CSTE Climate, Health, & Equity Subcommittee

Background: CSTE brought together a group of epidemiologists to establish the State Environmental Health Indicators Collaborative (SEHIC) in 2004 with the purpose of creating environmental public health indicators for surveillance. Statement of Purpose: Building the climate, health and equity skills and network for members and partners involved in state and local climate and health work while providing a way for climate epidemiologists to collectively raise new issues of importance in the field of public health. Vision : An engaged community for epidemiologists to voice concerns, and to share resources, skills, lessons learned and best practices in the field of climate, health and equity. Mission: To develop, support and build climate, health and equity practices at the state and local level.

USA National Phenology Network Resources and Tools

  • The USA-NPN visualization tool (https://www.usanpn.org/data/visualizations); tutorials for how to get started with it are in the sidebar of this page
  • Information on the USA-NPN's observational data (coming in through the Nature's Notebook program):  https://www.usanpn.org/data/observational, as well as the Phenology Observation Portal, an online query tool for extracting and downloading the observational data
  • Information on the gridded layers mentioned during the August C&RH Workgroup call, with information on how to access:  https://www.usanpn.org/data/maps
  • Nature's Notebook: www.naturesnotebook.org
    • Observation protocols used in Nature's Notebook - see attached file below.