Session 5 |
| | Human Biometeorology: Modeling and Prediction |
| | Chair: Mark D. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Seasonal climate prediction for the UK health sector: results from the UK NERC COAPEC project
Glenn R. McGregor, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | An Analysis of Possible Climate Change Impacts on Human Mortality in South Central Canada  
Chad Shouquan Cheng, MSC, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON, Canada; and H. Auld, G. Li, J. M. Klaassen, Q. Li, N. Comer, M. Campbell, N. Day, D. Pengelly, and S. Gingrich |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Using a dynamic population model of the Lyme disease vector to identify risk areas for Lyme disease spread in the face of climate change
Nick Hume Ogden, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada; and M. Bigras-Poulin, C. J. O'Callaghan, I. K. Barker, L. R. Lindsay, A. Maarouf, K. E. Tomic, D. Waltner-Toews, and D. Charron |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Impact of climate and agriculture on enteric illness in Atlantic Canada: toward a climate change adaptation strategy
James E Valcour, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; and D. Waltner-Toews, D. Charron, O. Berke, and T. Edge |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Cryptococcus gattii, a tropical pathogen emerging in a temperate climate zone
Karen H. Bartlett, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and M. Fyfe, L. MacDougall, C. Duncan, S. Mak, and S. Kidd |