GH006
Geospatial Data Applications for Environmental Justice
Session ID#: 158057
Session Description:
Environmental determinants of health (chemical and non-chemical) are often unevenly distributed across populations, leading to disproportionate exposures and health risks among marginalized communities. Environmental justice is defined by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council as “the just treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, or ability, with respect to the development, implementation, enforcement, and evaluation of laws, regulations, programs, policies, practices, and activities, that affect human health and the environment.” Novel geospatial technologies, data, and algorithms are transforming our ability to monitor, track, and assess exposures to environmental hazards at locally-relevant scales. Earth observing satellites, low-cost monitors, mobile sensors, models, citizen science monitoring, and distributed networks of connected devices are increasingly providing high spatial resolution and more complete geographic coverage of environmental conditions. This unprecedented data availability is opening new avenues for mapping and analysis to characterize disparities in the distributions of environmental stressors between population subgroups that have different ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, gender, immigration status, incarceration status, and other characteristics. This session will feature research that develops and applies these novel geospatial technologies and data for understanding and addressing environmental injustice.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector-borne diseases [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
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
Scaling InMAP with Satellite-Derived Data for Environmental Justice Applications (1045162)
Ciaran Gallagher1, Tracey Holloway1, Christopher Tessum2, Clara M. Jackson3 and Colleen Heck3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Leveraging Novel High-Resolution NO2 Datasets to Fill Blind Spots from NO2 Monitors and Address Environmental (In)justice (1055691)
Gaige Hunter Kerr1, Barron H. Henderson2, Perry Hystad3, Daniel L Goldberg4 and Susan Anenberg1, (1)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, (2)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Residential and Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States (1058229)
Kai Chen1, Mitchell Manware2, Daniel Carrión2, Yiqun Ma1 and Robert Dubrow1, (1)Yale University, Yale School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, United States
Air Monitor Siting for Multiple Objectives: Combining Geospatial Mapping and Community Priorities to Site a High-Density Network in Providence, RI USA (1068274)
Meg Fay1, Wendell W Walters2, Grace Berg3, Srivasudha Jayanthi4, Olivia McClain4 and Meredith Galanter Hastings2, (1)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and Department of Chemistry, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, United States, (3)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, United States, (4)Brown University, Providence, United States
Data-driven placement of PM2.5 air quality sensors in the United States: an approach to target urban environmental injustice (1068896)
Makoto Michael Kelp, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Timothy C Fargiano, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Samuel Lin, Harvard University, Computer Science, Cambridge, United States, Tianjia Liu, University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Nathan Kutz, University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics, Seattle, United States and Loretta J. Mickley, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Baltimore's Urban Heat Island: Disparate Exposures to Extreme Heat (1091574)
Bianca Corpuz, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States and Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States
Assessing Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors of Urban Flood Vulnerability in Kansas City, Kansas (1095067)
Hadwynne Gross, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, Marissa Rene Castillo, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, NASA DEVELOP, Hampton, United States, Eric Sjöstedt, West Virginia University, Forestry & Natural Resources, Morgantown, WV, United States and Raychell Velez, Bronx, NY, UNITED STATES
Assessing Health Risks of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Marginalized Fenceline Communities in Southeast Pennsylvania, USA (1109742)
Carolyn Gigot1, Andrea Chiger2, Ellis Shipley Robinson2, Mary Fox3, Mina Tehrani2, Kirsten Koehler2, Ana Rule2, Thomas A Burke2, Peter DeCarlo2 and Keeve E Nachman2, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, United States
Disproportionate Heat Exposure in Atlanta (1117367)
Zanyah Williams, Department of Environmental & Health Sciences, Spelman College, Elon, United States and Guanyu Huang, Department of Environmental & Health Sciences, Spelman College, Atlanta, United States
Climate, Environment, Neighborhood, & Health: Pediatric Asthma in Kansas City (1121799)
Elizabeth J Wesley1, Nathaniel A Brunsell1, Dave A Rahn1 and Jarron M Saint Onge2, (1)University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Sociology/Population Health, Lawrence, KS, United States
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks in Wayne County, MI: Exploring Environmental Remediation (1131751)
Brendan Francis O'Leary1, Carol J Miller1, Alex Hill2, Colleen Linn2, Mei Lu3, Andrew Newman2, Felice Gianluca Sperone4 and Qiong Zhang3, (1)Wayne State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Detroit, MI, United States, (2)Wayne State University, Anthropology, Detroit, United States, (3)Henry Ford Health, Public Health Sciences, Detroit, United States, (4)Wayne State University, Geology, Detroit, United States
Multi-dimensional urban environmental justice analysis: exploring patterns, synergies, and trade-offs in Metro Vancouver (1133910)
Shuoqi Ren, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Amanda Giang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Temperature Sensitivity of Peaking Time and Behavior of Individual Electricity Users in Southern California (1152994)
Andrew Jin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, United States and Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
Demographic and Data Bias in North Carolina Well Water Testing (1157805)
Wesley Hayes1, C. Nathan Jones2, Jacob P Hochard3, Wilson Mize4, Lauren A Eaves5, Kelsey Pieper6 and Rebecca C Fry5, (1)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Alabama, Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, (4)North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (6)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States
Spatial Measurements of PM, VOCs, and Metals to Quantify Community Exposures and Risk: Results from the Hazardous Air Pollution and Monitoring Assessment Project (HAP-MAP) (1172784)
Peter F DeCarlo1, Ellis Robinson1, Mina Tehrani1, Roger Sheu1, Carolyn Gigot2, Andrea Chiger2, Megan Claflin3, Edward Fortner4, Manjula R Canagaratna4, Conner Daube5, Benjamin Werden4, Joseph R Roscioli6, Jordan Krechmer7, Harald Stark4, Scott Van Bramer8, Ana Rule1, Kirsten Koehler1, Scott C. Herndon5, Tara Irene Yacovitch4, Keeve E Nachman1 and Thomas A Burke1, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, (2)Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, (3)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (4)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, United States, (5)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (6)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)Widener University, Chemistry, Chester, United States
Assessment of the Gulf Coast Environmental Justice Landscape for Equity (AGEJL-4-Equity) (1173620)
David Padgett, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, United States, Nathan Morrow, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States and Beverly Wright, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, New Orleans, United States
Relationships between Air Pollution and Income in Canadian Metropolitan Areas (1175757)
Kelvin Fong1, Christopher Wu2 and Jennifer G Murphy2, (1)Dalhousie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada
NASA Builds Skills to Enable Climate Action (1176289)
Sydney Neugebauer, NASA Capacity Building Program, Hampton, VA, United States, Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Melanie B Follette-Cook, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Brock Blevins, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
NASA Advances Equity and Environmental Justice Efforts (1184854)
Sydney Neugebauer, NASA Capacity Building Program, Hampton, VA, United States, Lauren M Childs-Gleason, NASA DEVELOP Program, Hampton, VA, United States, Yaitza Luna Cruz, NASA, Washington, United States, Aaron Pina, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, D.C., United States, Kenton W Ross, NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Richard Owen Hooks, NASA, Wattsville, United States
