GH018
Measurement technologies for health relevant metrics of airborne fine dust and toxic gases

Session ID#: 77357

Session Description:
Toxic gases (e.g. ozone) and airborne fine Particulate Matter (PM) from anthropogenic and natural sources are causing high number of mortality and morbidity cases (WHO: 8 Mio. excess annual-deaths worldwide). In order to better understand the connection of air pollution to health effects it is important to have suited technologies and concepts to identify and measure relevant aerosol parameters. Depending on the research question e.g. a sensor-array feeding a machine-leaning based software-model to predict spatial of sum-parameter distribution or very specific instrumentation for targeted analysis of relevant chemical species and aerosol properties are required. In this multidisciplinary GEOHEALTH session, we invite researchers working in atmospheric measurement technology development, atmospheric sciences, aerosol physics and chemistry as well as aerosol toxicology to contribute to the discussion on what and how to measure the most biologically relevant parameters of ambient air pollutants in order to better address the health impact of air pollution.
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

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
 
Calibration techniques and performance evaluation of low-cost air pollution monitors at two regulatory sites in Queens, New York City (505943)
Daniel M Westervelt, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Integration of MAIA Satellite-derived Aerosol Properties, Geospatial and Meteorological Data, and Surface-based Pollution Measurements to Map Speciated Airborne Particulate Matter (524464)
David J Diner1, Feng Xu1, Kristal R Verhulst2, Sina Hasheminassab3, Olga V. Kalashnikova2, Yang Liu4, Howard H. Chang5, Jun Wang6, Cui Ge3, Randall Martin7, Meredith Franklin8, Meytar Sorek-Hamer9 and The MAIA Science and Investigation Team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, (4)Emory University, Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, USRA, Moffett Field, United States
 
Understanding the Link between Chemical Composition and Inflammatory Response and Mutagenic Effects of Atmospheric Fine Particulates in Northern China (569407)
Lijuan Li1, Christoph F Vogel1, Norman Kado1, Jianjun Li2, Wenqing Jiang1, Wei Li3 and Qi Zhang4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi'an, China, (3)Biomedical Engineering Institute, School of Control Science and Engineering,Shandong University, Jinan, China, (4)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, United States
 
Fine Scale Spatial Measurement of Air Pollution Exposure in Philadelphia using Mobile Monitoring (585887)
Kabindra M Shakya, Peleg Kremer, Meghan Conway, Radley Reist and Justin Stewart, Villanova University, Geography and the environment, Villanova, PA, United States
 
Atmospheric absorption and adsorption partitioning of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Nitro-PAHs over a rural Indo - Gangetic site (604279)
Puneet KUMAR Verma, Dinesh Sah, K Maharaj Kumari and Anita Lakhani, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Chemistry, Agra, India
 
Developing an Aerosol Air Quality Index for Spacecraft Indoor Environments (624856)
Meytar Sorek-Hamer, Universities Space Research Association, Mountain View, CA, United States; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Marit Meyer, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, United States
 
Spectroscopic analysis of Ginkgo trees associated with adsorption of air pollutants (628884)
Chanhyeok Park1, Jaehyung Yu1 and Bum-Jin Park2, (1)Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Chungnam National University, Dept. of Environment & Forest Resources, Daejeon, South Korea
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