GC13E:
Climate Change Impacts on Human Health and the Environment II Posters

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Session ID#: 25975

Session Description:
Climate change is a threat to human health and the environment, and its impacts are increasing at a rapid rate. Rising temperatures, increasing drought severity, changing patterns in precipitation, increases in extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are exposing more people to public health risks in the US and globally. This session provides a platform for discussion of research into the relationship between climate change and its effects on human health and the environment. Topics include observed and projected climate change and the exposure pathways through which human health is affected such as poor air and water quality, reductions in food quality and availability, changes in infectious disease, and population displacement. Climate related risks to the environment including water resources, infrastructure vulnerability, and interconnections across sectors that can amplify the impacts of climate change also will be discussed.
Primary Convener:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
Conveners:  Ashok Luhar, CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheres, Aspendale, Australia, Silvia Trini Castelli, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy and Jesse Eugene Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, United States
Chairs:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States and Jesse Eugene Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Effect of environmental change on yield and quality of fruits and vegetables: two systematic reviews and projections of possible health effects (220083)
Pauline Scheelbeek1, Frances Bird1, Pete Smith2, Rosemary Green1 and Alan Dangour1, (1)London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Projected regional changes in the characteristics of dry and moist heat waves in the United States derived from downscaled CMIP5 models (225144)
Justin T Schoof, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States
Excessive Heat Events and National Security: Building Resilience based on Early Warning Systems (243655)
Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Investigating mitigation opportunities in coastal wetlands losses of Galveston Bay due to sea level rise (240838)
Dongmin Sun, University of Houston, Clear Lake, Environmental Science, Houston, United States and Hina Imtiaz, University of Houston, Clear Lake, Environmental Science, Houston, TX, United States
The role of atmospheric circulation patterns on short-term sea-level fluctuations along the eastern seaboard of the US (208305)
Scott C Sheridan1, Cameron C Lee1, Douglas Pirhalla2 and Varis Ransi2, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, (2)National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Sea level rise impacts on wastewater treatment systems along the U.S. coasts (285688)
Michelle Hummel, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Matthew Berry, Argonne National Laboratory, Risk and Infrastructure Science Center, Lemont, IL, United States and Mark T Stacey, University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States
Future Extreme Event Vulnerability in the Rural Northeastern United States (272493)
Jonathan Winter1, Fiona L Bowen2, Trevor Partridge3 and Jonathan W Chipman2, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
Influence of Climate Variability on US Regional Homicide Rates (226461)
Ryan D. Harp, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Kristopher B Karnauskas, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Impacts of climate change on heat-related mortality risk across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (246131)
Ali Ahmadalipour, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States
Implications of climate change on winter road networks in Ontario's Far North and northern Manitoba, Canada, based on climate model projections (278321)
Yukari Hori1, Vincent Cheng1 and William A. Gough2, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Changes in Extreme Events and the Potential Impacts on National Security (273849)
Jesse Bell, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, UNITED STATES

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