OpenGMS Lectures（十五）："Modelling Air Pollution Exposure and Public Health impacts" by Prof. Stefan Reis

Dr. Stefan Reis was invited by OpenGMS Team on October 9, to give a lecture: Modelling Air Pollution Exposure and Public Health impacts.

The talk gives a brief introduction to UKCEH, followed by two examples for the application of high resolution atmospheric modelling to assess the impact of air pollution on human health. In the first part, the focus will be on the influence of taking into account population mobility in the assessment of human exposure to nitrogen dioxides, fine particulate matter and tropospheric ozone in the UK. This will highlight how accounting for the location of work or school may affect exposure on an individual level, but aggregated to whole population levels, differences may actually be small. The second part will focus on a long-term assessment of air pollution changes in the UK, and how this has contributed to substantial improvements in public health over a 40 year period.

Stefan Reis heads the science area Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, which focuses on improving our understanding and quantifying the interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere based on measurements, experiments and modelling of greenhouse gases, reactive air pollutants, water and energy. His research focuses on the integrated modelling and assessment of impacts of air pollution and climate change on human health and ecosystems. This includes approaches for improving the integration of models and environmental sensors, as well as the development and application of conceptual models to link and integrate human and ecosystem health impact assessment. In 2016, he was awarded a fellowship by the International Society for Environmental Modelling & Software Systems (iEMSs) and as of September 2020, he was elected to President of iEMSs. Stefan is an editor of Environmental Modelling & Software and a member of the editorial board of the journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL). He holds a Visiting Associate Professorship at the University of Exeter and has a close working relationship with the European Centre for Environment at Health, part of Exeter University Medical School.