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Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong> Each semester, students in the Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. program<\/a> can apply for a Geospatial Analytics Travel Award that supports research travel or presentations at conferences. The following is a guest post by travel award winner<\/strong> <\/em>Martine Mathieu<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> as part of the Student Travel series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it like to be surrounded by hundreds of peers and professors in environmental sciences for five days straight? I was privileged to take part last November (13\u201317 November 2022) in the 43rd North America conference \u201cBridging Innovation and Sustainability<\/a>\u201d organized by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which brought together about 2,000 participants in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania from US, Canadian, European and African universities. SETAC is a worldwide professional organization present in more than 90 countries that promotes research in environmental sciences and its use for policy and decision-making. I learned about SETAC from a professor at the University of Iowa with whom I worked last summer who encouraged me to become a member of SETAC, one of the most important professional organizations in the field of risk and exposure assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My participation in the 43rd meeting was motivated by the great opportunity for me 1) to connect with peers and professors\/professionals from different universities and institutions in my geospatial application fields (air pollution exposure assessment, sociotechnical systems); 2) to learn about new computational and statistical methods and tools being developed for environmental assessment that can be useful for my research project; 3) to present my work, receive feedback and develop better presentation and communication skills; and 4) to promote the use of geospatial analytics methods to assess human exposure and risk through community-engaged methods. I\u2019m so grateful for SETAC and the Center for Geospatial Analytics travel awards that allowed me to live this amazing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My poster \u201cSpatial Associations of Long-term Exposure to Diesel Particulate Matter with Seasonal and Annual Mortality Due to COVID-19 in the Contiguous United States\u201d was presented under the session on \u201cMethods and Monitoring Tools for COVID-19 Public Health Research.\u201d This work was a series of spatial analyses I completed in 2021 to explore local associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and exposure to exhaust from diesel engines, using data from the 2018 AirToxScreen<\/a> database; I then developed this work into a first-author manuscript (accepted by BMC Public Health<\/em>). I was astonished by people\u2019s interest. I had the opportunity to discuss my paper and received numerous positive comments on the manuscript I presented and great advice for my research project in general. To learn more about innovative analytical approaches for modeling air pollution exposure assessment, I was very interested in scientific sessions on \u201cChemistry and Exposure Assessment,\u201d which did not disappoint me. I learned a lot about methodologies, techniques and applications of big data that could be applied to my research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the scientific presentation sessions, different \u201cStudent and Early Career\u201d activities were planned. My favorite activity was the Student\/Mentor dinner where, with four other students, we were given the opportunity to discuss career and professional orientation with a professor, a government official and someone from industry. They were very open to answer any question and provided fascinating insights into career choices and their implications. Also, by serving as a volunteer for side events, I participated in a women discussion on \u201cGender and Equity Allyship in the Workplace.\u201d That was an interesting conversation that allowed identifying actionable ways to practice gender allyship in communities and workplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong> Each semester, students in the Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. program<\/a> can apply for a Geospatial Analytics Travel Award that supports research travel or presentations at conferences. The following is a guest post by travel award winner<\/strong> <\/em>Martine Mathieu<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> as part of the Student Travel series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it like to be surrounded by hundreds of peers and professors in environmental sciences for five days straight? I was privileged to take part last November (13\u201317 November 2022) in the 43rd North America conference \u201cBridging Innovation and Sustainability<\/a>\u201d organized by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which brought together about 2,000 participants in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania from US, Canadian, European and African universities. SETAC is a worldwide professional organization present in more than 90 countries that promotes research in environmental sciences and its use for policy and decision-making. I learned about SETAC from a professor at the University of Iowa with whom I worked last summer who encouraged me to become a member of SETAC, one of the most important professional organizations in the field of risk and exposure assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My participation in the 43rd meeting was motivated by the great opportunity for me 1) to connect with peers and professors\/professionals from different universities and institutions in my geospatial application fields (air pollution exposure assessment, sociotechnical systems); 2) to learn about new computational and statistical methods and tools being developed for environmental assessment that can be useful for my research project; 3) to present my work, receive feedback and develop better presentation and communication skills; and 4) to promote the use of geospatial analytics methods to assess human exposure and risk through community-engaged methods. I\u2019m so grateful for SETAC and the Center for Geospatial Analytics travel awards that allowed me to live this amazing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My poster \u201cSpatial Associations of Long-term Exposure to Diesel Particulate Matter with Seasonal and Annual Mortality Due to COVID-19 in the Contiguous United States\u201d was presented under the session on \u201cMethods and Monitoring Tools for COVID-19 Public Health Research.\u201d This work was a series of spatial analyses I completed in 2021 to explore local associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and exposure to exhaust from diesel engines, using data from the 2018 AirToxScreen<\/a> database; I then developed this work into a first-author manuscript (accepted by BMC Public Health<\/em>). I was astonished by people\u2019s interest. I had the opportunity to discuss my paper and received numerous positive comments on the manuscript I presented and great advice for my research project in general. To learn more about innovative analytical approaches for modeling air pollution exposure assessment, I was very interested in scientific sessions on \u201cChemistry and Exposure Assessment,\u201d which did not disappoint me. I learned a lot about methodologies, techniques and applications of big data that could be applied to my research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the scientific presentation sessions, different \u201cStudent and Early Career\u201d activities were planned. My favorite activity was the Student\/Mentor dinner where, with four other students, we were given the opportunity to discuss career and professional orientation with a professor, a government official and someone from industry. They were very open to answer any question and provided fascinating insights into career choices and their implications. Also, by serving as a volunteer for side events, I participated in a women discussion on \u201cGender and Equity Allyship in the Workplace.\u201d That was an interesting conversation that allowed identifying actionable ways to practice gender allyship in communities and workplaces.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Martine Mathieu’s research explores spatial associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and exposure to exhaust from diesel engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":false,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"displayCategoryID\":49,\"caption\":\"Martine Mathieu presented her doctoral research at the 43rd North America conference of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48,49,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geospatial-analytics-phd","category-student-travel","category-student"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":49,"name":"Student Travel","slug":"student-travel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":49,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":56,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21105,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/21105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}