PA33D:
Science to Action: Building Novel and Transformative Partnerships Toward Decision-Relevant Science I

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Session ID#: 30561

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, Alexis McKittrick, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States

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:

National institute for Food and Agriculture: novel and changing funding strategies and mechanisms in response to changes in budgets, legislative authorities and scientific culture (276934)
Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Rachel Melnick, USDA-NIFA, Institute of Bioenergy climate and Environment, Washington, DC, United States
Building partnerships to produce actionable science to support climate-informed management decisions: North Central Climate Science Center example (279925)
Dennis S Ojima, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jill Lackett, Colorado State University, NREL, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Shannon McNeeley, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Translating Research into Practice: Establishing a Network of Climate Change Practitioners in Ontario, Canada (264491)
Glenn Milner, Ontario Climate Consortium, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Indigenous Observation Network: Collaborative, Community-Based Monitoring in the Yukon River Basin (242067)
Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer, Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Lakewood, CO, United States, Edda Andrea Mutter, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Anchorage, AK, United States, Nicole J Wilson, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Ryan Toohey, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States and Paul F Schuster, USGS, Boulder, CO, United States
Towards data-driven decision-making for sustainable diets in Vietnam: Identifying priority indicators through stakeholder engagement (210902)
Holly Mayton, University of California Riverside, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Riverside, CA, United States, Ty Beal, University of California Davis, Geography, Davis, CA, United States, Julia Rubin, University of California Berkeley, Global Health and Environment, Berkeley, CA, United States, Alejandra Sanchez, University of California Davis, International Agricultural Development, Davis, CA, United States, Martin Heller, University of Michigan, Center for Sustainable Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Lesi Hoey, University of Michigan, Urban and Regional Planning, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Colin K. Khoury, International Center of Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia and Andrew Jones, University of Michigan, Nutritional Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Environmental protection belongs to the public: A vision for citizen science at EPA (254024)
Alison Parker, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; ORISE fellow hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States and Shannon Dosemagen, Open Environmental Data Project, New Orleans, United States
Developing decision-relevant data and information systems for California water through listening and collaboration (274999)
Roger C Bales, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Leigh Bernacchi, University of California Merced, CITRIS, Merced, CA, United States, Martha H Conklin, University of California Merced, Merced, United States, Joshua H Viers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, United States, Graham E Fogg, Univ California Davis, Davis, United States, Andrew T Fisher, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Michael Kiparsky, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Enhancing Effective Stakeholder Participation in Local Groundwater Sustainability Planning through Technical Assistance in California (264111)
Coreen Weintraub1, Juliet Christian-Smith1, Kristin Dobbin2 and Kate Cullen3, (1)Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, United States

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