PA24B:
Making an Impact: Stories, Tips, and Lessons Learned from Collaborating with Communities I

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Session ID#: 14780

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:  Kevin J Noone, Stockholm University, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden, Charise Johnson, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Charles Hobart Perry, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, 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:

Berlin, Maryland – How One Small City is Using Science to Change its World (149223)
Laura Allen, Town of Berlin, Administration, Berlin, MD, United States and Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health Science, Baltimore, MD, United States
Sustaining Scientist-Community Partnerships that are Just, Equitable, and Trustworthy (Invited) (190172)
Nicky Sheats, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Engaging with Underserved Urban Communities on Climate Resilience (193476)
K L Akerlof, PhD, George Mason University, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, Fairfax, VA, United States, Fredrika C Moser, Maryland Sea Grant College, College Park, MD, United States, Kristin Baja, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore, MD, UNITED STATES, Jennifer M. Dindinger, University of Maryland Sea Grant Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD, United States, Victoria Chanse, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture, College Park, MD, United States, Katherine E. Rowan, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, VA, United States and Bill Rohring, George Mason University Fairfax, Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, Fairfax, VA, United States
Overcoming All-Too-Common Challenges of Community Collaboration: Research Fatigue and Integration of Local Priorities (153119)
Todd Jared Brinkman1, Helen Cold1, Taylor Stinchcomb1, Caroline Brown2 and Teresa N Hollingsworth3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Addressing Houston’s Bad Air Days: Advancing Environmental Justice Advocacy with Geospatial Analysis and Science Communication (199629)
Charise Johnson1, Ron White1 and Pallavi Phartiyal2, (1)Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
Building Partnerships to Address Community Geoscience Priorities: A Brief History of the Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) Model and its Evolution (176832)
Ms. Natasha Udu-gama, MSc, PhD1, Rajul Pandya2, Carol Finn3, Laurie A Leshin4, Christine McEntee2, Billy M Williams5 and Melissa Goodwin2, (1)American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States, (2)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (3)USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, (4)Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Office of the President, Worcester, United States, (5)American Geophysical Union, Executive Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Science, Washington, DC, United States

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