Session 1 Exertional Heat Illness and Health – from Heat Metrics & Predictions to Practice

Monday, 13 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Host: 11th Conference on Environment and Health
Chair:
Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ., School of Sustainability, Tempe, AZ

Papers:
8:30 AM
.1
Protecting youth athletes in the heat: how a flawed governance system creates unnecessary hurdles to achieve best practices
Douglas J. Casa, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

9:00 AM
.2
Forecasting the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: A Web-Based Tool Designed for Populations Who are Vulnerable to Heat-Related Illnesses.
Sandra Rayne, The Southeast Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC; and C. E. Konrad, J. J. Clark, and D. Bertrand

9:15 AM
.3
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity… and wind and solar. Developing and validating heat exposure products using the United States Climate Reference Network.
Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, NC; and M. A. Palecki and S. Heuser

9:30 AM
.4
Marching to the Heat of a Different Drum
Kevin A. Kloesel, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

9:45 AM
.5
Variations in athlete heat loss potential between hot-dry and warm-humid environments at equivalent WBGT thresholds
Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Grundstein

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