GH34B:
Using NASA's Satellite and Suborbital Measurements and Modeling for Health and Air Quality Applications I


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Session ID#: 60104

Session Description:
Recognizing the importance of tailoring content to a variety of audiences, NASA’s Public Health & Air Quality Program takes a multi-pronged approach to expand the reach of satellite remotely sensed data to the applications community. NASA maintains a diverse constellation of Earth observing research satellites and sponsors research in developing satellite data applications across a wide spectrum of areas including environmental health; infectious disease; air quality standards, policies, and regulations; and the impact of climate change on health and air quality. Successfully providing predictions with the accuracy, latency, and specificity required by decision makers will require advancements over current capabilities in a number of interrelated areas. These areas include observations, modeling systems, forecast development, application integration, and the research to operations transition process. This session will bring together data providers (NASA) and data users (other agencies, academia, private organizations) to share ideas about maximizing  satellite data for societal benefit.
Primary Convener:  Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Ali H Omar, NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and John Haynes, NASA Headquarters, Earth Action Program, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Ali H Omar, NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector born diseases [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using NASA’s Satellite for Modeling of Health and Air Quality Applications (374995)
Sue M Estes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, John Haynes, NASA Headquarters, Earth Action Program, Washington, United States and Ali H Omar, NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
Heat Warning Decision Support System Enhancements in New York State Using Satellite Derived Estimates of Air Temperature (379937)
Maury Gordon Estes Jr1, Tabassum Insaf2, Temilayo E. Adeyeye3, Neil Stuart4, Stephen DiRienzo4, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan5 and William L Crosson5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA Ecological Conservation Program, Huntsville, United States, (2)New York State Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Albany, NY, United States, (3)Department of Health New York State, Albany, NY, United States, (4)NOAA, Albany, NY, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States
Toward cholera free nations: How NASA satellites helped in real time disease forecasting in Yemen (442326)
Dr. Antarpreet Singh Jutla, PhD, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Ali S Akanda, University of Rhode Island, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, United States
Modeling and Predicting Enteric Infectious Disease Burden Using Hydrometeorological Estimates Derived from Earth-Observing Satellites and Model-Based Reanalysis (360187)
Josh Michael Colston, University of Virginia, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Charlottesville, United States, Ben M Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Hamada S Badr, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Jim Nelson, Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, Margaret N Kosek, University of Virginia, Medicine, Charlottesville, United States and The MAL-ED Network
Using satellite-derived surface concentrations to estimate the mortality associated with ambient air pollution in cities worldwide (369765)
Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, Ploy Achakulwisut, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michael Brauer, University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Daven K Henze, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Patrick L Kinney, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States and Casey Kalman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States
Air quality forecasts using the NASA GEOS composition model (432377)
Christoph Andrea Keller1, K. Emma Knowland2, Bryan N Duncan3, Melanie B Follette-Cook1, Junhua Liu4, Julie M Nicely5, Brad Weir6, Krzysztof Wargan1, Lesley Ott7, Steven Pawson7, Kevin Cromar8 and Felipe Mandarino9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (8)New York University, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States, (9)City of Rio de Janeiro, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil
Reducing Uncertainties in Retrospective Air Quality Simulations through the Use of Satellite Observations (444405)
Arastoo Pour Biazar1, Maudood N Khan2, Andrew White2, Richard T McNider2 and Bright Dornblaser3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Technical Analysis Division MC-164, Austin, TX, United States
Quantitative Maps Describing Respirable Particle Episodes in the San Joaquin Valley Using Moderate Resolution Satellite Imagery (452598)
Robert B Chatfield, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Meytar Sorek-Hamer, NASA Ames Research Center, USRA, Moffett Field, United States, Robert F Esswein, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, NASA Ames Earth Science, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Alexei Lyapustin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Yujie Wang, UMD, College Park, United States
Linking Satellite Data to the “One Health” Approach (443343)
Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters, Earth Action Program, Washington, DC, United States, John Haynes, NASA Headquarters, Earth Action Program, Washington, United States and Sue M Estes, NASA/UAH, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States

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