GeoHealth



GH001
Advances in Interactions of Air Quality and Public Health Using Integrated Modeling Frameworks
Primary Convener:  Yaoxian Huang, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States
Conveners:  Yang Liu, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States and Yuqiang Zhang, Duke University, Durham, United States


GH002
Bringing Health to the Room Where it Happens: Incorporating Health and Equity into Climate Policies and Planning.
Primary Convener:  Katelyn O'Dell, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States and Kelsey Bilsback, PSE Healthy Energy, Oakland, United States


GH003
Challenges and opportunities to improve impact assessments of climate change on human health: Considering current and future population characteristics.
Primary Convener:  Ruthie Burrows, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Geography, Environment, & Society, Minneapolis, United States
Conveners:  Maryia Bakhtsiyarava1, Ramarao Mandavilli2 and Saravanan Arunachalam2, (1)University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, United States(2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


GH004
Decision Support Applications for Public Health Surveillance using NASA Earth Observations
Primary Convener:  Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Laura Margaret Judd, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Jenny Bratburd, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jenny Bratburd, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States


GH005
Early Warning Systems for Infectious Disease Based on Climate and Environmental Variability
Primary Convener:  Moiz Usmani, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, St Louis, MO, United States and Thanh H Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


GH006
Geospatial Data Applications for Environmental Justice
Primary Convener:  Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Qian Xiao, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


GH007
Global Hotspots related to Environmental Change and Health Impacts
Primary Convener:  Ramesh P Singh, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Mandi, India
Conveners:  Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Michael C Wimberly, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States; University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States and Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States


GH008
Healthy Cities Under Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Bianca Corpuz, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin F Zaitchik1, Susan Anenberg2, Gaige Hunter Kerr2 and Ben Zaitchik3, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States(2)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States(3)Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States


GH009
Impacts of Biomass and Crop residue burning on Clean Air, Public Health, and Climate
Primary Liaison:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology,, Orange, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
Convener:  Sachiko Hayashida, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Aakash Project, Kyoto, Japan


GH010
Linking Humans to the Environment: Towards Better Measurement of Exposure in Human-Environment Research
Primary Convener:  Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Ruthie Burrows
Conveners:  Ruthie Burrows, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Geography, Environment, & Society, Minneapolis, United States, Nina Brooks, University of Connecticut, Public Policy, Groton, CT, United States, Shrad Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and Ruthie Burrows
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ruthie Burrows, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Geography, Environment, & Society, Minneapolis, United States and Ruthie Burrows


GH011
Local and Long-range transport of Dust on Coastal Ecology, Human Health, Snow/Glaciers, and Associated Hazards
Primary Convener:  Velu Vinoj, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
Convener:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology,, Orange, CA, United States


GH012
Mental Health and Conflict Consequences of Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Identifying Pathways, Challenges, and Interventions
Primary Convener:  Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States
Conveners:  Jane Wilson Baldwin, University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and Robbie M Parks, Columbia University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States


GH013
Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping of GeoHealth Indicators for Harmful Algal Blooms and Environmental Pathogens
Primary Convener:  Zhiqiang Deng, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and James H. Diaz
Conveners:  James H. Diaz, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, United States, Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States and James H. Diaz
Student/Early Career Convener:  Saber Aradpour, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, United States and James H. Diaz


GH014
Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Fire Emissions, Smoke, and Their Health Impacts
Primary Convener:  Allison E Bredder, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States and Robin Puett, University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, College Park, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Allison E Bredder, University of Maryland, College Park, United States


GH015
PFAS Multi-media Measurements, Methods, and Systems-level Fate and Transport
Primary Convener:  Kiran Alapaty, Environmental Protection Agency Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Convener:  Saravanan Arunachalam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


GH016
Physics-based and data-driven methods to quantify and mitigate human health risk from outdoor air pollution
Primary Convener:  Paola Crippa, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States
Conveners:  Mercedes Bravo, Duke University, Durham, United States and Richad Marcantonio, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mariana Alifa, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States


GH017
Recent Advances in GeoHealth
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Stowell, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Convener:  Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States


GH018
Statistical Methods, Machine Learning, and Big Data in GeoHealth
Primary Convener:  Kimberly A. Kaufeld, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Statistical Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Convener:  Morgan E. Gorris, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Laura Albrecht, Colorado School of Mines, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Golden, CO, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Statistical Sciences, Los Alamos, United States


GH019
The Effect Extreme Heat, Heat Waves and Urban Heat Islands on Public Health: Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaption, and Mitigation
Primary Convener:  Yuei-An Liou, National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Kanagawa, Japan and Chuan-Yao Lin
Conveners:  Kim-Anh Nguyen, National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Kanagawa, Japan, Chuan-Yao Lin, Research Center for Environmetal Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan and Chuan-Yao Lin


GH020
The influence of environmental/climatic, social, economic, and policy factors on the incidence, propagation, and impact of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19.
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, KBR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Washington, DC, United States and Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States


GH021
Understanding the Interactions between Climate Change, Air Quality and Health Disparities
Primary Convener:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Noah C Scovronick, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States and Mark Budolfson, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Justice, Piscataway, United States


GH022
Water and health in a volatile climate: science-based strategies for equitable well-being in a water secure future
Primary Convener:  Saskia Nowicki, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  May Sule, Cranfield University, Water Science Institute, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom and Behailu Birhanu, Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Student/Early Career Convener:  Florence Tanui, University of Nairobi, Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya


A014
Air pollution, greenhouse gases and emissions in Asia and its interactions with the world
Primary Convener:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Zhifu Mi, University College London, Bartlett, London, United Kingdom, Bo Zheng, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China and Mingxi Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mingxi Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China


GC032
Dynamics of Flooding, Pollution and Urbanization in Watersheds
Primary Convener:  Maruthi Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Johnbull Dickson, Florida International University, Applied Research Center, Miami, FL, United States and Felica Davis, Texas Southern University, Environmental and interdisciplinary Sciences, Channelview, TX, United States


GC052
Integrating Earth Observations and Socioeconomic Data for a Sustainable Human Planet: Challenges, Opportunities and Priorities
Primary Convener:  Cascade Tuholske, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Andrea E Gaughan, University of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, KY, United States and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
Student/Early Career Convener:  Andrea E Gaughan, University of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, KY, United States


GC077
Soil, Water Conservation, and Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture Technologies for Food Security
Primary Convener:  Maruthi Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Syam Dodla, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States and Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, Florida International University, Miami, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sanku Dattamudu, Florida International University, Miami, United States


OS010
Harmful Sargassum Blooms in the Tropical Atlantic : in situ observation, remote sensing, forecast and management
Primary Convener:  Anastasia Tarasenko, Meteo-France, CMS, Lannion, France
Convener:  Ludivine Goujon, Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie, Marseille, France
Student/Early Career Convener:  Marine Laval, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille Cedex 09, France


SY010
Cumulative Exposures and Community-Based Science: Odor, Chemicals, Air pollutants, Noise, and More
Primary Convener:  Sahil Bhandari, University of British Columbia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conveners:  Ashley Monika Collier-Oxandale, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, Timothy Rodgers, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Priyanka deSouza, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Timothy Rodgers, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada