Session 3 Communication and Broadcast Meteorology

Tuesday, 25 January 2011: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Cochairs:
Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D and Chris Vaccaro, NOAA, Washington, DC

Papers:
8:30 AM
3.1
Weather as a Tool of Narrative Suspense: Implications and Consequences
Chad M. Kauffman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and S. A. Jasko and P. Hettler
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
3.2
Connecting the dots between climate change, extreme weather, and localized impacts
Amanda Staudt, BASC, Reston, VA; and A. Weinmann
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
3.3
Credible, understandable, accessible: redressing the tensions between localism, public understanding, and affective investment in climate and risk communication
Daniel C. Faltesek, Iowa City, IA
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
3.4
Communicating climate change in a weathercasting context: An analysis of “early adopter” TV meteorologists and their educational methods
Katherine Rowan, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and B. Klinger, J. Witte, P. Baldwin, B. Brown, and E. Maibach
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
3.5
Supporting TV meteorologists' efforts to educate their viewers about climate change, and testing the impact: A quasi-experimental field study
Joe Witte, NASA / George Mason University, Arlington, 22209; and J. Gandy, B. Klinger, H. Cullen, X. Zhao, J. Thaker, K. Rowan, N. Heller, and E. Maibach

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