PA42A:
How Does Your Geoscience Research Matter, and Can You Explain How It Matters to the Public?

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Session ID#: 24142

Session Description:
You have five minutes to explain to a non-geoscientist what you do, what discoveries you have made and why it matters. Are you ready to do this with a presentation or without? This session seeks brief and easy to understand descriptions via posters or lightning talks for outreach to the public and stakeholders, such as policymakers, emergency managers and/or others. There are no restrictions on your choice of words or images, but the presentation should include some description about why the geoscience has value and what that value is.
Primary Convener:  Linda R Rowan, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Maggie Walser, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and Rebecca French, University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, Groton, CT, United States
Chairs:  Linda R Rowan, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Rebecca French, University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, Groton, CT, United States and Maggie Walser, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Linda R Rowan, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How to spy on your neighbor’s water consumption from space (287063)
Wesley Neely1, Adrian A Borsa1 and Jennifer A Burney2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Why understanding the impacts of the changing environment on river basin hydrology matters in Texas? (287482)
Huilin Gao1, Gang Zhao2, Kyungtae Lee3, Shuai Zhang4, Xiao Shen5, Manqing Shao3 and Carter Nickelson6, (1)Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States, (2)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Texas A & M University, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (5)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (6)Whitworth University, Spokane, United States
Actionable Science for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding to Help Avoid Maladaptation (294669)
Maya K Buchanan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Coastlines of the past: clues for our future (222155)
Laura Reynolds, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Using simulations to forecast homeowner response to sea level rise in South Florida: Will they stay or will they go? (245246)
Galen Treuer, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Why do we conduct energy research in Alabama? (211128)
Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Sustainable California: Getting the word out through a web-based TV channel (253653)
Roger C Bales1, Leigh Bernacchi2, Martha H Conklin3, Safeeq Khan4, Joshua H Viers5 and Michelle E Gilmore1, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, CITRIS, Merced, CA, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Merced, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States, (5)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, United States
Critical Transition in Critical Zone of Intensively Managed Landscapes (248019)
Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory (IMLCZO) Scientific Team
Dirt: Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge to Support Global Land Management (296303)
Jeffrey Herrick, USDA-ARS Jornada Exp. Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Brandon Bestelmeyer, USDA-ARS-Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States, Jason Caufield Neff, University of Colorado at Boulder, Sustainability Innovation Lab at Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Debra P C Peters, USDA ARS, Las Cruces, United States, Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, Shawn William Salley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States and Skye A. Wills, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Tiny and Hidden but Changing Your World: The Importance of Soil Microbes to Climate Change (224820)
Nicholas Waldo and Rebecca Bergquist Neumann, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Every rural resident knows that the geosciences matter! (300671)
Daniel deB. Richter Jr, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, United States
Geoscience research helps rice farmers mitigate climate change and world hunger (253838)
Benjamin Runkle, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Kosana Suvocarev, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Michele L Reba, USDA, ARS, Delta Water Management Research Unit, Jonesboro, AR, United States
Impacts of Biomass Burning on African Climate and Inhabitants (301708)
Osinachi Ajoku1, Jennifer A Burney2 and Arthur J Miller1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Environmental change and the conversion of permanently frozen ground to wetlands (242289)
Rebecca Bergquist Neumann1, Colby Moorberg2, Jesse Turner1, Andrea Wong1, Mark P Waldrop3, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen4, Colin Edgar5 and Merritt R Turetsky6, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Department of Agronomy, Manhattan, KS, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Univesity of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, United States, (6)Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States
Predation and Ecology in Deep-Time: How Modern Marine Ecosystems Develop and Deteriorate (301581)
Lydia Tackett, North Dakota State University Main Campus, Fargo, ND, United States
When Magma Meets Carbonate: Explosive Criminals of Climate Change? (233653)
Laura B Carter, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
How Collecting and Freely Sharing Geophysical Data Broadly Benefits Society (244432)
Andrew Frassetto1, Robert Woodward2 and Robert S Detrick1, (1)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, DC, United States
Where There's Smoke: Using Satellites to Monitor Impact of Human Activities on Agriculture and Glaciers in the Andes and Himalayas (254167)
Jessica McCarty, Miami University, Geography, Oxford, United States and David Milller Banach, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
History of Geoscience Research Matters to You (214257)
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, ME, United States

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