Description:

This session would invite both practitioners and researchers from all areas salient to the weather/water/climate enterprise to reconsider and rethink the relationship between operations and research. This would include thinking about: the current suitability of the long standing models for who does research and how it is done; how research is funded; the role of operations in research and setting research agendas; the role of operations in designing research efforts; the means of conducting research; and the possibility of operations becoming both object and subject of some research efforts; the role of proving grounds and labs and the access to these; the possibilities and challenges of working across the public/private/academic divides in new ways; and the possible implications for how academic program curricula may need to change to meet current and future needs of shifting this R2O relationship.