Transitioning Knowledge from Research in the Social Sciences to Applications in NOAA

The mission of the National Weather Service, which receives research support from the Office of Weather and Air Quality, is very behavioral in nature: to save lives and protect property.  To that end, NOAA recognizes how vital it is to learn from research in the social sciences (a term that is broadly inclusive of social, behavioral, and economic sciences and the humanities).  Learning from the work and applying it in the agency, however, is not necessarily a straightforward process.  To help researchers understand the ways this is done, and hopefully inspire a generation of researchers with practical insight on connecting with the operational community, this talk will cover NOAA's general perspective on transitioning research, as well as narratives of research efforts that have made a difference to agency function.