Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

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Abstract Submissions

Abstracts were due on August 8, 2018.

Author and Presenter Instructions

See also: The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts (joint session).

Topics Covered

Papers for the Seventh 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:

  • Achieving the weather research and forecast act of 2017 through tornado warning improvements and extension;
  • bilingual science outreach and communication: efforts by the broadcast meteorology community, informal education community, and various organizations to broaden the field in the Earth and atmospheric sciences;
  • communicating with data users and the public: bridging the Valley of Death (joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice);
  • forging diverse partnerships in hazardous weather communication: building bridges and breaking barriers;
  • weather ready and resilience: new opportunities through inclusion and interdisciplinary collaborations;
  • and working session on the key challenges and lessons learning in working successfully with application partners (joint between the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation and the Town Hall Meetings).

Joint Sessions

In addition, papers are solicited on the following joint sessions:

  • Hurricanes and Health:  When will we stop “learning lessons” and start building smarter? (Themed Joint Session) (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health, 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice, and the Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication)

Conference Contact(s)

For additional information, please contact the program chairs: Douglas Hilderbrand (email: douglas.hilderbrand@noaa.gov), Dave Jones (email: dave@stormcenter.com), and Jennifer Sprague (email: jennifer.sprague@noaa.gov).