Co-creating Useful and Usable Climate Intervention Simulations

Agenda and Daily Activities

Full agenda details will be updated daily and can be found via the Agendas, Presentations and Resources link at right.

Location & Virtual Coordinates

Hotel location 

Hyatt Place Tempe

601 E 6th St 

Tempe, AZ 85281

Meeting Location 

Auditorium 107, Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health

777 E University Dr, 

Tempe, AZ 85287

***ASU Campus Maps, Local Weather and other Traveler Info available here

Virtual Attendance Information - for Plenary/Main Auditorium Sessions

https://asu.zoom.us/j/87209685274

Meeting ID: 872 0968 5274

Passcode: 000107; additional Zoom breakout rooms will be made available as needed in-session

Local Transportation & Parking

Transportation from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is available via ridesharing services like Uber, Lyft, and Waymo, as well as the Valley Metro. You can download the Valley Metro app for easy ticket purchasing. Parking is available around the ASU campus, most conveniently at the Novus Parking Structure.

About this Workshop

This NSF-funded workshop convenes our core research team with climate change impacts researchers, policy experts, and those working at the boundary of climate science and policy. This diverse group will explore the requirements for usable, and policy-relevant, climate modeling research that includes both mitigation scenarios and deliberate climate intervention strategies (C.I.). Through discussion and analysis of prototype model outputs, the workshop will determine the information and product needs of those who use model-based information to understand the impacts, risks, and benefits of responses to climate change.

The specific goals of the workshop include:

• Foster collaborative relationships with user groups and institutions for continued dialogue on usable information and products.
• Understanding the potential uses and limitations of information on the consequences of climate intervention strategies (C.I.).
• Identification of phenomena of key interest for analysis; co-construction of metrics to guide creation of credible and salient information on the consequences of C.I.
• Discussion of decision-relevant consequences, especially extremes, and the relationship between these and policy decisions.

Who Should Attend

The workshop aims at bridging the gap between communities working to inform policy and management decisions based on future climate impacts and those using models to simulate possible futures that might include climate interventions strategies like solar radiation modification (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We invited members of user communities who seek to use climate model outputs to gain an understanding of the impacts of different futures featuring different responses, and those who seek a better understanding of how climate interventions might interact with decision-relevant phenomena.

Participation is by invitation only. Registration is now closed.

Workshop Activities

Workshop activities will consist of plenary sessions and presentations on the state-of-the-science, panel discussions, and small group activities (e.g., brainstorming, mind-mapping, collaborative problem-solving, and feedback dialogues on prototypes).

Workshop Outcomes

Outcomes of the workshop include the following:

• A collaborative plan for continued engagement and co-design of model output, metrics and communication tools for the current and future phases of this climate intervention strategies research project. 
• A preliminary list of decision-relevant phenomena for climate model output and analysis that will be informative and relevant according to community partner decision priorities.
• Revised models of the relationship between climate intervention consequences and policy decisions based on identification of decision-relevant phenomena across sectors.