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Research Updates: Since the last news update, the Adaptation Strategy Design focus area, representing two sub-projects, has continued to make research progress, and collectively, two new articles have been published since the last news update in October 2024. Brief sub-project level updates are provided below:
- Lessons Learned: Transitioned to a retrospective analysis. Completed final revisions on a manuscript about the values-informed mental models framework titled, “Integrating Values to Improve the Relevance of Climate‐Risk Research”; the paper was accepted and published at Earth’s Future. This sub-project also began a new collaboration (with the above group) to co-produce research with the USFWS to support decision-making at the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
- Decision-Analysis for Coastal Climate Risk Management:
- Completed and published a paper on the Justice40 initiative titled,”Funding Rules that Promote Equity in Climate Adaptation Outcomes”.
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- Collaborating with the assistant regional director for the northeast region of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on a project that has strong integrative links to MACH. Bringing in other researchers across projects to organize long-term co-produced research with USFWS (and hopefully other agencies and decision-makers down the line) in the NJ back bays.
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- One MACH researcher in this group is designing a PhD paper sequence towards decision analysis studies focused on the NJ back bays.
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- One researcher in this group is finalizing a study on the timing of managed retreat.
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- One researcher in this group is focusing on how urban stormwater systems can account for uncertain future situations.
New Publication Highlights:
Helgeson, C., Keller, K., Nicholas, R. E., Srikrishnan, V., Cooper, C., Smithwick, E. A. H., & Tuana, N. (2024). Integrating values to improve the relevance of climate‐risk research. Earth’s Future, 12, e2022EF003025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003025
Pollack, A. B., Santamaria-Aguilar, S., Maduwantha, P., Helgeson, C., Wahl, T., & Keller, K. (2025). Funding rules that promote equity in climate adaptation outcomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(2), e2418711121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418711121
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