<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I wanted to share the announcement of the first Innovator seminar. Please join us for this weekly seminar series during the summer. Expect exciting new science ideas, lively discussion, and opportunities to establish new research collaborations!<br><br>cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Rebecca</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><br></pre><pre cols="72"><font size="2" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Rebecca Haacker
Director
NCAR Education & Outreach
Advanced Study Program
Phone: 303-497-8623
<a href="http://www.asp.ucar.edu" target="_blank">www.asp.ucar.edu</a>
<a href="https://ncar.ucar.edu/education-outreach/education-and-outreach" target="_blank">https://ncar.ucar.edu/education-outreach/education-and-outreach</a>
</font></pre><pre cols="72"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Assistant Diana O. Verschoor: 303-497-1851</font><br></pre><pre cols="72"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><pre cols="72"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=12MeqXv9HmZgDjUfNmSoO_LPJXogdXzWz&revid=0B2Ju-lerugP7bG1JSlB6NmV5M1lIZEEvYmdLd21lbDJ0Z0lZPQ" width="200" height="75"><br></pre></font></pre><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></pre></span></pre><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><br></pre></span></pre></span></pre></span><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span><pre cols="72"><span></span></pre></span></pre></span></pre></span></pre></span></pre></span> <br></pre>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Cassandra Olenick</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cassie@ucar.edu">cassie@ucar.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:22 AM<br>Subject: Innovator Program Seminar: Integrating Social Science into Global Environmental Change Solutions<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<div class="m_4901311422714310611gmail-field m_4901311422714310611gmail-field-name-body m_4901311422714310611gmail-field-type-text-with-summary m_4901311422714310611gmail-field-label-hidden"><div class="m_4901311422714310611gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4901311422714310611gmail-field-item m_4901311422714310611even"><p>Hello,</p><p>Thank you for your interest and participation in the Early Career Faculty Innovator Program!<br></p><p>If your schedule allows it, please join us on <strong>Thursday June 20th from 11:30-1pm (FL1-EOL ATRIUM) for the Innovator Program Seminar Series</strong>
featuring Dr. Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, an Innovator Program awardee and
faculty at Standford University. Gabrielle will be speaking for
approximately 45 minutes, with 45 minutes of discussion from the
audience. Below are presentation details and a short biography.
Gabrielle's talk is the first presentation in a series of weekly seminars featuring faculty awardees in the Innovator Program.</p><p>Hope to see you this Thursday!</p>
<p><strong>Title: Integrating Social Science into Global Environmental Change Solutions</strong></p>
<p>
<strong>Abstract:</strong> The social and behavioral sciences are
critical for informing the development of policies to meet the challenge
of global environmental change. Policies for mitigating environmental
change or reducing the harm that it causes inevitably make assumptions
about the behavior of the people who must execute or respond to those
policies. Unless those assumptions are realistic, those policies may
fail. Applying the social and behavioral sciences, decision science
approaches any problem through three interrelated activities: formal
analysis, characterizing the choices a fully informed rational actor
would take; descriptive research, examining how people actually behave
in those circumstances; interventions, designed to create viable,
effective options and help decision makers choose among them. Each
activity requires substantive collaboration with technical experts
(e.g., climate scientists, geologists, engineers, hydrologists,
regulatory analysts) and continuing engagement with decision makers. I
apply a decision science approach in a variety of domains related to
mitigating global environmental change or adapting to its effects,
including preparing for sea level rise, adoption of emerging green
transportation technologies, managing freshwater resources, and
investment in green infrastructure. This talk will illustrate the
approach through an example of my work on adapting to and preparing for
gradual (sea level rise) and episodic (hurricanes) environmental
threats, followed by ideas for moving forward. When successful, decision
science can facilitate creating environmental policies that are
behaviorally informed, realistic, and respectful of the people for whom
they seek to aid. It can also help uncover critical relationships that
affect the dynamics of human-environmental systems, suggesting targets
for further collaborative research.</p>
<p>
<strong>Biography</strong>: GABRIELLE WONG-PARODI is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at
the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Her
research focuses on applying behavioral decision research methods to
address challenges associated with global environmental change. Dr.
Wong-Parodi uses behavioral decision science approaches to create
evidence-based strategies for informed decision making, with a
particular focus on building resilience and promoting sustainability in
the face of a changing climate. She has a background in energy
resources, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and risk
perceptions of emerging technologies, such as unconventional shale gas
development. She was an invited speaker at the Sackler Colloquia at the
National Academy of Sciences on the Science of Science Communication.
She recently served on the National Academy of Sciences committee titled
"Long-term Coastal Zone Dynamics: Interactions and Feedbacks between
Natural and Human Processes and their Implications for the U.S.
Coastline." Dr. Wong-Parodi is a faculty affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and is the social science research liaison for the
Climate Advocacy Lab. Dr. Wong-Parodi received her B.S. in Psychology at
the University of California Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Risk
Perceptions and Communication from the University of California,
Berkeley.</p></div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_4901311422714310611gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Cassandra (Cassie) O'Lenick, PhD<br></div></div><div>Project Scientist I<br></div><div>Research Applications Laboratory</div><div><div><br></div><div>Program Coordinator, <a href="https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/early-career-opportunities" target="_blank">Early Career Faculty Innovators Program</a></div><div>Education and Outreach</div><div><br></div></div>National Center for Atmospheric Research<br></div><div>Boulder, CO<br></div><b>Cell phone: 703.981.7591</b><br></div><div>Office phone: 303.497.2821<br></div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:cassie@ucar.edu" target="_blank">cassie@ucar.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Innovators Program Support Specialist: Teresa foster, <a href="mailto:teresaf@ucar.edu" target="_blank">teresaf@ucar.edu</a>, 303-497-1741</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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