Session 8B From Stormy Weather to Sunny Solutions: NOAA’s Integration of Social Science Research to Improve Products and Services II

Tuesday, 30 January 2024: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Holiday 4 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Host: 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Submitters:
Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D; Ji Sun Lee; Cassandra Shivers-Williams; Castle A. Williamsberg; Alison M. Agather, Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Supporting Weather Program Office, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; Jonathon Mote PhD; Stephanie M. Hoekstra, NOAA, Los Angeles, CA; Valerie Were, Ph.D., Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere; Leticia Williams, NCAS - M, Howard University, Washington, DC; Jacob Reed Fooks, CIRA supporting NWS STI, CIRA, Silver Spring, MD and Jeffery E Adkins, NOAA, OCFO/PRSSO, Silver Spring, MD
Chair:
Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D
CoChair:
Cassandra Shivers-Williams

NOAA continues to make tremendous strides integrating social, behavioral, and economic sciences (SBES) research into operations, moving us toward a weather-ready nation. The SBES programs in OAR’s Weather Program Office and the NWS’ Office of Science and Technology Integration work together to advance SBES research and to transition findings to support products and services. Although NOAA has made significant advances in the application of social science across its mission areas, challenges persist with providing equitable services, understanding and addressing diverse user needs, and assessing and measuring research to operations outcomes. To address these challenges, NOAA needs to facilitate a weather enterprise approach that includes our partners in academia, private industries, as well as faith and community based organizations. This panel session will cover several different aspects of the WPO and the NWS social, behavioral, and economic sciences programs including:

  • Discussions of current NWS SBES operational challenges and related research needs. (NWS STI)
  • An outline of best practices for applying to WPO and NWS SBES funding competitions. (NOAA WPO and NWS STI)
  • Highlights of new and ongoing WPO innovations for transitioning social science research to operations in the NWS, NOAA, and the broader Weather Enterprise. (NOAA WPO)
  • A forum for the broader research and practitioner communities to reflect, respond, and comment on the presented information. (Panel Discussion with Audience Interaction and Feedback)

Papers:
4:30 PM
8B.1
Forecasting WPO’s Social Science Future: Introducing WPO’s Science, Technology, and Society Division and future directions for Social Science Integration
Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D, NOAA Federal, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Shivers-Williams

4:45 PM
8B.2
Integrating Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at NWS to Support a Weather-Ready Nation
Ji Sun Lee, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Were, Ph.D., L. Williams, J. E. Adkins, J. R. Fooks, S. Rhodes, and K. Negrón-Hernández

5:00 PM
8B.3
Shining a Light on NWS Products: How Social Science Addresses Operational Challenges
Cassandra Shivers-Williams, WPO, Silver Spring, MD; and G. M. Eosco, Ph.D, J. S. Lee, and V. Were, Ph.D.

5:15 PM
8B.4
Building NOAA's Capacity to Collect Multi-Year, Multi-Event Data on the Publics' Perception and Response to Weather Events
Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA; and C. League, D. Westbrook, and N. Meyers

5:30 PM
8B.5
A Year in Tornadoes Told from the Perspective of the Public via Tornado Tales: Challenges and Solutions to Analyzing and Sharing Data and Next Steps.
Justin Edward Sharpe, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High Impact Weather Research and Operations - CIWRO, Norman, OK

Handout (17.5 MB)

Recorded Presentation
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