PA13A:
Toward Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Interactions III Posters


Session ID#: 10163

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:  Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Julie A Vano, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, United States, Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States and Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, 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:

Assessing Climate Vulnerability and Resilience of a Major Water Resource System – Inverting the Paradigm for Specific Risk Quantification at Decision Making Points of Impact (70170)
Kevin W Murphy, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, Andrew W Ellis, Department of Geography, College of Natural Resources, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Jonathan A Skindlov, The Salt River Project, Water Operations, Tempe, AZ, United States
Application of data on climate extremes for the southwestern United States (59924)
Erica Fleishman, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Daniel R Cayan, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Britta Daudert, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States and Kelly T Redmond, Desert Research Institute Reno, Western Regional Climate Center, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV, United States
Actionable Science in Practice: Co-Producing Climate Change Information for Water Utility Vulnerability Assessments. Four Case Studies from the Water Utility Climate Alliance (81401)
Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States, Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, Paul Fleming, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, WA, United States, Tirusew Asefa, Tampa Bay Water, Dunedin, FL, United States, Kavita Heyn, Portland Water Bureau, Portland, OR, United States, Keely Brooks, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV, United States and Alan Cohn, New York City DEP, New York, NY, United States
A multi-agency investigation of Heat and human Health relationships in the state of Vermont: Towards actionable science. (68114)
Evan Oswald, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Boundary Organizations: Creating a Unique Model for Sustained Dialog Among Scientists and Decison Makers About Long-term Change (77159)
Benét Duncan, Hayley Carter, Emily Knight and Ryan Meyer, California Ocean Science Trust, Oakland, CA, United States
Producing Scientific and Strategic Guidance for California’s Department of Water Resources: The Climate Change Technical Advisory Group (78403)
John R Gyakum1, Barney N Austin2, David C Curtis3, Michael Anderson4, Holly Alpert5, Sarah Young6, Al Herson7, Andrew Michael Schwarz4, ML Levent Kavvas8, Ruth Langridge9, Elissa Lynn4, Jamie Anderson4, Kelly T Redmond10, Michael D Dettinger11, Matthew Correa4, Guido Franco12, Dan Cayan13 and Konstantine Georgakakos14, (1)McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Aqua Strategies, Dripping Springs, TX, United States, (3)WEST Consultants, Folsom, CA, United States, (4)California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, (5)Inyo-Mono Integrated Regional Water Management Program, Lafayette, CO, United States, (6)Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose, CA, United States, (7)The Sohagi Law Group, PLC, Sacramento, CA, United States, (8)University of California Davis, Civil, Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, (9)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (10)Desert Research Institute Reno, Western Regional Climate Center, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (11)U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (12)California Energy Commission, Research Division, Sacramento, CA, United States, (13)Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (14)Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States
Climate Change Challenges of Managing Quality of Drinking Water: Survey Results from Utilities in California (84919)
Julia Ekstrom, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Louise Wells Bedsworth, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Detecting Methane Emission Sources in California: a Case-Study of Scientist/Decision-Maker Interactions (82489)
Francesca Mia Hopkins1, Riley Duren1, Charles E Miller2, Andrew D Aubrey3, Matthias Falk4, Toshihiro Kuwayama5 and Louie Hinojosa6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (3)Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, United States, (4)California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Sacramento, United States, (5)California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, (6)Pacific Gas & Electric, San Francisco, CA, United States
Serving California’s Science and Governance Needs through Crisis-driven Collaborations (86568)
Leigh Bernacchi, University of California Merced, CITRIS, Merced, CA, United States
Collaborative Approaches to Increase the Utility of Spatial Data for the Wildfire Management Community Through NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (82607)
Amber Jean Kuss McCullum1, Cindy Schmidt1, Brock Blevins2, Keith Weber3, John L Schnase4, Mark Carroll5 and Ana I Prados2, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States
Bridging the Gap between NASA Earth Observations and Decision Makers through the NASA DEVELOP National Program (65779)
Jamie E Favors1, Lauren M Childs-Gleason2, Dr. Kenton W Ross, PhD3, Lindsay Rogers4, Karen N Allsbrook5, Michael L Ruiz4, Tiffani Nicole Miller3 and Georgina Crepps6, (1)NASA DEVELOP National Program, Newport News, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - Wise County, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA DEVELOP Program, National Program Office, Hampton, United States, (6)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States
Connecting Stakeholders and Climate Science: A Summary of Farmer, Rancher, and Forester Climate Data Needs and Climate Change Attitudes (70936)
Albert Rango1, Michael Crimmins2, Emile Elias3, Caitriana M Steele4 and Jeremy L Weiss2, (1)USDA ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)US Department of Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Identifying Decision Support Tools to Bridge Climate and Agricultural Needs in the Midwest (84094)
Beth L. Hall1, Doug R Kluck2, Jerry Hatfield3, Courtney Black4, Olivia Kellner5, Mary Woloszyn5 and Michael S Timlin6, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)NOAA, Kansas City, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Ames, IA, United States, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey, Urbana, IL, United States
Sharing Remote and Local Information for Tracking Spring Breakup in the Mackenzie Delta and Beaufort Sea (86511)
Donald L Forbes1, Dustin Whalen1 and Paul Fraser2, (1)Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (2)Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Supporting decisions through the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Program: A History and Way Forward (75324)
Matthew L Druckenmiller1,2, Helen V Wiggins3, Hajo Eicken4, Jennifer Ann Francis1, Henry Huntington5 and Ted A Scambos6, (1)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Cen, Boulder, United States, (3)Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Marine Science, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Translating Climate Projections for Bridge Engineering (79093)
Christopher Anderson1, Eugene S Takle1, Witold Krajewski2, Ricardo Mantilla3 and Felipe Quintero4, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)The University of Iowa-IIHR, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
How a policy requiring all highways infrastructure projects to consider climate change was born (82012)
Trevor Quentin Murdock1, Stephen R Sobie1, Dirk Nyland2 and Johanna Wolf1, (1)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Victoria, BC, Canada
Joint Knowledge Generation Between Climate Science and Infrastructure Engineering (85574)
Anne Marie K Stoner, Texas Tech University, Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States and Jennifer M Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States
Taming Data to Make Decisions: Using a Spatial Fuzzy Logic Decision Support Framework to Inform Conservation and Land Use Planning (80462)
Tim Sheehan, Barry Baker and Rebecca Sarah Degagne, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States
Quantifying the Value of Downscaled Climate Model Information for Adaptation Decisions: When is Downscaling a Smart Decision? (82991)
Adam J Terando, US Geological Survey, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Raleigh, United States, Adrienne Wootten, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Mitchell J Eaton, U.S. Geological Survey, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Raleigh, United States, Michael C Runge, US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Laurel, United States, Jeremy S Littell, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States, Alexander M Bryan, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States and Shawn L Carter, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Navigating the boundary of science for decision making at the state and local level (84409)
Charlotte Wood1, Leila M Gonzales2, Maeve A Boland1 and Cassaundra Ashley Rose3, (1)American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States, (2)American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Making Information Useful: Engagement in the Sustained National Climate Assessment Process (85738)
Glynis C Lough, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, D.C., United States and Emily Therese Cloyd, National Climate Assessment, Washington, DC, United States
Mind the Gap: Integrating Science and Policy Cultures and Practices (74386)
Steven M Lev and Ian Simon, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Hydrologic modeling for monitoring water availability in Africa and the Middle East (69645)
Amy McNally1, Augusto Getirana1, Kristi R Arsenault2, Christa D Peters-Lidard1 and James P Verdin3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States
Social Priorities as Data (65233)
Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Constructing Political Region Agglomerations for Effective Science Communcation (84154)
James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Using GEFS ensemble forecasts for decision making in reservoir management in California (80466)
Michael Scheuerer, CIRES, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Thomas Hamill, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert Stabler Webb, NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States
Using NMME in Region-Specific Operational Seasonal Climate Forecasts (80579)
Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States, Rebecca A Bolinger, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Lauren M Fry, US Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, Office of Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology, Detroit, MI, United States and Keith Kompoltowicz, US Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, Detroit, MI, United States

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