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The Chesapeake Bay
Watershed and Knowledge
Systems for Sustainability
Lara Fowler
Penn State University
23 July 2013
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Chesapeake Bay Program &
Knowledge Systems for Sustainability
Quick timeline:
• Oct. 2012 introduction at Penn State
• Nov. 2012 follow up discussion at Oak Ridge
• May 2013 discussion in Annapolis – Introduction of ideas
– Exploration of possibilities
• June 2013 STAC presentation
• On-going: additional follow up
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Our socio-ecological systems are highly siloed
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To begin the transition to a more
sustainable system, we must:
-Connect and
align current
investments
-Create an
active learning
ecosystem
-Represent non-
traditional
disciplines
-Focus on the
need of decision
makers and
stakeholders
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A global community of practice anchored in the research
community: Knowledge systems for sustainability
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A vision for the future?
Working to create trusted information sharing
environments in a pre-competitive space,
across sectors, for collective benefit
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real & measurable restoration
Critical issues
land, water, energy
Knowledge
research decision makers
- Multiple scales
- Multiple decisions
Resources
technical, financial, other
-Data systems + models
- Decision sciences
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So Who or (What) is “Knowledge Systems for Sustainability”?
• Network of people working on issues with similar themes/ideas/focus
• Framework for thinking about how to address our really difficult issues
• Challenge: we collectively can do better
– Sharing what we know and how to do it, and
– Sharing what we don’t know and working together to find solutions
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Case Framework
Case
“A”
Case
“B”
Case
“C”
Case Tracking
Modeling and
Scenario Building Data, Information
and Knowledge
Dimensions of a KSS Platform
User Interfaces, Participatory
processes and Learning
Systems
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KSS Portal – Starting the experiment
KSS Search I’m Feeling Lucky
How to feed 9 billion people and not wreck the planet?
• Constructing the knowledge-to-action and action-to-knowledge pathways
• Begin tracking the impacts of each intervention
• Compare the structural and functional similarities and differences of Cases
• Adaptively manage for the needs of the decision maker
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May 2-3 2013 Discussion Areas of Concern (A. Swanson)
• Manure management
• Storm water
• Backdrop of population growth
Photos from Chesapeake Bay Program
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May 2-3, 2013 Discussion
Participants (~35 people)
• Chesapeake Bay Program
• Chesapeake Bay Commission
• Members of STAC, other researchers
• KSS representatives
• Other interested participants
CBP identified action items for follow up: 1. Integrate social sciences
2. Develop modeling laboratory
3. Develop spatially explicit + scalable tools
4. Build new relationships, expand existing partnerships to leverage change
5. Leverage additional resources beyond current scope of CBP
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Follow Up So Far…
May – Meeting with Ann Mills, USDA – Discussion with Puget Sound Partnership – Follow up discussion with Oak Ridge National Laboratory
June – Initial discussion at Penn State re: Dairy CAP project
• $10 million USDA grant to examine greenhouse gas emissions of dairy farms- are there ways to leverage this for water quality concerns as well?
– Beginning to explore potential positive examples • Wisconsin producers, other
– Draft document summarizing potential actions
July – STAC presentation – Beginning discussions with agricultural producers
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Next Steps
• Briefings, discussions with work groups/ committees
• Further outreach to producers
• Seek funding/resources/partners outside of CBP – Further follow up with Ann Mills
– Create partnerships/leverage opportunities that don’t already exist • i.e., integration of social sciences
• Dairy CAP project
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory work
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Questions/Discussion Lara Fowler Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment [email protected] 814-865-4806