[Enviro-lunch] This Thursday (11/14): Qingqing Xu from UCM

[Yang Yang]

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Hello Everyone, please join us This Thursday for this week's Enviro-Lunch talk by Qingqing Xu from UC Merced, at 11 am to noon in room SRE 475. From now on, our Enviro-Lunch will be hosted in the new building - Sustainability Research & Engineering at fourth floor!


Wildfires, smoke and public health in California

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Bio:
Qingqing is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Systems Graduate Group at University of California Merced. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. in Management at China University of Geosciences Beijing. She also received her M.B.A. in International Business at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany. She is currently working with Dr. LeRoy Westerling on how drought and climate change affect public health via wildfires.

Current work:

Wildfires in California have been increasing in size and severity in recent decades.  In addition to direct damage to environment features and humans in the wildfire burned area, wildfire smoke affects air quality and public health that long outlast their flames. Her research seeks to model wildfire activities, estimate emissions, and explore whether the existing health and wildfire data are sufficient to develop computationally efficient statistical methods that link wildfire pollution emissions to health impacts. She will present her most up-to-date findings and wish to receive feedbacks from you!





When: Thursday 11/14, 11am - noon

Where: SRE 475



We look forward to seeing you,



Yang, Jennifer and Jing



Organizers for Fall 2019: Yang Yang and Jennifer Alvarez

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
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