The State of California has been supporting regional climate change research for more than a decade. These studies have complemented research at the national level and have been designed to inform climate policy deliberations and actions in California. This Research Catalog provides basic information about past and ongoing climate change related studies that state agencies have conducted or commissioned since the early 2000s. The purpose of this catalog is to document California’s research efforts and to facilitate the exchange of information.
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1) An Examination of Sensitive Subgroups in the Association Between Increases in Temperature and Mortality. 2) The Direct Health Effects of the July 2006 Heat Wave. 3) The Effects of Temperature Increases on Hospital Admissions in California
Lead Agency: OEHHA in collaboration with CDPH
Principal Investigator(s): Bart Ostro
(OEHHA)
Year finished: 2008, Budget: $70,000
Published/Product: published in American Journal of Epidemiology 2008; 168: 632 - 637
Characterizing Temperature and Mortality in Nine California Counties
Lead Agency: OEHHA in collaboration with CDPH
Principal Investigator(s): Bart Ostro
(OEHHA)
Year finished: 2008
Published/Product: published in Epidemiology 2008;19: 138-145
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Study period is 1999-2003
Environmental Indicators for Climate Change and Environmental Justice
Lead Agency: OEHHA in collaboration with CalEPA
Principal Investigator(s): Oehha Staff
Year finished: 2008, Budget: $400,000
Published/Product: OEHHA Report: Indicators of Climate Change in California [04/17/09] (http://www.oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/epic/climateindicators.html)
Notes
Update to the Environmental Indicators for California (EPIC) project to include environmental justice and climate change indicators.
Environmental Indicators for Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Phase 2
Lead Agency: OEHHA in collaboration with CalEPA
Principal Investigator(s): Linda Mazur, Carmen Milanes
(OEHHA)
Year finished: ongoing, Budget: $450,000
Notes
To provide current information on climate change indicators, emerging issues within the climate change policy arena, and an on-going review of the research literature relevant to climate policy and programs. OEHHA will update the 2009 set of climate change indicators, and identify and present additional indicators for a report to be released in 2011. Following the release of this report, OEHHA will continue to monitor the scientific literature, publications by research organizations and governmental entities, the Internet and other relevant sources of data on climate change and its impacts.
Estimating the Health Effects of Temperature in California
Lead Agency: OEHHA in collaboration with CDPH
Principal Investigator(s): Bart Ostro
(OEHHA)
Year finished: 2009, Budget: $75,000
Published/Product: in process
Notes
This contract will result in analysis of: (1) the effects of temperature on hospitalization, (2) the mitigative impact of air conditioner use, (3) the existence of harvesting in mortality effects (4) temperature effects on premature birth (5) the quantification of future mortality and morbidity impacts of temperature and (6) valuation of mortality impacts from temperature increase
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