H43Q:
Knowledge Translation: Mobilizing Environmental Data and Modeling for Uncertain and Changing Decision and Policy Contexts I

Session ID#: 4892

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
308 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Anthony John Jakeman, Australian National University, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Shaleen Jain, University of Maine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Orono, ME, United States
Primary Convener:  Theodore S. Melis, USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Co-conveners:  Shaleen Jain, University of Maine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Orono, ME, United States, Anthony Jakeman, Australian National University, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States; University of Saskatchewan, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, Saskatoon, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1848 Monitoring networks [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H43Q-01
From community preferences to design: Investigation of human-centered optimization algorithms in web-based, democratic planning of watershed restoration (17384)
Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Indiana University - Purdue University – Indianapolis, Department of Computer & Information Science, Indianapolis, IN, United States
H43Q-02
The Role of Integrated Modelling and Assessment for Decision-Making: Lessons from Water Allocation Issues in Australia (3746)
Anthony John Jakeman1, Joseph H.A. Guillaume1,2, Sondoss El Sawah3 and Serena Hamilton3, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Aalto University, Water and Development Research Group, Aalto, Finland, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
H43Q-03
Participatory Modeling Processes to Build Community Knowledge Using Shared Model and Data Resources and in a Transboundary Pacific Northwest Watershed (Nooksack River Basin, Washington, USA) (30873)
Christina Bandaragoda, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Mary Dumas, Dumas & Associates, Bellingham, WA, United States and WRIA 1 Water Budget and Data Integration Teams
H43Q-04
Implementing interactive decision support: A case for combining cyberinfrastructure, data fusion, and social process to mobilize scientific knowledge in sustainability problems (Invited) (5682)
Suzanne A Pierce, University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Sciences Institute, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
H43Q-05
Evaluating Investment in Missouri River Restoration: The Missouri River Effects Analysis (19642)
Robert B Jacobson, USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, United States, Craig J Fischenich, US Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksdburg, MS, United States and Kate E. Buenau, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Marine Sciences Lab, Sequim, WA, United States
H43Q-06
Monitoring and Research of the Colorado River Ecosystem: When Is Enough Enough? (Invited) (6117)
John C Schmidt, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States; Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, United States
H43Q-07
The Science and Policy of the First Environmental Flows to the Colorado River Delta (6770)
Karl W Flessa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Eloise Kendy, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Flows Program, Helena, MT, United States, Karen Schlatter, Sonoran Institute, Colorado River Delta Legacy Program, Tucson, AZ, United States and MInute 319 Delta Science Team
H43Q-08
Bridging the Knowledge Gap towards more Resilient Environmental Decision Making (Invited) (6239)
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States
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