Primary Convener:
Sunil Kumar, University of Florida

Convener:
Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University
Benjamin Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University
Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters
Katherine Deliz Quinones, University of Florida
Jesse Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Chair:
Sunil Kumar, University of Florida
Benjamin Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University
Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters
Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University

Emerging contaminants like PFAS, nanoparticles/microplastics, and air/water borne disease vectors threaten ecosystems, public health, and water security. Impacts are exacerbated by weather anomalies and climate variability. Transports through water, air, and soil is influenced by ecological processes, hydroclimatic conditions, land use changes, and extreme events. Global-scale monitoring is logistically challenging due to high cost and spatial constraints. Remote sensing, combined with in-situ observations and computational approaches, can monitor environmental conditions, track sources, and identify transport pathways--information that supports environmental surveillance, science-based decision-making and early warning decision support structures. This session highlight advances in remote sensing–informed risk mapping, characterizes contaminant dynamics following extreme events and showcases satellite-based proxy indicators for monitoring environmental factors associated with contaminants as well as disease vectors and climate extremes. Examples include applications applying the integration of remote sensing and in-situ monitoring, data fusion/data assimilation, novel modeling frameworks, machine learning, deep learning, and Bayesian spatial methods.

Index Terms
0240 Public health
1834 Human impacts
1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction

Cross-Listed:
SY - Science and Society
A - Atmospheric Sciences
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
1. Science Nexus