SY011
Science to Action – Working across Physical and Social Scientific Disciplines to Deliver Data Products that Support Climate Resilience in the Energy Sector.

Session ID#: 158390

Session Description:
This session will explore the integration of highly technical scientific understanding of climate change with processes leading to the design of energy infrastructure resilience and mitigation strategies. Deep collaboration between scientists, regional and national agencies, utilities and policymakers has proven critical to understand climate-related problems and solutions, and to evaluate viability and consequences of mitigation and adaptation strategies.  Evidence-based decision-making rooted in knowledge exchange is challenging, but co-production is part of a critical transformation that is needed as we move towards a low-carbon future in a changing climate.

Presentations are invited that showcase and discuss:

  • Inter-disciplinary collaboration that led to institutional uptake of climate science,
  • Lessons learned on how collaboration impacted the design, application and sharing of scientific research in order to understand the impacts of climate change and mitigate the potential effects on energy infrastructure,
  • Barriers/difficulties experienced in funding, conducting, or reporting on such collaborations.
Index Terms:

0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Convener:  Fred Lipschultz, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Anna Brockway, Southern California Edison, Climate Adaptation & Resilience Planning, Rosemead, United States
 
Integrating Climate Change Data and Understanding to Build Energy System Resilience Research (Invited) (1045307)
Delavane Diaz and Laura Fischer, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, United States
 
Renewable and Decentralized Utilities in a Smart Home for Resiliency in a Changing Climate (1111590)
Brian C Ancell, Texas Tech Univ-Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States and Russell Manser, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, United States
 
U.S. Department of Energy’s Initiatives to Increase Awareness and Access to Climate Science Information for Resilience Planning in Support of a 21st Century Climate Resilient Energy System (1125494)
Craig D. Zamuda, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, United States
 
The Transparency Center for carrying out Integral Research Pilot Projects, a commitment to transfer knowledge and understand the territory (1125500)
Leonardo David Donado, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia and Carlos A Vargas-Jimenez, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Beyond Data Repositories and Visualizations - Supporting Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning in the Energy Sector via the Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine (1170159)
Owen M Doherty1, Andrew D Jones2, Naomi L Goldenson3, Nancy Thomas4, Kripa Jagannathan5, Brian Galey6, Grace J Di Cecco7, Nancy L Freitas8, Mark D Koenig7, Justine Bui9, Susan Wilhelm10, Michael Mastrandrea11,12, Elizabeth Elliott McClenny7, Mithra Moezzi13, Ashley Conrad-Saydah14, Victoria Ford7, Nicole Keeney7, Cora Kingdon7 and Smitha Buddhavarapu7, (1)Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Geospatial Innovation Facility, Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Geospatial Innovation Facility, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, United States, (8)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (9)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, United States, (10)California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States, (11)Carnegie Institution, Millbrae, CA, United States, (12)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, United States, (13)California Energy Commission, Sacramento, United States, (14)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States
 
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping to facilitate co-creating on knowledge in valuation of ecosystem services for ecosystem restoration (1177195)
Max Eriksson, University of California Merced, Merced, United States, Mohammad Safeeq, University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, Tapan Pathak, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Merced, CA, United States, Benis Egoh, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States and Roger C Bales, University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, United States
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