist, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Convener:  Courtney Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, Geography, State College, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carolynne Hultquist, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States


U017
The Global Scientific Legacy of the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens—a 40-year Perspective
Primary Convener:  Jon J Major, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States and Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Jon J Major, US Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States


V044
Scientific and Societal Legacies of Volcanic Eruptions
Primary Convener:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jon J Major, US Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States; USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States and Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States