GC31H:
Sustained Scientific Assessment: Tools and Approaches to Help Inform Decision Making I

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Session ID#: 32619

Session Description:
Access to authoritative, usable, relevant science is necessary for decision makers to successfully navigate the challenges of climate and global change. Assessments that synthesize and develop new findings from across scientific disciplines with relevance to regional/local conditions are essential to this decision-making process. This session will highlight recent progress in climate and global change assessment, as well as related tools and initiatives, at the international, national, tribal, and local levels. Presentations will explore different approaches to assessment, provide examples of capacity building and/or successful community engagement, and showcase new tools to assist in the assessment and decision support processes.
Primary Convener:  Katie Reeves, US Global Change Research Program, Engagement and Communications Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States
Convener:  David Reidmiller, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States; USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States
Chairs:  Katie Reeves, US Global Change Research Program, Engagement and Communications Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States and David Reidmiller, United States Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David Reidmiller, United States Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Engage, discover, apply, learn, repeat: Implementing a Sustained National Climate Assessment within the United States (244948)
Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
Towards the next generation of climate change assessment: learning from past experiences to inform a sustainable future (220389)
Katharine J Mach, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Christopher B Field, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Scientific Integrity and Consensus in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Process (276549)
Ko Barrett, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Progress and Next Steps (228706)
David Reidmiller, USGS Climate Adaptation Science Center, Washington, United States, Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States and Katie Reeves, US Global Change Research Program, Engagement and Communications Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States
Developing a Process for Sustained Climate Assessment in the US Southwest Region (256337)
Benét Duncan, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Ursula K Rick, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Salt Lake City, United States and Elizabeth C. McNie, California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, CA, United States
Developing a Climate Change Boundary Organization: the Montana Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (Invited) (218557)
Cathy L. Whitlock1, Samantha Brooks2, Thomas Armstrong2 and Bill Bryan3, (1)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Madison River Group LLC, 22629 Upperville Heights Square, Ashburn, VA, United States, (3)One Montana, 2066 Stadium Drive #202, Bozeman, MT, United States
Using Climate Change Information in Large Scale Coastal Planning: Louisiana's 2017 Coastal Master Plan (Invited) (236378)
Denise Reed, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States

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