PA41C:
Science to Action: Building Novel and Transformative Partnerships Toward Decision-Relevant Science Posters


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Session ID#: 56787

Session Description:
These are trying times for both scientists and local communities: dwindling financial resources, institutional barriers, and spatio-temporal constraints. Despite these roadblocks, scientists persevere to engage and collaborate with decision makers and communities to ensure science that is actionable, applicable, and usable. In this session, we explore (1) how scientists build and strengthen partnerships within and outside the research community, and (2) how these novel and truly collaborative partnerships lead to decision-relevant tools, resources, or knowledge. We invite on-the-ground stories and experiences, successes and challenges, and best practices that illustrate both increased collaborative capacity and the successful co-production of actionable science. Through this collective sharing, we can harness characteristics of effective and transformative partnerships to better understand community needs and deliver robust, science-based, and decision-relevant products and applications to our stakeholders.
Primary Convener:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States, Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States and Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C., United States
Primary Liaison:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Chairs:  Julian J Reyes, PhD, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States and Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, and Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0850 Geoscience education research [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:

Creating Transformative Partnerships and Experiences to Foster Science that is Useful and Used (459455)
Nancy Huntly, Utah State University, Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Logan, UT, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States and Lisa E Green, Utah State University, Ecology Center, Logan, United States
Empowering Local Community Organizations to Engage with Community Decision-makers for the Application of Science-based Hazard Mitigation through Scientist-community Partnerships: A Thriving Earth Exchange Case Study (440071)
Thomas Herrington, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
FACILITATING SCIENCE-BASED ADAPTATION THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A CASE STUDY IN THE TRUCKEE-CARSON RIVER SYSTEM (402696)
Loretta Singletary, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Economics and Cooperative Extension, Reno, NV, United States and Kelley Marie Sterle, University of Nevada Reno, Cooperative Extension, Reno, NV, United States
A grass-roots collaboration between and among early career researchers in the United States and Russian Federation (415053)
Michael Frederick Meyer, Washington State University, School of the Environment, Pullman, United States
Fostering cross-disciplinary research relationships through a common analytic language (415076)
Alli N Cramer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Recycling Food and Animal Waste for Social Good in Jamaica: A Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Partnership (446718)
Carol Lue, CaribShare Biogas, Montego Bay, Jamaica and Wale Adewunmi, Binomial Associates, Bridgewater, NJ, United States
Sustaining a Community-based Air Quality Research Project through Multiple Iterations to Support Action at the Local Level and Improve Public Health (467717)
Ashley Monika Collier-Oxandale1, LaShonn Renae Billingsley2, George E Ware3, Patti G Iwasaki4 and Debbi Main4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Taking Neighborhood Health To Heart, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Denver, United States, (4)Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart, Denver, CO, United States
Monitoring Concentrations of PM2.5 and Black Carbon in a Neighborhood in Washington, DC: When Using Citywide Averages for Environmental Assessment Underestimates Impacts in a Community (449397)
Shizuka Hsieh, Trinity Washington University, Chemistry, Washington, DC, United States, Amanda Northcross, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Russell R Dickerson, University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, Ebony D Roper, Cecil College North East, North East, MD, United States, Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC, Washington, United States and Vernon R Morris, Arizona State University, Associate Dean, New College ASU West, Tempe, AZ, United States
Ahmedabad’s Heat and Air Pollution Plans to Protect Public Health (449838)
Vijay Limaye1, Kim M Knowlton2, Sayantan Sarkar3, Partha Sarthi Ganguly4, Shyam Pingle4, Priya Dutta4, Sathish LM4, Abhiyant Tiwari5, Bhavin Solanki6, Chirag Shah7, Gopal Raval8, Khyati Kakkad9, Gufran Beig10, Neha S Parkhi10, Anjali Jaiswal3 and Dileep Mavalankar4, (1)Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, DC, United States, (3)Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, United States, (4)Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India, (5)Natural Resources Defense Council India, Delhi, India, (6)Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Health Department, Ahmedabad, India, (7)Apollo Hospital, Ahmedabad, India, (8)Ashrai Associates and Sparsh Chest Diseases Center, Ahmedabad, India, (9)L.G. Hospital, AMC MET Medical College, Ahmedabad, India, (10)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
Thriving Earth Exchange in Southeast Ohio: Community-University partnerships to tackle environmental issues in the Marcellus and Utica Shale Formations (412053)
Christopher E Spiese1, John F Stolz2, Leatra Harper3 and Emily Richards1, (1)Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, United States, (2)Duquesne Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (3)FreshWater Accountability Project, Grand Rapids, United States
Strengthening cross-agency bi-national partnerships to improve regional water management and prediction capabilities (395203)
Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States; NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Lauren M Fry, US Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, Office of Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology, Detroit, MI, United States, Vincent Fortin, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Research Division, Dorval, QC, Canada and James Noel, NOAA/NWS, Ohio River Forecasting Center, Wilmington, OH, United States
The California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System: Coordinating Partner Networks to make Drought Science Available, Understandable, and Usable for Decision Making (457339)
Amanda M Sheffield, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
The Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (379028)
Laura Satkowski, Future Earth, Washington, United States and Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States
Time for tea? Co-producing future climate information for supporting adaptation (452255)
Neha Mittal1, Andrew Dougill2, Bernd Becker3, Dave Rowell3, John Bore4, John H Marsham5, Jonathan Mkumbira6, David Mkwambisi7, Anne Tallontire2 and Joseph Sang8, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Tea Research Institute Kenya, Kericho, Kenya, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)Tea Research Foundation of Central Africa, Mulanje, Malawi, (7)Malawi University of Science and Technology, Limbe, Malawi, (8)Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya
Understanding Communication Barriers in Stormwater Management Planning; How Scientists Can Be the Bridge to Connect Stakeholders (374136)
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, Laura C Zanotti, Purdue University, Anthropology, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Sara Kristen Winnike McMillan, Iowa State University, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Ames, IA, United States and Laura C Bowling, Purdue University, Agronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Using Narrative to Enhance Learning and Adaptation Practice Integration Into Resource Management Decisions and Climate Change Adaptation Projects on National Forests. (466357)
Benjamin Soderquist1, Aurora A Cutler2, David A Cleaves2 and Cynthia D West2, (1)U.S. Forest Service, Office of Sustainability and Climate, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)U.S. Forest Service, Office of Sustainability and Climate, Washington D.C., United States
Unlocking the Potential of the Land Systems Science to Contribute to Transformative Partnerships for Global Sustainability: Learnings from the Global Land Programme (437219)
Ariane C de Bremond1, Peter Messerli2 and Albrecht Ehrensperger2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Bern, Centre for Environment and Development, Bern, Switzerland
A Partnership for Global Impact and Resilliency (422972)
Rebekke Muench, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; SERVIR NASA Science Coordination Office, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps, Portland, United States
Translating Domestic Community Science Lessons to Build and Sustain International Partnerships: The Thriving Earth Exchange Experience (396443)
Ms. Natasha Udu-gama, MSc, PhD1, Rajul Pandya2, Melissa Goodwin2 and Sarah Wilkins2, (1)American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States, (2)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Radioactive contamination in forested area in Fukushima after the nuclear power station accident in march 2011: Influences of the policy decision not to decontaminate forests on restarting of agriculture and life (377457)
Nobuhito Ohte1, Tomoki Oda2 and Naoto Nihei2, (1)Kyoto University, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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