BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN International Society of Biometeorology www.biometeorolog y.org Volume 19, Number 2, 2017
CONTENTS EEDITORIAL 1. Editorial
Dear members of the International 2. A message from President Society of Biometeorology,
3. Commissions and Study This year is a special for the Society: Groups
a) members decided on a new 4. Councilor’s Report executive board for 2017-2020
https://www4.uwm.edu/isb/about_is 5. Tromp Scientific Award b/exec_board.cfm 2017 st b) the 21 International Congress of 6. Report from Brazilian Biometeorology was held in Congress of Biometeorology 03 - 07 September 2017 in Durham, United Kingdom 7. Conferences https://www.dur.ac.uk/
8. Congratulations and
c) the 22nd International Congress of 9. Review Biometeorology will be held in September 2020 in Jaboticabal, Brazil 10. Contributors
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IISSBB EEXECUTIVE BBOARD MMEMBERS 22001177--22002200
President Councilor (Africa) Pablo Fernández de Arróyabe Hernáez
President Elect Councilor (Asia) Marie R. Keatley
Past President Councilor (Europe) Mark D. Schwartz
Elena Grigorieva
Scott Sheridan
Jennifer Vanos
Michael Allen (USA)
Lynda Chambers
John Gaughan
Peter Höppe
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The updating of the existing ISB website is a A MESSAGE FROM clear priority for this new period, to enable A the new website to be a real tool for the ISB management. The new website should be PPRESIDENT useful in automatically dealing with matters such as memberships, updating of payments, voting, Commission’s management and Dear ISB members sharing of information and news based on I would like to thank to our Past President, distribution lists and social networks. On the Dist. Professor Mark Schwartz and the other other hand, the existence of online resources EB members for the work they have put into for ISB members training and learning can be the Society over the last triennium (2014- a good strategy to establish new connections 2017). I would also like to acknowledge among ISB members in different research Professor Glenn Mc Gregor for his effort in the topics. organization of the XXI Congress of the ISB in The need to make ISB more visible at the astonishing environment of Durham international institutions is also a relevant goal University. Many thanks to Scott Sheridan, to be reached during the new period 2017-20 Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of through the renewal of existing MoUs or Biometeorology, and to all the IJB field promoting the creation of new ones. The editors. They keep doing an excellent work inclusion of sessions on Biometeorology at and have taken the International Journal of other international conferences is also a good Biometeorology to a very high position in method to spread Biometeorology around different scientific fields. Finally, in this section different scientific groups. In the same way, of acknowledgments, I would like to express the promotion of capacity building actions in my gratitude to the Students and New low income countries, through collaborative Professionals Group (SNPG) for their activities actions with other international scientific since the group was created. They are bringing societies and organisations, is a matter to be fresh air and new ideas into the management considered a social responsibility of ISB. of ISB too. It is also very relevant to recognize the Tromp Foundation and the support given The positions of Regional Councillors have to the Society over many years. We look been on the EB for the last three years and the forward in continuing to work together in experience of this new EB structure is promoting Biometeorology. promising for the future of the Society. Promotion of regional actions based on There are emerging challenges in the world Regional Councillor’s initiatives should play an that ISB should be ready to confront. The new important role during this new period. conceptual and scientific frame of Global Change requires from biometeorologists more Finally, I would like to thank to all ISB interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research members for their support of our Society and than ever before to understand the encourage each of you to personally inform complexity of the interactions between other colleagues about the benefits of joining atmospheric processes and living organisms at ISB. It would be great if each ISB member multiple spatial and temporal scales. could bring into ISB just one new person in the Moreover, the digital divide generated by following three years. These individual actions technological revolution is also a threat to be can make ISB much stronger. avoided in any scientific discipline such as I am looking forward to seeing all of you in Biometeorology. Nevertheless, the digital era Jaboticabal, Brazil again in 2020. can be a great opportunity to develop more advanced biometeorological studies based on President of the International Society of new digital technologies and big data and Biometeorology cloud innovation. Prof. Pablo Fernandez de Arroyabe
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List of attendees: IISSBB:: RREPORTS FROM 1. Paul Beggs, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2. Alison Donnelly, University of Wisconsin- CCOMMISSIONS AND Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA 3. Alistair Nesbitt, Climate Wine Consulting, United STUDY GROUPS Kingdom S G 4. Christina Koppe, Deutscher Wetterdienst,
Germany Notes on the Phenology Commission meeting 5. Helfried Scheifinger, Zentralanstalt für on the 4th Sept 2017 held at 21st International Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria Congress of Biometeorology 2017, Durham. 6. Jennifer Fitchett, University of the
Witwatersrand, South Africa Mark Schwartz welcomed everyone to the 7. Junhu Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China meeting and thanked them for attending 8. Hamed Mehdipoor, University of Twente, and provided an outline of the meeting an Enschede, The Netherlands update on the Phenology 2018 9. Kjell Bolmgren, Swedish University of Conference: Marie Keatley Agricultural Sciences, Sweden an update on the Commission’s work on 10. Kyn Ran Kim, Korea Meteorological International Phenology Standards: Kjell Administration, Korea Bolmgren 11. Lang Weiguang, Peking University, China any other matters. 12. Liang Liang, University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA 13. Lynda Chambers, Victoria, Australia Mark informed the meeting that he was 14. Marie Keatley, University of Melbourne, Victoria, stepping down as Chair of Commission and Australia nominated Marie Keatley as the new Chair. 15. Mark Schwartz, University of Wisconsin- There was a general consensus that for the Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA next three years (2017-2020) that Marie 16. Tim Sparks, Coventry University, United Kingdom Keatley, would be Chair with co-chairs Mark 17. Xiaoqiu Chen, Peking University, China Schwartz and Xiaoqiu Chen. 18. Zexing Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Phenology 2018 Conference The Sessions are currently: Marie Keatley provided a short overview of Agricultural Phenology, Aerobiology, the progress on the Phenology 2018. Phenology and Conservation Biology, Phenology and Citizen Science, Phenological The Conference logo has been designed and Methods, Remote Sensing, Marine Science, the website http://phenology2018.com.au/ Tropical Phenology, Traditional Ecological has been live for approximately 9 months. Knowledge, Urban Phenology. Important dates are: She informed the meeting that if anyone - Early bird rate: July 9th attending the meeting or other Commission - Abstract notifications: June 11th - Abstracts close: May 7th members would be interested in being involved in the Program Committee that they contact her on [email protected]. It is envisaged that the Program Committee will assist also with the refereeing of abstracts and judging for the student oral and poster presentations.
International Phenological Standards Sponsors to date are: At the last ISB Phenology Commission meeting (October 2015, Kusadesi, Turkey at the ISB, Dept. of Environment, Land, Water and Phenology 2015 conference), the Commission Planning (Victorian State Government) and decided to formally work toward the the School of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences, development of international standards. Kjell University of Melbourne. Springer has agreed Bolmgren was nominated as the lead. to sponsor book prizes. Consequently, Kjell provided an update on the Plant phenology ontology and how this would contribute to International Phenology Standards. Kjell informed the meeting that the working group had started discussions with the World Meteorological Organisation about:
Bridging, converging and/or calibrating national and international monitoring protocols Develop a phenology ontology to enable machine-to-machine
communication Internationally agreed standards for analyzing and communicating phenological metrics and products
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The slides that accompanied the talk by Kjell Bolmgren:
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Climate and Health Commission Report Much more detailed information of members actions in the last three years can be found in News from active members the paper “Past present and future of the There was also a general agreement in the last Climate and Human Health Commission” Int J meeting of the society about the need to Biometeorol (2017) 61 (Suppl 1):S115–S125 in search answers at a physiological level to the Special Issue: IJB 60th Anniversary. facilitate the understanding of the links among Main topics of research the biological, medical and atmospheric sciences. Based on the applicability of this • Thermal comfort • Early warning systems approach to the study of other living and climate services • Air pollution and organisms apart from humans, a new respiratory diseases • Circulatory diseases and commission on Bio-Physics of Adaptation and weather variability • Sleep and mental Responses has been formed in the ISB. disorders. The interaction between the medical community and climate scientists has been very important, particularly in recent years. News from SNP Study Group One of the longstanding goals of the CHC has Named SNP Positions: been to bridge the medical and climatological communities. CHC members such as Dr. Chair: Hamed Mehdipoor, University of McGregor, Dr. Kalkstein, and Dr. Kovats are Twente, Netherlands good examples on this. Some of them are even attached to medical faculties nowadays. Outgoing Chair: Jennifer Vanos, University of This interaction has obvious research benefits California San Diego, USA along with the potential sharing of various datasets, considering that access to medical IT Administrator & Assistant: datasets was referred to as one the greatest Hamed Mehdi-Poor, University of Twente, difficulties for CHC members. Netherlands Britta Jänicke, National Institute Dr. Cho Lam has recently published his PhD of Meteorological Sciences, Korea, South thesis on outdoor thermal comfort in Korea Melbourne botanic gardens which can be accessed it at: Research Administrator: Andrew Leung, https://figshare.com/articles/Landscape_varia University of Toronto, Canada bility_of_Melbourne_s_botanic_gardens_and Communications Director: Daniel Vecellio, _vi sitor_thermal_comfort/4757113 Texas A&M University, USA
Content Curation Assistants: One of the Commission members, Fabio Luiz Teixeira Goncalves, is working on a new Angela Lees, University of Queensland, research Project titled “Human Australia biometeorology: analysis of the environmental variables (meteorological, thermal comfort Alexandria Herdt, Natural Resources Program, and air pollution) and climate change on USA. geriatric population of São Paulo city”. An update from the Chair of the SNP Group Apart from individual initiatives, the of the ISB: commission is trying to support the https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00 participation of members, especially young 484-017-1388-z researchers, in the new international SNP new Website: committees that are being created. http://biomet-education.net
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the previous three years prior to each COUNCILOR’S REPORT International Congress. The Tromp Scientific C ’ R Award is sponsored by the Dutch Foundation for Biometeorological Research and awarded Biometeorology Research – Europe by the International Society of This report summarises the research activity Biometeorology. of members of the ISB affiliated with institutions in Europe, since the previous ICB The Tromp Scientific Award consists of a in 2014. Activities were gathered by emailing cheque for $US1000 and travel expenses all 36 ISB members based at European (return economy air fare + accommodation + institutions and with their dues up to date and congress fees) to each International Congress requesting information on: of Biometeorology.
journal articles or book chapters published; The 2017 Award went to Dr Jennifer Vanos, research grants awarded; for the paper: JK Vanos, A Middel, GR organisation/convening of conferences, McKercher, ER Kuras, Benjamin L Ruddell conference sessions, or workshops on (2016) Hot playgrounds and children's health: biometeorology; and a multiscale analysis of surface temperatures indicators of academic esteem. in Arizona, USA. Landscape and Urban There are some impressive statistics from the Planning Vol. 146, pp 29-42. sub-group of 9 members that replied, including over 50 publications in journals or book chapters (52). Whilst the group is clearly productive there RREPORT FROM are still opportunities to improve its overall functioning. In particular, there are two avenues that future efforts should focus on: BBRAZILIAN CCONGRESS 1) enhanced research collaboration between members; and OF BBIOMETEOROLOGY 2) demonstration of a critical mass of researchers engaged in biometeorology research. VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, The former may be achieved through Ambience, Behavior and Animal Welfare workshops and/or networking events, and the The VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, latter through the organisation of key sessions Ambience, Behavior and Animal Welfare, at major European conferences such as EGU. organized by the Brazilian Society of Biometeorology (SBBiomet), was held from Dr Simon Gosling, Councillor (Europe) July 30 to August 02, 2017 at the São Paulo State University in Jaboticabal, SP, with nearly 250 participants (undergraduate students, TTROMP SSCIENTIFIC graduate students, researchers, professors and professionals in the area). To see more AAWARD 22001177 details https://www.facebook.com/sbbiomet/ The congress had six pre-congress mini- Every three years The International Society of courses, 14 lectures given by international Biometeorology presents the Tromp Scientific Award to the young scientist (under 35 years speakers, 18 oral presentations and 119 in of age) who has developed the most poster form. The papers presented were 64 meaningful peer-reviewed manuscript over from Animal Biometeorology, 19 from Human
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Biometeorology, and 36 from Behavior and Animal Welfare. Invited speakers (who CCONFERENCES covered topics in heat stress adaptation, livestock, welfare and animal behavior) were The 11th International Congress on professors from São Paulo State University, Aerobiology Cornell University, University of Leuven, University of Oklahoma, Scotland’s Rural “Advances in aerobiology for the College, and the IRTA research center in Spain. preservation of human and Best paper awards were given to the three environmental health: fields represented at the conference: a multidisciplinary approach”
Ambience and Animal Biometeorology: PhD student Bruno R. Simão. Estimation of The 11th International Congress on the body surface area and its impact on the Aerobiology will be glad to welcome you in heat transfer by convection in sheep: a Parma (Italy) computational way Parma is an elegant city full of charm, where you feel the lovely atmosphere of a little Behavior and Animal Welfare: PhD student capital. Filipe Antonio D. Costa whose topic was:
How do seasons and different combinations between on-farm fasting TOPICS intervals and lairage period affect pigs Agricultural applications of aerobiology, welfare, carcass and pork quality traits phenology: pollen charge and fruiting; fungal spores monitoring and pathogenicity Human and Vegetative Biometeorology: prevention; aerobiological indicators PhD student Fernanda R. Diniz whose topic Allergens, organics, organisms: pollen, fungal was: Evaluation of the index of human spores, mites and animal dander products, thermal discomfort and thermal sensation latex, molecular aerobiology, toxins, bacteria, for the five Brazilian regions in the El Niño viruses, algae, volatile organic compounds Oscillations-South period (ENSO) Cultural heritage: Bio-deterioration, The Brazilian Society of Biometeorology would preservation like to thank you our associates, sponsor, Environmental aerobiology: air pollution, collaborators, and those who directly or global change, land management - urban indirectly contributed to the realization of our design- green cities, meteorology, climatology, Congress, especially ISB. We would like to spatial dynamics and spatial invite you to participate in the next Brazilian representativeness Congress that will be held together with the Forecasting and modeling: statistical and 22th International Congress of deterministic modelling, atmopsheric Biometeorology in August 2020. dispersion, inter-annual variation and trends, Submitted by short-term forecasting, climate impact and climate sensitivity Prof. Dr. Alex Sandro Campos Maia, Chair, Fundamental mechanisms: release, Past-President of SBBiomet dispersion, transport, long distance transport, PhD Student Hugo Fernando M. Milan, deposition International Secretary of SBBiomet General aerobiology: citizen science, history Dra. Carol Nagib Nascimento, Member of and development of aerobiological studies, SBBiomet media communications and health literacy, public information, outreach Volume 19, Number 2, November 2017 International Society of Biometeorology
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Health impact: asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, assess the existence of possible, and distinct pollinosis, epidemiology, prevention, precursors, and examine how the different diagnosis, therapy, specific immunotherapy, oceanic and atmospheric processes that drive diagnostic and therapeutic pathways, the different ENSO flavors and impact their thresholds, cross reactivity, occupational predictability would vary in a warming world. allergy, aerobiology-sport-allergy, allergy and For more information, contact us: immigration, coexposure allergens and [email protected] pollution, pollen-food allergy syndrome, direct and indirect sanitary costs [email protected] Provisional List of Indoor aerobiology: public and private sponsors: buildings, farms and industries, healthcare setting, operating theatres, cleanrooms, Visit us at: spacecrafts http://www.ensoconference2018.org/ Invasive ragweed species in Europe: ecology, impact and management Molecular aerobiology: allergens, airborne ONGRATULATIONS organisms, genetics CC Monitoring, sampling and identifying: pollen, Solco W. Tromp Foundation awards at fungal spores, bacteria, algae, survey the 2017 EMS Annual Meeting in Dublin networks, quality control, norms and The 2017 European Meteorological Society standards, new methods, bioterrorism, Annual Meeting – European Conference for automation Applied Meteorology and Climatology – took Palynology: archeopalynology, place in Dublin from 4 to 8 September 2017. melissopalynology, paleopalynology, The conference was attended by 814 palynology, forensics participants from 46 countries. The Stay tuned: www.ica2018.eu conference Theme was "Serving Society with better Weather and Climate Information". MV Congressi - [email protected] Sessions at this conference, that take place Tel. +39-0521 290191 Fax. +39-0521 291314 each year in one of the European cities, include also a broad specter of biometeorological themes, among them are IV International Conference on El Niño human biometeorology, phenology, Southern Oscillation: ENSO in a warmer agrometerology, UV radiation, urban Climate 16-18 October 2018. Guayaquil, climatology, air pollution and adaptation to climate change and variability. Ecuador
Abstracts can be submitted via the Conference The Tromp Foundation (Foundation for website from September 2017 until 30th April Biometeorological Research), the legacy of 2018. Selected contributions will be invited for Solco W. Tromp, is funded two types of oral presentation, all others as posters. All abstracts must be submitted in English, with a awards at this conference with the intention maximum of 3000 characters and must to promote biometeorology in Europe. exclude symbols, mathematical formula and The EMS Tromp Award 2017 honouring figures. outstanding achievement in biometeorology was presented to Stéphanie Horion, Assistant GOAL OF THE CONFERENCE: To review the progress on the science of ENSO with a focus professor at the Dept. of Geosciences and on examining the range of ENSO “flavors”, Natural Resource Management, University of
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Copenhagen, Denmark, for the paper I believe that Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken causes "Revealing turning points in ecosystem these feelings even in graduate students or functioning over the Northern Eurasian some professionals since this book is a agricultural frontier", published in April 2016 treasure of highly concentrated in Global Change micrometeorological insights. Nine years after Biology: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 the first English edition of 'Micrometeorology', Foken published the updated edition of the .1111/gcb.13267/abstract well-known German textbook. Just like the The Tromp Foundation also funds Tromp first edition, this book presents dense Foundation travel awards for young scientist knowledge on 259 pages about the smallest (TFTAYS) for papers that are presented at the scale in meteorology, and covers the lowest EMS Annual Meeting specifically on topics in part of the atmosphere, and processes of short extension. The general structure and the biometeorology. In Dublin the following contents are similar as in the first edition and recipients have been selected: follow the changes made in the German 3rd Anastasia Bleta, presenting Cardiovascular edition. Mainly updates of references and admissions related to particulate matter from recent developments are incorporated. 2.5 ěm to 80 ěm in Heraklion, Crete Island, Summary: The book starts with 'General Greece. Basics', which explains the terminology and Mikhail I. Varentsov, presenting Investigation gives historical summaries about of urban-caused mesoclimatic features of micrometeorology. Afterwards 'Basic Moscow megacity. equations of atmospheric turbulence' and 'Specifics of the near-surface turbulence' are Olga Gommershtadt, presenting Modeling of presented. In most parts of the book, summer thermal comfort conditions of Arctic fundamental concepts, as well as specific city on microscale. concepts, are explained briefly. As suggested by the author, the second chapter might be Call for submissions to be awarded in skipped for practitioners, since the Budapest in September 2018 will be published explanations might not be relevant for on the EMS web site applying tools and methods of http://www.emetsoc.org/awards/ in early micrometeorology. After this rather spring 2018. theoretical beginning, the second third of the book focuses on 'Experimental methods for estimating the fluxes of energy and matter’, RREVIEWS 'Modeling of the energy and matter exchange' and 'Measurement technique'. These chapters provide an overview of various methods and Micrometeorology tools and provide, like the earlier chapters, extensive references to extend the knowledge Thomas Foken, 2017: Micrometeorology, 2nd beyond this book. Particularly helpful is the edition. Springer 359 pages. ISBN: 978-3-642- practical information, which comes as rule-of- 25439-0 (Print) 978-3-642-25440-6 (Online). thumbs like guidelines for station locations $99.00 / €88.39 / £63.99* and measurement heights. Also, techniques for filling data gaps and calibration are Do you remember the feeling when you covered. While the book clearly focuses on flicked through your first textbooks at micrometeorology, one chapter is also university? When you were swamped with too dedicated to microclimatology that aims to much sophisticated information and at the characterize the mean atmospheric conditions same time excited about the huge amount of with its variability, such as valley wind knowledge you would soak up with this book? systems. The last chapter (Chapter 8) 'Applied
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Environmental Research and Services of Villa Weaknesses: Thomas Foken is a German researcher. So, it is not surprising that many of Clara, Cuba the given examples, figures and guidelines focus on Germany. If I might make a Dr. Roberto Albertini, Department of suggestion for future editions, I would Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma appreciate more international examples, which are already well reflected in the given
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Britta Jänicke, Post-doc researcher at the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Korea Tanja Cegnar, Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alex Sandro Campos Maia, Sao Paulo State University
Jennifer Vanos, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Medicine University of California San Diego, USA
Dear ISB members, We are preparing for the next issue of the ISB Bulletin. Please provide us with any information you may have on upcoming conferences, workshops or other relevant ISB- related events or activities. Editors, Elena Grigorieva [email protected] and Scott Sheridan [email protected]
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