PA43A:
Science to Action: Building Novel and Transformative Partnerships Toward Decision-Relevant Science I


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Session ID#: 57777

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:

ISeeChange tools for mobilizing communities to share micro-data about flooding and empowering collaboration between residents, hydrologists, and engineers to improve modeling, infrastructure design, and emergency preparedness. (Invited) (401415)
Julia Kumari Drapkin, ISeeChange: Community Weather and Climate Journal, New Orleans, LA, United States
Moving Beyond Blah, Blah, Blah…Bang! Raising Climate Awareness and Empowering Adaptation Actions by Local Emergency Management Planners through Collaborative Development of Regional Climate Projection Data Profiles (439920)
Brenda Hoppe, Minnesota Department of Health, St Paul, MN, United States
Weather, Climate, and Wildfire: developing and implementing research for wildfire management and policy (462997)
Tamara U Wall, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Thomas Zimmerman, Retired, USFS, Boise, ID, United States and Tami Parkinson, USFS, Wildland Fire Management Research Development and Application, McCall, United States
The Value of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Developing a Public Health Response to Climate Change at the Local Level: A case study from rural Kentucky (442515)
Adele Houghton1, Clayton Horton2, Jessica Austin2 and Abby Beerman2, (1)Biositu, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Green River District Health Department, Owensboro, KY, United States
The City of Richmond Urban Heat Island Collective: A collective leadership model for community action on urban heat and public health (392498)
Jeremy S Hoffman, PhD, The Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, United States, Alicia R Zatcoff, Richmond City Sustainability, Richmond, VA, United States and Giles H Harnsberger, Groundwork RVA, Richmond, VA, United States
Translating Climate and Health Research into Policies to Increase Community Resilience (437688)
Jaime Madrigano, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States
A Park-University Partnership on Science for Stewardship in Urban Environments (427880)
Anne Jefferson, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States, Jennifer Grieser, Cleveland Metroparks, Parma, OH, United States, Lauren E Kinsman-Costello, Kent State University, Kent, United States, Reid Coffman, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, United States and Patrick D. Lorch, Cleveland Metroparks, Cleveland, United States
THE NORTH CAROLINA POLICY COLLABORATORY: A NOVEL AND TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR DECISION-RELEVANT SCIENCE (392191)
Jeffrey D Warren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
On Working with Community Activists, and the Kibbitz Theory. (409514)
Harriet Festing, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Whole Farm Water: Collaborative science for farm irrigation decisions in vegetable production systems (352915)
Rachel Schattman, US Forest Service Burlington, Burlington, United States and Joshua W Faulkner, University of Vermont, Department of Agriculture, Landscape and Environment, Colchester, United States
Challenges and Solutions for Engaging Stakeholders and Bringing Science to Communities: Lessons from the Resilience Dialogues (443850)
Natalie Bennett1, Rachel Jacobson2, Sarah Zerbonne1 and Melissa Goodwin3, (1)US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (2)American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

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