PA12A:
Toward Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Interactions II


Session ID#: 10162

Session Description:
When climatic, hydrological, or geophysical risks threaten local communities, officials must make critical decisions that have a big influence on people’s lives and livelihoods. Increasingly, stakeholders are seeking insights from science to help make decisions about managing risk and climate impacts.  Yet, too often, information that scientists generate does not translate into something actionable, frustrating both scientists and decision makers.  How can we do this better?  This session will explore best practices in how to bridge the gap between climate science and application through improving interactions between scientists and decision makers, sometimes called “co-production of knowledge.”  We especially welcome contributions that share concrete examples of engagement from both science and decision maker perspectives - successes as well as frustrations.
Primary Convener:  Julie A Vano, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States
Chairs:  Julie A Vano, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States and Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Co-Production of Actionable Science: Recommendations to the Secretary of Interior and a San Francisco Case Study (75115)
Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, W Tad Pfeffer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Beier, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Adapting natural resource management to climate change: The South Central Oregon and Northern Rockies Adaptation Partnerships (Invited) (70558)
Jessica Halofsky, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and David L Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, United States
Lessons Learned on Effective Co-production of Drought Science and Decision Support Tools with the Wind River Reservation Tribal Water Managers (70470)
Shannon McNeeley1, Dennis S Ojima2 and Tyler A. Beeton1,2, (1)North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Translating climate data for business decisions (64774)
Nik Steinberg, Four Twenty Seven, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Production with Water Managers to Improve Applicability and Adoption of an Emerging Decision Support Tool (81577)
Rebecca Smith, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States and Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States
Linking Environmental Research and Practice: Lessons From The Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States (Invited) (81043)
Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jennifer Rice, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Toward an Ethical Framework for Climate Services (75314)
Robert Wilby, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Peter Adams, Acclimatise, New York, United States, Erika Eitland, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Joy Shumake, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Catherine Vaughan, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Stephen E Zebiak, Intl Res Inst Climate & Soc, Palisades, NY, United States

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