Primary Convener:
Pamela McElwee, Rutgers University New Brunswick

Convener:
Michael Chang, Cascadia Consulting
Holly Mayton, University of California Riverside
Julian Reyes, USDA Climate Hubs
Gillian Bowser, Colorado State University

Early Career Convener:
Abby Frazier, Clark University

Chair:
Pamela McElwee, Rutgers University
Abby Frazier, Clark University
Michael Chang, Nature Conservancy
Holly Mayton, University of California Riverside
Julian Reyes, USDA Climate Hubs
Gillian Bowser, Colorado State University

Effective decision-making for environmental problems at local, national, and international levels depends on availability and use of scientific data. Two innovations for synthesizing data and deploying it so that it is accessible and useable for decisionmakers are assessments and public-private partnerships. This session will discuss how each of these approaches have evolved in recent years and key challenges. For assessments, lessons learned from the Fifth National Climate Assessment and global reports from IPCC and IPBES highlight advancements in localized projections and scenarios and the importance of centering Indigenous and local knowledge, among other topics, while challenges include recent cancellation of several national assessments for largely political reasons. For public-private partnerships, more decentralized and remote data collection have become possible, facilitating data-sharing and collaboration among diverse stakeholders but raising collaboration challenges. Across both topics, this session will focus on best practices, key considerations, lessons learned, and future directions.

Index Terms
1632 Land cover change
1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion
6309 Decision making under uncertainty
6620 Science policy

Neighborhoods:
1. Science Nexus

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change