GC12A:
Human and Ecosystem Health in a Changing World I

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Session ID#: 15488

Session Description:
Pollutants such as ozone and aerosols substantially impact measures of ecosystem health, including crop yields, biodiversity, and carbon uptake. In turn, changes in ecosystem health and biodiversity lead to changes in biogenic emissions, which influence ozone and aerosol formation.  This session will highlight recent advances in our understanding of the two-way interactions between air quality and ecosystems, via measurements (remote and in-situ) and models. We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to:

  • Advances in measurement and modeling of near-surface ozone, reactive nitrogen and its components, biogenic VOCs, and aerosols and their relationship to ecosystem health on a range of scales
  • Advances in measurements and modeling of plant stress indicators, such as solar-induced fluorescence and evapotranspiration, and their use in understanding properties such as stomatal conductance and crop yield
  • Estimation of biogenic emissions
  • Impacts of air quality on food security and carbon uptake
Primary Convener:  Vivienne Payne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jessica L. Neu1, Allison Ray Crimmins2 and Marcus C Sarofim2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States(2)U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Marcus C Sarofim, U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States and Vivienne Payne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Vivienne Payne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Spatiotemporal trends in human vulnerability to the heat across the United States (Invited) (124969)
Scott C Sheridan, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States and P Grady Dixon, Fort Hays State University, Geosciences, Hays, KS, United States
Assessment of Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases in the United States (Invited) (136557)
Andrew J Monaghan1, Charles B Beard2, Rebecca J Eisen2, Christopher M Barker3, Jada Garofalo2, Micah Hahn2, Mary Hayden1, Nicolas Ogden4 and Paul Schramm5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)University of California Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, Ottawa, Canada, (5)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
Climate Change and Air Pollution-Related Health Impacts in the United States: Assessment of Current Findings (180341)
Patrick Kinney, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Neal Fann, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
Climate Change and Food Safety: Beyond Production (147884)
Lewis H Ziska, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Allison Ray Crimmins, U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States
Impacts of ozone-vegetation coupling and feedbacks on global air quality, ecosystems and food security (154308)
Amos P. K. Tai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Two-way ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of volatile organic compounds: Flux measurements by high-resolution PTR-QiTOF (Invited) (189571)
Dylan B Millet, University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Saint Paul, United States, Hariprasad Dilip Alwe, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St Paul, MN, United States and the PROPHET-AMOS team
Impacts of Species Interactions on Atmospheric Processes (Invited) (127636)
Manuel T. Lerdau1, Bin Wang2, Brynn Cook2, Jessica L. Neu3 and David Schimel4, (1)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
The effect of atmospheric sulfate reductions on diffuse radiation and photosynthesis in the eastern United States (156720)
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Rebecca A Washenfelder, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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