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

该奖项将支持一个综合研讨会，以确定与冰、水和全球气候相互作用有关的基于社区的观点、研究必要性和政策需求。该讲习班将在科学界筹备即将到来的联合国国际冰雪年和庆祝冰川运动之前并协助科学界。组织者的目的是将冰冻圈-水文学-社会科学研究、政策、教育和推广社区的主要代表聚集在一起，制定计划，创建一个跨学科的冰-雪-水联系交流社区，并为制定有效地向公众和政策制定者传播科学的战略和工具包奠定基础。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，PI建议将其限制在10-15名在生产、使用和传播科学方面具有专业知识的人。讲习班的目标是将地球系统和跨学科的社会科学家、自然科学和社会科学知识的使用者--能够清楚地表达他们对科学产品的需求和兴趣的人--以及包括公共关系从业人员在内的教育和外联专家这一关键群体聚集在一起。拟议的研讨会将安排为三天的会议：前两天将是会议形式，包括全会演讲、讨论和分组会议；最后一天将是一个密集的写作研讨会，综合前两天的关键知识成果。会议的最后成果将是一份由社区审查的简短报告，总结研讨会期间提出的关键问题、共同挑战、一般性经验教训和采取步骤的想法。

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.