Session Lead: Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen (IAN – UMCES)
Co-Lead(s): Sidney Anderson, Lili Badri, Veronica Lucchese, Bill Dennison (UMCES)
Session Format: Oral Presentations
Session Description:
The challenges associated with promoting coastal sustainability and building community resilience in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed can be tackled through transdisciplinary approaches and cooperative efforts among stakeholders. This involves creating adaptation strategies developed collaboratively to manage the various impacts of multiple hazards on a temporal and spatial scale. It requires the integration of physical and social sciences and community stakeholders, including governance structures, civil societies, and the general public.
This session aims to showcase innovative theories, methods, and case studies demonstrating the benefits, challenges, lessons learned, and societal impacts of co-produced research and management strategies in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Presentations may include novel community engagement activities that incorporate the voices of marginalized groups in research, communication of risk and uncertainty through probabilistic modeling, the use of local and traditional ecological knowledge, or the incorporation of complex modeling in decision-support tools to meet the needs of local stakeholders.
This interactive session will interest those working on solutions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, focusing on interactions between natural, human-built, and social systems within transdisciplinary teams. By the end of the session, the audience will contribute to a theory of change and the development of a vision for a just, sustainable, and resilient Chesapeake Bay Watershed. An inclusive process of developing a theory of change includes a) describing the current situation, b) identifying what needs to be done, and c) establishing short- and long-term desired outcomes. This theory of change provides a framework for establishing a shared vision incorporating diverse perspectives.
Presentations (abstracts):
- Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Bill Dennison, Kameryn Overton: Applying the COAST Card Transdisciplinary Framework in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Claire Welty, Benjamin Zaitchik, Ken Davis, James Hunter, Darryn Waugh, Antonia Hadjimichael, Tonya Sanders-Thach, and the BSEC Team: The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative Urban Integrated Field Laboratory
- Lili Badri, Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Bill Dennison, Sidney Anderson, Veronica Lucchese, Joseph Edgerton, Kameryn Overton: Enhancing Socio-Environmental Assessments through Community Listening Sessions in the Potomac Watershed
- Leah Staub, Andrew Sekellick, Tristan Mohs: Assessing water quality conditions in vulnerable communities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
- Alisha Yee Chan: Displacement of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Groups after the Installation of Stormwater Control Measures
- Veronica Malabanan Lucchese: Tackling inequity: web scraping for social network analysis on the Patuxent River Watershed
- Nazia Nowshin, Jaleel Shujath, Medyaf Al Rousan, Annabelle Arnold, Lirane Mandjoupa, Mamatha Hanumappa, JiaJun Xu, Kibria Roman, William Hare, Hongmei Dang, Harris Trobman, Hossain Azam: Sustainable Urban Agriculture in the Chesapeake Watershed: The Triple-Yield System
- Adrienne Hobbins: Data-driven decision making: a Central Pennsylvania case study on delisting agriculturally impaired streams and improving ecosystem resilience
- Tom Ihde: Reflecting on the paradigm – is the science community able to provide the necessary information to rigorously evaluate the benefits of living shoreline implementations?
- John Wolf: Virtual Crisfield – Climate Communication and 3D Visualization
- Sidney Anderson: Creating a Community Vision to Enable Lasting Change
- Bryan Bay: A Resilient South County