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.

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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