PA43F:
Science to Inform Climate Resilience and Adaptation Decision-Making and Policy Posters


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Session ID#: 50378

Session Description:
This session showcases Science to Action! Scientists across the United States and around the world are partnering with local and national government to inform decision-making and policy on how to adapt and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. Multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, designers, and government officials are taking on the challenges of rising seas, heat waves, droughts and flooding. This session examines those unique partnerships with a focus on how science shaped planning, design and policy decisions. Lessons learned from model programs, including the NOAA Coastal Resilience Grants Program, the HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition, 100 Resilient Cities and Rebuild by Design as well as initiatives around climate planning will be shared. The session also looks ahead to how earth science programs and research can and should adapt to fit the need for actionable information at a local scale.
Primary Convener:  Rebecca French, State of Connecticut, Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States
Conveners:  Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Leslie Abrahams, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and David Curtis, West Consultants, Folsom, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rebecca French, State of Connecticut, Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States
Chairs:  Rebecca French, Connecticut Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States, Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Leslie Abrahams, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and David Curtis, West Consultants, Folsom, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rebecca French, Connecticut Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Linkage Between Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Mainstreaming (463845)
Masahiko Haraguchi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Local Ecological Knowledge as a Pathway to Coastal Resilience, Hazard Mitigation, and Adaptation (417174)
Kelly Heber Dunning, Port Aransas, TX, United States
Western Water Assessment: Providing Useful Climate and Weather Information to Decision-Makers in the Rocky Mountain West. (441212)
Ursula K Rick, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Salt Lake City, United States, Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeff Lukas, University of Colorado Boulder, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Seth John Taylor Arens, Department of Environmental Quality Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Benét Duncan, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Integration of Scientific Knowledge to Enhance Climate Resilience in Local Adaptation Planning: Learning from Project Piloting in Nepal (408613)
Puja Shakya, Practical Action, Kathmandu, Nepal and Anil Bhandari, Practical Action Consulting South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal
Recent progress in local governmental planning for climate change adaptation in Japan (365325)
Masayuki Hara and Tomohide Shimada, Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Kazo, Japan
Communication Strategy with Volunteer Networks through the MOSAIC Program for Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia (464609)
Agie Wandala1, Yuli Kartiningsih2, Nanda Alfuadi2, Agita Vivi Wijayanti2 and Nurhayati Nurhayati3, (1)Indonesia Weather Service, Jakarta, Indonesia, (2)Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Jakarta, Indonesia, (3)Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Education and Training, Jakarta, Indonesia
Community Adoption and Rejection of Building Code Standards for Wildfires (438917)
Rebecca Katherine Miller1, Bruce Cain1, Christopher B Field2 and Katharine J Mach3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford Environment Assessment Facility, Stanford, CA, United States
Incorporating Climate Risk into Building Design, Construction and Operations: Establishing A Dialogue to Provide Actionable Climate Science for Architects and Engineers (455417)
Ryan Colker, Washington, DC, United States
Modification of Building Design Weather Files with Future Climate Projections (372273)
Stephen R Sobie and Trevor Quentin Murdock, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
A stakeholder analysis for Arctic sea ice loss: Defining the opportunity space for usable science (459494)
Matthew L Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Promises and Perils of Sand Exploitation in Greenland (412884)
Mette Bendixen, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Irina Overeem, University of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Minik Thorleif Rosing, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Anders Anker Bjørk, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, Kurt Henrik Kjaer, Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aart Kroon, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Andrew Gavin Zeitz, Rhode Island School of Design, New York, United States and Iversen Lars Lonsmann, McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, QC, Canada
How attribution science can inform improved famine prevention in Africa (394226)
Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Hurricane Harvey's Impacts on Texas and the Federal and State Response (375078)
Coraggio Maglio, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Hydroclimatic Extremes as Challenges for the Water Management Community: Lessons from Oroville Dam and Hurricane Harvey (383660)
David C Curtis1, Julie A Vano2, Michael D Dettinger3, Robert Cifelli4, Alexis Dufour5, Kathleen Anne Miller2, J Rolf Olsen6 and Anna Maria Wilson7, (1)WEST Consultants, Folsom, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, (4)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers (Retd.), Jacksonville, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Nonstationarity on Seasonal Streamflow Predictability in the U.S. Southwest (427950)
Flavio Lehner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Dagmar Llewellyn, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Douglas B Blatchford, Bureau of Reclamation Boulder City, Boulder City, NV, United States, Angus Graham Goodbody, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Portland, United States and Florian Pappenberger, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom

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