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<div class="">Please join us this <b class="">Thursday October 20</b> for our next Meteorology seminar, given by <a href="https://staff.ucar.edu/users/morss" class="">Dr. Rebecca Morss</a>, a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Mesoscale and Microscale
Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Dr. Morss will speak about “<i class="">Extreme weather risks and decisions in society”
</i><span class="" style="font-style:normal">(see abstract below)</span><i class="">. </i>This is an especially timely topic given recent events in Florida. </div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-style:normal">Dr. Morss will be joining </span>us virtually <span class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">but we will gather in EOA 1044 to participate in the seminar. If you cannot attend in person due to a medical
reason or approved work out of town, please contact Allison Wing (</span><a href="mailto:awing@fsu.edu" class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">awing@fsu.edu</a><span class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">) for remote access. Otherwise, we look
forward to seeing everyone in 1044! Please join us at 3 PM for refreshments prior to the beginning of the talk at 3:15 PM. </span></div>
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<div class=""><i class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial"><b class="">Graduate students are invited to participate in a student-only Q&A with the speaker at 2:15 PM in EOA 6067.</b></i><span class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial"> This is a great
opportunity to meet the speaker and discuss science and work/life/career topics in an informal setting. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial"><span class="" style="font-style:normal"><b class="">If you are interested in meeting individually with the speaker, please contact Allison Wing. Dr. Morss is available between 10:30 and 5 on
Thursday.</b></span> Dr. Morss is an expert in weather forecasting systems and risk communication, and her current research foci include the communication and interpretation of weather risks, the use of weather-related information in decision making, and weather
hazard prediction and predictability. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="font-family:Helvetica"><b class="">DATE:</b> <b class="">Thursday October 20</b></div>
<div class="" style="font-family:Helvetica"><b class="">STUDENT Q&A: </b>2:15 PM, EOA 6067</div>
<div class="" style="font-family:Helvetica"><b class="">SEMINAR TIME:</b> Refreshments at 3 PM, Talk 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM. <br class="">
<b class="">SEMINAR LOCATION:</b> EOA 1044 (speaker remote)<br class="">
<b class="">SPEAKER:</b> <a href="https://staff.ucar.edu/users/morss" class="">Dr. Rebecca Morss</a><br class="">
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<b class="">TITLE: </b><span class="" style="font-style:normal">Extreme weather risks and decisions in society</span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial" class="" style="font-family:Helvetica"><b class="">ABSTRACT: </b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial" class="">This presentation will discuss research to understand and improve weather risk communication and societal
decision making, with a focus on tropical cyclone hazards. I will begin by describing how reducing the negative impacts of extreme weather risks requires understanding interactions among physical and human systems. Next, I will discuss the roles of scientific
information and risk communication in weather and climate decision making, together with other influencing factors. I will then describe how creation, communication, interpretation, and use of weather information in the modern environment is a complex, non-linear system,
and how this dynamic perspective opens up new opportunities for research and practice. I will also present examples from research illustrating how different types of interdisciplinary methods, including interviews, social media data analysis, surveys, and
computational modeling, can be used to build understanding and develop strategies for improving outcomes when extreme weather threatens.</font></div>
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<div class="">We look forward to seeing you this Thursday!</div>
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<div class="">Cheers, </div>
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<div class="">On behalf of the MET Seminar Committee</div>
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Allison Wing, Ph.D.</div>
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