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Special Session

Career Track

SS 36 - Climate Adaptation in Practice: From Science to Service

Thursday, August 10, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Location: C124

    Organizer(s)

  • ND

    Nicole DeCrappeo

    U.S. Geological Survey, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

    • Co-organizer(s)

  • KM

    Kristine Metzger

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States

    • Speaker(s)

  • KM

    Kristine Metzger

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States

    • Co-organizer(s)

  • LT

    Laura Thompson

    U.S. Geological Survey - National Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

  • JL

    Jeremy Littell

    U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

  • CM

    Carol Morel

    U.S. Geological Survey, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

  • Toni Lyn Morelli

    Research Ecologist
    U.S. Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
    Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

    • Speaker(s)

  • Toni Lyn Morelli

    Research Ecologist
    U.S. Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
    Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

    • Co-organizer(s)

  • LT

    Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D.

    Partnerships Ecologist
    U.S. Geological Survey, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

    • Speaker(s)

  • LT

    Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D.

    Partnerships Ecologist
    U.S. Geological Survey, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States

    • Co-organizer(s)

  • JB

    John B. Bradford

    Research Ecologist
    USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Arizona, United States

    • Speaker(s)

  • MK

    Meade Krosby, Director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center

    Senior Scientist
    University of Washington, United States

  • CJ

    Chas Jones

    Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, United States

  • HM

    Harriet Morgan

    Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States

  • BM

    Brian W. Miller

    U.S. Geological Survey, United States

Session Description: Climate adaptation is a burgeoning priority for natural resource policy and management that centers on planning, projecting, and preparing for climate change effects on water, species, ecosystems, disturbance regimes, infrastructure, cultural resources, and human socio-economic systems. However, the urgent threat of climate change means that we must implement climate adaptation practices now, while we’re still defining the field and coping with uncertainty about future conditions and resource impacts. This special session will describe how the field of climate adaptation has been developed with specific application to natural resource management and explore why this work is reliant on participatory engagement and/or full co-production between scientists and managers. We’ll illustrate how climate adaptation practice is linked to climate adaptation science through climate services, which includes training and capacity building; decision support tool and data visualization development; rapid-response and longer-term technical assistance; and partner engagement through working groups, workshops, deep dives, and communities of practice. This session consists of short lightning talks that describe approaches to providing tools and information to enhance climate adaptive decision making. Talks will be followed by an interactive panel discussion focused on ways we, as scientists and practitioners, can incorporate these approaches into on the ground solutions.