PA34A:
Science to Action: Building Novel and Transformative Partnerships Toward Decision-Relevant Science II

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Session ID#: 30567

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

Accelerating Science to Action: NGOs Catalyzing Scientific Research using Philanthropic/Corporate Funding (Invited) (289456)
Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
Growing our capacity within AGU to better connect and engage with new and novel partners (287893)
Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Science to Action Workgroup
Community Science: creating equitable partnerships for the advancement of scientific knowledge for action. (Invited) (245020)
Ellen S Lewis and Gretchen E Gehrke, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, po box 3426, new orleans, LA, United States
Partnerships and Grassroots Action in the 500 Women Scientists Network (267335)
Samantha R Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, Tamara Jane Zelikova, Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Angeline G Pendergrass, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Wendy Bohon, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, DC, United States and Kelly S Ramirez, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
What’s in it for me? – Applied science in a busy world. (278887)
Chris Swanston1, Maria Janowiak1, Leslie Brandt2, Patricia Butler3, Stephen Handler1, Todd Ontl4, Danielle Shannon3 and Kristen Schmitt3, (1)US Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)US Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, St. Paul, MN, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)US Forest Service, Office of Sustainability and Climate, Durham, United States
A bottom-up partnership of Andean institutions to improve hydrological interventions using a participatory network of research basins (285959)
Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom, Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Bert De Bièvre, Fondo para la Protección del Agua - FONAG, Secretaría Técnica, Quito, Ecuador and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA)
A Collaborative Study of Disproportionate Chemical Risks in Seven Delaware Communities (296145)
Gretchen T Goldman1, Ron White2, Denise Moore3, Michele Roberts4, Octavia Dryden5, Jessica Thomas6 and Charise Johnson1, (1)Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Madrid, Spain, (3)Independent Consultant, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Delaware Concerned Residents for Environmental Justice, New Castle, DE, United States, (6)Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States

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