GC21A:
Coupled Human–Natural Systems and Global Environmental Change: Innovative Interdisciplinary Approaches I
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Session ID#: 59105
Session Description:
Understanding the complex interactions among human and natural systems is essential for informing sustainable responses to global environmental changes. This session focuses on innovative approaches for developing predictive understanding of coupled human-Earth system dynamics across spatial and temporal scales. This could include, for example, interactions across the energy-water-land nexus, the influence of extreme events on critical infrastructure systems, connections between climate and human activities, or feedbacks associated with population dynamics and human health. Approaches for simulating these and related interactions range from global models that account for a large number of processes at fairly coarse resolution, to coupled modeling frameworks that focus on a particular subset of systems with high process fidelity. New methods for exchanging information across sectors and scales, as well as data and approaches for calibrating and validating these modeling approaches, are a key research need.
Primary Convener: Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners: Jessica Gephart, American University, Washington, DC, United States, Jory S Hecht, University of Vermont, Vermont EPSCoR, Burlington, United States and Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison: Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Chairs: Jessica Gephart, American University, Washington, DC, United States, Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ian Kraucunas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Safa Motesharrei, University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, Kelly Gustafson, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Jorge R Rivas, Self Employed, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Fang Zhao, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Huan Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Klaus Hubacek, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Ning Zeng, University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, China, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, United States and Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
Thomas Bernard Wild, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Leon Clarke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, United States, Raul Munoz-Castillo, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., United States and Zarrar Khan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD1, Brian Beckage2, Louis J. Gross3, Katherine Lacasse4, Eric Carr3, Sara S. Metcalf5, Jonathan Winter6, Peter D. Howe7, Nina H Fefferman8, Travis Franck9, Asim Zia10 and Ann Kinzig11, (1)Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, United States, (4)Rhode Island College, Providence, United States, (5)State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States, (6)Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, (7)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (8)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (9)Climate Interactive, Washington, United States, (10)University of Vermont, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, Department of Computer Science, Burlington, VT, United States, (11)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Chris R Vernon1, Gokul Iyer2, Matthew Binsted3, Ian Kraucunas4, Nathalie Voisin4, Mohamad Issa Hejazi3, Pralit L Patel3 and Matthew O'Connell5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
Jennifer F Morris1, Andrei P Sokolov2, John M Reilly3 and Sergey Paltsev3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States
