The USGS Role in Public Health Science
Earth Science and Public Health: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on USGS Health-Related ResearchEdited by Herbert T. Buxton, Dale W. Griffin, and Brenda S. PierceScientific Investigations Report 2008-5022 |
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The abstracts in this volume that were written to by U.S. Geological Survey authors were reviewed and approved for publication by the Survey. Abstracts submitted by researchers from academia and from state and other Federal agencies are published as part of these proceedings, but do not necessarily reflect the Survey´s policies and views.
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is to serve the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life. As the Nation’s largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS can play a significant role in providing scientific knowledge and information that will improve our understanding of the relations of environment and wildlife to human health and disease. USGS human health-related research is unique in the Federal government because it brings together a broad spectrum of natural science expertise and information, including extensive data collection and monitoring on varied landscapes and ecosystems across the Nation.
USGS can provide a great service to the public health community by synthesizing the scientific information and knowledge on our natural and living resources that influence human health, and by bringing this science to the public health community in a manner that is most useful. Partnerships with health scientists and managers are essential to the success of these efforts. USGS scientists already are working closely with the public health community to pursue rigorous inquiries into the connections between natural science and public health. Partnering agencies include the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, Mine Safety and Health Administration, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Collaborations between public health scientists and earth scientists can lead to improved solutions for existing and emerging environmental health problems.
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions held at the Second National Conference on USGS Health-Related Research, held at the USGS national headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The report presents 68 abstracts of technical presentations made at the conference and summaries of six topical breakout sessions. The abstracts cover a broad range of issues and demonstrate connections between human health and the quality and condition of our environment and wildlife. The summaries of the topical breakout sessions present ideas for advancing interdisciplinary science in areas of earth science and human health.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conference Purpose and Design
Conference Agenda and Speakers
Abstracts
Human Health Overview Topics
Earth Materials and Health
Human Health and our Natural and Developed Environments: The USGS Role in Public Health Science
Evaluating the Use of Stable Isotope and Uncertainty Analyses to Model Aquatic Environmental and Public Health Indicators
Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Activities Related to Human Health
GSA Geology and Health Division: Promoting Research, Education, and Practice in Sister Sciences
BS/MPH Degree Program: Geology and Human Health – Global to Self
Building Bridges for Collaboration between the Geosciences and Health Sciences: A Cross-disciplinary Training Conference
Interdisciplinary Science in Support of Environmental Health along the United States – Mexico Border
Exposure to Toxic Contaminants in Air, Dust and Soil
A Fall of Moondust: Assessing the Heath Effects of Exposure to Lunar Soil
Research by the U.S. Geological Survey on the Occurrences of and Human Exposures to Potential Toxicants and Pathogens in Air, Dusts, and Soils
Respiratory Health among Navajos as Impacted by Coal Combustion
Long-distance Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Trace Metals in Saharan Dust Air Masses
Airborne Microorganisms and African Desert Dust over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 209
The Western Canada Study: Assessing Risk to Cattle and Wildlife of Emissions from Natural Gas-Related Activities
Health Effects from Indoor Air Pollution in Rural People´s Republic of China Related to Domestic Combustion of Coal
Natural Sources and Natural Fluxes of Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Metals
Estimation of Population Exposure to Ozone Using Shape Function Interpolation Methods
Health Implications of Inorganic Mercury Exposure in Gorlovka, Ukraine
Physiologically Based Extraction Studies of Baseline and Impacted Soils
Geologic Controls on Chromium and Nickel in Soils of the Sacramento Valley, California: Links to Human Health Issues
A Planned Soil Geochemical and Microbiological Survey of North America: Continental scale pilot study in Canada and the United States
You´re Standing on it! Parking Lot Sealcoat and Urban PAHs
Worldwide Asbestos Consumption since the 1960s
Community Deprivation, Minority Concentration and Human-Made Toxic Environment: A National Ecological Analysis in the US
Chemical and Pathogen Exposure through Drinking Water
Epidemiologic Studies of Drinking Water Contaminants
Drinking Water Science in the U. S. Geological Survey
Adsorption as a Control on Tungsten Concentration in Groundwater: Laboratory Experiments and an Example from Fallon, NV
Early-warning Monitoring for Water Security: Evaluation of Water-Quality Variability in a Distribution System
Effects of Elevated Zn, Cu and Fe in Drinking Water on Learning and Memory
Potential Public Health Implications of Exposure to Arsenic from Private Drinking Water Wells in the United States
Cyanotoxins in Midwestern Lakes
North-to-South Position of Mississippi River States and their Health Rank
Pesticides and Pesticide Degradates: Their Occurrence and Removal in Drinking Water
Assessing the Vulnerability of a Public Supply Well in the Karstic Upper Floridan Aquifer to Contaminants of Public Health Concern
Reconstructing Historical Exposure to Volatile Organic Compound Contamination of Drinking Water Supplies at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: An Epidemiological Study of Childhood Birth Defects and Cancers
Health Effects of Toxic Organic Substances from Coal in Drinking Water: Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN) and Pandemic Nephropathy (PEN)
Volatile Organic Compounds in Samples from Domestic and Public Wells
Volatile Organic Compounds in the Nation´s Drinking-Water Supply Wells-What Findings May Mean to Human Health
Animals as Sentinels of Human Health
Animals as Sentinels of Human Health
Cavity-Nesting Birds: Sentinels for Human Health
Exposure and Effects of Dioxins on Birds: A Case Study Using Tree Swallows
Human Consumption of Bioaccumulative and Other Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants
Bioaccumulative Substances in the Environment: Sources, Exposure Pathways, and Health Effects
Application of Municipal Biosolids to Dry-Land Wheat Fields – A Monitoring Program near Deer Trail, Colorado (USA)
Paleozoic Stone Coal (Carbonaceous Shale) Use For Domestic And Industrial Combustion In Rural China: Environmental Consequences
Mapping Mercury Sensitivity of Aquatic Ecosystems across the Contiguous United States
How Sulfur Contamination and Atmospheric Mercury Deposition Influence Methylmercury Production and Bioaccumulation in the Everglades
Chemical and Pathogen Exposure through Recreational Waters
The Need for Alternative Health Risk Indicators Due to Non-Fecal Inputs of E. coli and Enterococci from Papermill Effluents into Recreational Waters
USGS Beach Research–Current Activities and Future Prospects
Swimming Advisory Forecast Estimate (Project SAFE): A New Approach for Predicting E. coli Counts at Five Lake Michigan Beaches
Indicators of Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli in Ambient Water Monitoring Fecal Coliform Bacteria Cultures
Partitioning of E. coli within a Beachshed
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Cephalosporin-Resistant Escherichia coli Detected in Stream Waters
Nowcasting Bacterial Levels and Beach Advisories at Lake Erie Beaches
Human Fecal Pathogen Contamination in the Recreational Marine Waters of the Florida Keys
Detection of Genes Indicating Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli and Human Pathogenic Enterococci in U.S. Surface Waters
Potentially Harmful Cyanotoxins in Drinking and Recreational Waters
Impact of Bird Use on the Water Quality in Managed Wetlands
Potential Exposure to Trematode Parasites in Biscayne National Park through the Non-native Gastropod Melanoides Tuberculatus
Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases
Public Health Aspects of Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases: The Relationship Between Disease Occurrence and the Earth Sciences, and Contributions by USGS to Disease Prevention and Control
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases: USGS´s Role in Public Health
Forecasting the Space/Time Spread of West Nile Virus
Contributions to Understanding Transmission, Spread, and Persistence of West Nile Virus
Efficient Surveillance and Management of Vector-Borne Diseases in Natural Areas
Multi-temporal Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Vector-borne Disease Potential in the Rio Grande Delta, South Texas/North Tamaulipas, US-Mexico Border Area
Epidemic Malaria Early Warning System for Africa
Avian Influenza Viruses in Water and Sediments of the Atlantic Migratory Flyway
Image-based Environmental Health Initiatives at USGS EROS
Summary of Topical Breakout Sessions
Cross-cutting Coordination and Integration
Exposure to Toxic Contaminants in Air, Dust, and Soil
Chemical and Pathogen Exposure through Drinking Water
Animals as Sentinels of Human Health
Human Consumption of Bioaccumulative and Other Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants
Chemical and Pathogen Exposure through Recreational Waters
Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases
Conference Organizing Committee
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