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What's New
What's New Archive (2005-2006)
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2007 |
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August 2007 |
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- Nathaniel Bushek and Emily Laidlaw released updated hurricane data on the Extreme Weather Sourcebook Web site. Additional updated data is scheduled to appear on the site in the fall.
- Jeff Lazo served as co-editor for the special Natural Hazards Review issue entitled
Toward a Social Science Hurricane Forecast and Warning Research Agenda. Papers published include: Lazo, J. K. and W.G. Peacock. 2007. “Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System: An Introduction." Natural Hazards Review 8(3):43-44; Letson, D., D. Sutter, J.K. Lazo. 2007. "The Economic Value of Hurricane Forecasts: An Overview and Research Needs." Natural Hazards Review. 8(3):78-86; and Gladwin, H., J.K. Lazo, B.H. Morrow, W.G. Peacock, H.E. Willoughby. 2007. "Social Science Research Needs For The Hurricane Forecast and Warning System." The Natural Hazards Review. 8(3): 87-95.
- SOARS protégé Marcus Walter, mentored by Barb Brown and Emily Laidlaw and ISSE's Rick Katz, gave a presentation entitled "Interpretation of Return Levels Under a Changing Climate" on August 7 in the SOARS protégé colloquium.
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July 2007 |
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- An article about WAS*IS was accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The article, authored by Julie Demuth, Eve Gruntfest, Rebecca Morss, Sheldon Drobot, and Jeff Lazo, is slated to appear in the November 2007 issue of the journal.
- Julie Demuth moderated a session at the Natural Hazards Center's Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop about whether the proliferation of weather information is confusing. The panelists included Mike Nelson, the broadcast meteorologist for Denver’s Channel 7 news, and Chris Maier, the national warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
- Julie Demuth gave a presentation to the 3rd National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium held in the Vienna, VA.
- 29 WAS*ISers attended the 2007 Summer WAS*IS workshop on July 12-20. Julie Demuth and Eve Gruntfest ran the workshop and gave several presentations. Jeff Lazo, Rebecca Morss, and Bill Mahoney also gave presentations.
- Jeff Lazo participated in the second meeting of the Task Force on Social and Economic Applications of Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Geneva.
- SIP's newsletter, Weather and Society Watch, published its fourth-ever edition. To read this edition, please click here. To subscribe to the newsletter, click here.
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June 2007 |
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May 2007 |
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- Jenifer Martin began working with SIP as a student research assistant, studying the societal impacts of the HydroMet Testbed in the American River Basin. Jenifer's emphasis will be on communication, particularly discourse analysis and rhetoric. Discourse analysis studies everyday conversation, considering how we create, shape and maintain our social realities through language. Rhetoric expands the focus of discourse analysis to include how language in public spheres influences beliefs and impacts social institutions.
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April 2007 |
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- The third-ever edition of SIP's Weather and Society Watch was published April 20. To view a PDF copy of this edition, please click here. To subscribe to the newsletter, please click here.
- Julie Demuth gave two presentations about the work she and other SIP researchers are doing on communication of forecast uncertainty (CoFU), one at NCAR and the other at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
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March 2007 |
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- Jeff Lazo was unable to attend the WMO International Conference on Secure and Sustainable Living: Social and Economic Benefits of Weather, Climate and Water
Services due to weather but authored two chapters in the resulting book: Lazo, J.K., T.J. Teisberg, and R.F. Weiher. 2007. “Methodologies for Assessing Economic Benefits of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. Secure and Sustainable Living: The Societal and Economic Benefits of Weather, Climate and Water Products and Services, Madrid 2007, WMO; and Lazo, J. K. 2007. “Economics of Weather Impacts and Weather Forecasts. Secure and Sustainable Living: The Societal and Economic Benefits of Weather, Climate and Water Products and Services, Madrid 2007, WMO.
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February 2007 |
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- Eve Gruntfest, Julie Demuth, Jeff Lazo, and Mary Hayden returned from Australia where the first international Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) workshop--Aus WAS*IS--was held from January 28-February 2, 2007, in the picturesque Mount Macedon, Victoria, just outside of Melbourne. There were 30 Aus WAS*IS participants from all over Australia and New Zealand.
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January 2007 |
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- The second-ever edition of SIP's Weather and Society Watch was published January 10. To view a PDF copy of this edition, please click here. To subscribe to the newsletter, please visit http://www.sip.ucar.edu/news/subscribe.jsp.
- Jeff Lazo, Bill Mahoney, Barb Brown, Rebecca Morss, Julie Demuth and Emily Laidlaw attended the 87th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in San Antonio, Texas, and participated in the Second Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research.
- Jeff Lazo co-authored “Deriving Societal and Economic Benefits From Meteorological and Hydrological Services." See full citation below.
Rogers, D.P., Y. Adebayo, C. Clarke, S.J. Connor, R. DeGuzman, P. Dexter, L. Dubus, J. Guddal, L. Jalkanen, A. Korshunov, J.K. Lazo, H. Puempel, V. Smetanina, B. Stewart, Tang X., V. Tsirkunov, S. Ulatov, P-Y. Whung, and D.A. Wilhite. 2007. “Deriving Societal and Economic Benefits From Meteorological and Hydrological Services. WMO Bulletin. 56(1):15-22.
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