PA050
Science to Action: Enabling science- and data-driven water decisions

Session ID#: 83803

Session Description:
Data can inform and transform global and local decision-making. In water management, lack of useful data and context hampers our ability to understand water resources and decide how best to manage them. Managing water is increasingly difficult thanks to growing demand, population growth and climate change.

Today, water managers not only need more data that are useful, understandable and available long-term. They also need the right data – tailored to their needs, with the right resolution, latency and format, that can plug into decision pipelines. Moreover, organizations must be open to ingesting new data. 

This session explores data-driven water management. How can silos between data producers/scientists and decision-makers be broken down? How are decision-maker priorities uncovered, then translated into needs-driven science? How is scientific uncertainty conveyed to policymakers? Speakers will share successes, challenges and lessons learned. Talks at the nexus of water and food, ecosystems, infrastructure or energy are welcome.

Index Terms:

1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Amber Jenkins, NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie L Granger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Savannah Cooley, NASA DEVELOP Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Savannah Cooley, NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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