Chairs: Antarpreet Jutla, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Tissa H Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: Antarpreet Jutla, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Co-conveners: Tissa H Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Ali S Akanda, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States and Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Ali S Akanda, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States
4:20 PM
On Spatially Explicit Models of Epidemic and Endemic Cholera: The Haiti and Lake Kivu Case Studies.
Andrea Rinaldo1,2, Enrico Bertuzzo1, Lorenzo Mari3, Flavio Finger1, Renato Casagrandi4, Marino Gatto5 and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe6, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Università di Padova (Italy), ICEA, Padova, Italy, (3)EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)Politecnico di Milano, IEBI, Milano, Italy, (5)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
5:00 PM
Revisiting Cholera-Climate Teleconnections in the Native Homeland: ENSO and other Extremes through the Regional Hydroclimatic Drivers
Ali S Akanda, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, Antarpreet Jutla, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Anwar Huq, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States
5:15 PM
Utilizing Remote Sensing to Explore Hydrological and Climatic Factors of Visceral Leishmaniasis in South Sudan
Andrew Kruczkiewicz1, Alexandra Sweeney1, Caitlin Reid1, Jill Seaman2, Abdinasir Abubakar3, Koert Ritmeijer4, Katherine Jensen5, Ronny Schroeder6, Kyle C McDonald7, Jerrod Lessel1, Madeleine C Thomson1, Dia Elnaiem8 and Pietro Ceccato1, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Alaska Sudan Medical Project, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)World Health Organization, Juba, Sudan, (4)Médecins Sans Frontières, Public Health, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (6)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, (7)CCNY-Earth & Atmos Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (8)University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, Princess Anne, MD, United States
