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

Early Career Convener:
Haley Crim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:
Matthew Brewer, Boston University
Haley Crim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Junjie Dong, California Institute of Technology
Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University
Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut

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 those that relate to social behavior, decision-making, and the humanities, are crucial to improving society’s ability to pursue evidence-based environmental solutions or actions. This session highlights 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 help enhance our understanding of science-society interactions and 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 especially, that support social and behavioral changes at multiple scales. Local or regional perspectives from 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:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Environmental Justice
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Machine Learning and AI
Science Communications
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies
Inclusive and Indigenous Science
Community and People-Powered Science
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
1. Science Nexus

Cross-Listed:
ED - Education