Active Funding Call: Tornado & Wildfire Research
We have active funding calls with the Natural Hazards Center on Tornado-Ready and Wildfire-Ready Research Quick Response Grants: WPO SSP is excited to share that…
Recent societal impacts from hurricanes, floods, snow storms, and wildfires, shows a great need to understand the intersection of people and meteorology. The Social Science Program funds research that plays a critical role in connecting the improvements of NOAA’s weather forecast information to the public’s growing forecast needs.
Our team works across the public, private, and academic sectors of the weather community to find and fund research to meet these goals and improve forecast delivery for the public. Through our Notice of Funding Opportunities, we select research proposals to meet our program objectives. Those objectives are based on priorities and critical areas for forecast improvement.
We have active funding calls with the Natural Hazards Center on Tornado-Ready and Wildfire-Ready Research Quick Response Grants: WPO SSP is excited to share that…
Check out this Social Science Research-to-Applications (R2X) Seminar by Gina and Castle: After hearing community feedback at the WPO SBS Research to Operations (R2O) workshop,…
We are looking for reviewers for WPO’s FY23 Funding Opportunity: Pending the availability of FY23 funding, the WPO Social Science Program is planning for a…
In response to the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and National Weather Service (NWS) bi-lateral meeting 2021, the WPO Forecasting A Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) Program funded a project to assess the current program and plan for a future iteration of the program. WPO hired Toffler Associates,…
To advance NOAA’s social science data needs, WPO’s Social Science Program partnered with the National Hazard Center—with support from the National Science Foundation, and in collaboration with the National Weather Service and National Severe Storms Laboratory— to develop the Weather Ready Quick Response Research Initiative to support social science event-based…
This project examined how end -users, such as forecasters, emergency managers, and the American public interpret and comprehend probabilistic tropical cyclone information. Using a concept known as numeracy, or one’s ability to use and understand numerical information, this study, in combination with past research, suggests that probability information helps people…
Proposals were due by November 17th, 2022.
Using Virtual Reality Storm Surge Simulations to Increase Risk Perception and Prevention Behaviors
PIs: Sun Joo Ahn, Jill Gambill, & Matthew Browning
For a Broader Impact Across Cultures and Weather Events
PIs: Terri Adams, Rosa Fitzgerald, & Vankita Brown
For Transitioning the Brief Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT) to NWS Weather Forecasting Office Operations
PIs: Daphne LaDue & Elizabeth Hurst
For Reducing Vulnerability to Compound Threats in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Amid Covid-19
PIs: Jennifer Henderson & Eric Nielson
A user-centered design approach
PIs: Sharanya Majumdar, Kenneth Broad, Alberto Cairo, Scotney Evans, Barbara Millet, & Rebecca Morss
For Severe Convective Weather and Flood Events
PIs: Daphne LaDue & Dereka Carroll
To Improve Probabilistic Forecast Communication
PIs: Kathryn Lambrecht, Lynda Olman, & Benjamin Hatchett
And Tendencies for Protective Action Decisions
PIs: Daphne LaDue, Lara Mayeux, & Terri Adams
To Generate a Public Perception and Response Database
PIs: Brenda Philips & Cedar League
and Emergency Management Survey
PIs: Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Andrew Fox, Scott Robinson, & Warren Eller
Weather Ready Instrument and Data Publications (2021) – This special call for Weather Ready Research with the Natural Hazard Center supported the publication of social science and multidisciplinary data, data collection instruments, and research protocols for natural hazards and disaster research via the DesignSafe CyberInfrastructure.
Social Science and FACETs Program Manager
Social Science Research-to-Applications Coordinator
FACETS Program Coordinator
Social Science Program Coordinator
Social Science Deputy Program Manager
VORTEX Program Coordinator and Social Scientist
Literature
Annotated Bibliographies
If you are unfamiliar with an annotated bibliography, it is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents about a certain topic. The purpose of these bibliographies is to increase awareness of journal articles that exist on a certain topic by pulling together a variety of journal articles in one place.
Bibliography on Uncertainty and Probability Communication
Bibliography on Tornado Warnings: Delivery, Economics, and Public Perception
Bibliography on Social Science and Fire Weather (Coming Soon)
Uncertainty and Probability Communication: Past, Present, and Future (AMS 2020)