1. Linking Environmental Research and Practice Lessons from the Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States Daniel Ferguson Jennifer Rice Connie Woodhouse SARP Webinar Series: Stakeholder Communication April 17, 2014

2. how do collaborations between resource management professionals and scientists actually happen?

3. TUCSON DENVER SEATTLE

4. How have water resources professionals and climate researchers in these three cities interacted? What are the most salient lessons that we can learn from these interactions?

5. how did we answer these questions? ~ 30 interviews with water resources pros and climate researchers with experience in science- management collaborations formed and utilized a project advisory committee final workshop with blend of initial project participants + experts who had not taken part in the project, but who have diverse experience with researcher-practitioner collaborations.

6. Paul Fleming Seattle Public Utilities Amy Snover U of Washington Ralph Marra Tucson Water (retired) Jeff Lukas U of Colorado Ries Lindley Tucson Water (retired) Gregg Garfin U of Arizona Laurna Kaatz Denver Water project advisors

7. climas.arizona.edu/p ublication/report/linki ng-environmental- research-and- practice

8. ten heuristics* to guide scientist-practitioner collaborations

9. * Why heuristics? Because they’re not rules, they’re not principles, they’re not even guidelines. What follows are essentially rules of thumb based on the kind of trial- and-error learning that comes from experience.

10. Preconditioning activities can set the stage for collaboration. Casual interactions may ultimately lead to a collaboration 1.

11. Information brokers are often central to successful collaborations. Mike Crimmins U of AZ Climate Extension Specialist Laurna Kaatz Climate Scientist Denver Water Planning Division 2. Brokers can place emerging research in the context of an existing body of knowledge, larger questions, management challenges, and management tools.

12. Building capacity to work across the science-practice boundary is critical. 3. individuals conscientiously focusing on learning how to do researcher-practitioner collaborations motivated individuals focusing on building institutional capacity to understand and value these types of collaborations cross-training opportunities, internships/externships, institutional proselytizing about collaborative work

13. Catalyzing events provide prime opportunities for collaboration. 4. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/drought/2002/ann

14. Catalyzing events provide prime opportunities for collaboration. 4. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/drought/2002/ann Meko et al. GRL 2007 Colorado River Flow, 762-2005

15. Catalyzing events provide prime opportunities for collaboration. 4. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/drought/2002/ann "Following Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg convened the Second New York City Panel on Climate Change in January 2013 to provide up- to-date scientific information and analyses on climate risks for use in the Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency.” New York City Panel on Climate Change, 2013: Climate Risk Information 2013: Observations, Climate Change Projections, and Maps. C. Rosenzweig and W. Solecki (Editors), NPCC2. Prepared for use by the City of New York Special Initiative on Rebuilding and Resiliency, New York, New York.

16. Successful collaboration requires mutual respect. 5.

17. Successful collaboration requires mutual respect. 5.

18. research can be more useful for practitioners if purposeful work is done by participants from both communities to shrink the gap between the way researchers conceptualize a problem and the ways that practitioners conceptualize the same problem. One basic conclusion from this work:

19. climas.arizona.edu/publication/report/ linking-environmental-research-and- practice All 10 heuristics + lots of other stuff in the full report

20. The Sectoral Applications Research Program within the NOAA Climate Program Office who provided funding for this work. Thanks to: And our project advisory committee who provided invaluable guidance and feedback. And finally the approximately 45 project participants who shared their knowledge and experiences as part of this research, both through interviews and the project’s final workshop.

21. thank you Dan Ferguson University of Arizona dferg@email.arizona.edu www.climas.arizona.edu