PA43B:
Toward More Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Engagement III Posters

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Session ID#: 14720

Session Description:
Climate extremes, variability, and change and how these impact hydrological and ecological systems pose serious risks to society, risks that require critical decisions be made now to avoid future system failures. Scientists often see their responsibility as understanding what future changes will be, and then decision makers are responsible for using this information to take action. Unfortunately, rarely is it that simple. Too often there is a disconnect between the information generated by scientists and decisions being made. This session will explore how these gaps can be overcome. What do bridges between climate science and applications look like? How are these bridges built? We seek experiences that reveal the nature of actionable science and demonstrate ways knowledge can be co-produced to address climate change. We especially welcome concrete examples of processes or products that demonstrate better practices, or practices to avoid, when including climate science in decision making.
Primary Convener:  Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States, Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States and Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States, Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carolyn Enquist, USGS Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Making connections to translate climate research into effective action (183262)
Katherine J Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States and Lance Pierce, CDP, Lead, North America, New York, NY, United States
Comparing the Climate Agendas of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (119274)
Scott R Stephenson and Neil Oculi, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
Motivations and Barriers for Policymakers to Developing State Adaptation Plans (175450)
Rebecca Miller, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Emily Sylak-Glassman, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, United States
Bringing science to the table: Case studies in science-informed decision making on climate change and beyond (147931)
Gretchen T Goldman1, Pallavi Phartiyal2 and Kathy Mulvey1, (1)Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
Communicating Climate Imperatives to the U.S. Federal Government for Applied Research Funding and Consideration in Lawmaking: What Not to Say and How Not to Say It (143903)
Agatha S Wein, US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC, United States
Improving the relevance and impact of decision support research: A co-production framework and water management case study (184754)
Rebecca Smith, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States, Leon Basdekas, Black and Veatch Corporation Overland Park, Overland Park, KS, United States and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
Improving the effectiveness of interventions and investment in Andean watersheds through a participatory network of research basins (180614)
Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom; Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Bert De Bièvre, Fondo para la Protección del Agua - FONAG, Secretaría Técnica, Quito, Ecuador and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA)
Anticipating impacts of climate change on fish habitat to support decisionmaking in hydropower licensing: a climate risk study for the Hiram Dam, Saco River, ME (166729)
Camille Sage Lagron, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Joseph J Barsugli, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Experiences with collaborative climate impacts assessments for regional governments in southwestern British Columbia (145117)
Stephen R Sobie and Trevor Quentin Murdock, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Adaptation by Stealth: Understanding climate information use across scales and decision spaces in water management in the United States (197944)
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Laura Vang Rasmussen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Developing Flexible, Integrated Hydrologic Modeling Systems for Multiscale Analysis in the Midwest and Great Lakes Region (188288)
Alan F Hamlet1, Chun-Mei Chiu2, Ashish Sharma3, Kyuhyun Byun4 and Zachary Hanson2, (1)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (4)University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Progress and Challenges in Mainstreaming Climate Change in Federal Water Resources and Environmental Planning: Data Selection, Technical Methods, Decision Paradigms, and Climate Change Communication (186186)
Ian M Ferguson1, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay2, Marketa McGuire Elsner1 and Daniel Broman1,3, (1)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, Denver, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Creating a Regional Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) for California and Nevada: Building Off of Information Gathered and Lessons Learned after 5 Years of Drought (195043)
Amanda M Sheffield1, Alicia Marrs2, Tamara U Wall3, Dan Cayan1, Julie Kalansky1, Kelly T Redmond4, Justin L Huntington5 and Daniel McEvoy6, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute Reno, Western Regional Climate Center, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (6)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States
Engagement Between Decision Makers and the Research Community in Califonria'a Climate Assessments (197878)
Louise Wells Bedsworth, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Guido Franco, California Energy Commission, Research Division, Sacramento, CA, United States, Susan Wilhelm, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States and JR DeLaRosa, California Natural Resources Agency, Sacramento, CA, United States
Co-producing Coastal Adaptation Plans with Pacific Northwest Stakeholders: Applying Alternative Futures Analysis to Quantitatively Envision Policy and Climate Scenarios (170815)
Janan Evans-Wilent1, Peter Ruggiero2, John Bolte3, Katherine Serafin4, John Stevenson1 and Cynthia Schwartz5, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (4)University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Navigating translational ecology: Creating opportunities and overcoming obstacles for scientist participation (157361)
Toni Lyn Morelli1, Lauren M Hallett2, Leah R Gerber3, Max Moritz4, Mark Schwartz5, Nathan Stephenson6, Jennifer Leah Tank7, Matthew A Williamson5 and Connie A Woodhouse8, (1)USGS Northeast Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, United States, (4)University of California, Santa Barbara , UC Cooperative Extension, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (6)USGS, Three Rivers, CA, United States, (7)University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (8)University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
A Heat Warning System to Reduce Heat Illness in San Diego County (183410)
Alexander O Tardy1, Isabel Corcus2, Kristen Guirguis3, Alexander Gershunov4, Rupa Basu5 and Barbara Stepanski2, (1)NOAA, National Weather Service, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)County of San Diego, County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, Emergency Medical Services, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (5)Organization Not Listed, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland CA, Washington, DC, United States
An Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Events Framework for Development of Post Event Learning and Transformative Adaptation in Cities (177835)
William Duncan Solecki, City University of New York - Hunter College, Geography and Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Erin Friedman, city university of new york - hunter college, geography, new york, NY, United States and Rebekah Breitzer, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, United States
Development of Climate Adaptation Tool in Collaboration with City and County Stakeholders (148455)
Olufemi Omitaomu1, Esther S Parish2, Phil Nugent3, Linda Sylvester3, Melissa R Allen Dumas4, Mariya Absar3, Kathleen Ernst3 and Thomaz M Carvalhaes5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Urban Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, United States
Federal climate change programs in the water-limited Southwest: intersection of mission, stakeholders and geography to build successful collaboration (151781)
Emile Elias, US Department of Agriculture, Southwest Climate Hub, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Albert Rango, USDA ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Julian J Reyes, PhD, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, Michael A Langston, USGS South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK, United States and Kevin Johnson, Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Denver, CO, United States
Regional Climate Enterprises in the South Central U.S.: Crossover Relationships to Maximize User Engagement Effectiveness (191524)
Michael A Langston, USGS South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK, United States, Mark Shafer, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Bill Bartush, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lafayette, LA, United States and David P Brown, USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub, El Reno, OK, United States
WHAT “THEY” THINK: PERSPECTIVES OF STAKEHOLDERS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CO-PRODUCTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT MODELING (188588)
James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Christine Kirchhoff, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States
Using interviews and focus groups with resource managers to explore risk perceptions and responses to climate scenarios (197371)
Katherine Renee Clifford, University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment, Boulder, United States, William Travis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States, Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Renee Rondeau, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Laurie Young, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
Collaboration and co-production of climate knowledge: lessons from a network on the front-line (188784)
Nathan Kettle, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Coastal Resilience and Adaptation:Working Together to go from Information to Action on Alaska's Coasts (190743)
Amy Holman, NOAA Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, Aaron Poe, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Aleutian Bering Sea Islands LCC, Anchorage, AK, United States, Karen Murphy, US Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage, Department of the Interior, Anchorage, AK, United States, Jeremy S Littell, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States, Karen Pletnikoff, Aleutian & Pribilof Islands Association, Anchorage, AK, United States and Davin Holen, Alaska Sea Grant, Anchorage, AK, United States
Co-Producing Accessible Climate Knowledge: Case Study of a Scientific Challenge (192437)
Michel Bourqui, Climanosco, Zurich, Switzerland, Marie Katerina Madeleine Charriere, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands and Cassandra Bolduc, PMOD WRC Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos and World Radiation Center, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Decision-Makers As Messengers Of Climate Change Impacts And Ambassadors For Their Communities. (194550)
Michel Andre Boudrias1, Christiana DeBenedict2, Lia Bruce2, Mica Estrada3, Nicola Hedge4 and Nilmini Jeanne Silva-Send5, (1)University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, United States, (2)University of San Diego, Non-Profit Institute, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)The San Diego Foundation, San Diego, United States, (5)Energy Policy Initiatives Center, Univ of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Overcoming the Challenges of Co-creation (192860)
Rajul Pandya1, Ms. Natasha Udu-gama, MSc, PhD2, Melissa Goodwin1 and Patrick Otellini3, (1)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (2)American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States, (3)City of County of San Francisco, Resilience and Recovery, San Francisco, CA, United States
Linking science, public values, and decision-making: Case study development for public deliberations about climate change resilience (146202)
Nicholas Weller, PhD1, Ira Bennett1, Michael Bernstein1, Mahmud Farooque1, Jason Lloyd1,2, Caroline Lowenthal3 and David Sittenfeld3, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Washington, United States, (3)Museum of Science, Boston, MA, United States
Bridging the Gap: Tailor-made Information Products for Decision Makers (183828)
Ben E Mandler1, Cassaundra A Rose1, Leila M Gonzales2 and Maeve A Boland1, (1)American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States, (2)American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, United States
Navigating the high seas of Federal Programs to ensure usable science delivery (169672)
Dominique M Bachelet, Mike Gough, Barry Baker, Tim Sheehan, Taylor Mutch and Melanie Brown, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States
Interdisciplinary science for land managers: Lessons learned in the context of public land management (136719)
Ryan J Niemeyer, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Amanda Bentley Brymer, University of Idaho, Natural Resources and Society, Moscow, ID, United States, Holbrook D Joseph, University of Idaho, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Alexis A Suazo, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, J.D. Wulfhorst, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States; University of Idaho, Rural Sociology & Agricultural Economics, Moscow, ID, United States, Beth A Newingham, USDA ARS, Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, Reno, NV, United States, Dr. Timothy E Link, PhD, University of Idaho, forest resources, Moscow, ID, United States and Kerri T Vierling, University of Idaho, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, Moscow, United States
Informing Regional Water-Energy-Food Nexus with System Analysis and Interactive Visualizations (156690)
Yi-Chen Ethan Yang, Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Sungwook Wi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Allocation of a global carbon budget consistent with the future emergence of regional climate signals (193426)
Luke James Harrington, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and David J Frame, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand

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