Maggie Sugg

⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. Read the latest assessment of the links between health and climate change: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #LancetClimate24

We are very fortunate to be able to share that our district has officially accounted for all of our students and staff in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 💙

For App State Boone and Hickory campuses, classes will not meet until after Oct. 15. Adverse Weather Condition 3 (Closure) has been extended through 5pm Oct. 11. Residence halls, dining facilities and campus medical facilities remain open. More info: appstatealert.com

My family & I are safe, however cell service, wifi, power & water are non-existent or severely limited. It really is devastating here in WNC. Our community needs critical emergency cell infrastructure & supplies. We cannot receive emails, load websites, plz communicate via text.

Some have called the 1916 Western North Carolina flood "the flood to end all floods." Today, emergency management officials are warning that Helene could bring similar floods to Asheville and surrounding areas. ourstate.com/flood-of-1916/

What a warning for those in the southern Appalachains. #Helene

For context re: southern Appalachian flooding Asheville, NC has already had a 1,000 year return interval rainfall event over the past day...before #Helen gets there

Go Maggie!! UNC Geography PhDs are doing such good work!! 🤩🤩🤩

@douglas_rao I'm excited as well! None of this would be possible without @NCState_NCICS!

Congratulations to @MagSugg, NCICS's Jennifer Runkle and @douglas_rao, and other researchers on receiving funding for important research on the effects of #climate change on the mental health of young people. A key goal is to inform improved response strategies.

@HengCai_gis Congratulations to you as well - for your GRP Early Career!

@MagSugg Amazing news! Big congrats, Maggie!

App State’s Dr. Maggie Sugg awarded over $1.5 million to study climate disasters and youth mental health | Appalachian Today today.appstate.edu/2024/09/10/sugg

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Strong commitment at the @WHOAFRO regional committee to address the impacts of #ClimateChange on #health. 🥅Goal: Resilient and sustainable health systems are built capable of coping with the adverse effects of climate change 👏@WHO @UNFCCC @COP29_AZ

Join us at AppState - multiple faculty opening for climate science assistant professor appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/47093

@sezick @craigramseyer Not yet, although Jsugg and I did complete a spatial analysis of drought data a few years ago published in the physical geographer. Future collab? 🤔

Interesting that dry region extends into foothills and piedmont regions. I wonder if hydromet/clim folks have investigated, e.g. J Sugg @MagSugg @craigramseyer

Increasingly dry summers in Southern Appalachia, jives with what we've been experiencing on the ground with extended periods of drought almost every summer @NWSBlacksburg

🔥There is a new version of the causalweight package for R (#rstats)! It now also contains #DifferenceInDifference estimators for binary and continuous treatments using causal #MachineLearning (to control for covariates in a data-driven way): rdocumentation.org/packages/causa… #EconTwitter

If Republican leaders don't enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.

@EHPonline The more temperatures rose, the more pregnant women were admitted to the hospital for psychiatric issues. For example, a 9°F rise in temperature was associated with a 7–15% increase in the number of emergency department visits by pregnant patients.

Dr. Maggie Sugg, associate professor in @appstateghypln, is interviewed about heat vulnerability in this @nytimes story by Dionne Searcey: nytimes.com/2024/06/20/cli…