Joint Session 20 |
| | Climate-Sensitive Diseases: Dust, Meningitis, and Respiratory 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
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| 3:30 PM | J20.3 | WMO research: Global implications of dust on health
Len Barrie, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland |
| 3:45 PM | J20.4 | African dust and emergency pediatric asthma admissions on Barbados
Edmund Blades, Ministry of Public Health, Barbados, Bridgetown, Barbados |
| 4:00 PM | J20.1 | Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) program
Madeleine Thomson, International Research Institute (IRI), Palisades, NY |
| 4:15 PM | J20.2 | CDC program on Meningitis
Tom Clark, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA |
| 4:30 PM | J20.5 | Predictability of the moisture regime associated with the preonset of Sahelian rainfall 
Roberto J. Mera, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC; and F. H. M. Semazzi |
| 4:45 PM | J20.6 | Examining vulnerabilities to thunderstorm-associated asthma in Atlanta, Georgia
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; and A. Grundstein, M. Klein, J. M. Shepherd, L. Naeher, T. L. Mote, and P. E. Tolbert |
| 5:00 PM | J20.7 | A retrospective analysis of the association of dust storms and respiratory hospitalizations in El Paso, Texas, using a case-crossover study design
Yanlei Peng, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and J. G. Staniswalis, S. E. Grineski, and T. E. Gill |
| 5:15 PM | J20.8 | Examining the relationship among meteorology patterns, air pollution and health outcomes for use in assessing climate impacts
Valerie Garcia, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and E. Gego, A. M. Wootten, and S. Rao |