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Recent and Upcoming Talks

IRID May 31-June 2, 2011, Bethesda, MD
"Developing effective tools to combat low-level schistosomiasis transmission in Sichuan, China"
 
President's Malaria Initiative June 6-10, 2011, Zanzibar
GIS training for PlasmoTrack Malaria Elimination
 
ISEE September 13-16, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
"Mobile Phones as Personal Environmental Sensing Platforms: Development of the CalFit System"

Mobile Monday October 3, 2011, Techmart, Santa Clara
"You Say You Want A Revolution? Mobile Computing Has Arrived"

Fogerty, CDPH, China October 6-11, 2011, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
"Health Impact Assessment Training"

HIA of the Americas October 17-18, 2011, Oakland, CA
"HIA Methods in the U.S. Since 2008 Practice Standards"
"Rcaline — a tool for assessing transportation-related air pollution equity impacts"
"Supplemental Assessment of AB32, California’s Global Warming Solution Act of 2006: Environmental Health Equity Implications of Traffic-Related Particulate Matter Emissions"

UCLA October 20, 2011, Los Angeles, CA
Guest lecture for "Social Determinants of Nutrition and Health"

APHA October 29-November 2, 2011, Washington, DC
"Food Environment Data Sources in Berkeley, California- A Spatial Analysis of Four Data Sources"

TRUST November 2-3, 2011, Washington, DC
"Sensor Systems for Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure: Location-based Privacy Encodings"

RAPIDD November 15-16, 2011, Atlanta, GA
"Quantification of Fine Scale Human Movement: Revisiting Statistical and Mathematical Approaches”
 
ASTMH December 4-8, 2011, Philadelphia, PA
"Evidence for local malaria transmission in the wet season and imported malaria in the dry season in Zanzibar"

USC March 15, 2012, Los Angeles, CA
"Cumulative health impacts of traffic exposure, and new ways to assess these exposures"

National HIA Meeting April 3-4, 2012, Washington, DC
"HIA Methods Used in United States Practice Since 2009"
"Evaluation of HIA Training and Capacity-building in the United States"
"Impacts of Near Roadway Exposures on Neighborhood Health - Challenges in Choosing Metrics for Use in Community and Regional HIA"

Wireless Health 2012 October 22-25, 2012, San Diego, CA

Satellite Remote Sensing Air Pollution

 

Contents

  1. 1 Mission
  2. 2 Research
    1. 2.1 OMI
    2. 2.2 TES
    3. 2.3 Air quality Modeling
  3. 3 Collaborators
  4. 4  Funding

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1 km ozone fields captured from MPEG of July-October
from http://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/visualization/tesmovies/


Mission

The mission of this EPA-funded project is the assess recent advances in satellite remote sensing for the detection of human health-relevant ozone and ozone precursor concentrations and transport phenomenon.  The project incorporates collaborators from NASA Ames and NASA JPL with expertise in OMI, TES, as well as regional air quality modeling expertise from Arizona State University.  The focus of the project is on regional ozone estimation along the US-Mexico Border Region.

 

Research

OMI

The ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) onboard the AURA satellite provides daily data on global total column ozone.  Ongoing research aims to combine data from other satellite instruments to derive tropospheric ozone concentrations from OMI data.


TES

The Troposperic Emission Spectrometer (TES) onboard the AURA satellite provides vertical ozone (and other species) profiles along swaths that cover the earth in its global survey mode, as well as detailed 3D obsevations for specified targets in its step stare mode.


Air quality Modeling

OMI and TES data are being combined using regional air quality modeling (CMAQ) to assess air quality along the border.  Work conducted by the modeling team at ASU has shown good correlation between ground data and RS data-assimilated model results.

 

Collaborators

  • EPA region 9 and 6
  • NASA Ames
  • NASA JPL
  • UC Berkeley School of Public Health
  • UC Riverside
  • Arizona State University
  • Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP)
  • and others

 Funding

  • EPA Advanced Monitoring Initiative