PA055
Science to Action: The role of boundary organizations in advancing knowledge co-production

Session ID#: 75751

Session Description:
Actionable science, where researchers and end users of science partner to identify, characterize and develop solutions to address environmental impacts like climate change, is becoming increasingly popular and widely-used across research disciplines and sectors. However, co-producing knowledge and delivering ‘actionable’ science requires building and navigating relationships between researchers, communities, decision-makers, and practitioners, and often crossing the science-policy interface. Because they are able to facilitate collaboration and information flow across networks and disciplines, boundary organizations are well-positioned to build capacity for scientific information delivery and use. This session emphasizes the co-production process from the perspective of boundary organizations (which include research and extension organizations, grant funders, and NGO’s) and seeks to illuminate the ways boundary organizations support knowledge co-production and how they address challenges that naturally arise within this work, such as communication, managing expectations, sustainable funding, and program evaluation. Abstracts that consider co-production with diverse communities are especially welcome.
Index Terms:

6329 Project evaluation [POLICY SCIENCES]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]


Primary Convener:  Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Herrington, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, United States, Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States and Caitlin Young, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
Navigating the Boundary Between Science and Practice to Support Regional Climate Resilience (Invited) (491162)
Amy K Snover, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Identifying Long-Distance Transport of Obsidian Across the North American Landscape in Antiquity Based on Indigenous-led Research Initiatives (493262)
Rhy McMillan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dominique Weis, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Marghaleray Amini, EOAS University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Aviva Rathbone, Musqueam Indian Band, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Crossing Boundaries in Hip Boots: The Sea Grant Model in Action around the Gulf of Mexico (Invited) (503241)
Kelly Samek, NOAA, Sea Grant, Mobile, AL, United States
 
How can funders support the co-production of science? A pilot co-production workshop in the Gulf of Mexico (539141)
Caitlin Young1, Kathleen Ernst2, Julien Lartigue3, Frank Parker1 and Rebecca Allee4, (1)NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Bredesen Center, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)NOAA Restore Act Science Program, Stennis, MS, United States, (4)NOAA Office for Coastal Management – Gulf Coast, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Connecting smaller communities with climate information to support resilience planning (552858)
Benét Duncan, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Katherine Renee Clifford, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Seth Arens, Western Water Assessment, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Resources for Present and Future Generations: Fostering Integrated Responses through an International Interdisciplinary Summer School (ReSToRE) (575838)
Maeve A Boland, University College Dublin, and Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Geertje Schuitema, University College Dublin, UCD School of Business, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), Dublin 4, Ireland, Edmund Nickless, The Geological Society Of London, London, United Kingdom and Anthea Lacchia, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences, University College Dublin, School of Earth Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
 
Embedding Co-Production into Long Term Ecological Research: Insights from Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest (589210)
Sarah Garlick, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Science Policy and Outreach, West Thornton, NH, United States, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Science Policy Exchange, Hartland, VT, United States, Marissa Weiss, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, John C. Besley, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and The PES@LTERs Team
 
Co-Creation as Co-Equals: Shared Learning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Resilience. (610242)
Kenneth MacClune, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Boulder, CO, United States, Shiraz Wajih, Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, Gorakhpur, India and Shashikant Chopde, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, New Delhi, India
 
The Role of an Interdisciplinary Data Organization in Translating Science into Action (615747)
Robert S Chen, Marc A Levy, Alexander M de Sherbinin, Sri Vinay and Gregory Yetman, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Structured and Unstructured Community Groups in the Co-production of Actionable Science with Boundary Organizations (618741)
Michele Herrington, Thomas Herrington and Anne Deepak, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
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