Session 1 WRN Asks: What If…?

Monday, 29 January 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
349 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Cochairs:
Justin Edward Sharpe, CIMMS, Behavioral Insights Unit, Norman, OK; Trevor M Boucher, M.S. Atmospheric Science, NWS, Las Vegas, NV, Las Vegas, NV; Amber Liggett, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; Ashley Morris, Prince George's County (MD) Emergency Management; Danielle Nagele, PhD, NWS, AFSO, Silver Spring, MD and Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather for Business, Wichita, KS
Moderators:
Jared J. Rennie, CCM, NESDIS, NCEI, Asheville, NC; Tanya M. Brown-Giammanco, Austin College, Warning Decision Training Division, Sherman, TX; Sean Robert Ernst, Center for Risk and Crisis Management, Norman, OK and Matt R. Lanza, Spectrum Los Angeles, Meteorologist, Denver, CO

Papers:
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

8:40 AM
What if...all weather forecasts were probabilistic?
Sean Robert Ernst, OU Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Norman, OK

9:00 AM
What if...there wasn't a stigma when talking about climate change?
Jared J. Rennie, CCM, NOAA, Asheville, NC

9:20 AM
What if...we didn't change anything?
Tanya M. Brown-Giammanco, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

9:40 AM
What if...there was no ego in the weather enterprise?
Matt R. Lanza, Space City Weather, Houston, TX

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