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Hurricane Katrina: Perspectives on Hurricane Forecasting
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A blow by blow account of Hurricane Katrina’s rampage by the man at the center of the storm, the past director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield. He describes what went wrong, and the many things that went right, in counting down to America’s most costly natural disaster. He also advances an intriguing idea: just as the National Transportation Safety Board makes a detailed assessment of all factors in aviation accidents, perhaps a similar mechanism should be established to extract the lessons learned from natural catastrophes in order to inform policy makers and mitigate future losses?
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Max Mayfield, Past Director, National Hurricane Center (NOAA) and WLPG-TV Hurricane Specialist
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The Science of Communications
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Many scientists are frustrated. Why doesn’t the public seem to understand, or care about, many vital findings such as those related to global climate change and natural disasters? Dr. Anthony Socci, senior science and communications fellow at the American Meteorological Society, hypothesizes part of the problem may rest with scientists, who fail to utilize new findings from social and political sciences concerning how people learn about and internalize information.
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Dr. Anthony Socci, senior science and communications fellow, American Meteorological Society
Prof. Arthur Lupia, Hal R. Varian Collegiate professor, Political Science, University of Michigan
Molly Bentley, science correspondent, BBC America
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Hydrology in an Era of Global Change
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Prof. Dennis Lettenmaier, in his 2008 Robert E. Horton Lecture on Hydrology, traces the history of how hydrologists and meteorologists have attempted to do the book keeping which allows us to understand the water cycle. As we move from a qualitative to a quantitative hydrological science in the new era of changing climate, will we be able to answer questions essential to our nation? A look ahead at projections of the water resources of the Colorado River Basin provides a key example.
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Dennis P. Lettenmaier, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
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