CASCs at the Ecological Society of America 2023 Meeting: ESA for All Ecologists
Look for CASC researchers at the 2023 Ecological Society of America meeting (August 6-11, 2023) in Portland, OR!
Participating in the 2023 Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting (August 6-11, 2023)? Check out presentations from leadership, staff, and affiliates of the Climate Adaptation Science Centers! The theme for this year's meeting is: ESA for All Ecologists.
ESA CASC Session Spotlights
Special Session: Practicing and Rewarding Co-production of Knowledge Within Universities
When: Thursday, August 10, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
Location: C124
CASC Participants:
Organizer: Jia Hu – Director of Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – Associate Professor – University of Arizona
Speaker: Meade Krosby – Director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – Senior Scientist – University of Washington
Speaker: Jessica Hellmann – Director of the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – University of Minnesota
Speaker: Alison Meadow – Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – Associate Research Scientist– University of Arizona
Session Description: Climate extremes, increased disturbances, loss of biodiversity, and food security are some of the most pressing issues we face this century. In order to tackle these complex issues, we need to bring together a coalition of people, including stakeholders, policy makers, and research professionals to produce actionable science. This integrative and collaborative approach has been termed "knowledge co-production" or "translational ecology" or "public impact research." While co-production of knowledge is recognized as one of the most effective ways to make science actionable and socially relevant, creating these partnerships take time, and lead to products that may be different than the traditional metrics used by universities to assess hiring, tenure, and/or promotion (e.g. community engagement, cultural education). Yet for many students and professionals trained in the ecological sciences, having the skills to engage with non-researcher partners is the main motivating force to enter the field. In this special session, we will bring together researchers who practice this model of knowledge co-production to address climate, conservation, and sustainability related topics (including graduate student, postdocs, faculty members, research scientists).
Special Session: Climate Adaptation Science: Defining a New Field of Science and Practice
When: Thursday, August 10, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
Location: D135
CASC participants:
Organizer: Laura Thompson – U.S. Geological Survey – National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Nicole DeCrappeo – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: John B. Bradford – US Geological Survey – Southwest Biological Science Center
Co-organizer: Toni Lyn Morelli – U.S. Geological Survey – Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D. – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Speaker: Aparna Bamzai-Dodson – U.S. Geological Survey – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Carol Morel – U.S. Geological Survey – National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Mitchell Eaton – U.S. Geological Survey – Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Jeremy Littell – U.S. Geological Survey – Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
Session Description: Climate adaptation science is a burgeoning discipline that centers on addressing and preparing for climate change effects on water, species, ecosystems, disturbance regimes, infrastructure, cultural resources, and human socio-economic systems. Although the potential impacts of climate change on natural resources have been studied for decades, methods for conducting that research and applying the results for purposes of adaptive management and decision making are still evolving. Recently, advances in research and engagement have improved our ability to identify, plan and implement adaptation actions across diverse sectors. This special session will highlight many of these advances, which include proposed assessment and decision-support frameworks, approaches to producing actionable science for or with decision makers, and conceptual models that incorporate human communities into knowledge production processes. Furthermore, we will foster discussion on how to be more intentional developing science and products that can support marginalized groups and communities impacted by climate change. The session will include a series of lightning talks that provide an overview of recent advances in climate adaptation science. Talks will be followed by an interactive panel discussion focused on future needs and potential paths forward for ESA and the field in general. The aim of this session is to encourage ESA membership to take a leading role in the next generation of climate adaptation science, particularly in a manner that ensures environmental justice, equity, and inclusivity.
Special Session: Climate Adaptation in Practice: From Science to Service
When: Thursday, August 10, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Location: C124
CASC Participants:
Organizer: Nicole DeCrappeo – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Laura Thompson – U.S. Geological Survey – National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Jeremy Littell – U.S. Geological Survey – Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Carol Morel – U.S. Geological Survey – National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Toni Lyn Morelli – U.S. Geological Survey – Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Speaker: Toni Lyn Morelli – U.S. Geological Survey – Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Co-organizer: Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D. – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Speaker: Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D. – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Speaker: Meade Krosby – University of Washington – Director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Speaker: Brian W. Miller – U.S. Geological Survey – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Session Description: Climate adaptation is a burgeoning priority for natural resource policy and management that centers on planning, projecting, and preparing for climate change effects on water, species, ecosystems, disturbance regimes, infrastructure, cultural resources, and human socio-economic systems. However, the urgent threat of climate change means that we must implement climate adaptation practices now, while we’re still defining the field and coping with uncertainty about future conditions and resource impacts. This special session will describe how the field of climate adaptation has been developed with specific application to natural resource management and explore why this work is reliant on participatory engagement and/or full co-production between scientists and managers. We’ll illustrate how climate adaptation practice is linked to climate adaptation science through climate services, which includes training and capacity building; decision support tool and data visualization development; rapid-response and longer-term technical assistance; and partner engagement through working groups, workshops, deep dives, and communities of practice. This session consists of short lightning talks that describe approaches to providing tools and information to enhance climate adaptive decision making. Talks will be followed by an interactive panel discussion focused on ways we, as scientists and practitioners, can incorporate these approaches into on the ground solutions.
Want to see More CASC Science at ESA?
Additional CASC Presentations:
Monday, August 7, 2023
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT
Adapting at-risk species management for climate change induced phenological shifts
Location: C120-121
CASC Presenter: Kelsey King – 2020 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT
Location: B114
CASC presenting author: Xingli Giam - Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Coauthor: Jennifer Cartwright – U.S. Geological Survey – Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Coauthor: Jacob LaFontaine — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Coauthor: Caleb Hickman — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
Evidence for antecedent influences of winter snowpack on the use of monsoon rain in montane coniferous forests
Location: B117
CASC Coauthor: Jia Hu – Director of Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – The University of Arizona
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Ecology Across Career Sectors
Location: D135
CASC Speaker: Caitlin Rottler – South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:00PM - 4:15PM PDT
Climate and floral availability drive solitary bee sex ratios in a montane ecosystem
Location: E143
CASC presenting author: Melanie R. Kazenel (NCSU) — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC co-author: Rebecca Irwin — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
Location: B118
CASC Presenter: Adam Sibley – 2022 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT
Decoupling of biomass accumulation and gross primary productivity in a Madrean sky island forest
Location: B115
CASC Coauthor: Jia Hu – Director of Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – The University of Arizona
8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT
Location: Room 257
CASC Presenter: Michele Buonanduci – 2021 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT
Measuring and modeling post-fire forest trajectories in northwestern Cascadia
Location: Room 257
CASC Presenter: Jenna Morris – 2022 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT
Democratizing Science: Translational Ecology, Participatory Monitoring, and Inclusivity to Address Global Change
Location: D137
Presenting Author: Toni Lyn Morelli – U.S. Geological Survey – Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
The Ogallala Data Directory: A tool for Ogallala Aquifer region researchers and decision-makers
Location: D138
CASC Presenting Author: Cait Rottler – South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT
Fire, northern spotted owls, and old forests in the Pacific Northwest
Location: Room 257
CASC Presenter: Jeremy Rockweit – 2019 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Deeper Dive into Guidelines for Federal Departments and Agencies on Indigenous Knowledge, for Indigenous Science and Scholarship (workshop)
Location: A106
CASC Speaker: James Rattling Leaf – University of Colorado Boulder – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center Affiliate
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT
Mobile technology provides new insight into human-mediated routes of aquatic species invasions
Location: B117
CASC Presenter: Rachel Fricke, 2022 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
CASC Co-author: Lindsey L. Thurman, Ph.D. – U.S. Geological Survey – Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Doing transdisciplinary research for climate adaptation: an autoethnographic account
Location: 258
CASC Presenter: Diele Lobo – University of Minnesota – Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Co-authors: Elissa Welch – University of Minnesota – Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center; Jessica Hellmann – University of Minnesota – Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT
Impact of seasonal-to-annual climate on post-fire regeneration of western larch
Location: E141
CASC Presenter: Spencer Vieira, 2022 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
RAD storylines: developing ecological scenarios for resource management planning
Location: B114
CASC Presenting Author: Kyra D. Clark-Wolf – University of Colorado Boulder – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Coauthor: Imtiaz Rangwala – University of Colorado Boulder – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Coauthor: Brian W. Miller – U.S. Geological Survey – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
Accelerating Adaptation Science (symposium)
Location: 258
CASC Presenting Author: Olivia LeDee – U.S. Geological Survey – Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
Plant abundance influences riverine dissolved oxygen concentrations
Location: B116
CASC Presenter: Aaron Pelly – 2022 Northwest CASC Research Fellow
3:30 - 3:45PM PDT
Location: B117
CASC Presenting author: Narayani Barve (UTK) — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC co-authors: Paul Armsworth (UTK), Xingli Giam (UTK) — Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
POSTER SESSION (5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT)
Location: ESA Exhibit Hall
CASC Presenter: Emily Fusco, Northwest RISCC Coordinator
Thursday, August 10, 2023
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM PDT
Using SDMs to make conservation decisions in Tanzania (Symposium)
Location: 257
CASC Presenting Author: Cybil Cavalieri (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Amherst – Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
Coauthor: Laura Thompson – U.S. Geological Survey – National Climate Adaptation Science Center
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM PDT
Widespread exposure to fire-regime change will transform conifer forests but ecosystem feedbacks may support persistence
Location: 255
Co-author: Meade Krosby – Director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center – University of Washington
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
Wildfire in the Hawaiian Islands: Insights from historical Hawaiian language newspapers
Location: 255
CASC Co-author: Mari-Vaughn Johnson – U.S. Geological Survey – Pacific Island Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT
Fires of unusual size: Future of extreme and novel wildfire in a warming continental United States (2020-2060)
Location: 255
CASC Co-author: Imtiaz Rangwala – University of Colorado Boulder – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Co-author: Jane Wolken – University of Colorado Boulder – North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:00 - 4:15PM PDT
Integrating mark-resight and count data to estimate effective sampling area and fish density
Location: B114
CASC Presenting author: Vivian Zulian (NCSU) - Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC co-authors: Krishna Pacifici, Jeffrey Buckel, Nathan Hostetter - Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
The influence of fire-fuel feedbacks on boreal forest fire regimes under future climate change
Location: 255
CASC Co-author: Jeremy Littell – U.S. Geological Survey – Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC Co-author: Scott Rupp – University of Alaska Fairbanks – Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Cultural burning in California: The Future of Collaborative Restoration & Indigenous Adaptation Leadership
Location: 255
CASC Presenting Author: Nina Fontana, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California-Davis – Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
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