Session: Ways of Knowing: Dismantling the Divide between Social and Natural Sciences in Weather and Climate Research II (Themed Joint Session) (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 27 January 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Ninth History Symposium; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )

Cochairs:

Heather Lazrus, University of Oklahoma, Social Sciences Woven Into Meteorology (SSWIM), Norman, OK and Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Papers:

8:30 AM

J7.1

Understanding climate change: a dialogue between natural science and indigenous communities in Alaska

Nicole Herman-Mercer, USGS, Boulder, CO; and S. Koester and P. F. Schuster

8:45 AM

J7.2

Providing sea ice and weather outlooks to Indigenous Hunters to insure a safe hunt

Gary L. Hufford, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and G. C. Ray

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (126.3 kB)

9:00 AM

J7.3

A community-of-practice approach to assess the nature and impacts of sea-ice changes on Bering and Chukchi Sea ice users

Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and M. L. Kapsch, I. Krupnik, W. Weyapuk Jr., L. Apangalook, M. Johnson, and G. L. Hufford

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J7.4

Defining adaptation: creating knowledge in a new area of climate change policy

Frances C. Moore, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J7.5

Democracy in policy making: Implementing the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Karen Michele Hoffman, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

9:45 AM

Discussion