This session aligns with the new Department of Commerce Strategic Plan for 2018–22, which includes focusing on the department’s mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity and includes a strategic objective to reduce extreme weather impacts.

Volume II, Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, is expected to be released in late 2018. Drawing on the physical science described in Vol. I, this assessment focuses on the ecological, societal, and economic aspects of climate change and variability for 10 regions and 17 national topics. Particular attention is given to observed and projected risks and impacts, with additional chapters on adaptation and reducing risks through emissions mitigation. Throughout its regional and national topic chapters, NCA4 Vol. II provides examples of actions underway in communities across the United States to reduce the risks associated with climate change, increase resilience, and improve livelihoods. NCA4 Vol. II has an increased focus on regional information and includes a new standalone chapter addressing the U.S. Caribbean. In addition, the report includes new chapters on air quality, climate effects on U.S. international interests, complex systems and multiple stressors, and an international appendix that looks at national assessments around the world.

NCA4 Vol. II was developed by more than 300 authors from across the country representing many different disciplines and region-specific expertise. The assessment is written for a broad audience, and is intended to help inform decision-makers, resource managers, planners, and all who are interested in better understanding the effects of climate change on the United States.

This session will highlight the findings of NCA4 Vol. II, related tools and initiatives, and examples of how climate assessments may be used to inform resilience planning and adaptation. Presentations will also explore new approaches to assessment and showcase new tools to assist in the assessment and decision support processes.

• How do you manage an organic, slow growing relationship when you're working with end-users, within the constraints of a typically static fixed term funding environment?  
• What does it mean to finish a project when your customer's requirements have changed in the meantime? 
• What happens when an end-user wants something that's not 'novel' or 'publishable'?  
• How can everyone win in this situation and what are the unexpected positives?

  What happens when it goes wrong?  
• Is there a better word than "end-user"? 
• We often learn more from failure than success, but how do we attack this?

To build the global case for resilience research, engineering, and investment, there is a need to share expertise and stories from the global enterprise on uses and applications of environmental information for decision-making. This session presents a global network of providers of data, solution providers, organizations, and industry experts who will share their stories on the use of environmental data, needs and requirements, assessment of climate impacts, and examples of innovative climate solutions to foster advancement in adaptation and resilience.

The National Academy of Sciences report on Integrating Social and Behavioral Science within the Weather Enterprise identifies a need for conversation, especially as OWAQ and the NWS continue to make investments in social, behavioral, and economic science. In light of this, the intent of this session is to open dialogue and conversation about the following possible subjects:

• Debrief of challenges or success from the 2018 NOAA federal funding opportunities
• A review of reviews: Are the questions OWAQ uses to review proposals adequate? Do they adequately measure relevancy? What are your ideas? Do the PIs feel the reviews provide useful feedback? Do operational folks feel they have the knowledge to review?
• R2O: How can we better work together not only to transfer concrete items, like technology, but also SBES knowledge? How does the operational community ideally want to hear from the SBES research community? How does the research community ideally want to work with the operational community? How can we better work together?
• How can we be more transparent and more effectively communicate what has been done in SBES within NOAA?
• And more!

Please consider attending, sharing successes and/or challenges, and learning from one another. Together we will strengthen the relationship between the SBES research and operational communities.