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Technical Reports/White Papers

Publications

2024

Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change
Chae Yeon Park et al.
Limited availability of health risk communication related to community smoke exposure from prescribed burns in the United States: a review
Margaux Joe et al.
A Preliminary Case Study on the Compounding Effects of Local Emissions and Upstream Wildfires on Urban Air Pollution
Daniel L. Mendoza et al.
Letter from Canada: global warming and wildfire smoke pollution emerging as major threats to respiratory health
Allison Michaud et al.
Bacterial emission factors: A foundation for the terrestrial-atmospheric modeling of bacteria aerosolized by wildland fires
Leda N. Kobziar et al.

2023

The effectiveness of filter material for respiratory protection worn by wildland firefighters
Priya Garg et al.
Breathing wildfire smoke
Michael Gross

2022

Evaluation of Cairpol and Aeroqual air sensors in biomass burning plumes
Andrew Whitehill et al.
Smoke and the eyes: A review of the harmful effects of wildfire smoke and air pollution on the ocular surface
Sukanya Jaiswal et al.
Forecasting the Effects of Wildland Fires on Air Quality and on Human Health
Ana Isabel Miranda
Health risks and mitigation strategies from occupational exposure to wildland fire: a scoping review
Erica Koopmans et al.
Wildfires in the Atomic Age: Mitigating the Risk of Radioactive Smoke
Christine Eriksen
What can we do when the smoke rolls in? An exploratory qualitative analysis of the impacts of rural wildfire smoke on mental health and wellbeing, and opportunities for adaptation
Anna Humphreys et al.

2021

Towards resilient health systems for increasing climate extremes: insights from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season
Aparna Lal et al.
Characterization of occupational smoke exposure among wildland firefighters in the midwestern United States
Chieh-Ming Wu et al.
Differential cardiopulmonary health impacts of local and long-range transport of wildfire smoke
Sheryl Magzamen et al.
Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States
Xiaodan Zhou et al.
Protecting children from wildfire smoke
Deborah L. McBride
Wildfire exposure during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review
Sana Amjad et al.
Cardiovascular health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure
Hao Chen et al.
Creating clean air spaces during wildland fire smoke episodes: web summit summary
Gilliane Davison et al.
Could the exception become the rule? 'Uncontrollable' air pollution events in the US due to wildland fires
Liji M. David et al.
Mixtures modeling identifies chemical inducers versus repressors of toxicity associated with wildfire smoke
Julia E. Rager et al.
Assessing the risk of respiratory-related healthcare visits associated with wildfire smoke exposure in children 0-18 years old: a systematic review
Shelby Henry et al.
PM2.5, NO2, wildfires, and other environmental exposures are linked to higher Covid 19 incidence, severity, and death rates
Luke Curtis
Occupational factors and miscarriages in the US fire service: a cross-sectional analysis of women firefighters
Alesia M. Jung et al.
The effects of the Australian bushfires on physical activity in children
Borjadel Pozo Cruz et al.
Wildfire smoke exposure: Covid19 comorbidity?
Ira Leifer et al.
Global wildfire plume-rise dataset and parameterizations for climate model applications
Ziming Ke et al.
The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
Marshall Burke et al.
Estimated mortality and morbidity attributable to smoke plumes in the US: not just a western US problem
Katelyn O'Dell et al.
Wildfires: a conflagration of climate-related impacts to health and health systems. Recommendations from 4 continents on how to manage climate-related planetary disasters
Attila J. Hertelendy et al.

2020

The potential impact of bushfire smoke on brain health
Laura A. Milton et al.
Immunologic effects of forest fire exposure show increases in IL-1β and CRP
Mary M. Prunicki et al.
Atmospheric remobilization of natural and anthropogenic contaminants during wildfires
Cynthia F. Isley et al.
Knowing your audience: a typology of smoke sense participants to inform wildfire smoke health risk communication
Mary Clare Hano et al.
The delayed effect of wildfire season particulate matter on subsequent influenza season in a mountain west region of the USA
Erin L. Landguth et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic and wildfire smoke: potentially concomitant disasters
Sarah B. Henderson
How to measure the economic health cost of wildfires – A systematic review of the literature for northern America
Ruth Dittrich et al.
Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low-cost LoRaWAN-connected sensors
Hugh Forehead et al.
Sub-Daily Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Ambulance Dispatches during Wildfire Seasons: A Case-Crossover Study in British Columbia, Canada
Jiayun Yao et al.
Using Digital Technology to Protect Health in Prolonged Poor Air Quality Episodes: A Case Study of the AirRater App during the Australian 2019–20 Fires
Sharon L. Campbell et al.
Summer PM2.5 pollution extremes caused by wildfires over the western United States during 2017-2018
Yuanyu Xie et al.
The changing nature of wildfires: impacts on the health of the public
John R. Balmes
Smoke in the Great Plains, USA: an increasing phenomenon with potential policy and health implications
Heath D. Starns et al.
Peat burning - an important source of pyridines in the earth atmosphere
Dmitry S. Kosyakov et al.

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The challenge of more smoke