The 14th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Board on Societal Impacts.
Call for Papers
Papers for the 14th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events are solicited on the following:
Marine Impact-based Decision Support Services
Abstracts including:
Innovate strategies for informing mariners and improving safety at sea, and on lakes, ports, and inland waterways
Beyond the Forecast: The science behind how people make decisions
Abstracts including:
Applications of decision science to support informed decision making in weather, water, and climate events
Leveraging research and best practices from other fields (e.g. medical literature)
Case studies of how weather and water forecasts are used by partners in operational decision-making
Houston: A Living Lab of Compound Risk - Multi-Hazard planning in a megacity
Abstracts including:
Social science or multi-disciplinary research involving a population frequently impacted by significant weather events and how to message and prepare them.
Resiliency efforts being undertaken to help mitigate damage and manage impacts from extreme weather in a large, sprawling metropolis.
Partnerships and outreach in the community to help reach and help people impacted by severe and extreme weather.
Lessons learned in forecasting, messaging, and response from the May 2024 Houston derecho and Hurricane Beryl.
Public Health and WRN Integrations
Abstracts including:
Integration of public health and meteorological data to better understand weather, water, and climate impacts
Learning from each other: Related challenges in public health and weather & climate communication
Building weather-ready education systems: University and grade school weather preparedness
Abstracts including:
Enhanced weather basics information and training of decision-makers
General weather, water, and climate impacts via courses, special topic presentations, and other innovative strategies
Utilization of school emergency operations and safety plans
Communication methods during weather events (i.e. notification systems, etc.)
Evolution of digital meteorology and communication
Abstracts including:
Certified Digital Meteorologist program successes
Unique and/or new avenues for weather communication
Success in legacy media (ie: Broadcast TV) in the digital world
“Streamers” as a source of weather information: successes and challenges
Communication to build trust in the science of weather
Abstracts including:
Combating misinformation and pseudoscience in the age of social media
Equitable weather communication strategies
Historical lessons in public trust by meteorology’s public champions