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2 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Meeting Global Challenges: Discovery and Innovation Librarians Orientation Climate Action Plan Challenge for Librarians: Supporting Sound Science to Manage Climate Impacts Frederick Stoss Arts & Sciences Libraries SUNY University at Buffalo February 15, 2014 Chicago, IL

3 Polar Vortexed Greetings from Western New York

4 Philip S. Sharp, President AAAS Plenary Speech, AAAS Annual Meeting If discovery is to come to the aid of our great global challenges of climate change, poverty and disease, we have no choice but to become much better at linking discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship. February

5 Dr. James Hansen Lecture Accepting 2010 Blue Planet Prize Human made climate change is a moral issue It pits the rich and powerful against the young and unborn, against the defenseless and against nature

6 Dr. James Hansen Lecture Accepting 2010 Blue Planet Prize Climate Change is a political issue But politics fails when there is a revolving door between government and the fossil fuel industrial complex

7 Dr. James Hansen Lecture Accepting 2010 Blue Planet Prize Climate Change is a legal issue The judiciary provides the possibility of holding our governments accountable for their duty to protect the public interest.

8 James Hansen Lecture Accepting 2010 Blue Planet Prize There is a huge gap between what is understood about global warming, by the relevant scientific community, and what is known about global warming by the people who need to know, the public.

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10 STEM STE 3 M 3 Science, Technology, Engineering/Ecology/Economics, Mathematics, Management, Medicine

11 Structure of Climate Change Information Value Added Data Services/Capabilities Data Center Archive Information Analysis Center QA/QC of Data Manipulation Lab Group Institutional Digital Repository Data Management Data Generation Researcher Site Regional National Global Individual Team Disciplinary Campaigns Months to Years Decades Multi decades to Millennia Increased: Cost Data Size Data Complexity Increase Scope and Scale of Research Increased Data Management

12 Subject specific Data Management and User Communities Researcher has Agency Data Requirements Stakeholder Needs Library OSTP Program OA & ScholComm Mandates Agency Programmatic Data Needs Researcher Project Data Production Management Library Archive Repository ** After M.P. Farrell, et al., CDIAC/ORNL, 1989; F.W. Stoss, ELIS, 2003 Over riding Data Mandates Stakeholders & Agency Data Needs Dependent on Library Supports Stakeholders Needs Researcher Data & Access Library Information Resources & Access Low Interest with Agency/Researcher Needs Library Archive/Repository Meets Researcher Needs Complies with Agency Requirements Provides Resources * Provides Services * Provides Data Management Value added * Facilities: space, collections, equipment, supplies, etc.; Personnel: expertise, skills, networking, teaching, outreach, etc. ** Similar functions for private or government sponsored Data Centers, Archives, Institutional Repositories, or Information Analysis Centers (there could be multiples as each entity grows with increase management functions and services.

13 The Current Status of Climate Change Research. Michael L. Grieneisen and Minghua Zhang. Nature Climate Change 1:72 73 doi: /nclimate1093, published online 06 May 2011.

14 The President s Climate Action Plan developing information and tools to better serve communities. By linking information (monitoring, forecasting, outlooks, and early warnings) with drought preparedness and longer-term resilience strategies in critical sectors Developing Actionable Climate Science Assessing Climate-Change Impacts in the United States this National Climate Assessment will focus not only on dissemination of scientific information, but also on translating scientific insights into practical, usable knowledge that can help decision-makers anticipate and prepare for climate-change impacts. Launching a Climate Data Initiative consistent with President Obama s May 2013 Executive Order on Open Data, which recognizes that freely available government data stimulated entrepreneurship, innovation, discovery and public benefit. Providing a Toolkit for Climate Resilience Establishing State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness

15 The President s Climate Action Plan developing information and tools to better serve communities. By linking information (monitoring, forecasting, outlooks, and early warnings) with drought preparedness and longer-term resilience strategies in critical sectors Developing Actionable Climate Science Assessing Climate-Change Impacts in the United States this National Climate Assessment will focus not only on dissemination of scientific information, but also on translating scientific insights into practical, usable knowledge that can help decision-makers anticipate and prepare for climate-change impacts. Developing Actionable Climate Science Launching a Climate Data Initiative consistent Order on Open with Data, President which Obama s recognizes May that 2013 freely Executive available government data stimulated entrepreneurship, innovation, discovery and public benefit. Providing a Toolkit for Climate Resilience Establishing State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness

16 Nov. 1, 2013: Executive Order Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change President Obama established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how the Federal Government can respond to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change.

17 U.S. Global Change Research Program "Changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life." [ Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L ) Advance Science Inform Decisions Conduct Sustained Assessments Communicate and Educate Agency for International Development United States Department of Agriculture National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States Department of Commerce United States Department of Defense United States Department of Energy National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services United States Department of State United States Department of Transportation United States Geological Survey (United States Department of the Interior) Environmental Protection Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation Smithsonian Institution

18 A VERY Useful Beginning, but getting old Scope Introductions to the Topic Subject Headings Basic Texts Reference Works Additional Titles Specialized Titles Related Titles Conference Proceedings Government Publications Abstracting and Indexing Services Journals Representative Journal Articles Online Journals Technical Reports Dissertations Selected Materials Additional Sources of Information Selected Internet Resources bullets/globalwarmingtb.html

19 gcmd.nasa.gov/

20 Climate.gov

21 Community Climate Concerns

22 Know Your State

23 Know Your Communities

24 UCAR Community Programs ucp.ucar.edu/

25 Help Your Schools: Climate Literacy Presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. online.nwf.org/site/docserver/nwf_naaee_educational_guidelines1.pdf

26 Help Your Schools: Climate Literacy Presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts. online.nwf.org/site/docserver/nwf_naaee_educational_guidelines1.pdf

27 Help Your Schools: Climate Literacy Presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula. online.nwf.org/site/docserver/nwf_naaee_educational_guidelines1.pdf

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29 NCAR/UCAR Spark

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31 National Center for Science Education: Climate Change Education

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34 presenters.climaterealityproject.org/presentation_search

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