Connecting Data Providers and Stakeholders

1. Connecting Data Providers and Stakeholders Building Bridges greatdreams.com Millua Viaduct, FR

2. National Perspectives • Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise • Transferability • Scalability • Changed decisions and decision processes • Public support for climate research Enabling system-wide change Sustainability

3. Issue: Many Space & Time Scales Extended/Seasonal Climate Weather Decadal Climate Weather Outlooks Forecasts Variability Change Predictions 6 10 Drought and Conjunctive 2 Management 5 General Flood 10 Reliability Safe Yield and Structural Integrity Reservoir Operation, Well-Field, 4 Spatial Scale (km ) Watershed Resources, and Ecosystem 10 Management 3 10 Flash Flood 2 10 10 month day century season week decade year Temporal Scale

4. Timescales of Climate Information Paleoclimatological indicators: centuries to millenia Forecasts: months to over one year Future Past Climate change: decades to century Instrumental record: decades to over one century

5. National Perspectives • Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise • Transferability • Scalability • Changed decisions and decision processes • Public support for climate research Enabling system-wide change Sustainability Integrative: researchers/stakeholders, interdisciplinary, end-to-end Participatory, Iterative: responsive to stake- holder concerns On-going Process: mutual capacity building & sustainable legacy products Products: link variability, impacts, response options Equitable: outcomes benefit participants & equitably so

6. Lessons Learned: Decision Support Tools • Transferable, scalable tools are possible. • Focus on knowledge development, not just data & information. • Interactive webtools require major commitment and resources. • Prototypes insufficient! • Stakeholders need reliable tools, which require solid software foundation, organized development, sustainability for maintenance and expansion. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming

7. Evolution of Integrated Teams Some efforts focus on the resource-intensive cultivation of relationships with stakeholders, developing deep understanding of decision contexts and needs for climate and ancillary products, as well as effective means for supporting access to and use of information. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Stakeholder-driven projects are often limited in their ability to fully implement sophisticated engineered software projects required for successful transition to sustainable operations. Physical Science Variability and change

8. Evolution of Integrated Teams Some efforts focus on the resource-intensive development of technology for managing information, including data storage, discovery, access, analysis, and visualization. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Often limited in their ability to determine specific, yet scalable, user needs sufficient for developing design requirements. Necessarily focused on speculative information products that have limited interest for decision makers (e.g., from prospective satellite-based instruments, experimental monitoring programs). Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming

9. Evolution of Integrated Teams Typically, neither type of effort can afford to be all-encompassing. The respective communities have different priorities, processes, and pathways for decision support tool development activities. The premise of this session is that development of sustainable user-centric decision support tools would benefit from partnerships across these two types of efforts. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming Goal: identify opportunities for closer collaboration across communities.