As we enter the wildfire season in the northern hemisphere, the potential for a dangerous interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and smoke pollution should be recognized and acknowledged. This is challenging because the public health threat of COVID-19 is...
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Person: Henderson
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This webinar from the APHA Center for Climate, Health and Equity discussed wildfire smoke and its public health impacts with a focus on health equity. Presenters:
- Described the public health impacts of wildfire smoke.
- Identified...
Person: Patel, Barrett, Cascio, Nootz
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Aerosols emitted from wildfires could significantly affect global climate through perturbing global radiation balance. In this study, the Community Earth System Model with prescribed daily fire aerosol emissions is used to investigate fire aerosols’...
Person: Jiang, Yang, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Wang, Li, Wang, Lu
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Energy National Research Program is working to assess the impact and improve our understanding of air pollution morbidity and mortality in vulnerable populations, including individuals with...
Person: Cascio, Rappold, Ward-Caviness
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
In recent years, smoke from wildland fires has affected populations both near and far from the fire locations. A public health response to smoke intrusion presents a complex challenge, and many communities are aiming to develop effective smoke...
Person: Rappold, Hano
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Exposure to air pollution can irritate the lungs, cause inflammation, and alter immune function, making it more difficult to fight respiratory infections such as COVID-19. Wildfire smoke is a complex mixture of different air pollutants that causes...
Person: Henderson, Carlsten
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
An objective method, employing HYSPLIT back-trajectories and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) fire observations, is developed to estimate ozone enhancement in air transported from regions of active forest fires at 18 ozone sounding...
Person: Moeini, Tarasick, McElroy, Liu, Osman, Thompson, Parrington, Palmer, Johnson, Oltmans, Merrill
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Broadband high-speed absorption spectroscopy using swept-wavelength external cavity quantum cascade lasers (ECQCLs) is applied to measure multiple pyrolysis and combustion gases in biomass burning experiments. Two broadly-tunable swept-ECQCL systems...
Person: Phillips, Myers, Johnson, Weise
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A webinar delivered to the NWCG Smoke Committee by Dianna Sampson on 21 May 2020. The new fire reporting system, Interagency Fire Occurrence Reporting Modules (InFORM), is designed to modernize and streamline wildfire reporting by providing a single,...
Person: Sampson
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Central to public health risk communication is understanding the perspectives and shared values among individuals who need the information. Using the responses from a Smoke Sense citizen science project, we examined perspectives on the issue of...
Person: Hano, Prince, Wei, Hubbell, Rappold
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES