PA41A:
Science to Action: Toward More Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Partnerships III Posters

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Session ID#: 24945

Session Description:
Climate extremes, variability, and change and their consequences for hydrological, ecological, and human systems require decisions be made now to avoid future system failures. The traditional model of science calls for scientists to understand what future changes may be and then decision makers will take action on this knowledge. In reality, this linear model rarely works and results in a disconnect between the information generated by scientists and decisions being made. This session will explore how scientists and decision makers can work together to produce more actionable science. We seek experiences that reveal what effective partnerships between science and applications look like and how they can be improved and shared. We especially welcome specific examples of processes or products that demonstrate and teach better practices, or practices to avoid, when including 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 and Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Inst, Basalt, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 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]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The influence of science funding agencies in support of effective decision-maker scientist partnerships (288665)
James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Being an honest broker of hydrology: Uncovering, communicating and addressing model error in a climate change streamflow dataset (226476)
Oriana Chegwidden, CarbonPlan, San Francisco, United States, Bart Nijssen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Erik Pytlak, Bonneville Power Administration, Weather and Streamflow Forecasting, Portland, OR, United States
Using Weather Types to Understand and Communicate Weather and Climate Impacts (215543)
Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ben Hale, University of Miami, Miami, United States, Greg J Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Cindy L Bruyere, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, James Done, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Linda Mearns, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States
Collaborative Workshops for Assessment and Creation of Multi-Objective Decision Support for Multiple Sectors (218232)
Joseph R Kasprzyk1, Rebecca Smith2, William James Raseman2, Mikaela Ann DeRousseau2, Lisa Dilling3, Kenan Ozekin4, R Scott Summers5, Balaji Rajagopalan6, Ben Livneh7,8, Fernando Rosario-Ortiz9, Leah Sprain2 and Wil V Srubar III2, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
Transforming data into usable knowledge: the CIRC experience (264401)
Philip Mote1, Denise Lach2, Holly Hartmann3, John T Abatzoglou4 and John Stevenson2, (1)Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Eugene, OR, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Decision makers, scientists and the public as stakeholders: the connection between traffic intervention policy and air quality in a local context. (271132)
Laura Weiand1, Erika von Schneidemesser1, Sean Schmitz1, Norman Niehoff2 and ClimPol - Climate Change and Air Pollution: Research Needs and Pathways to Policy Implementation, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)City Administration of Potsdam - City Development, Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, Building and Environment Division, Department of Urban Planning and Development, Potsdam, Germany
Refocusing and Evolving Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Services in NOAA’s National Weather Service (282949)
Fiona M.C. Horsfall1, Marina M Timofeyeva-Livezey2, Viviane Silva3, Mary Rose Mangan4, Jenna C Meyers5 and James Zdrojewski3, (1)NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NOAA National Weather Service, Silver Spring, United States, (3)National Weather Service Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (5)NOAA Washington DC, Washington, United States
Producing More Actionable Science Isn't the Problem; It's Providing Decision-Makers with Access to Right Actionable Knowledge (284895)
Mark Trexler, The Climatographers, Portland, OR, United States; George Washington University, Engineering, Washington, DC, United States
The Climate Impacts Research Consortium: Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of Co-production projects (241198)
Iva Sokolovska, Jessica A Andrepont and Denise Lach, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Economic Justification Of Robust Or Adaptive Planning And Design Of Resilient Water Resources Systems Under Deep Uncertainty: A Case Study In The Iolanda Water Treatment Plant Of Lusaka, Zambia (250827)
Guillermo Mendoza, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Marc Tkach, Millenium Challenge Corporation, Washington DC, United States, John Kucharski, US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, United States and Rabia Chaudhry, Millenium Challenge Corporation, Washington, DC, United States
A Bayesian-Based Approach to Marine Spatial Planning: Evaluating Spatial and Temporal Variance in the Provision of Ecosystem Services Before and After the Establishment Oregon's Marine Protected Areas (285638)
Bran Black1, Michael Harte2 and Chris Goldfinger1, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Partnering Community Decision Makers with Early Career Scientists – The NASA DEVELOP Method for Dual Capacity Building (297653)
Dr. Kenton W Ross, PhD1, Lauren M Childs-Gleason2, Georgina S Cripps3, Amanda Clayton4, Caren Remillard5, Lance E Watkins6, Karen N Allsbrook7, Lindsay Rogers8 and Michael L Ruiz8, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - Wise County, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (5)NASA DEVELOP Program - WC, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (6)NASA DEVELOP Program - WC, Arizona State University, Pheonix, AZ, United States, (7)NASA DEVELOP Program, National Program Office, Hampton, United States, (8)NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
San Francisco Bay Area CHARG: Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group, a Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration to Develop Innovative Regional Solutions to Address Sea Level Rise and Improve Shoreline Resiliency (296356)
Rohin Saleh, Alameda County Flood Control District, Hayward, CA, United States
Flooding During Drought: Learning from Stakeholder Engagement & Partner Coordination in the California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) (296326)
Amanda M Sheffield, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States; NOAA/NIDIS, La Jolla, CA, United States and California Nevada Applications Program & Western Regional Climate Center
Knowledge to Action – Understanding Natural Hazards-Induced Power Outage Scenarios for Actionable Disaster Responses (215616)
Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Caleb Robinson, Microsoft, AI for Good Research Lab, Redmond, United States, Daniel B. Koch, Battelle Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Olufemi Omitaomu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Urban Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
International cryospheric science capacity building and its role in policy and management (251512)
Alana M Wilson1,2, Richard L Armstrong3, Betsy R Armstrong4, Andrew P Barrett5, Mary J. Brodzik3, Florence M Fetterer6, Jennifer L. Fluri7, Alice Frances Hill8, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha9, Siri Jodha S Khalsa10, Alia Lauren Khan11, Holly A. Miller1, Cholpon Minbaeva3, Adina Racoviteanu5, Bruce H Raup12 and Karl Rittger13, (1)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Armstrong and Associates, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Univ Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Nelson, New Zealand, (9)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (10)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (11)Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States, (12)NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States
The Montreal Protocol treaty and its illuminating history of science-policy decision-making (256997)
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Washington, DC, United States
Policy making opportunities in the United States Senate and House of Representatives: an examination of seniority and gridlock (225955)
Karen M McCurdy, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States
Building place-based collaborations to develop high school students' groundwater systems knowledge and decision-making capacity (233492)
Agatha Podrasky1, Beth A Covitt1 and William Woessner2, (1)University of Montana, spectrUM Discovery Area, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States
Swift Creek Landslide Observatory: a university public - private partnership for education and public safety (292934)
Scott R Linneman, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
Combining Mineral Identification Techniques to Help Homeowners of Northeastern Connecticut Diagnose Pyrrhotite Laced Concrete Foundations (224076)
Jonathan R Gourley, Trinity College, Environmental Science Program, Hartford, CT, United States and Christoph E Geiss, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, United States

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