PA032
Managing Complex Science Programs: Unpacking Best Management Practices

Session ID#: 78779

Session Description:
Management of multi-disciplinary, multi-partner science-related projects is becoming increasingly important to ensure successful outcomes. Best practices for coordination and management, including incorporation of multiple types of expertise and knowledge, are not broadly or widely available for sharing, despite being critical to ensuring that the final work products are societally useful. This session will highlight management programs and projects for complex  science projects, with a goal of understanding more deeply the process and best practices of successful science program management. Talks will highlight interdisciplinary projects or programs that analyze the effects of global change on the natural environment, in areas such as agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and/or biological diversity, among other topics.
Index Terms:

6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
Convener:  Susan Asam, ICF, Honolulu, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
 
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Christopher William Avery, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States and David Reidmiller, United States Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
 
Improving R&D to Operations at NOAA - Tools for Research Program Management (492386)
Rebecca Certner1, Laura A Newcomb2 and Gary C Matlock2, (1)NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, United States
 
Best Management Practices Learned from NSF’s EarthScope Project (506438)
Robert S Detrick, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, DC, United States, David W Simpson, IRIS, Washington, DC, United States, M Meghan Miller, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States and Mark D Zoback, Stanford Univ, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
U.S. State Climate Assessments: Lessons Learned and Best Practices (507551)
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States
 
Fostering International Climate Research Collaboration under the umbrella of the World Climate Research Programme (565862)
Petrus J van Oevelen, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States
 
Coordinating Integrated Water Cycle Research at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (582507)
Jennifer Saleem Arrigo1, Jared Keith Entin2, Renu Joseph3 and Natalie Bennett1, (1)US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (2)NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States, (3)US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States
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