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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Anthony John Jakeman, Australian National University, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre, Canberra, Australia and Shaleen Jain, University of Maine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Orono, ME, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, 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, SK, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
From community preferences to design: Investigation of human-centered optimization algorithms in web-based, democratic planning of watershed restoration
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
1:55 PM
 
The Role of Integrated Modelling and Assessment for Decision-Making: Lessons from Water Allocation Issues in Australia
Anthony John Jakeman1, Joseph H.A. Guillaume1,2, Sondoss El Sawah1 and Serena Hamilton1, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (2)Aalto University, Water and Development Research, Aalto, Finland
2:10 PM
 
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)
Christina Bandaragoda, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Mary Dumas, Dumas & Associates, Bellingham, WA, United States
2:25 PM
 
Implementing interactive decision support: A case for combining cyberinfrastructure, data fusion, and social process to mobilize scientific knowledge in sustainability problems
Suzanne A Pierce, University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Sciences Institute, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
2:40 PM
 
Evaluating Investment in Missouri River Restoration: The Missouri River Effects Analysis
Robert B Jacobson, USGS, Columbia, MO, 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
2:55 PM
 
Monitoring and Research of the Colorado River Ecosystem: When Is Enough Enough?
John C Schmidt, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States; Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
3:10 PM
 
The Science and Policy of the First Environmental Flows to the Colorado River Delta
Karl W Flessa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Eloise Kendy, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Flows Program, Helena, MT, United States and Karen Schlatter, Sonoran Institute, Colorado River Delta Legacy Program, Tucson, AZ, United States
3:25 PM
 
Bridging the Knowledge Gap towards more Resilient Environmental Decision Making
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States
 
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