PA041
Paleo to policy: bridging the gap between the paleo-sciences and decision-making

Session ID#: 78003

Session Description:
Human induced climate change is altering Earth system processes in ways that are unprecedented on historical timescales. This poses novel problems for scientists and stakeholders, and necessitates looking into the geologic past to establish pre-human baselines and to provide analogs for future scenarios predicted under current climate trends. Despite their importance and potential, paleoclimatological and paleoecological data are not often used to inform decision making. The goal of this session is to provide a forum to convey strategies, opportunities, and challenges of connecting paleosciences to policy. We are particularly interested in examples of co-generated research between scientists and decision makers, and case studies in which paleo research was used to inform policy, management, or industry practices. We welcome submissions from a diversity of fields, as well policy perspectives to provide a more holistic understanding of the complexity of bridging science with policy.
Index Terms:

4999 General or miscellaneous [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Elizabeth Fard, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hannah Palmer1, Richard S Vachula2 and Roxanne Banker1, (1)UC Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States(2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth Fard, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Communicating Risk inferred from paleo river flow data to Colorado River policy makers: problems and prospects (484689)
George Rhee, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
 
Verification of watershed vegetation restoration policies, arid China (497959)
Yu Li, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China and Chengqi Zhang Dr., Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Informing ocean acidification management through paleoceanographic proxy reconstruction of historical Gulf of Maine pH baselines (503093)
Michele LaVigne1, Aaron Leigh Strong2, Branwen Williams3, Alan D Wanamaker4, Joseph Stewart5, Brittany Jellison6, Katie Bacall6, Brittany Hernandez1, David Carlon6 and Nina Whitney4, (1)Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States, (2)Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, United States, (3)Claremont McKenna-Pitzer-Scripps Colleges, Claremont, CA, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (5)University of Bristol, Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)Bowdoin College, Schiller Coastal Studies Center and Department of Biology, Brunswick, ME, United States
 
Paleo to Policy: A Workshop to Build Bridges Between Paleoclimate Research and Decision Making (516740)
Tessa M Hill, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Hannah Palmer, UC Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Peter D Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, San Francisco, CA, United States, Faith Kearns, California Institute for Water Resources, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Kena Fox-Dobbs, University of Puget Sound, Geology Department, Tacoma, WA, United States, Andrea Dutton, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, Lance E Morgan, Marine Conservation Institute, Glen Ellen, CA, United States, Anthony Rogers, California Ocean Science Trust, Sacramento, CA, United States, Kim Cobb, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, Aradhna K Tripati, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Whitley Joseph Saumweber, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Center for Ocean Solutions, Palo Alto, CA, United States; Center for Strategic and International Studies, Stephenson Ocean Security Project, Washington, CA, United States
 
The Sedimentary Record as an Early Warning System in the Great Lakes (516924)
Euan D Reavie, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, MN, United States
 
International Standards for Marine Technology: A Connection between Marine Sciences, Industry Practices and Decision-making (532250)
Letian Ma, Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences, SOA, Hangzhou, China and Feng Xuwen, Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Hangzhou, China
 
The use of Paleolimnology for management and planning of freshwater resources in a warming Arctic. (540678)
Andrew Scott Medeiros, Dalhousie University, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Halifax, NS, Canada
 
Trump and Putin and the importance of paleo perspective (580881)
Atte Korhola, Meri Ruppel, Jaakko Johannes Leppänen and Jan Weckström, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
 
Geohistorical perspectives and the management of fire and forest resources (585693)
Geoffrey Johnson, Eugene, OR, United States and Daniel Girard Gavin, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Strengthening evidence-based policy for peatlands: potential and pitfalls for quantification of C accumulation and loss using fallout radionuclides (592009)
Nicole K Sanderson1, Sophie M Green2, Elizabeth A Cressey2, Timothy A Quine2, Michelle Garneau1, Iain P Hartley2 and Dan Charman3, (1)GEOTOP-UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Investigating floodplain geomorphic and geochemical functions as a tool for mitigating and adapting to climate change in the Midwestern United States (602995)
Broxton W Bird, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Robert Barr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Ryan Mueller, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indianapolis, United States, Cassie Hauswald, The Nature Conservancy, Indianapolis, United States and Jeffrey W Frey, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
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