Primary Convener:
Christine Kirchhoff, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus

Convener:
Matthew Brewer, Boston University
Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University
Junjie Dong, California Institute of Technology
Kyra Selina Hagge, East Carolina University

Early Career Convener:
Haley Crim, NOAA

Chair:
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut
Haley Crim, NOAA
Kyra Selina Hagge, East Carolina University
Junjie Dong, California Institute of Technology
Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University
Matthew Brewer, Boston University

A fundamental motivation for geoscience is developing knowledge and solutions that help address society’s most pressing issues. Insights from a variety of communities and disciplines, especially relating to social behavior, decision-making, and the humanities, help improve society’s ability to pursue evidence-based environmental solutions or actions. This session highlights diverse talks that draw on theory, practice, and methods from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities (including but not limited to anthropology, economics, history, political science, decision science, psychology, philosophy, and sociology) and from practitioner communities that enhance our understanding of science-society interactions and/or how evidence-based solutions/actions manifest and/or the societal impact of geosciences. We invite approaches, frameworks, stories or experiences that scientists and/or practitioners can use to improve science-society interactions, and that support social and behavioral changes at multiple scales. Local or regional perspectives from in and around the Gulf or Southeastern United States are especially encouraged.

Index Terms
4327 Resilience
4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities
6349 General or miscellaneous
6620 Science policy

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Gulf Coast Region
Climate Change and Global Policy
Inclusive and Indigenous Science
Science Communications
Machine Learning and AI
Community and People-Powered Science
Open Science and Open Data
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies
Environmental Justice

Cross-Listed:
ED - Education

Neighborhoods:
1. Science Nexus