GH020
Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Health Impacts of Fire Emissions

Session ID#: 80735

Session Description:
Fire is one of the most dominant ecosystem disturbance agents and landscape management tools worldwide.  Biomass burning produces a large volume of pollutants which can be transported over thousands of miles or occur in proximity to populated areas and have a substantial impact within their immediate surroundings.  Previous studies have uncovered evidence of detrimental effects of fire emissions on respiratory, cardiovascular, mental and perinatal health.  With the projected increase in fire occurrence, fire emissions are becoming a prominent public health concern.  The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice has prioritized the development of a framework to monitor and forecast fire impacts of the health of population within its work plan for 2019.  In this session we invite research projects quantifying emissions, atmospheric transport, and exposure levels to wildfire emissions at local to regional scales as well as explicit linkages to health outcomes.
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

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
 
Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Colorado, 2007-2015 (486364)
James Crooks1, Katelyn O'Dell2, Bonne Ford2, Jeffrey R Pierce2, Mona Abdo3, Emily V Fischer2 and Isabella Ward4, (1)National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado School of Public Health, Epidemiology, Aurora, CO, United States, (4)Swedish Medical Center, Arvada, CO, United States
 
Estimating Prescribed Fire Impacts on Air Quality and Human Health in Southeastern U.S. (509765)
Mehmet Talat Odman, Ran Huang, Yongtao Hu and Armistead G Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) in fresh and aged western US wildfire smoke (510133)
Katelyn O'Dell1, Ezra JT Levin1, Rebecca S Hornbrook2, Eric C Apel2, Nicola J Blake3, Alex Jarnot3, John Victor Ortega2, John M Reeves4, Darin W Toohey5, Jeffrey R Pierce1 and Emily V Fischer1, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NCAR, Broomfield, CO, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Quantifying variability in fire-driven PM2.5 concentrations within Alaska during years of low, moderate, and high fire activity (514580)
Tatiana V Loboda1, Nancy H F French2, Dong Chen1, Michael Billmire3 and Allison E Baer1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
 
An Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System for Fire Smoke Exposure and Health Impact Assessment (523004)
Yufei Zou, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Susan O'Neill, US Forest Service, Seattle, United States, Narasimhan K Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States, Ernesto Alvarado, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, United States, Robert C Solomon, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Cliff Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Timothy J Brown, Desert Research Inst, Reno, NV, United States, Armistead G Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Mehmet Talat Odman, Georgia Inst Technology, Alpharetta, GA, United States, Yongtao Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Yang Liu, Emory University, Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and Wildfire-Related Particulate Matter (PM2.5) during 2015-2017 California Wildfires (Invited) (525408)
Sumi Hoshiko1, Caitlin G. Jones1, Ana Rappold2, Jason Vargo3, Wayne Eugene Cascio2, Martin Kharrazi1 and The CARES Surveillance Group, (1)California Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Richmond, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)California Department of Public Health, Office of Health Equity, Richmond, CA, United States
 
Evaluating Fire Emissions Inventories for Modeling Smoke Transport in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (548352)
Samantha Faulstich1, Xia Sun1, Matthew Strickland2 and Heather Holmes1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Environmental Health, Reno, NV, United States
 
Mapping Modeled Exposure of Wildland Fire Smoke for Human Health Studies in California (554392)
Patricia Koman, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michael Billmire, Michigan Technological University, Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, Kirk R Baker, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Ricardo de Majo, University of Michigan, Health Behavior Health Education, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Frank J Anderson, University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Sumi Hoshiko, California Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Richmond, CA, United States, Brian J Thelen, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
 
Impacts of sugarcane fires on air quality and public health in South Florida (562561)
Holly Nowell1, Christopher D Holmes2 and Charles Wirks1, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Connecting land use management, fires, and public health: Demonstration of an online decision support tool for Equatorial Asia (Invited) (566805)
Miriam Marlier1,2, Tianjia Liu3, Karen Yu4, Jonathan Buonocore5, Shannon N Koplitz4, Ruth S DeFries6, Loretta J. Mickley7, Daniel Jacob3,7, Joel Schwartz8, Budi S. Wardhana9 and Samuel Myers10, (1)RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (6)Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States, (7)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States, (9)Badan Restorasi Gambut, Jakarta, Indonesia, (10)Harvard University, Department of Environmental Health, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Air quality and health impacts of an operational prescribed burning program (598845)
Sadia Afrin1, Fernando Garcia Menendez1, Shannon N Koplitz2 and Kirk R Baker2, (1)North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
 
Wildfire smoke and indoor air quality: Mitigation of climate change impacts in city community centers (601197)
Dan A Jaffe1,2, Rebecca Rickett2, Alex Margarito2 and Joelle Hammerstad3, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington Bothell Campus, School of STEM, Bothell, WA, United States, (3)City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Wildfire PM2.5 emissions and respiratory health outcomes in California (607935)
Qingqing Xu1, Anthony Leroy Westerling1, Matthew D Hurteau2, Christine Wiedinmyer3, Kurt Schnier4 and W. Jonathan Baldwin4, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, United States
 
Forest Wildfire at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in June, 2018: Lessons Learned from Coupling of Stationary and Mobile Monitoring with Predictive Modeling of Atmospheric Radioactivity During the Event and Follow-Up Intercomparison of the Modeling Tools (623693)
Mark Zheleznyak1, Mykola Talerko2, Volodymyr Bogorad3, Yaroslav Bulich4, Shigekazu Hirao1, Serhii Kireev4, Ivan Kovalets5, Yuriy Kyrylenko3, Wolfgang Raskob6, Roman Sinkevich7, Thomas Schichtel6, Leonid Tabachnyi8 and Dmytro Trybushnyi6, (1)Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan, (2)Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants, Kiev, Ukraine, (3)State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety, Kiev, Ukraine, (4)State Specialized Enterprise ECOCENTRE, Chernobyl, Ukraine, (5)Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (7)Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problems NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine, (8)Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, Kiev, Ukraine
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