Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) is a grassroots movement that is changing the weather enterprise by integrating social science into meteorological research and practice in comprehensive and sustained ways.
As of August 2009, the WAS*IS mission has empowered 198 practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders around the world to build new relationships and to use new tools and concepts for more effective socio-economic applications and evaluations of weather information and products.
By emphasizing the importance of developing a life-long cohort, as well as learning social-science tools and concepts, WAS*ISers address societal impacts in real and sustained ways and are changing the culture from what WAS to what IS the future of integrated weather studies.
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WAS*IS News
- The first Quarterly WAS*IS Webinar was held on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, with approximately 60 participants. To view the agenda for the webinar, please click here. To view and listen to the webinar online, please click here. You will be prompted to enter your name and email before being redirected to the webinar.
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- A WAS*IS/SPC reception will take place at the 2010 AMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The reception will be held on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010, from 8:30 – 10:30 p.m. in Grand Ballroom A at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center. The reception is open to WAS*IS and SPC alumni and anyone interested in societal aspects of meteorology or science policy. Friends are welcome! For a printable flyer, please click here.
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- The Societal Impacts Program is happy to announce that it will host a WAS*IS Caribbean workshop June 6-11, 2010, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For more details about the workshop and to apply, please click here.
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- Download the WAS*IS highlights video from the 2009 summer workshop by clicking here. Please be aware that the video is fairly large (263 kb) and might take a few minutes to download depending on your Internet connection speed.
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- The Summer 2009 WAS*IS workshop was held in Boulder, Colorado, August 6-14. For more information on the 27 participants, click here. Presentations from the workshop are available here. An orange link indicates a PowerPoint presentation is available for viewing/download for a particular session.
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- The report on the results of the WAS*IS evaluation, conducted in 2008, is now available by clicking here.
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- The new Weather and Society Discussion Group is now up and running! Click here to join.
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- An advanced WAS*IS workshop was held at the National Weather Center in Norman Oklahoma September 15-17, 2008. For more information about the workshop, please click here.
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- Read the WAS*IS article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by clicking here.
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- We would like to post your WAS*IS news! Click here to submit your news.
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