PA31B:
Science to Action: Building Novel and Transformative Partnerships Toward Decision-Relevant Science III Posters

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Session ID#: 25740

Session Description:
These are trying times for both scientists and local communities – dwindling financial resources, institutional barriers, spatio-temporal constraints, and a polarized electorate. Despite these roadblocks, scientists persevere to engage and collaborate with decision makers and communities to ensure science that is actionable, applicable, and usable. In this session, we explore (1) how scientists build and strengthen partnerships within and outside the research community, and (2) how these novel and truly collaborative partnerships lead to decision-relevant tools, resources, or knowledge. We invite on-the-ground stories and experiences, successes and challenges, and best practices that illustrate both increased collaborative capacity and the successful co-production of actionable science. Through this collective sharing, we can harness characteristics of effective and transformative partnerships to better understand community needs and deliver robust, science-based, and decision-relevant products and applications to our stakeholders.
Primary Convener:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States; USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States, Korey Woodley, Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee, Moscow, ID, United States and Alexis McKittrick, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Alexis McKittrick, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Global Environmental Change, and Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Science Shaping Sustainable Finance (274910)
Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna1, Charles J Vorosmarty2,3, Dinah Koehler4, Piet Klop5, Jack Spengler6, Jonathan Buonocore6, Anthony D Cak7, Zachary D Tessler1, Fabio Corsi8, Pamela A Green1 and Ramon Sánchez6, (1)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States, (2)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, (3)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (4)UBS, Sustainable Equities, New York, NY, United States, (5)PGGM Investments, Responsible Investment, Zeist, Netherlands, (6)Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (7)Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, (8)CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States
Challenges and opportunities from a combined research study and community groundwater testing program for residents living near hydraulic fracturing sites in Appalachian Ohio (232890)
Amy Townsend-Small, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Diagnosing Geospatial Uncertainty Visualization Challenges in Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation Forecasts (258856)
Amanda Speciale1, Dr. Melissa A Kenney, PhD2, Michael Gerst3, Allison Bredder4, Dave DeWitt5, Jon Gottschalck6 and Scott Handel5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Davidsonville, MD, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment, St. Paul, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Climate Prediction Center, NOAA / National Centers for Environmental Prediction, College Park, United States, (6)NOAA, Climate Prediction Center, Washington, DC, United States
Catalyzing Cross-Disciplinary Research and Education Within and Beyond the Environmental and Geosciences to Address Emerging, Societally-Relevant Issues (260221)
Anthony D Cak1, Linda J Vigdor2, Charles J Vorosmarty3,4, Brian M Giebel5, Camille Santistevan2 and Colleen Chasteau6, (1)Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, (2)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, (3)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, (4)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (5)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States, (6)CUNY Queens College, Flushing, NY, United States
Putting people into water quality modelling. (266270)
Graham EH Strickert, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Polytechnique Montreal, Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Bram Noble, University of Saskatchewan, Geography, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Helen M Baulch, Univ of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Luis Alejandro Morales-Marin, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, Canada and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Community-Based Investigation of Radon and Indoor Air Quality in Northeast Denver Neighborhoods (273574)
David Pfotenhauer1, Patti G Iwasaki2, George E Ware3, Ashley Collier-Oxandale4 and Michael Hannigan1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Denver, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Engineering, Boulder, United States
Towards a Geocognition of Geothermal Energy: an Evolving Research Partnership in South West England (277876)
Hazel Gibson1, Iain S Stewart1 and Peter Ledingham2, (1)Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4, United Kingdom, (2)Geothermal Engineering Ltd, Falmouth, United Kingdom
EarthConnections: Integrating Community Science and Geoscience Education Pathways for More Resilient Communities. (290331)
Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States and Leadership Team for EarthConnections INCLUDES Pilot
Mapping Climate Science Information Needs and Networks in the Northwest, USA through Evaluating the Northwest Climate Science Center Climate Science Digest (294859)
Diana R Gergel, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Lisa Hayward Watts, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, Eric P Salathe, University of Washington Bothell Campus, Bothell, WA, United States and John D Mankowski, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Olympia, WA, United States
Sustainability of utility-scale solar energy: Critical environmental concepts (296217)
Rebecca R Hernandez, University of California, Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, Kara A Moore-O'Leary, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Sacramento, CA, United States, Dave S Johnston, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, Scott Abella, School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Karen Tanner, University of California Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Amanda Swanson, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Jason Kreitler, US Geological Survey, Boise, ID, United States and Jeffrey Lovich, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

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