PA44A:
Science to Action: Frontiers in Effective Decision Maker–Scientist Partnerships I


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Session ID#: 57779

Session Description:
Much earth and environmental science focused on socially relevant issues like climate change, environmental health, and natural hazards is intended to both advance knowledge and benefit society. Collaborative research with non-academic partners is critical for connecting science to action, yet traditional models of research funding, academic incentives, and graduate training have often created barriers to these collaborations. Despite these barriers, non-academic partners working with researchers routinely innovate at the interface between decision making and science. This session explores frontiers in co-production, which we define as partnerships to design, conduct, and apply research to real-world problems. The goals of this session are to: 1) provide examples of novel approaches for connecting science to action, 2) cultivate connections across communities in AGU working to connect science with societal needs, and 3) highlight the state of the art for processes being used to fund, carry out, and evaluate actionable science.
Primary Convener:  Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 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
Primary Liaison:  Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Julie A Vano, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, United States, Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States and Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel B Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Index Terms:

6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Before You Give an Answer, Understand the Problem That People Want Solved (414308)
Richard J Murnane, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Connecting Science with Stakeholders: Lessons from the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) (Invited) (448381)
Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Building a Community of Practice: HEPEX's 15 years of successful collaboration to advance ensemble streamflow forecasting for risk-based decision-making in water management (452054)
Andrew W Wood1, Maria-Helena Ramos2, Fredrik Wetterhall3, Qj Wang4, Ilias Pechlivanidis5, Jan S Verkade6, Florian Pappenberger3 and Jutta Thielen-del Pozo7, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France, (3)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, (5)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (6)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (7)European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Building community resilience through co-production of knowledge (434895)
Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, Peter Ruggiero, Oregon State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States and Denise Lach, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
New Methods for Facilitating Urban Responses to a Changing Climate: Synthesis of Findings from Three Pilot Studies (380442)
Debra Knopman, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, Robert J Lempert, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States, David G Groves, RAND Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, Jordan R Fischbach, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Melissa Finucane, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, HI, United States
Science to Address Short and Long-Term Challenges of Accelerated Forest Restoration in Northern Arizona (451352)
Marcos Robles, Robert Marshall and Travis Woolley, The Nature Conservancy, Center for Science and Public Policy, Tucson, AZ, United States
Con Edison’s Climate Change Vulnerability Study: A Partnership between A Utility, Consulting Firm, and Academic Partnership: (457611)
Radley M Horton1, Daniel Bader2, Charles Viemeister3, Maya K Buchanan4, Neil Weisenfeld3, Brenda Dix5, Yochanan Kushnir6, Cuihua Li7 and Judson Bruzgul8, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, CCSR, New York, NY, United States, (3)Consolidated Edison, New York, NY, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)ICF International, Washington DC, United States, (6)Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)ICF International Fairfax, Fairfax, United States
Working with a Utah water provider to develop coproduced research to prepare for drought and climate change (447657)
Seth Arens, Western Water Assessment, Salt Lake City, United States

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