Workshop - Forest Fires, Health and Climate

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Description

The University of Tartu, Umea University, FMI, SMHI and CICERO will contribute to an online workshop addressing health concerns related to forest fires in perspective of climate change. During the workshop, there will be several presentations regarding the latest research findings and mitigation strategies to address health challenges from those disasters.

Online workshop free registration required before Dec 4th, 2023. The link and calendar invite to the workshop will be sent to all registered participants on the day before at the latest.

Agenda 
14.00–14.05 Welcome & introduction, Hans Orru, University of Tartu
14.05–14.30 Monitoring and prediction of fires and fire smoke at multiple scales. Mikhail Sofiev, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
14.30–15.00 Exposure and health effects of the forest fires in Sweden 2018. Camilla Andersson, Swedish meteorological and hydrological institute (SMHI), Bertil Forsberg, Umea University
15.00–15.25 Quantifying health impacts from forest fires in Europe for present and future scenarios, Sourangsu Chowdhury, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
15.25–15.30 Concluding remarks & synthesis