The Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) works to connect NASA satellite data and products with public health experts and air quality managers. Our team of 14 PIs and 70+ total collaborating investigators has grown to support and serve hundreds of organizations across the U.S. and around the world. Our public meetings are opportunities to grow these two-way dialogues in which stakeholders share their research needs and priorities, and scientists share their resources, insights, and new discoveries.
HAQAST Utah was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-20, 2023 at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. In this public meeting we discussed environmental justice, TEMPO, satellite-derived PM2.5, ground-level ozone, fires, dust, and heat, health impacts of air pollution, and more!
This meeting was an opportunity for sharing updates and new results, networking, and discussion.
October 19th
- Session 1A: Overview of NASA
HAQAST - Session 2A – Focus on the West: Drying Lakes, Dust Storms and Health
- Session 2B – Multiple Pollutant Sources and Other Environmental Exposures
- Session 3A – Focus on the West: Exposures and Health Impacts from Wildland Fires
- Session 3B – Comparing Models and Observations: Strength and Limitations of Satellite Data
- Session 4A – Emissions from Mobile Sources, Commercial Transportation, and Inland Ports
- Session 4B – Examining Exposure and Health Inequalities: Defining Environmental Justice in the context of Outdoor Air Pollution
October 20th
- Session 5A – Complementing Low-Cost PM2.5 Monitoring – How can satellite data provide value to community organizations and cities?
- Session 5B – State Planning for Ozone -National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Other Federal Rules
- Session 6 Flash Talks: Data Products and Tools
- Session 7 & Closing Remarks From Measurement to Action: Translating Data to Decision-Making
Posters
Molly Blakowski (Utah State University)
Great Salt Lake dust contains bioavailable metals that may affect human health through direct ingestion or accumulation in food crops
Sarah Hafer-Martin (NASA, ASDC)
ASDC Tools and Services
Yun Hang (The University of Texas Health Center at Houston)
Atmospheric Elemental Carbon Pollution and Its Regional Health Disparities in China
Nora Hartnett (Loyola University Chicago)
Investigating the Impacts of Smoke on Fine Particle Pollution in Chicago
Giovanna Henery and Dustin Tucker (Colorado State University)
#CatchingFire: Gen Z knowledge, perceptions, and social media sharing behavior about FL sugarcane
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John Horel (University of Utah)
Monitoring Air Quality in Northern Utah Using Fixed and Mobile Sensors
Thomas Huang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Integrated Air Quality Information Platform
Nathan Jester (NASA ASDC)
Atmospheric Science Data Center’s Suborbital Tools and Services
Meryl Kruskopf (University of Alabama, Huntsville/ NASA SERVIR)
Breathing Easy: How SERVIR Applies Research to Address Air Quality Challenges in Data Scarce Regions
Julianne Liu (NASA DEVELOP)
NASA DEVELOP’s Approach to Leveraging Earth Observations for Environmental Justice at the Great Salt Lake and in the San Joaquin Valley.
Hazem Mahmoud (NASA ASDC)
Evaluating Diurnal Ozone Emissions: A Comparative Analysis of DSCOVR EPIC, PANDORA, and TOLNet Data for Space-Based Monitoring Assessment: A Case Study by ASDC
Aryiana Moore (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Pinpointing Ports: Comparing CMAQ Modelling with Satellite and Ground Observations to Understand Current Capabilities for Assessing Port-Related Air Quality Impact
Greg Osterman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
The Tropospheric Ozone and its Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) project: An update on data products, data availability and science results.
Suhung Shen (George Mason University and NASA GES DISC)
Data and Services at GES DISC for HAQAST
R. Scott Van Pelt (USDA)
Salinity Effects on the Threshold Wind Velocity Necessary to Initiate Erosion
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