Science and Society



Science to Action – Decision-Makers Staying Afloat Rather than Drowning in Big Climate Data
Primary Convener:  Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States and Amanda Stevens, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States


Accessing Broader User Communities for Earth Observations of Terrestrial Systems
Primary Convener:  Amanda Clayton, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Helen Blue Baldwin, NASA SERVIR - Science Coordination Office, Washington, DC, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Kenton W Ross, NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda Clayton, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States


Addressing Community Needs for Building Capacity to Use Earth Observations for Atmospheric Systems
Primary Convener:  Lauren M Childs-Gleason, DEVELOP, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia Hall, Lowcountry Hall of Science & Mathematics, Charleston, SC, United States, Falguni Patadia, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauren M Childs-Gleason, Wise County / DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States


Advances in Social Justice and Resiliency in Water Resources
Primary Convener:  Abigail Tomasek, Oregon State University, Crop and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Sara Kristen Winnike McMillan, Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Rachel Scarlett, Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States and Fushcia-Ann Hoover, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abigail Tomasek, Oregon State University, Crop and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR, United States


Advancing Water Resilience in a Changing Climate: The Water Resilience Assessment Framework
Primary Convener:  John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Ashok Chapagain, Pacific Institute, Oakland, United States, Fred Boltz, Resolute Development Solutions, Durham, United States and Colin Strong, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., United States
Primary Liaison:  Kari Davis, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Seattle, United States


An analysis of bilateral research collaborations: Japan-US collaboration and Japan-Sweden collaboration
Primary Convener:  Takehito Kamata, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Convener:  Takehito Kamata, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Takehito Kamata, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan


An Integrated Energy & Climate Change Policy Proposal for The United States - Energy & Climate Change: Law & Policy (Spring 2021) Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law- Master of Science in Law Program
Primary Convener:  Lauren Schenck, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL, United States
Convener:  James Cahan, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauren Schenck, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL, United States


Antiracism and Ethics in the Geosciences: The Intentionality Needed for Belonging, Accessibility, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (B A JEDI).
Primary Convener:  Brandon Jones, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Convener:  Kendall Moore, University of Rhode Island, Journalism and Film Media, Narragansett, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kendall Moore, University of Rhode Island, Journalism and Film Media, Narragansett, RI, United States


Best Practices for assessing the value of Earth/Ocean observations for society.
Primary Convener:  Francoise Pearlman, Retired, Washington, DC, United States; FourBridges, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Carl D Shapiro, USGS, Reston, VA, United States, Ralph Rayner, Society for Underwater Technology, London, United Kingdom and Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Francoise Pearlman, FourBridges, Seattle, WA, United States


Build Back Better: Advancing Equitable Science Policy
Primary Convener:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States


Climate change adaptation strategies to sequester carbon, as well as strengthen coastal resilience, marine ecosystems, food security, and coastal economies
Primary Convener:  Pamela Doughman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Convener:  Mark J Spalding, The Ocean Foundation, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pamela Doughman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States


Community Engagement and Capacity Development for Ocean and Coastal Management
Primary Convener:  Sydney Neugebauer, NASA Capacity Building Program, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Dwight Owens, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, Julia Jung, Ghent University, IMBRSea, Ghent, Germany and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sydney Neugebauer, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from an International Perspective: Issues, Priorities and Opportunities
Primary Convener:  Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States, Claudia Jesus-Rydin, European Research Council, Scientific Department, Brussels, Belgium, Natsue Abe, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Mantle Drilling Promotion Office MarE3, Kanagawa, Japan and Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, US Global Change Research Program, Health Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States


Earth Science Data and Insights: Enhancing How Applications are Communicated in Scientific Literature
Primary Convener:  Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael J. Chesnes, Select Federal - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Environmental Migration
Primary Convener:  Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Convener:  Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States
Primary Liaison:  Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States


Finance as a Tool for Building Water Resilience: The MDB Water Resilience Community of Practice
Primary Convener:  John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Tom Panella, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, Diego Rodriquez, The World Bank, Washington, DC, United States and Andrew Roby, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kari Davis, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Seattle, United States


Fire and Water: Integrating Management, Indigenous Knowledge, and Modeling of Wildfire Impacts on Water Resources
Primary Convener:  Jeanne Fernandez, Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  AJ J Wickel, Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States, Michelle E Newcomer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and John R. Kucharski, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeanne Fernandez, Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States


Fostering a Community of Inclusive and Accessible Earth System Science Engagement
Primary Convener:  Daniel W Zietlow, Provare Media and NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Lorena Medina Luna, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Beth A Bartel, Michigan Technological University, GMES, Houghton, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel W Zietlow, Provare Media and NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


Geoscience Innovation through Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking
Primary Convener:  Erika E Lentz, USGS Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Amanda E Cravens, USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Joseph A Bard, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, United States and Katharine Maher, Stanford-Geology & Env Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda E Cravens, USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Governance and Public Engagement for Geoengineering Research: Best Practice and Research Results.
Primary Convener:  Sally Klimp, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering, Somerville, MA, UNITED STATES
Conveners:  Katharine J Mach, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, CA, United States, Michael Kleeman, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sally Klimp, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering, Somerville, MA, UNITED STATES


Hydromet Programmes Concept: What Do They Teach Us? The Case Of Burkina Faso In West Africa
Primary Convener:  Cheikh Kane, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Paris, France
Conveners:  Gado D Abdouramane, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Niamey, Niger and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Cheikh Kane, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Paris, France


Improving #SciComm with STEAM Partnerships
Primary Convener:  Pamela Gay, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Convener:  Beth Johnson, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pamela Gay, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States


Innovative Communication Hubs for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Primary Convener:  Simon Schneider, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany
Conveners:  Simon Schneider, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany and Gilla Simon, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Simon Schneider, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany


Meet Your JEDI Goals through I Was a Kid: Opening Pathways for Young People to Science Work Through Visual Storytelling (Comics) about Careerists Representing Diversity.
Primary Convener:  Karen Romano Young, Independent, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Karen Romano Young, Independent, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Karen Romano Young, Independent, Washington, DC, United States


Migration and Community Relocation in the Arctic
Primary Convener:  Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States
Convener:  Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States
Primary Liaison:  Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States


Native Science to Action: How Indigenous Worldviews Inform, Diversify, and Build Capacity in Environmental Science and Policy
Primary Convener:  Ryan E Emanuel, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Martinez1, Lydia L L Jennings1 and Claire Cecelia McKinley2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States(2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew Martinez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States


Natural Resource Management needs for a changing Gulf of Mexico
Primary Convener:  Caitlin Young, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Convener:  Dave Reed, Gulf of Mexico Alliance, Ocean Springs, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caitlin Young, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States


Ocean Art Ocean Science
Primary Convener:  Dwight Owens, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Convener:  Kim Juniper, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Dwight Owens, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada


Quantifying Environmental Injustices for Vulnerable Populations with Community Resilience Frameworks
Primary Convener:  Millard McElwee, Exponent, Inc., Maynard, MA, United States
Convener:  Regan Patterson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Millard McElwee, Exponent, Inc., Maynard, MA, United States


Satellite Service Users. Who are they? What do they really needs? How do we know? Are we providing good services to user needs?
Primary Convener:  Thanh Vo, ISS, inc., Falls Church, VA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Miller, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Thanh Vo, ISS, inc., Falls Church, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thanh Vo, ISS, inc., Falls Church, VA, United States


Science and Society: Art and Science
Primary Convener:  Kathryn A Semmens, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA, United States
Convener:  Garima Raheja, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kathryn A Semmens, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA, United States


Science and Society: Community and Citizen Science
Primary Convener:  Ryan McLaren Meyer, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ryan McLaren Meyer, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Elise C Osenga, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, CO, United States and Melissa Goodwin, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ryan McLaren Meyer, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States


Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection
Primary Convener:  Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Heidi A Roop, University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Saint Paul, United States, Samuel Illingworth, The University of Western Australia, The School of Biological Sciences, Crawley, Australia and Suzanna Clark, Helmholtz Zentrum Gesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Gesthacht, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Science and Society: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Primary Convener:  Kripa Akila Jagannathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, TN, United States, Natasha Udu-gama, American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States and Christopher Hyun, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kripa Jagannathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Monterey, CA, United States


Science Policy
Primary Convener:  Gifford J Wong, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Kevin A Reed, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, James Scott Neely, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States and Brittany Webster, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gifford J Wong, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States


Science to Action: Enabling Water Resource Management Decisions Driven by Science and Data
Primary Convener:  Stephanie L Granger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Amber Jenkins, NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Amber Jean McCullum, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Kim Locke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephanie L Granger, NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States


Science-driven Policies to Address Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Conveners:  Clay Bell, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Kathleen Smits, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Civil Engineering, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Devyani Singh, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, United States


SocioHydrology: Advancing the Science of Water and Society
Primary Convener:  Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States, Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Cyndi V. Castro, University of Houston, Houston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States


Statistical approach for optimization of various physio-biochemical attributes of biodiesel producing Scenedesmus obliquus under nutrient stress: nitrogen, phosphorus and iron content in BG-11 medium and biodiesel study using gas chromatography mass spectroscopy(GCMS)
Primary Convener:  Kulvinder Bajwa, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Environmental Science, Hisar, India
Convener:  Kulvinder Bajwa, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Environmental Science, Hisar, India
Primary Liaison:  Kulvinder Bajwa, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Environmental Science, Hisar, India


Subsurface Storage of Natural Gas, CO2, and Hydrogen: Key Learnings and Future Opportunities
Primary Convener:  Brandon Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Rajesh Goteti, Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX, United States, Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Fatemeh Molaei, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Richard A Schultz, Orion Geomechanics LLC, Cypress, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brandon Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States


Toward a More Equitable Global Geoscience Community: Partnerships, Programs, and Processes
Primary Convener:  Beth A Bartel, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
Conveners:  Wendy Bohon, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, D.C., DC, United States and Lorena Medina Luna, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education and Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Beth A Bartel, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States


Towards Earth System Digital Twins
Primary Convener:  Marge Cole, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Jacqueline LeMoigne, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael S Seablom, NASA, Washington, DC, United States and Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marge Cole, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Understanding and Developing Integration Pathways within the Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) Nexus Framework and beyond
Primary Convener:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Convener:  Pietro Elia Campana, Mälardalen university, Department of environmental engineering and energy processes, Västerås, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Water Risks, ESG, Corporations and Finance: Trends, Progress and Pitfalls in Frameworks, Data and Metrics
Primary Convener:  Paulina Concha Larrauri, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Convener:  Laureline Josset, Columbia University, New York, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paulina Concha Larrauri, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States


WORLDWIDE ACADEMY OF NATURCOGNINION results.
Primary Convener:  Vladimir A Kontar, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Convener:  Lyubov M Shlafman, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Evgeny Egorov, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States


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Primary Convener:  John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, United States
Convener:  John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, United States
Primary Liaison:  John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, United States


Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Primary Convener:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Janine Baijnath-Rodino, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Bruna R F Oliveira, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and William C Porter, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States


Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021.
Primary Convener:  Judah Levi Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States, James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and Jason Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States


Emissions and Air Quality in Africa
Primary Convener:  Claire Granier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie and CIRES/NOAA, Toulouse, France and Boulder, USA, France
Conveners:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Evelyne N'datchoh Toure, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, UFR SSMT - LASMES, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Fei Chen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan


Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services
Primary Convener:  Andrew William Robertson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States


Tethered Aerosystems
Primary Convener:  Kathleen McNamara, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States
Conveners:  Geoffrey Bland, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard Cairncross, Drexel University, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Geoffrey Bland, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States