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Making It Your Own Custom-Tailoring to Your Situation:
Remarks on Applying & Implementing
By I Sam Higuchi*
Staff Engineer NASA-HQ Environmental Management Division
Office of Strategic Infrastructure
“Communicating Climate Science and Engaging Stakeholders In Climate Risk Management & Adaptation: Regional and Site-Specific Workshops”
Sponsored by Federal Facilities Council of the National Academy of Sciences 31 January 2013
Held at National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, DC; Tel.: 202-334-2000
*This presentation does not represent the official position of NASA or the United States government. This presentation
reflects only the personal views of the presenter.
http://pandimasbox.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/draw_me_the_world_by_stickersticker.jpg
Let us paint in some details
EPA (1988) “Federal Facilities Compliance” EPA 130/4-89/003 http://www.gao.gov/assets/270/265207.pdf
3rd National Climate Assessment Release date 2013
http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/nca-overview
FEDERAL FACILITIES
Creating Your Own Climate Risk Management Workshop
Six U.S. Regional Climate Centers provide climate services including
historical climate information, data analyses, and research.
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/
http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/
http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/
http://www.srcc.lsu.edu/
http://www.sercc.com/
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climat
e/regionalclimatecenters.html
Historical Weather
Data from NOAA
http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html
http://www.noaa.gov/pdf/NOAA_NYC_factsheet_081911.pdf
http://www.noaa.gov/pdf/NOAA_NYC_factsheet_081911.pdf
12 km Grid
California 12 km Grid (spatial resolution)
http://www.engr.scu.ed
u/~emaurer/data.shtml http://wikiadapt.org/images/8/8e/Cal1.jpg http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr277.pdf
“Peeking Behind the Wizard of Oz’s Green
Curtain:”
NASA Climate Risk Management Workshops
http://gevil.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/man-
behind-curtain.jpg
NASA-wide Workshop (2009) → NASA site specific Workshops (2010-201x)
http://pdf.aigroup.asn.au/environment
/Adaptation_checklist.pdf
Australia – “Managing the Risks from Climate
Change, an Adaptation Checklist for Business” (201x)
WHY THIS DOCUMENT?
It can be read within 20-30 minutes
16 pages (9 pages of narrative)
Business-Management perspective
A Hollett, D May & C Giles (200x) “The Newfoundland and Labrador System of Community
Accounts”; http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/10/38755863.pdf?contentld=38755864
Large Group Intervention Workshop Design Concept
M Emery & R E Purser (1996)
The Search Conference
Phase 1: Climate Talk Climate Handout – location specific
M Emery & R E Purser (1996)
The Search Conference
Large Group Intervention Workshop Design Concept
“Breaking Organizational Stovepipes”
“Diversity of Ideas” through --
Workshop shifts From large general session To small breakout groups To general session – report backs To small breakout groups To general session – report backs …
How “large”? Up to 300 people or more
Large Group Intervention History and “New” Educational Model
M Emery & R E Purser (1996)
The Search Conference
Education model: “Discovery” Collaborative inquiry Encourages dialogue Direct experience
Large Group Intervention History : starts 1930s
B B Bunker & B T Alban (1997)
Large Group Intervention
NASA Applies: 1) Search Conference 2) Future Search 3) Open Space Technology
UKCIP (xxxx) Identifying Adaptation Options http://www.ukcip.org.uk/images/stories/Tools_pdfs/ID_Adapt_options.pdf
Sustainability: 1. Environment 2. Economy 3. Equity
http://www.salagram.net/Newsletter-Jokes237.html
Some Assembly Required
Is this making your
hair stand-on-end?
http://catchycolors.blogspot.com/2009/06/batteries-not-included.html
The afternoon session is to give a “taste” of the Workshop’s Breakout Sessions
… and to add to your comfort level
STOP
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79553
Hurricane Sandy – October 2012