PA52B:
Science to Action: Accelerating Innovation of Applied Climate Science for Risk Reduction and Resilience—A New Role for the Sustained National Climate Assessment


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Session ID#: 51860

Session Description:
Pressure is increasing to implement mitigation and adaptation measures. Practitioners at state and local levels need authoritative data, tools, and methods to inform climate action. This session will explore the role of scientific assessments in establishing authoritative knowledge, tools, and strategies to incorporate science in managing climate risk in areas such as financial analysis, designing climate-resilient infrastructure, assessing inland flooding, reducing wildfire risk, and other practical challenges. It will consider how the US National Climate Assessment could evaluate the rigor of applications of climate science to develop authoritative guidance for practitioners and climate services. Presentations will explore the recommendations of an advisory committee that proposes an increased role for state/local/tribal governments, universities, professional societies, and non-governmental organizations in the National Assessment through a new civil society Climate Assessment Consortium. Use of methods such as model evaluation, artificial intelligence, and public participation in data collection will be considered.
Primary Convener:  Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
Convener:  Anne Waple, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne Waple, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Jerry M Melillo, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Daniel Zarrilli, New York City, New York, NY, United States and Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Aligning Sustained Climate Assessment with the Needs of Climate Action (420746)
Richard H Moss, Columbia University, Earth Institute, New York, NY, United States
Practitioner’s Perspective: Building Resilience Through Science and Action (391585)
Missy Stults, City of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Kristin Baja, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore, MD, UNITED STATES
Evolution of the Sustained Assessment Process to Meet National Needs (Invited) (432957)
Jerry M Melillo, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Sustained Assessment Specialists: Building a Network for Regional Assessment (450771)
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, Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Zena N Grecni, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States and Leah Kos, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Assessing Climate Information in Use Context (Invited) (420131)
Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, Kerrie Geil, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Kripa Akila Jagannathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
How can citizen and community science support the goals of a sustained national climate assessment? (427929)
Ryan McLaren Meyer, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States, Rebecca Kreutter, Princeton University, New York, United States and Kerrie Geil, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
A Vision for Windstorm Impact Reduction in the United States (451865)
Scott J Weaver, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States

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