The Changing Ice-Snow-Water Nexus: Research-to-Policy-to-Public Awareness

该奖项将支持综合研讨会，以确定与冰、水和全球气候相互作用相关的基于社区的观点、研究必要性和政策需求。该研讨会将先于并协助科学界为即将到来的联合国国际冰雪年和庆祝冰川活动做准备。 组织者的目的是将冰冻圈-水文-社会科学研究、政策、教育和外展界的主要代表聚集在一起，制定创建跨学科的冰-雪-水关系交流界的计划，并为制定战略和工具包奠定基础，以便向公众和政策制定者有效地传播科学知识。研讨会的主题是跨学科、创新、融合和参与。为了充分参与研讨会会议，PI 建议将具有科学生产、使用和传播专业知识的人员限制在 10-15 名。 研讨会的目标是将地球系统和跨学科社会科学家、自然和社会科学知识的使用者等关键群体聚集在一起，这些人能够表达他们对科学产品的需求和兴趣，例如政策制定者、环境管理者和公共利益相关者，以及教育和外展专家，包括公共关系从业者。拟议的研讨会为期三天：前两天为会议形式，包括全体会议、讨论和分组会议；最后一天将是一个密集的写作研讨会，以综合前两天的关键知识。会议的最终结果将是一份经过社群审查的简短报告，总结了研讨会期间出现的关键问题、共同挑战、一般经验教训和前进步骤的想法。

This award will support a Synthesis Workshop to identify community-based perspectives, research imperatives, and policy needs linked to the interactions of ice, water and global climate. This workshop will precede and assist in the science community in preparation for the emerging U.N. International Year for Snow and Ice and the Celebrating Glaciers campaigns. It is the intention of the organizer to bring together key representatives of the cryospheric-hydrologic-social science research, policy, education, and outreach communities to elaborate plans for creating a transdisciplinary ice-snow-water nexus communication community, as well as set the groundwork for creating strategies and toolkits for effectively communicating science to the public and to policy makers. The workshop has as its themes, interdisciplinarity, innovation, integration and engagement. In order to have the full engagement in the workshop sessions, the PI suggests limiting it to 10-15 people with expertise in producing, using, and communicating science. The goal of the workshop being to bring together a key group of earth system and interdisciplinary social scientists, users of natural and social science knowledge - people who can articulate their needs and interests in science products e.g., policy makers, environmental managers, and public stakeholders, and education and outreach experts, including public relations practitioners. The proposed workshop is structured as a three day meeting: the first two days will be conference-style, consisting of plenary talks, discussion, and breakout sessions focused; the final day will be an intensive writing workshop to synthesize key knowledge production from the prior two days. The final results of the meeting will be a short community-reviewed report summarizing key issues, common challenges, general lessons and ideas for steps forward that emerged during the workshop.