PA41D:
Making an Impact: Stories, Tips, and Lessons Learned from Collaborating with Communities II

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Session ID#: 14775

Session Description:
Collaborations between scientists and communities can benefit both. They enrich research, broaden participation, diversify career paths, and generate public support for science.  For communities, these collaborations solve local challenges, introduce opportunities, advance policy objectives, and expand community capacity to ensure equity and environmental justice.  These collaborations are not easy; collaborators need to work hard to align incentives, find and share resources, balance priorities, and navigate cultural and practical differences.

This session will explore ways to overcome these challenges and build effective, impactful collaborations.  We encourage contributions with both community and scientific voices.  We seek contributions of all kinds: case studies, meta-analyses of effective collaborations, overviews of training and student programs, and reflections from people that guide science-community collaborations. We also invite examinations of specific challenges, like how to share data without stigmatizing a population or how to move from scientific results to community action.

Primary Convener:  Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Laurie A Leshin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President, Worcester, United States, Kevin J Noone, Stockholm University, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden and Andrew Rosenberg, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Andrew Rosenberg, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Lucile Jones, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Global Environmental Change, Planetary Sciences, Earth and Space Science Informatics, and Atmospheric Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Projects for People: An International Exchange Focused on Drinking Water Quality in Rural Peru (196548)
Tess S Weathers1, Francisco Tarazona Vasquez2, Emily Bailey3, Vy Duong3, Ricardo Gonzales Vera2, David LaPorte3, Brenda Rojas Cala2, Sharonluz Torres Atencia2 and Jairo Vasquez Auqui2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima, Peru, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Data for global solutions: How new technologies can help people to re-imagine the future of cities and more (183805)
Joshua Tewksbury, University of Colorado at Boulder, Sustainability Innovation lab, Boulder, CO, United States; Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States, Owen Gaffney, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany and Denise Young, International Council for Science, Communications, Paris, France
Successful Teaching, Learning, and Use of Digital Mapping Technology in Mazvihwa, Rural Zimbabwe (153906)
Melissa Viola Eitzel Solera1, Sikhangezile Madzoro2, Jon Solera3, Emmanuel Mhike Hove2, Abraham Changarara2, Daniel Ndlovu2, Adnomore Chirindira2, Alice Ndlovu2, Shamiso Gwatipedza2, Memory Mhizha2 and Moses Ndlovu2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Science and Justice Research Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)The Muonde Trust, Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe, (3)Seven Points Consulting, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
Urban-Climate Adaptation Tool: Optimizing Green Infrastructure (147661)
Jack D Fellows and Budhendra L Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Analysis and Lessons Learned from an Online, Consultative Dialogue between Community Leaders and Climate Experts (194352)
Emily Sylak-Glassman, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, United States and Christopher Clavin, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Charting a path forward: building AGU’s capacity to help foster scientist-decision maker engagement (171030)
Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, 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, Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

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