GH11D:
The Value and Impact of Environmental and Human Health Indicators for Environmental Decision Makers Posters


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Session ID#: 44390

Session Description:
Indicators are an interdisciplinary medium for conveying the status and trends of environmental and human health conditions over time.  Often of national and international importance, indicators offer objective, scientific evidence for making sound decisions.  Indicators also serve as key measures for communicating and managing past, present, and future ecological and public health concerns.  This session will feature presentations on recent advances in indicator development, application, interpretation, and prediction, with an emphasis on the value and impact of indicators in environmental health decisions.  Presentations will provide the context and purpose for using indicators and examples of indicator analyses and visualizations.  The session will build awareness of both national and international indicator efforts and allow for a productive exchange of information among indicator practitioners.
Primary Convener:  Meridith M Fry, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, United States
Conveners:  Kevin Summers, Environmental Protection Agency Gulf Breeze, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, FL, United States and Scot Hagerthey, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Meridith M Fry, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Meridith M Fry, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, United States and Scot Hagerthey, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Scot Hagerthey, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
0434 Data sets [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0498 General or miscellaneous [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Methodology for Assessing Community Vulnerability to Pollutant Releases from Waste Management Facilities Due to Extreme Events: Case Studies from Waterbury, CT and Phoenix, AZ (361317)
Michael Schmeltz, California State University East Bay, Public Health, Hayward, CA, United States, Paramita Sinha, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, United States and Susan Julius, U.S. EPA, ORD, Washington DC, DC, United States
Heart Attack Mortalities Elucidated through North Atlantic Climate Patterns (363737)
Haris Majeed, University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science, Toronto, ON, Canada, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and John G. Coles, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto, Canada
Connecting Environmental Futures with Environmental Decision-making (Invited) (376227)
David Gibbs, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., United States and Joe Flotemersch, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, United States
Quantifying the Impacts of Diesel Truck Regulations on Environmental Equity and Justice in an Urban Freight Corridor (456415)
Regan Patterson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Robert Harley, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States

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