AGU Workshop on Impactful GeoHealth Programs

由于气候变化和人类对环境的影响，环境的迅速变化正在影响人类健康。极端高温和寒流、洪水、热带虫媒疾病向北迁移、有害藻华日益增多以及由于废物、制造业和采矿等人为产生的污染物的释放和/或掩埋而导致的环境退化等环境因素，正在对我国人口以及世界各地人民的健康产生重大而严重的影响。为了找出可能的解决方案，美国地球物理联合会（AGU），一个拥有超过6万名地球物理学家的专业协会；海洋;大气科学家、学生和私营部门代表将对其组成部分进行调查，并收集关于地球科学在哪些方面处于最佳位置，以便在减轻环境对人类健康的影响方面取得快速进展的意见。为了完成这项任务，AGU将召集并收集来自不同主题专家的信息，包括科学家、从业人员、环境正义领袖、行业领袖、企业家、教育专家和其他利益相关者，包括早期职业科学家。由AGU地球卫生领导组成的指导委员会将帮助指导这项工作。这些活动将产生一系列建议和展望，这些建议和展望将共同：(1)确定可在近期（2-4年）解决的地球卫生领域的高优先挑战；(2)为围绕这些挑战制定计划提供路线图或路径；(3)提供一套思想，在国际上宣传地球健康的重要性；(4)解决对地球卫生培训和职业道路的需求。他们的社区调查结果将总结在一份报告中，该报告将向公众提供。主要成果将是确定与地球科学有关的环境过程，这些过程对人类健康的影响最大，并准备立即解决和/或进行干预。这项活动的更广泛影响将是增进我们对环境对人类健康的影响的理解和更好地管理。美国地球物理联合会（AGU）将对其成员进行广泛、包容、结果驱动的调查，其中包括来自地球、海洋和大气科学的科学家和学生。私营部门的成员也参与其中。信息收集工作的目标是收集思想和研究领域，使地球科学家、社区和医疗专业人员能够聚集在一起，加快我国减轻和尽量减少气候和人为活动造成的环境变化对人类健康的影响的能力。AGU将建立并利用他们在地球健康领域已经开发的关键资源、领导、合作伙伴和项目。它将包括与从AGU研究员学院新领域委员会选出的与会者进行讨论，该委员会在过去一年中一直致力于支持地球卫生。它还将包括与AGU部门领导的讨论，特别是在地球健康、大气科学、生物地球科学、冰冻圈科学、海洋科学、全球环境变化、水文学、教育、地球和空间信息学、地球和行星表面过程以及科学与社会的以下部分。这些部门都包括活跃的学生和早期的职业成员。AGU的领导也将参与AGU的多样性、公平和包容性工作及其咨询委员会；来自“繁荣地球交流”和选定的研究员和社区成员；以及社区科学小组的成员，该小组包括包括美国公共卫生协会在内的几个相关合作伙伴。这项工作的结果将总结在一份报告中，并发布在专业协会的网站上。最后报告的一个重要组成部分将是确定可以在2至3年时间框架内以重大方式解决的目标。信息收集将包括在线调查工具、虚拟聚会、与专家的一对一讨论以及在地球科学所有领域的广泛推广。调查工作的一个重要方面将是早期职业科学家和传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体成员的参与。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Rapid changes to the environment due to climate change and the impact of human beings on the environment is impacting human health. Environmental factors such as extreme heat and cold snaps, flooding, the northward migration of tropical insect-borne diseases, the increasing occurrence of harmful algal blooms, and environmental degradation due to release and/or burial of anthropogenically-generated pollutants originating from waste, manufacturing, and mining are having significant and serious impacts on the health of our nation's population as well as on people around the world. To identify possible solutions, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a professional society of over 60,000 Earth; ocean; and atmospheric scientists, students, and private sector representatives, will survey its constituents and collect input on where the geosciences are best positioned to make fast progress in ameliorating environmental impacts on human health. To accomplish this task, AGU will convene and gather information from diverse subject matter experts including scientists, practitioners, environmental justice leaders, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, education experts, and other stakeholders, including early career scientists on this broad topic. A steering committee made up that includes the AGU GeoHealth leadership will help guide this work. The activities will lead to a set of recommendations and prospects that will collectively: (1) identify high-priority challenges in GeoHealth that can be addressed in the near term (2-4 years); (2) provide a road-map or path for developing programs around these challenges; (3) provide a set of ideas to communicate the importance of GeoHealth internationally; and (4) address the need for training and career paths in GeoHealth. Results of their community survey will be summarized in a report that will be made available to the public. Key outcomes will be the identification of geoscience-related environmental processes that have the highest human-health impacts and are primed for immediate resolution and/or intervention. Broader Impacts of the activity will be to improve our understanding of and better management of environmental impacts on human health.The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will conduct a broad, inclusive, results-driven survey of its constituents, which include scientists and students from across the Earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences. Members from the private sector are also involved. The goal of the information collection exercise is to gather ideas and research areas where geoscientists, communities, and medical professionals can come together to accelerate our nation's ability to mitigate and minimize human health impacts of changes in the environment due to climate and anthropogenic activities. AGU will build off and leverage key resources, leadership, partners, and programs they have already developed in the area of GeoHealth. It will include discussions with participants selected from the AGU College of Fellows New Frontiers Committee, a committee that has already focused on supporting GeoHealth over the past year. It will also include discussions with AGU section leadership, especially in the following sections of GeoHealth, Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Cryosphere Sciences, Ocean Science, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology, Education, Earth and Space Informatics, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, and Science and Society. These sections all include active student and early career members. AGU leaders will also be involved from the AGU Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Effort and its Advisory Committee; from The Thriving Earth Exchange and selected fellows and community members; as well as members of its Community Science Group which includes several relevant partners including the American Public Health Association. Results of this effort will be summarized in a report and posted on the professional society website. An important component of the final report will be the identification of targets that can be addressed in a significant way within a 2 to 3-year timeframe. Information gathering will include online survey vehicles, virtual gatherings, one-on-one discussions with experts, and broad outreach across all fields of geoscience. An important aspect of the survey effort will be engagement of early career scientists and members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.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.