Description: In the coming decades, climate change will have broad impacts on water resources in the United States and globally. Impacts include increases in extreme precipitation, regional water shortages, changes in snowpack and streamflow, increases in coastal flooding, and adverse effects on ecosystems and the services they provide. Geopolitical conflicts over water may also increase.

In this session, an expert panel will discuss whether and how hydrologic science informs US climate policy and how the scientific hydrologic community can better inform policy makers who are tasked to address these impacts.

Moderator: Jerad Bales, Ph.D - Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.

Speakers:

Assistant Secretary Tanya Trujillo, J.D. - Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, US Department of the Interior

Kathy Jacobs, M.L.A. - Director, Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, Professor, Environmental Science, The University of Arizona

Felicia Marcus, J.D. - William C. Landreth Visiting Fellow, Water in the West Program, Stanford University