SY024
Interdisciplinary Research for National Security Readiness Planning, Response, and Risk Mitigation
Session ID#: 250600
Session Description:
Scientific research is critical to national security. Ensuring national security can be preserved under all conditions requires scientifically-informed forecasts and impact assessments for floods, droughts, and other natural phenomena. Threat of critical infrastructure attacks also require complex assessments of cascading impacts across human, built, and natural landscapes. For example, disputes over water can lead to energy or food security issues and, potentially, to conflict. Managing critical infrastructure sector interdependencies – water, electricity, communications, transportation, etc. – and cross-cutting domains such as cybersecurity, requires scientific expertise spanning multiple fields. However, integration of scientific data, models, and insight into national security decisions is often intellectually and logistically complex. This session will highlight research that impacts national security, including collaborations between academia, industry, and government to foresee, quantify, and mitigate national security risks to humans, infrastructure systems, and society. We are interested in presenters working on approaches and solutions that bridge cross-domain challenges.
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Index Terms:
4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: David Gorelick, MITRE Corporation Mclean, Mclean, VA, United States
Conveners: Kate A Brauman, University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, United States, Amelia Servi, MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, United States and Carter Christopher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Climate Adaptation at the Frontlines: Analyzing Military-Civilian Networks in Guam and Hawaii (1872921)
Christine Kirchhoff1, Xiaomei Wang2, Elphin Tom Joe3,4, Hannah Teicher5 and Makenzie Wenninghoff5, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, United States, (3)World Resources Institute, New Delhi, India, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, State College, United States, (5)Harvard University, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Cambridge, United States
Monitoring and modeling hydrologic conditions in Ukraine for hydropower reliance (1884557)
Dr. Matthew McCarthy, PhD1, Jesus Gomez-Velez2, David Hughes3 and Shannon Meade1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Using the Pathways to Instability Framework to Untangle Complex Connections from Water to Conflict (1950356)
Kate A Brauman, Penny Beames, Penelope Mitchell, Caily Schwartz, Kaitlin Kimmel-Hass, Erin Menzies Pluer, Nicholas Roberge, Zachary Goodwin, Emma Dyson, Misty Mathews and Mike Gremillion, University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, United States
No Power, No Problem: An Overview of MITRE’s Black Start Exercise (ERRE) Program (1956051)
Jennifer Richkus1, Shawn Doyle2, David Gorelick1 and Lindsey Goodnight3, (1)MITRE Corporation Mclean, Mclean, VA, United States, (2)MITRE Corporation Bedford, Bedford, United States, (3)MITRE Corporation Mclean, Mclean, United States
Earth observations and the Earth science workforce: a water and national security perspective (2000228)
Christine M Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rashmi Shah, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Brandi Downs, Ohio State University Main Campus, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States, Susan E Owen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Erin Lee Hestir, University of California Merced, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States and John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
