Presidential Forum
First Environment and Health Symposium
Second AMS Conference on International Cooperation in the Earth System Sciences and Services
    

Joint Session 22

 Climate-Sensitive Impacts: Heat Waves and Human Health (Joint between the Presidential Forum, the First Environment and Health Symposium, and the Second AMS Conference on International Cooperation in the Earth System Sciences and Services)
 Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, AMS, Washington, DC
10:30 AMJ22.1CDC: Heat and Human Health  
George Luber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA
10:45 AMJ22.2The incorporation of seasonal and temporal variability in mortality response to hot weather into operational heat watch warning systems (HWWS)  
Scott C. Sheridan, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH
11:00 AMJ22.3EPA's Role in Providing Heat Health Guidance for U.S. Cities  
Jason Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC
11:15 AMJ22.4Spatial assessment of local level vulnerability and adaptive capacity to extreme heat: Integrating Phoenix household surveys into a GIS-based assessment  
Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Hayden, K. Komatsu, and S. Santana
11:30 AMJ22.5Population Health Risk and the Urban Heat Island: The Oklahoma City 2008 Case  
Heather G. Basara, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. K. Hall, J. B. Basara, and B. G. Illston
11:45 AMJ22.6Human health and heat stress: an analysis of neighborhoods in metropolitan Phoenix, AZ  
Darren M. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. L. Harlan, J. Declet, and P. Gober

Wednesday, 20 January 2010: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, B301

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