PA33E:
Science to Action: Addressing Gaps in Access to Climate Science for Decision-Making Posters


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Session ID#: 52578

Session Description:
Are our climate science-based decision tools reaching people, and are they having an impact? Scientists are working with stakeholders to develop resources that support and inform decision-makers preparing for the impacts of climate change, and are increasingly doing a better job of ensuring their products are useful and usable. However, end users still routinely report that the decision support landscape is overcrowded and confusing. Communities also face capacity, funding and communication barriers that further inhibit their use of science-based resources. This session will explore attempts to bridge the divide between decision-makers and scientific information, and invite discussion of both successes and challenges in facilitating connections between them. We will explore critical questions like: who has access to our science-based decision tools, how useful are they, and how do we better evaluate them going forward? Experiences from any scientific field across the AGU community that have addressed similar questions are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Rachel Jacobson, American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Natalie Bennett1, Melissa Goodwin2 and Sarah Zerbonne1, (1)US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States(2)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachel Jacobson, American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs:  Rachel Jacobson, American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Cambridge, MA, United States and Natalie Bennett, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Natalie Bennett, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6329 Project evaluation [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Shared Challenges and Solutions for Bringing Science to Communities: Lessons from the Resilience Dialogues (368473)
Rachel Jacobson1, Natalie Bennett2, Sarah Zerbonne2 and Melissa Goodwin3, (1)American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (3)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Capacity Building with NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (396098)
Elizabeth Hook Rogers1, Ana I Prados2 and Brock Blevins1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Closing the Gap through Community Science: How Local Collaborations Strengthen Climate Science-based Decision-Support Outcomes (396668)
Sarah Wilkins1, Rajul Pandya2, Ms. Natasha Udu-gama, MSc, PhD2 and Melissa Goodwin1, (1)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (2)American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States
Climate Information for Public Health Action: An Interdisciplinary Approach (408339)
Madeleine C Thomson1, Simon J Mason2, Angel Munoz1, Hannah Nissan1 and Pietro Ceccato1, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
ASSESSING TRIBAL COLLEGE PRIORITIES FOR ENHANCING CLIMATE ADAPTATION ON RESERVATION LANDS (443473)
Helen Fillmore, University of Nevada Reno, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, Loretta Singletary, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Economics and Cooperative Extension, Reno, NV, United States and John Phillips, First American Land-grant Consortium, Washington, United States
Climate Adaptation Best Practices for Water Utilities (456573)
Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States, Julie A Vano, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, United States, Tirusew Asefa, Tampa Bay Water, Clearwater, United States, Alan Cohn, New York City DEP, New York, NY, United States, Mohammed Idris Mahmoud, Central Arizona Project, Phoenix, United States and Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States
Connecting Decision-Makers with Scientific Information using an Open-Access, Online Platform: the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) (460662)
Jessica Hitt, EcoAdapt, Bainbridge Island, WA, United States and Jessica Hitt, EcoAdapt, Bainbridge Island, United States
Assessing the climate science-policy interface in California: Are current models really mending the gap? (396294)
Glen M MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Sophie Webber, University of Sydney, Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Eric Sheppard, UCLA, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Lauren N Brown, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Richard F Ambrose, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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