SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT to a SCIENCE AND SOCIETY (SY) section session BY 4 AUGUST 2021. Below is a list of all the SY section sessions for which you may submit an abstract. Also, see the whole list here. Highlighted in yellow are our SY track sessions coordinated by our SY Track Leads. Contact our SY section Track Leads or any of the SY section executive committee members for more information!
- SY001 - Accessing Broader User Communities for Earth Observations of Terrestrial Systems
Amanda Clayton, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States, 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
- SY002 - Addressing Community Needs for Building Capacity to Use Earth Observations for Atmospheric Systems
Lauren M Childs-Gleason, DEVELOP, Berkeley, CA, United States, Cynthia Hall, NASA Earth Science Data Systems, Lanham, MD, United States, Falguni Patadia, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
- SY003 - Advances in Social Justice and Resiliency in Water Resources
Abigail Tomasek, Oregon State University, Crop and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, 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
- SY004 - Advancing Water Resilience in a Changing Climate: The Water Resilience Assessment Framework
John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, OR, United States, Ashok Chapagain, Pacific Institute, Oakland, United States, Sandra Ruckstuhl, International Water Management Institute, Silverton, South Africa and Colin Strong, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., United States
- SY005 - An analysis of bilateral research collaborations: Japan-US collaboration and Japan-Sweden collaboration
Takehito Kamata, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
- SY006 - 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
Lauren Schenck, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL, United States and James Cahan, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL, United States
- SY007 - Antiracism and Ethics in the Geosciences: The Intentionality Needed for Belonging, Accessibility, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (B A JEDI).
Brandon Jones, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States and Kendall Moore, University of Rhode Island, Journalism and Film Media, Narragansett, RI, United States
- SY008 - Best Practices for assessing the value of Earth/Ocean observations for society.
Francoise Pearlman, Retired, Washington, DC, United States; FourBridges, Seattle, WA, United States, 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
- SY009 - Advancing Equitable Science Policy: Frameworks, Stories, and Best Practices
Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
- SY010 - Climate change adaptation strategies to sequester carbon, as well as strengthen coastal resilience, marine ecosystems, food security, and coastal economies
Pamela Doughman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States and Mark J Spalding, The Ocean Foundation, Washington, DC, United States
- SY011 - Community Engagement and Capacity Development for Ocean and Coastal Management
Sydney Neugebauer, NASA Capacity Building Program, Hampton, VA, United States, 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
- SY012 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from an International Perspective: Issues, Priorities and Opportunities
Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States, Claudia Jesus-Rydin, European Research Council, Scientific Department, Brussels, Belgium and Natsue Abe, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Mantle Drilling Promotion Office MarE3, Kanagawa, Japan
- SY013 - Earth Science Data and Insights: Enhancing How Applications are Communicated in Scientific Literature
Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, 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 Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States
- SY014 - Environmental Migration
Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
- SY015 - Finance as a Tool for Building Water Resilience: The MDB Water Resilience Community of Practice
John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, OR, United States, 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
- SY016 - Fire and Water: Integrating Management, Indigenous Knowledge, and Modeling of Wildfire Impacts on Water Resources
Jeanne Fernandez1, AJ J Wickel1, Michelle E Newcomer2 and John R. Kucharski3, (1)Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States(2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States(3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA, United States
- SY017 - Fostering a Community of Inclusive and Accessible Earth System Science Engagement
Daniel W Zietlow, Provare Media and NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Lorena Medina Luna, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Beth A Bartel, Michigan Technological University, GMES, Houghton, MI, United States
- SY018 - Geoscience Innovation through Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking
Erika E Lentz, USGS Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, 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
- SY019 - Governance and Public Engagement for Geoengineering Research: Best Practice and Research Results.
Sally Klimp, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Katharine J Mach, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, CA, United States, Michael Kleeman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States
- SY020 - Hydromet Programmes Concept: What Do They Teach Us? The Case Of Burkina Faso In West Africa
Cheikh Kane, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Paris, France, Gado D Abdouramane, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Niamey, Niger and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
- SY021 - Improving #SciComm with STEAM Partnerships
Pamela Gay, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Beth Johnson, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
- SY022 - Innovative Communication Hubs for Earth and Environmental Sciences
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
- SY023 - 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.
Karen Romano Young, Independent, Washington, DC, United States
- SY024 - Migration and Community Relocation in the Arctic
Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States
- SY025 - Native Science to Action: How Indigenous Worldviews Inform, Diversify, and Build Capacity in Environmental Science and Policy
Ryan E Emanuel1, Andrew Martinez2, Lydia L L Jennings2 and Claire Cecelia McKinley3, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States(2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States(3)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- SY026 - Natural Resource Management needs for a changing Gulf of Mexico
Caitlin Young, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Dave Reed, Gulf of Mexico Alliance, Ocean Springs, MS, United States
- SY027 - Ocean Art Ocean Science
Dwight Owens, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada and Kim Juniper, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
- SY028 - Quantifying Environmental Injustices for Vulnerable Populations with Community Resilience Frameworks
Millard McElwee, Exponent, Inc., Maynard, MA, United States and Regan Patterson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- SY029 - Satellite Service Users. Who are they? What do they really needs? How do we know? Are we providing good services to user needs?
Thanh Vo, ISS, inc., Falls Church, VA, United States and Eric Miller, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- SY030 - Science and Society: Art and Science
Kathryn A Semmens, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA, United States and Garima Raheja, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
- SY031 - Science and Society: Community and Citizen Science
Ryan McLaren Meyer, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Elise C Osenga, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Melissa Goodwin, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
- SY032 - Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection
Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, 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, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- SY033 - Science and Society: Science Policy
Gifford J Wong, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States, 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
- SY034 - Science and Society: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Kripa Akila Jagannathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 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
- SY035 - Science-driven Policies to Address Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector
Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, United States, 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
- SY036 - Science to Action – Decision-Makers Staying Afloat Rather than Drowning in Big Climate Data
Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States, 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
- SY037 - Science to Action: Enabling Water Resource Management Decisions Driven by Science and Data
Stephanie L Granger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, 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
- SY038 - SocioHydrology: Advancing the Science of Water and Society
Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 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, TX, United States
- SY039 - Subsurface Storage of Natural Gas, CO2, and Hydrogen: Key Learnings and Future Opportunities
Brandon Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, 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 and Fatemeh Molaei, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- SY040 - Sustaining Weather, Water, and Climate Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Margaret Hurwitz, NOAA National Weather Service, Boulder, CO, United States and Chelsea Peters, Roanoke College, Environmental Studies, Salem, VA, United States
- SY041 - Toward a More Equitable Global Geoscience Community: Partnerships, Programs, and Processes
Beth A Bartel, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, Wendy Bohon, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States and Lorena Medina Luna, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education and Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States
- SY042 - Towards Earth System Digital Twins
Jacqueline LeMoigne, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Marge Cole, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 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
- SY043 - Understanding and Developing Integration Pathways within the Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) Nexus Framework and beyond
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Pietro Elia Campana, Mälardalen university, Department of environmental engineering and energy processes, Västerås, Sweden
- SY044 - Water Risks, ESG, Corporations and Finance: Trends, Progress and Pitfalls in Frameworks, Data and Metrics
Paulina Concha Larrauri, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Laureline Josset, Columbia University, New York, United States
- A006 - Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 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
- A008 - Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Tirtha Banerjee1, Janine Baijnath-Rodino1, Bruna R F Oliveira2 and William C Porter3, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States(2)Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal(3)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
- A034 - Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021.
Judah Levi Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, 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
- A048 - Emissions and Air Quality in Africa
Claire Granier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie and CIRES/NOAA, Toulouse, France and Boulder, USA, France, 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
- A055 - Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, 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
- A100 - Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services
Andrew William Robertson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, 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
- A102 - Tethered Aerosystems
Kathleen McNamara, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Geoffrey Bland, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard Cairncross, Drexel University, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- B018 - Carbon cycling in drylands: New findings and emerging frontiers
Sasha Reed, Brooke Bossert Osborne and Michala Phillips, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States
- ED021 - Geoscience Soft Skills Research and Training
Samuel Cornelius Cornelius Nyarko, Western Michigan University, Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, MI, United States and Esther Akoto Amoako, University of Toledo, Geography and Planning, Toledo, OH, United States
- ED030 - Performance Art for the Sciences
Tanya Furman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Molly R Witter, University of Akron Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, Akron, OH, United States, Kate Semmens, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA, United States and Garima Raheja, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
- ED041 - The results of the Worldwide upbringing and educational program "PEOPLE ABOVE MONEY"
Vladimir A Kontar1, Lyubov M Shlafman1 and Rimpy Kumar, (1)Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
- GC038 - Environmental changes and human migration: advances in modeling and analysis
Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States and David Griffith, East Carolina University, Anthropology, Greenville, NC, United States
- GC043 - Facilitating effective co-produced knowledge of cold region change
Yifan Cheng1, Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer2, Andrew James Newman1 and Keith N Musselman3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States(2)USGS, Water Resources Mission Area, Lakewood, CO, United States(3)University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
- GC067 - Policy-relevant High-resolution Regional Earth System Modeling: Development, Evaluation and Application
Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Zhenzhong Zeng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China and Hui Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
- GC073 - Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for sustainable nutrient management
Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Wilfried Winiwarter, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; University of Zielona Gora, The Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zielona Gora, Poland, Luis Lassaletta, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CEIGRAM/Agricultural Production, Madrid, Spain and luis lassaletta
- GC082 - Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, United States, Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Ranjit Deshmukh, University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
- GH002 - Advances in Interactions of Air Quality and Public Health Using Integrated Modeling Frameworks
Yaoxian Huang, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States, Yuqiang Zhang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Erin McDuffie, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, United States
- H025 - America's Water: Infrastructure gaps, their health, environmental and economic impacts and future directions
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Maura Allaire, University of California, Irvine, NY, United States, Kevin White, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, Mark Elliott, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and mark elliott
- H041 - Convergent Research to Manage Human Interactions with the Phosphorus Cycle
Anna-Maria Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Sociology, Urbana, United States, Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States, Daniel R Obenour, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Jordan D Kern, North Carolina State University, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
- H052 - Flood Analytics, Operational Forecasting, and Adaptive Flood Management for an Uncertain Future: Challenges and Innovations
Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
- NH005 - Advancing Earthquake Early Warning through Communication, Education, Outreach, and Social Science Worldwide
Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, Jenny Crayne, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR, United States and Robert M DeGroot, United States Geological Survey - Earthquake Science Center, ShakeAlert Project, Pasadena, CA, United States
- NH007 - Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice to Improve Understanding of Natural Peril Risk For Risk Transfer and Risk Financing Applications
Colby K Fisher, Hydronos Labs LLC, Princeton, NJ, United States, Julio Enrique Herrera-Estrada, Descartes Labs, Inc., Applied Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Elinor Benami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Michaela Dolk, Insurance Australia Group, Sydney, Australia
- NH010 - Defending Coastal Infrastructures Against Sea Level Rise and Tropical Storms
Zong-Liang Yang1, Carey King1 and Lang Wang2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States(2)Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Hong Kong, Hong Kong