GH010
Linking Humans to the Environment: Towards Better Measurement of Exposure in Human-Environment Research
Session ID#: 161645
Session Description:
Environmental exposures related to extreme weather (e.g., heat waves, floods, droughts) and air pollution can contribute to excess mortality, asthma, infectious diseases, and other ailments. Other environmental exposures â e.g., greenspace â are positively associated with human wellbeing and touted for providing cooler and cleaner air. A persistent challenge in research that uses contextual environmental data and human health outcomes is correctly measuring and modeling exposure. Uncertainty regarding relevant geographic contexts, temporal alignment of exposure and outcome measurement, spatial resolution of the data, and the choice of the datasets can have tremendous implications for studiesâ findings and subsequent policy development. The issue of linking the environment to humans is undoubtedly interdisciplinary, and we invite contributions from a wide array of fields that engage with both sides of the topic â the environment and human â including climate science, ecology, economics, environmental science, epidemiology, geography, and others. We seek studies that advance the measurement and quantification of human exposure to environmental factors by using innovative methodologies and novel datasets based on remotely sensed or gridded data. We welcome studies exploring all types of health outcomes (mortality, respiratory diseases, etc.) and all types of environmental exposures including but not limited to temperature, rainfall, air pollution, and greenspace. Finally, we are particularly interested in studies that address the âwhat nowâ of environment-human interactions from a policy perspective.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
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
What’s That Smell?: Understanding Urban Smellscapes Using Crowd-sourced Data, Monitoring, and Modeling (1057031)
Sahil Bhandari1, Davi Monticelli2, Karen Xie3, Andre Ramkairsingh4, Angela J Eykelbosh5, Sarah B Henderson5, Naomi Zimmerman1 and Amanda Giang6, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, Canada, (5)British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (6)University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Modeling spatiotemporal exposures of heat and wildfire smoke using atmospheric models and satellite remote sensing products (1092365)
Heather Holmes1, Kaiyu Chen1, Jingting Huang1, Sam Faulstich1, Jacob Boomsma2, Jeffrey Lee3, Marcela Loría-Salazar3, Lyndsey Darrow4 and Matthew Strickland4, (1)University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, School of Public Health, Reno, United States
Muddy Waters – Integrating Engineering and Social Science to Measure Household Impacts from Hurricane Exposure on Ocracoke, North Carolina (1093927)
Antonia Sebastian1, Miyuki Hino2, Nikhil Kothegal2, Rick Luettich3, Nathan Dollar2, Anna Gardner2, Rene Iwo2, Bethany Stoutamire2 and Elizabeth Frankenberg4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environment, Ecology and Energy Program, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Selenium in Drinking Water and Cereal Grains, and its Status Measured in Biomarkers of rural Ethiopian Rift Population (1147900)
Tewodros Godebo1, Hannah Stoner2, Pornpimol Kodsup3 and Syprose Nyachoti1, (1)Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Environmental Health Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Environmental Health Sciences, New Orleans, United States, (3)Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Environmental Health Science, New Orleans, United States
Exploring Hazardous Metals Particularly Lead (Pb) in One of The Densely Populated Areas in New York City (1159737)
Aishwari Paul1, Hemwattie Rampersaud2, Amin Ullah2, Turjoy Dhar3 and Ratan Kumar Dhar2, (1)Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, Jamaica, United States, (2)York College of CUNY, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, United States, (3)Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, United States
Assessment of Hazardous Metal Contamination in Public Park Soils of New York (1163103)
Turjoy Dhar1, Toodashwarie Singh2, Jamelia Jordan2, Amin Ullah2, Hemwattie Rampersaud2, Aishwari Paul3 and Ratan Kumar Dhar2, (1)Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, United States, (2)York College of CUNY, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, United States, (3)Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, Jamaica, United States
Association between Residential Greenness and Heart Disease Risk in Indian Women (1166573)
Gautam Saw, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, Sagnik Dey, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India and Luke Knibbs, University of Queensland, School of Public Health, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Spatiotemporal estimates of surface PM2.5 concentrations in the western U.S. using NASA MODIS and VIIRS retrievals and data assimilation techniques (1168224)
Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Jeffrey Lee, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, Cesunica Ivey, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States, Heather Holmes, University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Howard H. Chang, Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States
Facilitating the Integration of U.S. Climate and Human Population Data (Invited) (1177374)
Elizabeth Ackert1, Frank Davenport1, Shrad Shukla2, Kathy Baylis3 and Gabrielle Benoit2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Characteristics and example applications of a novel urban heat island focused gridded meteorology dataset over the contiguous United States (1179294)
Andrew James Newman1, Christina P Kalb2, Tirthankar Chakraborty3, Heather Holmes4, Lyndsey Darrow5, Joshua Warren6, Matthew Strickland5, Howard H. Chang7 and Andrew Monaghan8, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory., Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, United States, (4)University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, School of Public Health, Reno, United States, (6)Yale University, School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States, (7)Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
A Landscape-Process Approach to Assess Potential Human Exposure to Erionite-Rich Dust in Northern Nevada, USA (1186977)
Daniel Mark Saftner1, Steven N Bacon2, Monica M Arienzo3, Karen Schlauch2, Joe Grzymski2 and Michele Carbone4, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, United States, (4)University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
Development of a Flood Risk Framework in Context to Public Health Across Nebraska, United States. (1188304)
Shivendra Srivastava, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States and Tirthankar Roy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Omaha, United States
Assessing Personal Heat Exposure in Tamil Nadu, India (1197589)
Aniruddha Deshpande, Emory University, Department of Epidemiology, Atlanta, United States, Noah C Scovronick, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, Ajay Pillarisetti, University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, United States, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, (Central Research Facility), Porur, Tamil Nadu, India, Thomas F Clasen, Emory University, Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, Vigneswari Aravinth, Sri Ramachandra Institute for Higher Education and Research, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Air Quality, Climate and Health, Chennai, India and Jennifer L. Peel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
