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2022/9/5
『Webinar Series on Global Sustainability ★ Health』Wildfires impact air quality, human health, and climate: the western U.S. and other regions
『Webinar Series on Global Sustainability ★ Health』Wildfires impact air quality, human health, and climate: the western U.S. and other regions
This extreme event challenge is exacerbated as climate conditions changed, populations shift, infrastructure recovers and electricity demands relocate. We conducted a climate-chemistry study on the impacts of air quality by wildfires and their impact on human health in the western US. The study has shown that the wildfire-induced air pollutant concentration changes could be as high as 102 ppb for O3 and 259 μg/m3 for PM2.5 at a local scale in the western United States, under the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) climate scenario. Wildfires induced by climate change increasingly cause a rise in air pollution and a human health impact. Future projections of wildfire emissions show a rise in pollutant concentrations between 2050 - 2059. Air pollutants have many important effects, such as influencing Earth’s radiative balance, diminishing human quality of life and exacerbating human health conditions, injuring ecosystems, damaging buildings and monuments, interfering with food safety, accelerating animal extinctions, altering Earth’s atmospheric composition, and impacting deposition rates. In addition to O3 and PM2.5, air toxics such as formaldehyde (CH2O), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) also impose threats to environmental and human health and are not paid too much attention. Since CH2O, CH4, CO, and NO2 are projected to increase in the future over CONUS, it is essential to examine how wildfires would influence their concentrations.
🧑🏻🦱Speaker ▻ Joshua Fu, Ph.D. (BCEEM, Fellow AAAS, Fellow A&WMA, The University of Tennessee)
👩🏻Host ▻ Dr. Pei-Chih Wu 吳佩芝教授/副校長 (長榮大學綠能與環境資源學系)
🗓 Date｜5 September 2022
🕚 Time｜20:30 - 21:30 pm (UTC+8)
💻 Venue｜Cisco Webex (meeting link will be sent after registration)
👉 Register｜https://pse.is/48d2yd
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This extreme event challenge is exacerbated as climate conditions changed, populations shift, infrastructure recovers and electricity demands relocate. We conducted a climate-chemistry study on the impacts of air quality by wildfires and their impact on human health in the western US. The study has shown that the wildfire-induced air pollutant concentration changes could be as high as 102 ppb for O3 and 259 μg/m3 for PM2.5 at a local scale in the western United States, under the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) climate scenario. Wildfires induced by climate change increasingly cause a rise in air pollution and a human health impact. Future projections of wildfire emissions show a rise in pollutant concentrations between 2050 - 2059. Air pollutants have many important effects, such as influencing Earth’s radiative balance, diminishing human quality of life and exacerbating human health conditions, injuring ecosystems, damaging buildings and monuments, interfering with food safety, accelerating animal extinctions, altering Earth’s atmospheric composition, and impacting deposition rates. In addition to O3 and PM2.5, air toxics such as formaldehyde (CH2O), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) also impose threats to environmental and human health and are not paid too much attention. Since CH2O, CH4, CO, and NO2 are projected to increase in the future over CONUS, it is essential to examine how wildfires would influence their concentrations.
🧑🏻🦱Speaker ▻ Joshua Fu, Ph.D. (BCEEM, Fellow AAAS, Fellow A&WMA, The University of Tennessee)
👩🏻Host ▻ Dr. Pei-Chih Wu 吳佩芝教授/副校長 (長榮大學綠能與環境資源學系)
🗓 Date｜5 September 2022
🕚 Time｜20:30 - 21:30 pm (UTC+8)
💻 Venue｜Cisco Webex (meeting link will be sent after registration)
👉 Register｜https://pse.is/48d2yd
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