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 February 2009, the WAS*IS mission has empowered 171 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 report on the results of the WAS*IS evaluation, conducted in 2008, is now available by clicking here.
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- Participants for the Summer 2009 WAS*IS workshop, to be held August 6-14 in Boulder, Colorado, have been selected. For more information on the participants, Click here. More information about the workshop can be found 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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- Presentations from the Summer 2008 WAS*IS workshop are now available here. An orange link indicates a presentation for a particular session.
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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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