Joint Session 6 NASA Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Health: Looking at Predicting Extreme Environmental Events and How it Affects Health

Wednesday, 9 January 2019: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs:
Sue M. Estes, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL and John A. Haynes, NASA, NASA Applied Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Health providers and researchers need environmental data to study and understand the geographic, environmental, and meteorological differences in how extreme events affect disease. Satellite remote sensing of the environment offers a unique vantage point that can fill in the gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease. This presentation will demonstrate NASA’s applied science programs efforts to transition from research to operations to benefit society.

Satellite Earth observations present a unique vantage point of the Earth's environment from space, which offers a wealth of health applications for the imaginative investigator. The presentation is directly related to Earth Observing Systems and Global Health Surveillance and will present research results of the remote sensing environmental observations of Earth and health applications, which can contribute to the health research.

As part of NASA's approach and methodology, they have used Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Health Models to provide a method for bridging gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease.

 

This presentation will provide a venue to present results of both research and practice using satellite Earth observations to study weather and its role in health research and the transition to operational end users.

Papers:
2:00 PM
J6.3
Assessment of Ozone Production and Accumulation over Lake Michigan
Arastoo Pour Biazar, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, K. Doty, A. T. White, Y. Wu, M. Qin, M. T. Odman, S. McKeen, P. Lee, and E. Knipping

2:15 PM
J6.4
Toward Cholera-Free Nations: How NASA Satellites Help Track Pathogenic Vibrios
Antar Jutla, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and R. Colwell
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