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Bridging Science, Engineering, and Policy: Lessons from the AMS Climate Policy Colloquium
By Dr. Michael Akinwumi, Chief AI Officer, National Fair Housing Alliance and 2024 Rita Allen Civic Science Fellow, Eagleton Institute...
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Finding My Flow in Policy
By Jacob Snyder, PhD Student, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Note: This is a guest...
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The National Weather Service, NOAA, and their civil servants: Unbroken.
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand[1] published her biography of Louis Zamperini, entitled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,...
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Successful Science Policy Means Advocating for People
By Joseph Patton, Faculty Researcher for the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park Note:...
Living on the Real World
Former NWS Directors speak out.
This past week, the five living former directors of the National Weather Service issued an open letter to the American...
Living on the Real World
Remedial reading – Laudate Deum
The previous LOTRW post, occasioned by the conjunction of Easter, Earth Week, and the passing of Pope Francis, took a...
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Laudato si’ – redux.
Praise be to you! Pope Francis died this morning. The news media are saturated with material and that material is...
Living on the Real World
Resilience to hazards and disaster recovery? A FEMA mission, but much more.
The previous post revisited resilience to hazards and hazards recovery, LOTRW topics covered multiple times over past years. That reflection...
Living on the Real World
Here in the United States, is a natural disaster an attack on one state, or an attack on all?
Hmm. Why does the question seem familiar? Oh yes! The same idea is enshrined in NATO treaty article 5: The...
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Bromley’s No science, no surplus – revisited.
In 1999, D. Allan Bromley, a former science advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote an op-ed for the...
