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2016

Executive Management Team Charles L. Redman, Arizona State University Nancy B. Grimm, Arizona State University Mikhail V. Chester, Arizona State University Dave G. Chandler, Syracuse University P. Timon McPhearson, The New School Thaddeus R. Miller, Portland State University Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, USDA Forest Service

Project Period July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2020

Award Number 1444755

UREx SRN Annual Report

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Contents Major Project Goals ................................................................................................................................. 2

Year 1 Accomplishments ......................................................................................................................... 3

Major Activities .................................................................................................................................... 3

Specific Objectives ................................................................................................................................ 5

Significant Results ................................................................................................................................ 6

Key outcomes and other achievements ............................................................................................... 8

Opportunities for training and professional development .................................................................. 9

Disseminating to communities of interest ........................................................................................... 9

Activities to accomplish the goals during Year 2 ................................................................................ 11

Products ................................................................................................................................................. 13

Book Chapters .................................................................................................................................... 13

Journals and Juried Conference Papers ............................................................................................. 13

Other Conference Presentations / Papers ......................................................................................... 14

Other Publications .............................................................................................................................. 17

Other Products ................................................................................................................................... 17

Website .............................................................................................................................................. 20

Impacts ................................................................................................................................................... 20

Impact on the development of the principal discipline(s) of the project .......................................... 20

Impact on other disciplines ................................................................................................................ 20

Impact on the development of human resources.............................................................................. 21

Impact on physical resources that form infrastructure ..................................................................... 22

Impact on institutional resources that form infrastructure ............................................................... 22

Impact on information resources that form infrastructure ............................................................... 22

Impact on technology transfer ........................................................................................................... 22

Impact on society beyond science and technology ........................................................................... 22

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Major Project Goals Overarching SRN goals Climate change is widely considered to be one of the greatest challenges to global sustainability, with extreme events being the most immediate way that people experience this phenomenon. Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to these events given their location, high concentration of people, and increasingly complex and interdependent infrastructure. Impacts of Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, and other disasters demonstrate not just failures in built infrastructure, they highlight the inadequacy of institutions, resources, and information systems to prepare for and respond to such events now, and especially to future increases in frequency and magnitude of extreme events. Thus there is an urgent need for scholars of urban systems from multiple disciplines to work together with policy makers, managers, and other practitioners to address this challenge: the collision course of urbanization and climate change. Our vision is a network of collaborating interdisciplinary scientists and practitioners from diverse world cities working together to promote, design, and implement urban infrastructure that is resilient in the face of future extreme events, provides ecosystem services, improves social well-being, and exploits new technologies in ways that benefit all segments of urban populations. Our Mission. Starting with nine network cities—six continental U.S. and three Latin American, home to over 35 million residents—and expanding in future years, the UREx SRN will co-produce the knowledge needed to promote resilient infrastructure in a future that will look very different from today. The extreme events that this project will focus on include urban flooding, coastal storms, regional droughts, and extreme heat waves. The UREx team will link SRN scientists, students, local practitioners, planners, industry, NGO’s, and other stakeholders across >25 institutions (including partners) and >70 collaborators to co-produce data, models, images, stories, and on-the-ground projects that show how a new resilient infrastructure can be developed. Infrastructure that is flexible, adaptable, safe-to-fail, socially equitable, and ecologically based will enhance urban resilience in the face of a higher incidence of extreme events, more culturally diverse communities, and continued urbanization pressures. Ultimately, the UREx SRN will help accelerate knowledge generation and application to encourage innovative strategies towards urban sustainability. Strategic goals. 1) Build a network of cities, institutions, and student, post-doctoral, and faculty researchers to explore resilience of cities to the expected increase in frequency and intensity of weather-related extreme events; 2) Develop novel theoretical frameworks for social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) that express a vision of sustainable, integrated urban infrastructure that is flexible, adaptable, safe-to-fail, socially equitable, and ecologically based; 3) Work with practitioners and decision makers, as well as a cadre of graduate and postdoctoral fellows, to co-produce knowledge (Vogel et al. 2007) that facilitates data-driven visioning and ultimately transitions to a sustainable future for urban infrastructure and, by extension, the fabric of urban social-ecological-technological sustainability; and 4) Create a model for incorporating assessment, learning, and adjustment in response to evaluative feedback in a large, transdisciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-national research network.

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Year 1 Accomplishments

Major Activities

PROJECT WIDE

• Searched for and hired Project Manager • Developed website and web-based communications and information sharing procedures • Held first All Hands Meeting (AHM) with ~90 attendees • Executive Management Team held weekly meetings • Scheduled and held monthly meetings for all working groups and Management Team • Worked to expand the network in Latin America: Santo Domingo (Munoz-Erickson, Bauer, Lugo), Mexico

City (Eakin, Redman, Vivoni), and Havana (Grimm, Gual-Soler, Chester, Iwaniec)

WORKING GROUPS

CITY TEAMS & CITY COMPARISONS (CCWG) • Agreed upon the most relevant data needs and scales • Formed a task force for comparison of history of extreme events (with Climate and Hydrological Extremes

[CHEx] Working Group) • Formed a task force for comparison of history of infrastructure • All cities formed researcher and practitioner teams • Advertised for (on website) and interviewed prospective graduate fellows in seven institutions, and

advertised, interviewed, and made offer for CCWG postdoctoral fellow • Compiled planning documents for content and KASA analysis (3 per city) • Formed a task force for developing a concept of SETS vulnerability

CLIMATE & HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES (CHEx) • Identified candidate climate stations for each U.S. city • Historical changes identified for New York City and Baltimore • Evaluated downscaling and hydrologic modeling options • Developed scenarios consisting of future changes in a select set of extreme climate variables for each U.S.

city • Completed City Climate Risks Table

COMPUTATION & VISUALIZATION (CVWG) • Built a network of local data managers & cities • Surveyed & categorized available data • Built data structures & common vocabularies • Evaluated analysis and visualization tools

SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (SETS) • SETS Framework Webinars (2, ongoing). Webinars are facilitated by SETs WG leads and open to the entire

SRN. At each webinar, an SRN researcher presents their perspective on SETs and this is followed by discussion.

• SETS Library of Shared Resources. Developed Google Drive library available to entire SRN • Historical assessment of flooding in Phoenix including infrastructure responses. Safe-to-fail adaptation

strategies were identified for roadways and flooding • Infrastructure case studies were developed for our partner cities to develop the SETS framework • Infrastructure case study framework developed for selection and analysis of case study comparisons

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SCENARIOS • Worked in close coordination with the Transitions & Implementation Working Group • Survey protocol to collect data for knowledge network analysis for Valdivia, San Juan, and New York City

was developed and approved by IRB • Interview protocol to scope future capacities and needs for scenario process in Valdivia, San Juan, and New

York City was developed and approved by IRB • In collaboration with CCWG, database and analysis of city plans for Valdivia, San Juan, and New York City

completed • Met with City Teams of Valdivia, San Juan, and New York to define scenario priorities and work plans for

Year 2

TRANSITIONS & IMPLEMENTATION (TIWG) • Worked in close coordination with the SWG • Practitioner Leads of all 9 cities met and interacted during the 2016 AHM Meeting in Tempe • Assisted in the development of a protocol for Scoping Meetings with City Practitioners and followed up with

City Leads to aid in its implementation • Karen Thoreson of the Alliance for Innovation gave a presentation to practitioner leads at the AHM Meeting

on their COP on Resilience, Adaptation, and Preparedness • During the 2016 AHM, Identified with City Practitioner Leads the transition initiatives and projects in their

cities that the UREx can help support • Survey protocol to collect data for KASA work in Valdivia, San Juan, and New York City was developed,

tested, and approved by IRB

EDUCATION & DIVERSITY (EDWG) • Hired half-time program coordinator, Andrea Boltz • Created guiding documents for collaboration, authorship, mentoring, data sharing • Advertised (on website) graduate fellowships across nine institutions • Advertised, interviewed, and hired postdoctoral fellows for CCWG, CHEx, SWG, SETS, and TIWG • Worked on program elements for grad fellows • Worked with External Evaluation Team to develop instruments for evaluation

NETWORK EVALUATION (NEWG) • Met with External Advisory Committee to discuss role in network evaluation • IRB approval for survey and interviews • Developed and deployed survey of researchers and practitioners • Developed interview protocol to interview researchers and practitioners about SRN processes and

outcomes • Shared results of survey with Management Team and discussed management response • Draft network evaluation plan completed

CITY TEAMS • Each city team had a project kick-off meeting • Each city team hosted project co-directors Redman and Grimm • Each city team held regular team meetings • City team members participated in monthly working group conference calls (all cities have representatives

on several working groups) • City team leads and working group leads participate in monthly Management Team conference calls • All city teams sent representatives, in most cases all participants, to the Phoenix All Hands Meeting (AHM) • Welty (Baltimore) helped with provision of data to CCWG

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• Welty compiled journal articles for all hydrological modeling that has been done in the Baltimore area for

posting/sharing on the CHEx Google Drive folder • Co-directors Redman and Grimm travelled to all cities (not on NSF funds) to meet with researcher team

members and local practitioners • The Phoenix team hosted the first UREx SRN All Hands Meeting • Syracuse, Portland, and Phoenix recruited REU students • Research teams in all cities worked to decide scope and domain of work, identify extreme events of

concern, gather information on relevant studies conducted previously, identify data sources for the work • City leads invited practitioners (government, non-governmental, and private practitioners) to form

practitioner teams and build practitioner network • New York (The New School, NYU, CUNY), Syracuse (Syracuse U), Miami (Clark U, FIU), San Juan (UPR 2

campuses), Valdivia (ASU), Hermosillo (ITSON), Phoenix (ASU), and Portland (PSU) teams recruited graduate fellows for AY 2016-17 and selected 12 students to become fellows; Baltimore (Cary Institute) is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for their team

• Miller (Portland city lead) had one-on-one meetings with 15 Portland practitioner partners from City of Portland, community organizations, Multnomah County, and TriMet

• Shandas (Portland), Roy-Chowdhury (Miami, Clark U), and Eisenman (UCLA) co-lead the SRN’s Vulnerability Task Force

• City Team hosted UREx meetings with University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras and Medical Sciences Campus Leadership; Municipality of San Juan, and ENLACE

• San Juan team worked with two state-sponsored tourism offices, Meet Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Convention Bureau) and Helms Briscoe, to identify the location for hosting the 2017 All Hands Meeting in San Juan. Reserved location for the 2017 All Hands Meeting in San Juan: Verdanza Hotel in Isla Verde, PR

• San Juan team met with EPA researchers doing modeling work in San Juan to collaborate with the SWG on scenario and model development for San Juan

Specific Objectives

WORKING GROUPS CITY TEAMS & CITY COMPARISONS • Datasets identified and contributed to database • Historical datasets compiled • Practitioner teams to meet with city research teams in all cities

CLIMATE & HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES • Decide what sources of climate scenarios will be used for the nine cities

COMPUTATION & VISUALIZATION • Common understanding of data developed across project • Data schema produced • Workflow for data ingestion produced • Suite of analytical tools identified • Data validation protocols developed

SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS • IRB approval obtained • SETs webinars for working group and across SRN established • White paper drafted for discussion at virtual retreat in June

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SCENARIOS • Date and modeling needs identified for Valdivia, San Juan, and New York City through work with City Leads

and WG leads for CHEx and SETS • Survey data collection initiated with Valdivia stakeholders

TRANSITIONS & IMPLEMENTATION • Identify transition initiatives with City Practitioners during 2016 AHM • Survey protocol to collect data for KASA in Valdivia, San Juan, and New York City developed and approved

by IRB • City projects for Year 2 identified

EDUCATION & DIVERSITY • All hiring and student selection completed or on track to be completed by end of fiscal year • Develop a collaboration and inclusion guidance document and an authorship guidelines document

NETWORK EVALUATION • Draft network evaluation plan • IRB approval obtained for interviews and surveys • Survey deployed and results analyzed and shared • Interview protocol developed

Significant Results

WORKING GROUPS

CITY TEAMS & CITY COMPARISONS • All cities have identified datasets; some have compiled historical data • 96 practitioners have joined the network across our nine cities; meetings have resulted in delineation of

domain for the work in each city (spatial scale, governments, extreme events, time scale, particular vulnerabilities, etc.)

• Fifteen PhD students have been recruited across seven institutions to work with city teams; these were top recruits for each school

• Co-Directors Redman and Grimm visited each city and met with both researchers and practitioners, presenting information about the UREx SRN and discussing progress and priorities

• Documents (three per city) have been acquired and are available; content analysis is underway and a manuscript is outlined

• Task force has begun developing protocol for SETS vulnerability assessment; white paper under development

• Several other publications are under development and UREx researchers contributed to additional papers published or submitted this year (see products)

CLIMATE & HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES • The newly-developed Localized Constructed Analogs (LOCA) statistically downscaled dataset will be one

source of climate scenario information for conterminous U.S. stations. The Asynchronous Regional Regression Model will be a second method used for all cities.

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COMPUTATION & VISUALIZATION • The UREx data server (database) has been created and the Syracuse Green Infrastructure database has

been built. Several city databases are under development. • All the US cities have existing databases to support UREx. The other cities are locating data • The ArcGIS computational platform is in process and should be well advanced by June 30th • Two REUs this summer will be working on integrating the computational platform with the city data • Held a webinar on “Data & Informatics” by Dave Chandler and Janet Marsden (Oct 2015)

SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS • Held two webinars on “Ecosystem Approaches to SETS" by P. Groffman (Dec 2015) and “ND-GAIN's Urban

Adaptation Assessment” by J. Coffee (April 2016) • Library of shared resources has 100 items • Hired a postdoctoral fellow and recruited SETS graduate fellows • White paper draft developed for discussion at virtual retreat in June, based on discussions and

presentations made by group members (n=12)

SCENARIOS • Presented webinar on futures scenarios and modeling at the San Juan ULTRA Annual Meeting (June 2016) • Completed scenario narratives and initial modeling for CAP LTER scenarios, after which SRN scenarios are

being modeled. These scenarios consider heat waves, drought, and flooding. • Hired two post-doctoral fellows and a PhD student

TRANSITIONS & IMPLEMENTATION • Final report was created for the Practitioner Network on what we heard from them regarding initiatives,

ideas, and priorities during the 1st Practitioners Meeting at the 2016 All Hands Meeting in Tempe, Arizona • 11 practitioners in total participated at the AHM, including leaders from the 9 cities • Practitioner Leads participated in a panel to present on their priorities, concerns, and wishes for their

participation in the UREx during the 2016 All Hands Meeting • Practitioner Leads of all 9 cities expressed interest in continued interaction with other practitioner leads in

the other cities as a Community of Practice. This inspired the development of a TIWG webinar for Year 2 for practitioners to present and share stories from their cities.

• Hired one post-doctoral fellow (in progress) and selected one PhD graduate fellow

EDUCATION & DIVERSITY • Early diversity results in hiring and recruiting are promising, though surveys for specific diversity numbers in

actual matriculating students have yet to be done (8/20 staff, post-doc, and grad student are members of minority groups [6 Hispanic/Hispanic cultural identity, 1 Black/African American, 2 Asian American]; 11/17 REU applicants are members of a minority group [8 Hispanic/Hispanic cultural identity, 1 Black/African American, 1 Indian Native American, 1 Asian American]; 3 of 4 REU students selected are Hispanic/Hispanic cultural identity).

• Outstanding diversity-oriented keynote address delivered by Rebecca Tsosie at first All Hands Meeting in Phoenix, AZ to set tone for developing a culture of inclusion in the SRN

• The collaboration and inclusion document was developed and approved by the Management Team • The authorship guidelines document was developed and approved by the Management Team

NETWORK EVALUATION • A logic model and evaluation plan will be completed by end of June • Draft network evaluation plan is available • Survey developed, deployed, and results analyzed and shared • Interview protocol developed and deployed

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CITY TEAMS

• Established relationships with local practitioners from each city • Identified a practitioner lead for each city • Developed major cross-cutting questions to be pursued and the specific task forces to pursue them • The first UREx SRN All Hands Meeting (AHM) was a tremendous success, bringing together nearly 90

scholars and practitioners over four days to discuss the project. Seven task forces were formed during the AHM’s workshops and plenary sessions, initiating collaborative network-wide projects (see elsewhere)

• Graduate students or postdoctoral scholars were recruited as fellows to work with all city teams • Presented SETS ideas and information on the SRN to practitioner partners and other organizations (several

cities) • Made presentations on the SRN at academic conferences and departmental colloquia (see ‘presentations’) • Funded grant proposal from PSU’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions ($75,000) to support additional faculty

and students on SRN-related work (Portland)

Key outcomes and other achievements

NETWORK WIDE • Established the network and worked well together • Developed the following policies & procedures:

- Collaboration & Inclusivity Guidelines - Authorship & Publication Policy - Stakeholder Protocol - Data Management Protocol - Data Management Sharing Policy - Student Mentoring Plan

• Project Co-Director Grimm and Scenarios WG Lead Iwaniec reviewed and commented on a proposal from the city of Phoenix to the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities program, which would leverage the UREx SRN

• Project Co-Director Redman presented at a Phoenix City Council meeting in support of new initiatives consistent with the SRN goals

• Established eight task forces listed below during the first annual AHM 1. Definitions (Resilience, Extreme Event, etc.) 2. SETS White Paper and Case Studies 3. History of Infrastructure 4. Historical Analysis of Extreme Events 5. A SETS Approach to Ecosystem Services 6. Governance of Infrastructure 7. Vulnerability Analysis Using SETS Concept 8. Content Analysis of City Plans

• Our direct participation and knowledge transfer to the “Mesa Comunal de Humedales de Valdivia”, led the development and current implementation of “Ordenanza de Humedales para Valdivia”, which now regulates the use and protects urban wetlands in the city of Valdivia

• Two proposals were submitted by Agustin Robles-Morua, the Hermosillo city lead, in collaboration with other researchers from Hermosillo to the Mexican Council for Science and Technology to seek support related to the UREx-SRN project

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Opportunities for training and professional development

• Initial graduate student participation in video WG conference calls and All Hands Meeting, for students already at our universities and interested in the SRN

• Mentoring of junior members of the Executive Management Team - the experience of decision-making about the conduct of a large, interdisciplinary project will be invaluable for these scientists

• Thad Miller and Mikhail Chester, Executive Management Team members, gave graduate courses on this subject

• Held a number of substantive, educational webinars: in addition to the SETS-sponsored webinars, several SRN scientists (Redman, Grimm, Seager, Coffee, Groffman, Solecki, C. Miller, Munoz-Erickson, and Kristin Baja [practitioner, Baltimore]) participated in a widely viewed Webinar series on urban resilience called ‘Along the Urban Path’, sponsored by the Security and Sustainability Forum. The webinar series attracted hundreds of listeners (132 for webinar 1; 276 for webinar 2; unknown for webinar 3), largely practitioners

Disseminating to communities of interest

CITY TEAMS

BALTIMORE • Planning meeting to discuss "extreme events" as one of the Baltimore urban LTER quarterly science

meetings

HERMOSILLO • Held press conference on UREx SRN with the Mayor of Hermosillo, co-directors Redman and Grimm, City

Lead Agustin Robles Morua and CHEx co-lead Enrique Vivoni, and Practitioner Lead Guadalupe Peñuñuri Soto

• Robles Morua, Peñuñuri Soto, Redman, Grimm, and Vivoni met privately with Hermosillo Mayor Maloro Acosta

• Story on UREx SRN featured in Hermosillo newspaper and online news video (e.g., http://masmedio.com/nota/77215)

• The city lead and practitioner lead have conducted various radio interviews to disclose the details of the project in Hermosillo

MIAMI • Began discussions with the Marsh Institute (Clark University) about the project and plan for outreach using

center resources • Initiated Sustainability Seminar Series with the City of Miami Beach • Troxler co-led Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Sea Level Rise Solutions Conference (April 2016) • Troxler co-led Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce Sea Level Rise Solutions Seminar Series (March 2016)

NEW YORK CITY • Hosted NYC Team meeting at The New School in New York with participants from all NYC partners,

including: NYC Mayor's Office, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health, Office of Recovery and Resilience, and community partners

• Research collaborator, Carson Farmer, spoke at Boulder Geo Meetup (public event) about the project R. Zimmerman's current professional appointments related to UREx: • 2015-2016: Appointed Member, City of New York Third NYC Panel on Climate Change.

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/461-15/mayor-de-blasio-third-nyc-panel-climate-change---ensuring-best-available-science; http://wagner.nyu.edu/news/newsStory/professor-rae-zimmerman-appointed-third-nyc-panel-climate-change

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• 2014-2016: Appointed Member, Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities, National Research Council, National Academies http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/sustainability/urbanstudy/index.htm

• 2011-2017: Appointed Member, Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection, ABR10 (Formerly ABE40), Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academies, Appointed Chairperson of the Physical Security subcommittee

PHOENIX • Our practitioner meetings are meant to share research and co-produce projects and ultimately future

scenarios. Involvement on the Phoenix team includes individuals from city (Mayor’s office, Planning Department), county (Flood Control District), and federal government (Housing and Urban Development) and non-governmental organizations (The Nature Conservancy, the Sustainable Cities Network)

• Grimm made several presentations internationally to promote the UREx SRN (see presentations)

PORTLAND • Practitioner engagement: Introductory meetings with relevant local organizations completed or scheduled • Press: House, K. (12/8/15). “No easy fixes for Johnson Creek's persistent flood problems.” The Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/12/no_easy_fixes_for_johnson_cree.html • Press: House, K. (9/23/15). “Portland State University joins massive study of cities' weather weaknesses.”

The Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/09/portland_state_university_join.html

• Thaddeus Miller met with practitioners and community members throughout year 1 to discuss the project and co-production priorities, including: City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Bureau of Environmental Services, Water Bureau, Parks and Recreation; TriMet; Multnomah County’s Office of Sustainability and Health Department, Verde; Coalition of Communities of Color; Levee Ready Columbia; and US Geological Survey

• Shandas met with practitioners and community members throughout year 1 to discuss the opportunities to integrate climate-induced vulnerability analysis into planning efforts: City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Bureau of Environmental Services, and Bureau of Emergency Management; State of Oregon Health Authority; and Upstream Public Health, a non-profit organization

SAN JUAN • Met with practitioners and stakeholders (in-person, virtual, and phone): PR Emergency Management

Department; EPA Urban Waters Ambassador; Resilience Chief Officer for San Juan, 100 Resilient Cities, Rockefeller Foundation; PR Department of Environment and Natural Resources; San Juan Practitioner Team (multi-stakeholder meeting); Office of Territorial Ordinance and Planning, Municipality of San Juan

• Pablo Méndez Lázaro gave a Course on Climate Change (including the UREx and extreme events) to engineering professionals: Mega Viernes, Curso de Cambio Climático. Colegio de Ingenieros. Centro de Convenciones. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Team members presented the project in multiple public venues, including the PR Climate Change Council and the San Juan Urban Long-Term Research Area (ULTRA) Annual Science Symposium

SYRACUSE • Met with Charlotte Holstein, founder and director of FOCUS Greater Syracuse, a public participation

organization engaged in research, public policy advocacy, public education, and public outreach to promote intelligent, inclusive, sustainable decision making in Syracuse, to plan SRN outreach

• Met with practitioners at Onondaga County Office of the Environment (Jan 2016), City of Syracuse Innovation Team (Feb 2016) and the Innovation Team (April 2016)

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• Attended the Green Infrastructure Research to Guide Implementation and Policy workshop hosted by the

Community & Regional Development Institute and the NYS Water Resources Institute at Cornell University, the Hudson River Estuary Program and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

• Attended the Oneida Lake Watershed Floodplain Mapping Needs and RiskMAP Discovery Project, a partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) to work with communities and organizations to help understand local flooding issues and mitigation activities in the watershed, and prioritize needs for revised Flood Insurance Rate Maps and other products designed to help communities reduce flood risk

• Attended Symposium on Energy in the 21st Century: The Electric Grid, Cybersecurity of the Grid, Resiliency, Micro Grids, Integration of Renewable Energy, Workforce Development

• Attended the Forum on Urban Blight hosted by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University at Albany

• Attended Community Adaptation to Climate Change, a Moynihan Challenge Event sponsored by Syracuse University's Maxwell School, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

• Attended a seminar on “Communicating Science and Engaging the Public” sponsored by the EMPOWER NRT and the Soft Interfaces IGERT

VALDIVIA • Participated monthly (since Sept 2014) in the “Mesa Comunal de Humedales de Valdivia,” which constitutes

a committee (municipality, academics, privates and public services) that seeks the protection of wetlands. A new ordinance was developed by this committee to promote effort and has been functioning since March 2016

OTHER

• Joyce Coffee, presentation at ND-GAIN to 35 Urban Adaptation Assessment advisors • TIWG: The formation of a Community of Practice among the Practitioner Leads for our 9 cities is one of the

most important outcomes of our working group. We have initiated social learning with our city practitioners by providing a platform for cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences across the practitioners.

• Eisenman (UCLA) connected T. Miller to National Institute of Technology Community Resilience Planning Guide Committee, where he will present a talk on UREx SRN

• UREx SRN researchers, as a whole, have given 62 presentations at conferences in year 1 • We have established and actively update our website (URExSRN.net) for internal and external people • We have a Twitter profile that we use to update fellow researchers on SRN related news • The SRN has had original news releases and webinars

Activities to accomplish the goals during Year 2

NETWORK WIDE

• Expand the website • Initiate a quarterly newsletter and continuous blog • Expand on the regular webinars • Continue to explore possibilities for expanding the network, particularly in Latin America

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WORKING GROUPS

CITY TEAMS & CITY COMPARISONS • Compile and contribute spatial databases for each city (CT) • Analyze historical data of past extreme events in collaboration with CHEx (CT) • Continue work with practitioner network in each city (CT) • Assist Scenarios WG with organizing NYC, BAL workshops (CT) • Train graduate and postdoctoral fellows (with EDWG) (CT) • Convene meetings of practitioner network across cities (with Transitions WG) to exchange information

(WG) • Conduct vulnerability analyses for extreme events (WG) • Comparative research projects by GFs, PFs, and research teams (WG)

CLIMATE & HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES • Complete downscaling for NYC & BAL • Complete hydrologic model for NYC & BAL • Extreme scenarios for BAL-NYC workshops • Acquire historical climate data for non-US locations • Identify thresholds and vulnerabilities for Phoenix and Hermosillo

COMPUTATION & VISUALIZATION • Develop protocols for data sharing • Develop visualization base cases • Support city readiness development

SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS • Administer surveys and interviews to case study projects (IRB, if needed) • Create framework for integrating data • Begin analyzing case study results • Begin assessing infrastructure governance

SCENARIOS • Surveys for knowledge network analysis • Engage scenario workshop participants • Construct initial ABM model • Scenario workshops for two cities • Work with transitions working group to operationalize scenario pathways

TRANSITIONS & IMPLEMENTATION • Build KASA for three network cities • Engage city practitioner teams in transition studios • Continue COP as a peer learning mechanism for practitioners

EDUCATION & DIVERSITY • Cohort will take classes, develop research overview statement, and participate in reading group with peers • Science communication workshop • Hire additional postdocs to work with City, Climate and Hydrologic Extremes, and Scenarios working groups

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NETWORK EVALUATION • Annual survey of network participants • Interviews with project team members • Analysis of research outputs and publications • Knowledge systems assessment • Annual report (with EAC input) on SRN progress • Communicate with EMT on evaluation findings and potential management actions • Workshops at All Hand meetings

Products

Book Chapters

Grimm, N. B., E. M. Cook, R. L. Hale, and D. M. Iwaniec (2016). A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities: benefits and challenges of built, natural, or hybrid system function. In K. C. Seto, W. D. Solecki, and C. A. Griffith (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of urbanization and global environmental change. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415732260

Marcotullio, P. J., A. Sarzynski, J. Sperling, A. Chavez, H. Estiri, M. Pathak, R. Zimmerman. (In Review). Chapter 12: Energy Transformation in Cities. In C. Rosenzweig, W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, and S. Ali Ibrahim (Eds.), Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.

Redman, C. L., and T. R. Miller (2015). Chapter 17: The technosphere and earth stewardship. In R. Rozzi, F. S. Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, S. T. Pickett, M. E. Power, J. J. Armesto and R. H. May Jr (Eds.), Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice. Vol 2. (pp. 269-279). Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 9783319121321

Robles-Morua, A., and J. Garatuza-Payan (2015). Cambio Climático en México: Impactos Esperados en la Disponibilidad del Agua. In X. Cruz Nuñez, G. Ramos Delgado, U. Oswald Spring (Eds.), México ante la urgencia climática: Ciencia, Política y Sociedad. México, D.F. CRIM, CEIICH, PINCC / UNAM. ISBN: 978-607-02-7096-3

Shandas, V., A. van Diepen-Haydat, J. Voekel, and M. Rao. (In Press). Coproduction of Resilience. In K. Ninan, Building Climate Resilient Economy and Society - Challenges and Opportunities. Edward Elgar Press.

Zimmerman, R. (2016). Resilient Urban Infrastructure for Adapting to Environmental Disruptions. In Seto K. C., W. D. Solecki, and C. A. Griffith, Handbook on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change. London, UK: Routledge. (pp. 488-512). ISBN: 978-0-415-73226-0

Journals and Juried Conference Papers

Carpenter, C. M. G., D. L. Todorov, C. T. Driscoll, and M. R. Montesdeoca. (In Review). Water quantity and quality response of a green roof to storm events: Experimental and monitoring observations. Journal of Environmental Management.

Groffman, P., M. Cadenasso, J. Cavender-Bares, D. Childers, N. B. Grimm, M. Grove, S. Hobbie, L. Hutyra, D. Jenerette, T. McPhearson, D. Pataki, S. T. Pickett, R. Pouyat, E. Rosi-Marshall, and B. Ruddell (In Review). Moving toward an Urban Systems Science. Journal of Ecosystems.

Lares-Orozco, M.F., A. Robles-Morua, E. A. Yepez, and R. Handler (2016). Global Warming Potential of intensive wheat production in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: a resource for the design of localized mitigation strategies. Journal of Cleaner Production. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.128

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Marsden, J. (In Review). Enhancing Emergency Response to Climate-Related Extreme Events: A Conceptual

Framework for Stigmergic Mass Collaboration using Advanced Information and Communication Technologies. Climate Change in the Urban Environment: Advancing, Measuring and Achieving Resiliency, a special issue of Environmental Science & Policy.

Marsden, J. (In Review). From Katrina to Sandy: Self-Organizing Digital Workspaces in Dynamic Environments. Journal of GeoInformatica.

McPhearson, T., D. Haase, N. Kabisch, and Å. Gren (In Press). Advancing understanding of the complex nature of urban systems. Journal of Ecological Indicators. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.054

McPhearson, T., S. T.A. Pickett, N. B. Grimm, J. Niemelä, M. Alberti, T. Elmqvist, C. Weber, D. Haase, J. Breuste, and S. Qureshi. (2016). Advancing urban ecology towards a science of cities. Journal of BioScience. 66 (3), 198. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw002

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., L. Campbell, D. Childers, M. G. Grove, D. Iwaniec, S. T.A. Pickett, M. Romolini, and E. Svendsen. (In Review). Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social-ecological systems. Journal of Ecosphere.

Shandas, V., J. Voelkel, and B. Haggerty. (In Press). Developing High-Resolution Descriptions of Urban Heat Islands: A public health imperative. The Journal of Preventing Chronic Disease.

Wilbanks, T., S. Conrad, S. Fernandez, S. Julius, P. Kirshen, M. Matthews, M. Ruth, M. Savonis, L. Scarlett, H. Schwartz Jr., W. Solecki, L. Toole, and R. Zimmerman (In Review). Infrastructure Indicators in Climatic Change. Special Issue on “Indicators".

Zimmerman, R. (2015). Book Review: Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters. From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience by Michael R. Greenberg. London and New York: Earthscan from Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Journal of Risk Analysis. 35 (7), 1384. DOI: 10.1111/risa.12427

Zimmerman, R., Q. Zhu, and C. Dimitri (2016). Promoting Resilience for Food, Energy and Water Interdependencies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 6 (1), 50. DOI: 10.1007/s13412-016-0362-0

Zimmerman, R., Q. Zhu, and C. Dimitri. (In Review). Promoting Resilience for Food, Energy and Water Interdependencies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Other Conference Presentations / Papers

Barbosa, O. (2015). Desafíos de la investigación interdisciplinaria para la planificación y evaluación de servicios ecosistémicos en la ciudad de Valdivia. International Symposium of Urban Ecology CEDEUS (Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable). Santiago, Chile.

Barbosa, O., E. M. Cook, L. Castañeda, K. Godoy, M. Marquez, R. Sanchez (2016). Rural or urban, does it make any difference when it comes to being effective for conservation? Joint British Ecological Society CCI Symposium. Cambridge, England.

Chang, H. (2016). Climate change and urban flood risk management. Portland Climate Action Collaborative symposium.

Chang, H. (2016). Dynamics of the Coupled Human and Water Systems in Urban Water Resource Management. Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR.

Chang, H. (2016). Living with uncertainty: Coevolution of human-water systems in urban streams. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, CA.

Chang, H. (2016). Water resources management in a changing climate: From impact assessment to adaptation. Cedar Sinai Park Lifelong Learning lecture series.

Chang, H. Living with water: Changing human-water interactions in the Pacific Northwest streams. Department Seminar, University of Nottingham-Ningbo campus. Ningbo, China.

Chang, H. Climate change, urban development, and floods: toward flood resilient cities. Department Seminar, Sejong University. Seoul, Korea.

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Chester M. V., N. B. Grimm, C. L. Redman, T. R. Miller, T. McPhearson, T. A. Munoz-Erickson, and D. G.

Chandler (2015). Developing a concept of social-ecological-technological systems to characterize resilience of urban areas and infrastructure to extreme events. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Chester, M. V. (2016). Urban Infrastructure Adaptation for Extreme Events. City of Phoenix. Phoenix, AZ. Chester, M. V., and D. Iwaniec (2016). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events: UREx Sustainability Research Network.

United Nations Development Programme. Havana, Cuba. Cho, S., and H. Chang (2016). Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using an indicator-based approach – a case

study for Portland, Oregon. Urban Ecology Research Conference 2016. Portland, OR. Coffee, J. (2015). Tools to assess adaptation and preparedness for investment decision-making. Risky Business

Summit at Climate Week NYC. New York City, NY. Cook, E. M., D. M. Iwaniec, O. Barbosa, and N. B. Grimm (2015). Maximizing urban services provided by green and

gray infrastructure to increase future urban sustainability. ESA Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. Cook, E. M., D. Iwaniec, N. B. Grimm, and O. Barbosa (2015). Maximizing urban services provided by green and

grey infrastructure to increase future urban sustainability. Seminario internacional de ecología urbana: Aportes interdisciplinarios para la sustentabilidad urbana. International Symposium of Urban Ecology. CEDEUS (Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable). Santiago, Chile.

Cook, E. M., and O. Barbosa (2016). Maximizing urban services in Valdivia, Chile with green infrastructure. CAP LTER annual poster symposium. Phoenix, AZ.

Cooley, A. K., and H. Chang (2016). Trends in Hourly Precipitation Intensity in Portland, OR. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Driscoll, C. T. (2015). Green infrastructure: Lessons from science and practice. New York City Department of Environmental Protection. New York, NY.

Gaiser, E. (2015). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events: UREx Sustainability Research Network. Florida International University. Miami, FL.

Gaiser, E. (2016). Sea Level Rise: A Positive Outlook. Turnberry Ocean Colony Lecture Series. Miami, FL. Grimm, N. B. (2015). Desarollo teorético de SETS (social–ecosistémica–tecnológica) para la caracterización de la

resiliencia urbana y infrastructural ante los eventos climáticos extremos. CEDEUS Conference. Santiago, Chile.

Grimm, N. B., C. L. Redman, M. V. Chester, D. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, T. R. Miller, and T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (2015). Developing a concept of social-ecological-technological systems to characterize resilience of urban areas and infrastructure to extreme events. Symposium: “An ecology in, of, and for cities.” Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD.

Grimm, N. B. (2015). Developing a concept of social-ecological-technological systems to characterize resilience of urban areas and infrastructure to extreme events. 2nd Water Sensitive Cities Conference. Brisbane, Australia.

Grimm N. B., C. L. Redman, M. V. Chester, D. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, T. R. Miller, and T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (2015). Developing a concept of social-ecological-technological systems to characterize resilience of urban areas and infrastructure to extreme events. Complex Systems Symposium. Tempe, AZ.

Grimm, N. B. (2015). La Red de Investigación en Sostenibilidad sobre Resiliencia Urbana a Eventos Extremos. City Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Valdivia. Valdivia, Chile.

Grimm, N. B. (2015). The future of cities: addressing challenges from the collision of urbanization and climate change. Departmental Seminar: Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia, Chile.

Grimm, N. B. (2015). The future of cities: addressing challenges from the collision of urbanization and climate change. Eminent Ecologist Lecture #1, Kellogg Biological Station. Hickory Corners, MI.

Grimm, N. B. (2015). The future of cities: addressing challenges from the collision of urbanization and climate change. 2015 Distinguished Scientist Seminar, Semester in Environmental Science, MBL Ecosystems enter. Woods Hole, MA.

Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD.

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Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Miami. Miami, FL. Grimm, N. B., and C.L. Redman (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of New York. New York, NY. Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of San Juan. San Juan, PR. Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Syracuse and County of Onondaga. Syracuse, NY. Grimm, N. B. (2015). Urban resilience to extremes: a new Sustainability Research Network. Urban Systems

Workshop, Complex Systems Symposium. Tempe, AZ. Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2016). La Red de Investigación en Sostenibilidad sobre Resiliencia Urbana a

Eventos Extremos. City Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Hermosillo. Hermosillo, Mexico. Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2016). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Phoenix and County of Maricopa. Phoenix, AZ. Grimm, N. B., and C. L. Redman (2016). Urban Resilience to Extremes: A New Sustainability Research Network. City

Research-Practitioner meeting, City of Portland. Portland, OR. Iwaniec, D., E. M. Cook, M. Davidson, and N. B. Grimm (2015). Sustainable future scenarios for the central Arizona–

Phoenix region. ESA Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. Kominoski, J. (2015). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events: UREx Sustainability Research Network. Florida Water and

Climate Alliance Meeting. Tampa, FL. Marsden, J. (2016). Lessons from Katrina and Sandy: How Advanced Information and Communications

Technologies Enhance Situation Awareness and Enable Stigmergic Mass Collaboration. 2016 Collective Intelligence Conference, Stern School of Business, New York University. New York City, NY.

Marsden, J. (2016). Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network. Nunan Lecture and Research Day, Syracuse University's College of Engineering and Computer Science's annual events highlighting graduate research activities and projects. Syracuse, NY.

McPhearson, T. (2015). Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network. NYC project team meeting. The New School, New York, NY.

Méndez-Lázaro, P. (2016). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network. Puerto Rico Climate Change Council Annual Meeting. San Juan, PR.

Méndez-Lázaro, P., and J. Santos Hernández (2015). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network. University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras and Medical Sciences Campus Leadership Meeting.

Miller, T. R. (2015). Urban Resilience Sustainability Research Network. City of Portland Climate Preparedness Coordinating Committee. Portland, OR.

Miller, T. R. (2015). Urban Resilience Sustainability Research Network. Environmental Studies Symposium, Lewis and Clark. Portland, OR.

Miller, T. R. (2016). Urban Resilience Sustainability Research Network. First Friday Symposium, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University. Portland, OR.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. (2016). Understanding Urban Sustainability Pathways from a Knowledge-Action Systems Perspective: the KASA Approach. IGERT Seminar Series, Portland State University. Portland, OR.

Redman, C. L. (2015). Resilience as a tool for secure sustainable futures. NSF SBE Advisory Committee. Arlington, VA.

Redman, C. L. (2016). Urban Sustainability and Resilience: framing the issues. Panel on Advancing Sustainability, American Planning Association. Phoenix, AZ.

Robles-Morua, A. (2016). Toma de decisiones para la gestión colaborativa de los recursos hídricos y Modelación participativa en la cuenca del Río Sonora, México. 1er Encuentro Internacional Proceso de Soporte a la Decisión para la Gestión Participativa del Agua: Construyendo Capacidades en América Latina y el Caribe. Monterrey, México.

Shandas, V. (2016). Urban Heat Vulnerability Analysis for Portland. Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Troxler, T. (2015). Urban Resilience to Extreme Events: UREx Sustainability Research Network. International Long

Term Ecological Research Network Annual Meeting. Rome, Italy.

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Troxler, T. (2016). Collaborative research through the Sea Level Solution Center. Knight Foundation Meeting.

Miami, FL. Zhu, Q., and R. Zimmerman (2015). Transforming the Resilience of Cognitive, Cyber-physical Systems, Session S/I-

04 “Meta-Network Models for Resilient Interdependent Infrastructures”. Resilience Week 2015. Philadelphia, PA.

Zimmerman, R. (2015). Adapting Communications for Complex, Interdependent Technological Risks (Abstract Number 71-815480). The Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting. Arlington, VA.

Zimmerman, R. (2015). Climate, Infrastructure and Health. Climate Change and Public Health Conference, Session 3 Critical Infrastructure & Systems.

Zimmerman, R. (2015). Hurricane Sandy: Community Recovery & Resilience. The New York Women’s Foundation in partnership with NYU Wagner. New York, NY.

Zimmerman, R., and Q. Zhu (2015). Measures and Models for Electric Power Dependencies and Interdependencies with Other Critical Infrastructures Poster Presentation. New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) 2015, sponsored by Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, New York University and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. New York, NY.

Zimmerman, R. (2015). “Why is Achieving Sustainability So Urgent in Communities Today?” Sustainable Decision Making seminar (training and education), U.S. EPA Region 2. New York, NY.

Zimmerman, R. (2016). Physical Security: New Emerging Needs and Innovations. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.

Zimmerman, R. (2016). Promoting Resilient Services to Adapt to Climate Change and Extreme Events: Research Initiatives. Urban Planning Program faculty research presentation for urban planning students.

Other Publications

Chavez, A., H. Estiri, M. Pathak, and R. Zimmerman (2015). Chapter 12: Urban Energy. In Rosenzweig C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, T. Bowman, and S. Ali Ibrahim (Eds.), ARC3.2 Summary for City Leaders. Urban Climate Change Research Network. Columbia University. New York, NY. Pp. 14-15. Published (web) http://uccrn.org/files/2015/12/ARC3-2-web.pdf

Chen, C., M. Doherty, J. Coffee, T. Wong, and J. Hellmann. Measuring the Adaptation Gap: A Framework for Evaluating Climate Hazards and Opportunities in Urban Areas. ND-GAIN Working Paper Series.

Rosenzweig, C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, T. Bowman, and S. Ali Ibrahim (2015). ARC3.2 Summary for City Leaders. Urban Climate Change Research Network. Columbia University. NY.

Other Products

Protocols Authorship & Publication Policy Authorship on journal articles, symposium contributions, and other publications can be a sensitive issue, as for any large collaborative project. The UREx SRN authorship policy is intended to face this issue head-on and agree upon some general principles, criteria, and procedures for determining authorship as well as publication policies. Integrity and the responsible conduct and reporting of research are essential for maintaining public trust in the research enterprise, and for community benefit from research discovery. Authorship provides credit for a researcher’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. An overarching consideration is that the UREx SRN is a collaborative, multidisciplinary project where lots of hard work and effort goes into gathering data, analyzing data, data management, and writing papers, but where the disciplinary traditions may vary significantly. The policy is meant to provide a basis for common expectations on authorship across all project participants.

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Collaboration & Inclusion Guidelines The goal of the Collaboration and Inclusion Guidelines is to foster and support an operating climate that maximizes collaboration, trust and inclusivity throughout the network and acts as a mechanism by which information, ideas and concerns can be voiced, shared and transmitted to the Executive Team and appreciated across the network. Collaboration promotes flexibility and opens up new ways of thinking, while also requiring commitment and mutual participation. Data Management Protocols (draft) The Computation and Visualization Working Group (CVWG) is developing the platform for handling data ingestion and modeling outputs of City Comparisons (CCWG) and Climate and Hydrological Extremes (CHExWG). CVWG is also responsible for UREx SRN data management and the output of visualization products used in scenarios, transitions and pilot implementation projects. The primary goals of the CVWG are data compilation, synthesis, and visualization to support comparisons among sites, hypothesis testing through scenarios, and lowering the barriers for communicating science among disciplines and to stakeholders.

Data Management & Sharing Policy (draft) The Data Management and Sharing Policy provides procedures and technologies that support data collection, data curation and archival, dataset discovery and access that promote data analysis, synthesis and visualization across the UREx network disciplines and institutions. Mentoring Plans for Graduate & Postdoctoral Fellows (draft) Mentoring program goals have been established to promote opportunities for SRN Graduate Fellows to work closely with their mentors in defining and developing the skills, knowledge and experience needed to progress in their careers as interdisciplinary scientists that holistically approach sustainability questions from a SETs framework. Mentoring program goals have also been established for SRN Postdoctoral Fellows to create a high quality research training environment and provide the skills, knowledge and experience needed for success in their chosen career paths. Stakeholder Protocol The impact of the UREx SRN depends largely on successful collaborations among researchers and stakeholders in each of our network cities. We believe that building these collaborations require the nurturing of deep relationships based on trust, continuous communication, and adaptability to meet stakeholder needs in their particular context. As such, we encourage a diversity of engagement activities and flexible modes of interactions so that stakeholders find multiple and flexible ways they can engage in the SRN adaptive research cycle. The first year is a particularly critical time to engage stakeholders, establish relationships, and generate input and information to inform the SRN WGs research agendas. This document provides a general guideline for researchers to engage stakeholders in each city, leading up to a Management Team webinar in May/June 2016 to report on what they heard from their meetings/interactions with practitioners and stakeholders (see City Practitioner Workflow). At this webinar, City Leads and WG Leads will identify key needs within and across network cities, discuss possible WG research priorities that would both respond to relevant issues and generate novel and interesting research in WGs. Strategic Management Plan (SMP) The Strategic Management Plan defines values, creates a cohesive vision, maps out a direction and sets metrics, milestones, and activities for the network's future growth.

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Network Reports All Hands Meeting Report This report highlights WG workshop discussions from the first All Hands Meeting, summarizes our recently established task forces, and provides a brief description of our new communications strategy. Practitioner Network Workshop Report This report is based on the insights from our lead practitioners at the All Hands Meeting. It focuses on what we heard from our practitioners and how we plan to move forward with the City Practitioner Network (CPN). Survey Instruments UREx SRN Connectivity Survey The Network Evaluation Working Group (NEWG) created an annual survey to gather baseline data on collaboration within the UREx SRN. The first study was completed by nearly all participants at the first All Hands Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, and we will continue to conduct this study on an annual basis throughout the duration of the project.

UREx SRN Student & Postdoc Survey (draft) The University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (UOEEE) at ASU created an annual survey to collect baseline data from student and postdoc fellows in the network to be administered to incoming participants in late summer or early fall 2016. Evaluation Instruments Connectivity Survey Results The results in this document are based on the Connectivity Survey that was conducted at our first annual All Hands Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, and the Network Evaluation Working Group (alongside the Management Team) will use the baseline data to analyze network collaboration over the duration of the project.

Preliminary Results to Question 2 on Connectivity Survey These are preliminary results to question #2 on the Connectivity Survey, "How often did you interact with the following people in the 3 years prior to your participation in the Urban Resilience SRN?" These results show how connected the network currently is, in the projects early stages, and it will be used as an evaluative tool to monitor network connectedness over the next 5 years. Network members will complete this survey on an annual basis. Figure 1. This network ‘map’ represents the baseline of interactions among members 3 years prior to their participation in the UREx SRN. Each researcher of the UREx SRN is a node in the network and the links represent their connection to another researcher prior to the start of the UREx SRN. The large majority of the researchers knew at least one person prior to participating in the SRN, but there are still numerous opportunities to increase connections and build the network. We will map and monitor network connections over the 5 years of the project and we hypothesize that over that time the number of connections (links) among network members will increase and, as a result, the density of the network will also increase. Figure 2. Degree centrality is a measure of the direct connections among the nodes. Nodes with more links, or the incoming ties the person is receiving, is measured by in-degree centrality. A high in-degree centrality is reflected in this figure by larger nodes and it indicates the level of influence or popularity an actor has over the network. It is to be expected that the Co-Directors and Executive Team members have high levels of centrality in this network because they built the network initially. We hypothesize that as the peripheral nodes (actors with lower in-degree centrality) meet and interact more with other members of the network that the level of centrality of the network will be more distributed and the network will be less centralized.

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Figure 3. Betweenness centrality is another measure of network power and it consists of the number of times that an actor rests between two actors. Actors with high betweenness (larger nodes) can serve an important social role as network bridges or brokers because they are connected to otherwise disconnected actors. It is expected that this network has numerous actors serving this broker role in the network, especially the Co-Directors and members of the Executive Team, as they brought actors that were spread across a wide range of different institutions and cities that were not initially connected to each other. We hypothesize that, as more network members meet and interact, the number of direct linkages will increase and the number of nodes with high betweenness will decrease as actors rely less on these brokers to obtain information or collaborate in the network.

Related Proposals Thaddeus Miller, a member of the Executive Management Team, is co-PI on a pre-proposal for NSF INCLUDES on climate resilience and STEM (submitted April 15, 2016).

Timon McPhearson, Executive Management Team member, submitted two related proposals for heat resilience and health in NYC to the EPA call, Integrating Human Health and Well-Being with Ecosystem Services, EPA-G2016-STAR-A2.

• "Linking Extreme Heat, Human Health, and Ecosystem Services in Vulnerable Communities of Northern Manhattan, New York City." $399,417. Timon McPhearson (PI).

• "Heat, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health in New York City under a Changing Climate". $559,338. Elisa Petkova (Columbia University), PI, Timon McPhearson (Co-PI).

Website (URExSRN.net)

The website is well along in implementation and serves intraproject activities across the network, communication with other scientists, city practitioners, and the general public.

Impacts

Impact on the development of the principal discipline(s) of the project

• Importance of interdisciplinary collaboration • Continuing discussion of the variations in resilience thinking • We are developing a program for PhD students from diverse disciplines to work together in reading groups

and workshops to tackle the problem of resilience to extreme events. This will improve the preparation of the next generation of scholars to consider the social, ecological, and technological implications of proposed infrastructure interventions and other aspects of urban planning and development.

• We are contributing to the transitions literature an approach to analyze and innovate organizational knowledge systems to include future capacities and climate change knowledge as part of decision-making processes and governance transition strategies for cities.

Impact on other disciplines

• The necessity of interdisciplinarity and to infuse the logic of co-production of knowledge • The SRN project has pushed all disciplines involved in the project to explore how research can be shaped by

interactions with practitioners from the beginning • Contributed to city efforts to establish policy for walkability and more sustainable, climate-sensitive city

development

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Impact on the development of human resources

• UREx SRN researchers have participated in 7 panels and 9 workshops in year 1. This not only disseminates knowledge, but it also engages participants and builds common frameworks of understanding around topics of concern.

Panels: Coffee, J. Caring for Climate Business Forum session, "What is the Business Case for Corporate Climate

Adaptation?" COP21. Paris, France. December 7 2015 Miller, C. Socio-Ecolo-Technological Systems: Strategies for Fostering Resilience. SETS Panel. Security and

Sustainability Forum Webinar Series. December 7, 2015. Miller, T. R. Urban Resilience: Research and Practice. National Institutes of Standards and Technology

Community Resilience Panel. Portland, OR. April 4, 2016. Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. A Social-Ecological-Technological (SETS) Perspective on the Vulnerability to Flood Events

in San Juan, Puerto Rico. SETS Panel. Security and Sustainability Forum Webinar Series. December 7, 2015.

Santos Hernández, J. Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network. Panel at San Juan Urban Long-Term Research Area (ULTRA) Annual Symposium: Social-Ecological Science and Urban Sustainability. June 2, 2016.

Zimmerman, R. Heat Waves and Infrastructure. Urban Heat & Infrastructure panel, Extreme Heat: Hot Cities – Adapting to a Hotter World. Center for Architecture, New York, NY. November 12, 2015.

Zimmerman, R. Physical Security: New Emerging Needs and Innovations. Panel 2: Physical Security: Why it’s Critical to Resilience. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. January 10, 2016.

Workshops: Gaiser, E. (2016). Innovative research, education and outreach for a sustainable world. Sea Level Solutions

Center Workshop, Florida International University. Miami, FL. Grimm, N. B. (2015). Urban resilience to extremes: a new Sustainability Research Network. Urban Systems

Workshop, Complex Systems Symposium. Tempe, AZ. Muñoz-Erickson, T. A, E. Meléndez-Ackerman, and J. Seguinot (2015). Urban Long-Term Research Area

(ULTRA). USAID CLIMA Stakeholder Workshop. Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., E. Meléndez-Ackerman, J. Bauer, and W. Arendt (2015). Vinculando el Conocimiento y

la Acción para la Resiliencia y Sostenibilidad Urbana: El ULTRA (Urban Long-Term Research Area). USAID CLIMA Stakeholder Workshop.

Shandas, V. (2016). Urban Heat Islands: What planners need to know? Planning Oregon Workshop. Troxler, T. (2016). Collaborative research through the Sea Level Solution Center. Resilient Miami Workshop,

University of Miami. Miami, FL. Zimmerman, R., Q. Zhu, F. D. Leon, Z. Guo, and N. Memon (2015). A Meta-Network System Framework for

Resilient Analysis and Design of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures. National Workshop on Resilience Research (NWRR) for Critical Infrastructure 2015.

Zimmerman, R. (2015). Workshop presentation on FEWS Connectivity. Workshop on Human Adaptations to Climate Change: Impacts on the Resilience of Regional Food, Energy, and Water Systems. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Zimmerman, R. (2016). Physical Security: New Emerging Needs and Innovations. Workshop 111 - Resilience: Now That TRB Has a New Section, What’s the New Direction? Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.

• Exposed science, researchers and students to practitioners in government industries and NGO’s, including

collaborators and practitioners from Latin America

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Impact on physical resources that form infrastructure

• Successfully experimented with the use of Vidyo as a collaborative tool

Impact on institutional resources that form infrastructure

• Multiple urban activities in each of the cities by pulling the practitioners together. We’ve created new collaborations to improve decision making about future infrastructure investments.

Impact on information resources that form infrastructure

• At Syracuse University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering the UREx data server physical resource has been created with 16TB of storage. Guest accounts and protocols for UREx SRN researchers are established for storing, accessing, sharing and managing data. The data server will eventually house as much as 100 years of climate data and climate modeling analysis results for each UREx SRN city.

• Performance of green infrastructure projects in Syracuse is being analyzed to establish flood control and storm water management benchmarks

• A GIS spatial analysis lab with four high power workstations is now available. Data collection to support development of a GIS for each UREx SRN city to model urban infrastructure resilience and ecological functions is in process.

• Two REU students will be working in the GIS lab during summer 2016 to perform data collection and GIS development

• Data collection and analysis are performed as a collaborative effort with city partners to build capacity in each city to practice science-based emergency preparedness and improve infrastructure resilience. Cities that do not have emergency management offices are encouraged to establish them in order to ensure a durable institutional resource.

• Access to data, information and research results is being managed through an online collaboration portal

Impact on technology transfer

• We are in the early stages of achieving this

Impact on society beyond science and technology

• The existence of our project helps validate local sustainability proposals • The contacts that our city teams are developing with local practitioners has a strong benefit for urban decision

making. In addition, the establishment of a network of practitioners, coordinated by the TIWG, will benefit cities throughout the US and Latin America as they prepare for an uncertain climate future.

• We have contributed disseminating our science turning it into a relevant tool for decision making. We have also supported several environmental NGO´s and actors of society, with knowledge that have helped them make a better argumentation of their pledges. We actively participated in the development of an ordinance that protects the urban wetlands.