PA43D:
Science to Action: Toward More Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Partnerships I

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Session ID#: 30571

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:  Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Inst, Basalt, CO, United States and Sarah Close, Lenfest Ocean Program, Washington, DC, 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:

Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations: Bringing Science and Decision-Makers Together to Explore Use of Hydrometeorological Forecasts to Support Future Reservoir Operations  (284143)
F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Jay Jasperse, Sonoma Water, Santa Rosa, United States
Working with Decision Makers to Improve Energy-Water System Resiliency in the Lower Hudson River Basin (282065)
Jack D Fellows1, Martin A. Schoonen2, Julie Pullen3, Jorge E González4, Firas Saleh5 and Vatsal Bhatt2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Stenvens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environment, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, NJ, United States, (4)Department of Mechanical Engineering & NOAA-CREST Center, The City College of New York, NY 10031, New York, NY, United States, (5)Davidson Laboratory, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, NJ, United States
Science informed water resources decision-making: Examples using remote sensing observations in East Africa, the Lower Mekong Basin and the western United States (291411)
Stephanie L Granger1, Konstantinos Andreadis2, Narendra Das3, Tom G Farr4, Amor V M Ines5, Susantha Jayasinghe6, Cathleen E Jones1, Forrest S Melton7, Lilian W. Ndungu8, Judy Lai-Norling1, Thomas H Painter1 and Jones, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (6)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya
Sustaining a Stakeholder-Scientists Partnership in Co-producing Locally Relevant Data, Methods, and Tools (294531)
Tirusew Asefa, Tampa Bay Water, Clearwater, United States
Scientist-Practitioner Engagement to Inform Regional Hydroclimate Model Evaluation (Invited) (297272)
Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kripa Akila Jagannathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States and Paul Aaron Ullrich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

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