Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mobility and Environmental Toxicity in Wildfire Response Communities

博士论文研究：野火应对社区的流动性和环境毒性

• 批准号: 2149106
• 负责人: Kathryn Goldfarb
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149106&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mobility; Environmental

Wildland fire response is increasingly important, but the health and wellness of migrant and immigrant workers who contribute to these industries in the United States is not well understood. This 12-month dissertation research project uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to better understand exposure to air pollution in an increasingly mobile environmental industry. This research offers new ways of understanding exposure to environmental toxins in a migrant work context, contrasting with previous approaches that have studied air pollution in residential and stationary settings. This project has the potential to help scientists understand the connections and relationships between workers, policymakers and advocates who are responding to more severe natural disasters. In addition to providing funding for a graduate student to train in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, this research addresses the needs of underrepresented groups in climate resilience. It involves directly affected community members in the research process and makes the data available to fire management companies and policymakers.This doctoral dissertation research project asks how mobility and toxic exposure correlate in occupational settings. To what extent do climate disaster industries influence pull factors in human mobilities and migrations, and how might worker, science and policy communities understand toxic exposure in a mobile workforce? The researcher will use participant observation and semi-structured interviews with fire responders as well as their friends and family and non-frontline policymakers to track the short, long-term, and relational impacts of exposure to air pollution. Additionally, small-scale participatory air quality monitoring will highlight differences between generalized air pollution models and the highly concentrated pollution that migrant workers experience in the course of firefighting. Through scientific inquiry that combines research into the qualitative dimensions of toxic exposure with quantitative small-scale air quality monitoring, this project provides a novel methodological approach to understanding occupational health for a mobile and migratory workforce. It contributes to research on the broader stakes of wildfire-produced air pollution for human health and well-being.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

野火响应越来越重要，但在美国为这些行业做出贡献的移民和移民工人的健康和福祉并没有得到很好的理解。这个为期12个月的论文研究项目使用定性和定量的方法，以更好地了解暴露在日益移动的环境产业的空气污染。这项研究提供了新的方法来了解在移民工作环境中暴露于环境毒素，与以前研究住宅和固定环境中空气污染的方法形成对比。该项目有可能帮助科学家了解应对更严重自然灾害的工人、政策制定者和倡导者之间的联系和关系。除了为研究生提供资金，以培训定性和定量数据收集和分析外，这项研究还解决了代表性不足的群体在气候适应力方面的需求。它涉及直接受影响的社区成员在研究过程中，并使数据提供给消防管理公司和决策者。这个博士论文研究项目询问如何流动性和有毒物质暴露在职业环境中相互关联。气候灾害行业在多大程度上影响了人类流动和迁移的拉动因素，工人、科学和政策界如何理解移动的劳动力中的有毒物质暴露？研究人员将使用参与者观察和半结构化访谈与消防人员以及他们的朋友和家人和非一线政策制定者跟踪暴露于空气污染的短期，长期和相关影响。此外，小规模参与性空气质量监测将突出一般空气污染模型与移徙工人在消防过程中经历的高度集中污染之间的差异。该项目通过科学调查，将有毒物质接触的定性方面的研究与定量小规模空气质量监测相结合，为理解移动的和移徙劳动力的职业健康提供了一种新的方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。