GC016
Climate, Wildfires, and Impacts
Session ID#: 76459
Session Description:
Wildfires pose a threat to human health, animals, plant life, land, and ecosystems in general. Wildfire frequency has been increasing dramatically across the Western US, and is expected to continue to increase as the climate warms. However, despite substantial public policy interest in the impacts of increasing wildfire frequency, there remains a limited understanding of how exposure to smoke from wildfires affects short and long term health and socioeconomic outcomes. This session encourages abstract submissions that use innovative approaches to quantify impacts from wildfire smoke and examine how those effects might change under different climate scenarios.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
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
Considering larger-scale weather phenomena and temporal variation on the global distribution of extreme heat events (EHEs) across 150 most populated metropolitan locations (510596)
Linze Li1, Chengsheng Jiang2, Richard Vico Remigio Sr2, Jiansong Li1, Huan Yang3 and Amir Sapkota2, (1)Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Changjiang Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, Network and Information Center of Changjiang Water Resources Commission, Wuhan, China
Wildfire-smoke aerosols lead to increased light use efficiency among agricultural and restored wetland land uses in California’s Central Valley (555902)
Kyle S Hemes1,2, Joseph G Verfaillie1 and Dennis D Baldocchi1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Woods Institute of the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Wildfire Smoke, Health, and Labor Market Outcomes (Invited) (580255)
David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States and Eric Yongchen Zou, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Is forest management a safeguard against a climate change-altered wildfire regime in the City of Seattle’s largest source watershed? (608076)
Rebecca Gustine1, Erin J Hanan2, Jennifer C Adam1, Jianning Ren1, Elizabeth Garcia3, Amy LaBarge4, Mingliang Liu1, Crystal Kolden5 and John T Abatzoglou6, (1)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States
A Biomonitoring Pilot Study to Characterize Exposure to Environmental Chemicals among Firefighters Who Responded to the 2017 Tubbs Fire (Invited) (620301)
Rachel Morello-Frosch, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jessica Trowbridge, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, United States and Sharyle Patton, Director, Bolinas, United States
Wildfire contributions to particulate matter in the United States (632379)
Sam Heft-Neal1, Marshall Burke2 and Anne M Driscoll1, (1)Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
