Session 1 See It, Hear It, Touch It – Informal Weather Education Outreach to Build a Weather-Ready Nation

Monday, 13 January 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
153C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Eighth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

This session would showcase informal weather education outreach activities, programs and events being done in local communities across the US and beyond, including Owlie Skywarn and AMS WeatherFest as examples.  Partnerships between local, state and federal government, non-profit and for-profit partners would be highlighted.  Examples of partners working together could be NOAA, NWS, NHC, AOML, emergency management agencies, universities, local science museums, corporations, and media.  Some of these partners could also be Weather-Ready Nation Ambassadors.  Select speakers would make brief presentations followed by a panel discussion for Q&A with the audience.

Papers:
10:30 AM
1.1
Citizen Science, Civics and Resilient Communities: Engaging Informal Science Learners in Participatory Science and Deliberation about Building Resilience to Weather and Climate Hazards
David F Sittenfeld, Museum of Science, Boston, Boston, MA; Northeastern Univ., Nahant, MA; and D. Cavalier, J. K. Drapkin, S. Benson, K. Baur, F. Choi, and K. Todd

10:45 AM
1.2
FIU Informal STEAM Weather Education
Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

11:00 AM
1.3
Can the K-12 Public School System Be Leveraged as Part of the Weather Ready Nation Initiative?
John M. Lanicci, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. K. Guffey

11:15 AM
1.4
Infusing Social Science into Public Outreach Programs at NWS Miami
Molly Merrifield, National Weather Service, Miami, FL, Miami, FL; and S. Miller and R. Molleda

11:45 AM
1.6
Five Years of NOAA’s ENSO Blog: A Lesson in Climate Communication
Tom DiLiberto, CollabraLink inc, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Becker, M. L'Heureux, N. C. Johnson, and R. Lindsey

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