Train Employees For Disaster Preparedness
9.27.2007
Terrie
Web Site: www.trainforahurricane.com
Training for Disaster: Are your employees trained for a hurricane?
September 05, 2006
By David Barron
http://www.presentations.com/msg/content_display/training/e3iba76Bqzy2OvMsHS34K7MhQ==We’re not done with 2007 Hurricane Season!
9.27.2007
October it turns out is often the busiest month of the hurricane season according to historical records. Many of the hurricanes that form this time of the year develop closer to the Untied States like Katrina and Rita did.
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Hurricane Season Only Half Over
October Called The Busiest Storm Month In
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/24/earlyshow/saturday/main881933.shtml
Sept. 24, 20005
Hurricane Katrina In Art
I hope that at this event and others like it will be not only shared in person on the local and regional levels but can find a way to be made available to the world through the internet. If these 10 vignettes were offered for viewing through a secured disaster contribution manner to help the special disaster needs of Hurricane Katrina survivors then I know I would be the first in line to participate in such a noble cause.
Terrie
http://www.osu.edu/events/eventView.php?Event_ID=388901
Brooklyn-based Liza Johnson's South of Ten (10 mins., 2006) offers ten vignettes from the everyday lives of residents of coastal
Date and time: September 26, 2007
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Not given
Phone Number: 614-292-3535
Event category: Arts
Event Type: Film
9.25.2007
Now a days you go into a store and WOW there are so many things that scream out at you saying "Oh buy ME". Yea right, a fancy coffee maker that can tell you the time for coffee in 20 languages or a Don't forget to walk the Dog button alarm for the kitchen door. OK so there are other things even more interesting in the stores that make life much more interesting, fun and easy to live. I'm grateful for them all.
Are you or have you been in a hurricane disaster? Do you know someone who is recovering or has been affected by a hurricane in the past? Please share your thoughts and stories here on this blog. All I ask is that everyone be respectful and sensitive of each other and that identifying information about a person who is not the author be limited to protect their privacy.
Terrie
Web Site http://trainforahurricane.blogspot.com
Orlando Sentinel - Hurricane Blog - A minute-by-minute account of developments in Central Florida brought to you by the Orlando Sentinel:
" Tornado shows need for weather radio
posted by John A. Cutter on Sep 21, 2007 3:44:13 PM Discuss "http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_weather_hurricane/
EUSTIS — Officials from the Lake County Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Division, are reiterating the need for residents to use NOAA weather radios after the fourth tornado in
"Thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, bomb scares, chemical spills and brush fires. These are just a few of the potential hazards residents can face in
"Having a battery operated, tone-alert NOAA Weather Radio in your home is like having your own personal tornado siren - only it will alert you of all these impending dangers. In every
A weather radio broadcasts National Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts and other non-weather related hazard information 24 hours a day. When a threat is determined, National Weather Service forecasters interrupt routine weather programming and transmit a special tone that automatically activates weather radios. This instant emergency notification can give you and your family valuable seconds to seek shelter.
Some of the recommended features for a weather radio include: Tone alarm – Activates weather radio to sound, even if the audio is turned off. Selectable alerting of events – Allows an operator to turn off the alarm for certain events, which might not be pertinent. For example, if an individual lives in a coastal county, but not right at the beach, he or she might not wish to know about Coastal Flood Warnings.
Besides Hurricane Winds
So often when we think of a hurricane we think of the torrential rain and the horrific winds that can blow a house a part in a matter of moments. Well that is true and something to be concerned about if your area is under a hurricane situation.
Besides the hurricane the tornado can even be believe it or not even more destructive. With a hurricane you know days in advance that a hurricane is possibly headed for your area. You have time to do your hurricane preparations and if necessary to seek hurricane evacuation shelter elsewhere when necessary. In a tornado that is a very different story.
In a tornado you may have only moments to seek shelter and it can blow not only roofs off but whole houses and buildings can disappear in the blink of an eye. Tornados can be as dangerous as a hurricane. Tornados are often associated with conditions that are also ripe for a hurricane or a tropical storm. They are nothing to play with. Tornados may not last as long as a hurricane while it is passing over head but if a tornado touches down the destruction can have the same affect as a hurricane. No matter if a hurricane or a tornado the pain and suffering that can be experienced by all those who survive a weather disaster can be painful for months and even years.
We have no control over the weather, BUT we do have control over how we act as human beings. We can ignore the possibility of a disaster hitting our region and community in general and even more so deny the possibly that it could affect us personally. That is one option. A very dangerous and foolish option to be sure.
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Terrie
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9.24.2007
NOW is the time to start to prepare for next year when it comes to issues of Special needs loved ones. I know it seems crazy when we still have two months left in THIS hurricane season to be talking about preparing for next year season. But frankly this IS the time to be preparing.
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Terrie
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Dr. Terrie Modesto, Critical Incident Thanatologist
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Nursing Home, Relatives Settle Rita Suit
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jK518EkzDL0HQN7Bdiri_aZU1jlw
2 hours ago
9.25.2007
Hurricane Season Quite -- Cheap Time To Stock Up on Hurricane Supplies!
Those of us who live on the US Atlantic East Coast have been very fortunate in many ways this hurricane season. We have not had any serious hurricanes to contend with. No one certainly wants to have to live through the torrential rains and howling rains of a hurricane.
Yet hurricanes DO have their benefits. Many in the South have been experiencing record breaking long runs of unbearable heat. This summer 100F temperatures were repeated day after day ‘down South’. In the
No one wants the destruction of a hurricane but there are silver linings for many when a hurricane arrives. Those silver linings certainly help the farmers and even the fishing crews since the much of the fresh water fishing has also been impacted by the drought and higher concentration of certain chemicals in the water due to little rain.
According to the meteorologists we are still looking at some storms to be aware of. Some may turn into tropical storms and spread much needed rain to the Atlantic seaboard. That will be good news to some farmers. One storm in particular that is still 1500+ miles away appears to be developing in a manner that could possibly become a hurricane later on. No one knows for sure but it is one that we need to be aware of.
We still have two months this hurricane season. If it is a quite hurricane season, than all the better. We have more time to get our supplies in at the cheapest prices possible. End of the summer season is a great time to check prices and purchase large ticket and / or often used hurricane preparation items:
Ø generators
Ø coolers
Ø propane tanks
Ø Tarps
Ø Plastic outdoor storage boxes are great places to store the propane tanks, tarps and other bulky but necessary items that are very helpful in hurricane emergencies.
With children already back to school, many of the remaining back to school supplies may be at reduced prices sine store managers want o empty those shelves for the holiday merchandise stocked high in their storage rooms eagerly waiting to be made available for sale. , this is also a great time to pick up:
back packs that can be used as your Get & Go’ bags should you need to evacuate in an emergency at some point. Remember every member of the family should have their own Get & Go pack including each pet!
After Halloween is a good time to pick up the hard candies and other snacks at half to 90% off pre-holiday prices. Place them in air tight storage containers and put them in the back of the freezer. They will last a long time and you will have them at the cheapest prices of the year.
Discount dollar stores are now displaying their Halloween and Christmas stock. They are desperate to get rid of as much of the summer stock as possible. Pick up several of the inflatable large floating cushions - loungers that are easy to keep folded until needed. These are great air mattresses to have should you need to sleep outside or your bed is damaged in a hurricane storm. Check to see if the rechargeable or hand operated hand pumps are on sales as well. Sure beats blowing up air mattresses by lung power!
If you don’t have ply-wood for your windows etc, now is the time to pick it up at some of the lowest prices in years. With the housing slump and so far no major hurricanes this season in the US to place heavy demand on ply-wood, the prices have not been so reasonable for years. Measure all your doors and windows to make sure you are buying the quantity you will need and then buy the wood at discount prices. Then store as flooring in your attic or in the rafters of your garage. Cut or at least mark off the correct sizes you will need for every window and door. MARK EACH OF THE PIECES OF WOOD so in the midst of the hurricane preparation rush you will know exactly what piece of wood goes where. You might even want to make a list and place it in a plastic zip bag and keep it with the wood along with the nails or screws, etc so everything is located right where you need them. By making plywood used as additional or temporary flooring in your attic or garage rafters, you can then place much of your hurricane supplies on top of the plywood and everything is ready to go should you need it.
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Dr. Terrie Modesto, Critical Incident Thanatologist
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9.24.2007
The Ongoing Wounds of Hurricane Katrina
Traumatological loss due to a critical incident does not go way quickly. In fact it is just the opposite. Critical Incident traumatalogical loss also known as critical incident thanostic loss has a snowball affect that builds and gathers speed. It is a dirty snowball of sticks and stones of broken homes, lives, dreams and hopes. It can feel like Dante’s hell for those who MUST live through it.
Additionally there is compounded and complex grief that has not been resolved in the Katrina experience. The more complex the grief and compounding of the losses that are experienced individually and collectively, the harder it is to accomplish the tasks of grieving when the world around you is no longer grieving and desperately wants as well as unmercifully expects you to STOP GRIEVING if you are one of those from the Katrina experience.
Unrealistic expectations by society and many in the helping profession think that since it has been 2 years or so since the ravishing winds tore through the gulf coast, that grief, pain and suffering should be over with is absolutely outlandish. These people who were so profoundly affected by Hurricane Katrina as still living in the early stages of the graveyard walk to the grave. There is little resolution to the traumas Hurricane Katrina Survivors experienced, the pain and suffering as well as the wounds that are only getting more complex and more silent in our society because our general society does not want to: see no grief-- hear no grief --speak no grief – feel no grief.
Society in general does not want to have to contend with the elongated sticky stuff of grief. It is elongated in that critical incident loss does not go away quickly. It is impossible for it to be push away into the dustpan of history.
No disrespect to a rape victim, but a mass critical incident event has so many more components to it from the publicity to the dashed hope of recovery to the abandonment that is experienced on top of all the compounded frustrations of trying to rebuild lives that are so shattered in so many ways.
Such scaring events as Hurricane Katrina may not be able to be resolved in a few years; it may take decades and even generations to work through it. Since we have frankly not done even a marginal job of helping with the emotional thanostic issues of death, loss and non-reconstruction of individual and community lives, I seriously doubt if we will see a the possibility of a full recovery for a very long time.
Think about it. A rape victim may be able to go to a place that will feel safe for her/him that is at least familiar and has things that speak of love and comfort from another time and circumstance. It may be a pair of slippers, a photograph, the fact that they can take all the precautions they wish to begin the process to feel safer in their own skin and environment.
Now think of the person who has NO slippers, nothing that is familiar that might speak of comfort and there is no door left of their home to lock to feel safer. What is left is marred or destroyed by mud and dirty smelly water.
I, in no way want to minimize in any way the terrible experience a person who has been raped has experienced and the pain of such a recovery journey. It is a ghastly theft of personal sense of safety, personhood and personal dignity from someone else. I stand in awe and admire all those who live through and rebuild their lives in spite of and because of such tragic events.
What I am saying is that in a mass fatality of a mega-regional community trauma, the recovery process is nothing like which occurs on a personal or even on a family / cohort basis. Hurricane Katrina was / is as close as the
.
Please don’t think that a few years and a couple of band aids will make the wounds of Hurricane Katrina go away. Stop fooling yourselves and wake up to the devastation that has occurred. The fact that many have not wanted to or been able to return to their homes and original lives speaks volumes of the intensity of the tragedy that occurred. The hurricane disaster still goes on.
We in the
We want to see a quick fix to the death and sorrow and desperately want the happy sounds of Dixieland bands after the trip to the cemetery to burry the
Perhaps the storm known as Hurricane Katrina has long since blown past but the REAL hurricane disaster is the day in and day out living in the aftermath and initial experiences of the long d-r-a-w-n o-u-t p-r-o-c-e-s-s of recovery. If you had to stop for a second to slow down to read those dashed out words of the description that is the tiniest of experience of what it is like to have to slow down, struggling to even try to figure out the simplest of things in everything you do to even attempt to start take the fist halting steps in the painful hurricane recovery. Even a drawn out complex sentence is unwelcome in our fast paced society today.
Ask those in
No wonder the crime rate and violence is intensifying exponentially in the communities of the Katrina region. It is no surprise that
There is a hurricane Katrina cancer that eats away at the entity of those who are struggling to recover. Unless we stop the band aid affect of quick fix emotional stuff and think it is all better and start the process of living through the honest and very real grief process, then the suicides and the homicides, the substance abuse, child/spouse/partner abuse and all the rest if the social ills will not stop. It will only get worse.
It is an insult to all concerned to even dare to consider the experience of a time specific tragedy of a rape or mugging and that of a mass fatality of a hurricane that is still on-going 2 years later. One was foisted by vicious, controlling human action by the choice of the perpetrator on an innocent victim, the other by a vicious non-controllable action by nature itself, compounded by human lack of action, inappropriate reaction and lack of serious preoperational action by society as a whole.
The good news from the study is that we can learn from the mass fatality tragedies of human and property loss and begin to learn what it really means to be present in through and with those that travel the journey from bereavement to mourning to grief to someday perhaps the ongoing process of recovery. If we as a society are not willing to be in active and full presence with our sisters and brothers in that painful process than none of us will recover in a healthy manner. If we do not know the difference between mourning, bereavement and grief then we have much to learn and we start by knowing that each means and how to live in the presence of each. For you see it is not only those who are Katrina affected individuals that must learn these things, it is all of us, for no one is an island – the bell tolls for all of us.
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Coverage & Access | Survivors of Hurricane Katrina Experience Psychological Stress, Survey Finds
[Sep 24, 2007]
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=47699
The percentage of New Orleans residents reporting signs of severe mental illness increased from 11% to 14% between March 2006 and this summer, compared with about 6% before Hurricane Katrina hit more than two years ago, according to a recent Harvard Medical School survey, the Washington Post reports. The survey also found that the percentage of people in
According to the Post, "it is not Hurricane Katrina itself but the persistent frustrations of the delayed recovery that are exacting a high psychological toll of people who never before had such troubles," psychiatrists say. Calls to mental health hot lines in the area surged after the hurricane and have remained high, according to organizers. In addition, area psychiatrists are overbooked because of a heightened demand.
Ronald Kessler, a professor of health care policy at Harvard and leader of the study, said, "It's really stunning in juxtaposition to what these kinds of surveys have shown after other disasters, or after people have been raped or mugged." Typically, "people have a lot of trouble the first night and the first month afterward. Then you see a lot of improvement," he said. However, with the rebuilding process in
Daphne Glindmeyer, a New Orleans psychiatrist and president of the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association, said, "There's more depression, more financial problems, more marital conflict, more thoughts of suicide," adding, "And a lot of it is in people who never had any trouble before" (Whoriskey, Washington Post, 9/23).
9.21.2007
Hurricanes As Indicators In Global Warming
Today I wrote a blog article about the sandwich of a hurricane and tropical storm that we in the
We look at Hurricane Katrina and shake our heads and say how terrible that WAS . Are we shaking our heads and asking WHAT WILL BE? The issues of critical incident thanostic (death and loss) related disasters and the role of weather is only going to be increasing in intensity along side that of the storms that we will be confronted with.
As a critical incident thanatologist, I look not only at the swirling maps and think of only of the rain and the wind. My eyes see the swirls of pain and suffering that are associated with the dreaded storms in the everyday lives of individuals that are profoundly affected by these natural evens.
With more people living closer to the coastal areas and the severity of the storms that are and will occur, the conditions are ripe for the unfortunate results of mass fatalities and vast loss of property. We will need to quickly and appropriately review with a very critical eye the infrastructure and community environment that these hurricanes will affect. But it is not enough to only look at the levies and bridges as well as the shore line and weather maps. That is looking at things in a micro fashion with a band aid. A much broader view and response must be taken and the actions must be effective, comprehensive and time sensitive with a large dose of hurricane education on individual responsibility for self protection, hurricane response and hurricane recovery.
What we also need to be looking at is how do people react to the threat of a potential disaster, how well prepared are they and how do they recover. We will need to develop ways to effectively help individuals move from a view that it ”can’t happen to them’ or that the ‘government and aid organizations are able to take care of any difficulties that may occur’. This is so unrealistic a mind set and will not only cost our local and national governments untold billions in cost but the cost to the emotional psyche of the affected nations and the local community will be beyond measure.
Part of that attitude is the result of lack of education of how to prepare respond and recover from a hurricane as well as an education on the responsibilities that individual must have to prepare, respond and recover from the forces of a hurricane as well as other naturally related events in our weather conditions.
Schools are great at teaching some things but there will need to be numerous courses offered on all educational levels and situations as to how to develop the ability to cope with the hurricane trauma and other disasters. If we don’t start at a very early age to foster the physical skills and emotional abilities to deal productively and effectively with hurricanes and other disasters then our global society is in an even more grave position that that of just the escalation of the weather conditions and their intensity.
We talk about leaving no child behind in school. That is a noble ideal but we need to develop and quickly the tools, resources and mindset that no person will be left behind in developing their skills, talents and abilities to prepare, respond effectively and ultimately to recover from disasters. If we do not as a nation and as a world help ourselves and our neighbors to learn how to prepare, survive and recover physically, emotionally and financially from the many disasters that may be headed our way, than the worse disaster will not be the weather but our lack of critical incident survival education.
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Dr. Terrie Modesto, Critical Incident Thanatologist
She is an international expert in dying, death, loss and critical incident individual and community disaster preparation and response, with over 60 courses, books and training manuals to her credit. She has 20+ years experience in assisting those in need. Dr. Modesto is available for consultations, lectures media interviews.
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Hurricanes and Climate Change: What's Resolved and What Remains To Be Resolved?
http://www.hillheat.com/events/2007/09/21/hurricanes-and-climate-change-whats-resolved-and-what-remains-to-be-resolved
Is there a scientific basis for anticipating that human-induced climate warming does and/or will affect hurricanes in some way, over and above natural climate variability? Do observations and model simulations support that expectation, or are there issues with data and observations that make the task of sorting out linkages more difficult? If the latter, what are the observational and data issues that continue to make this a challenging scientific problem? What do we know now that we did not know two years ago? What role do model simulations play in helping to sort out linkages, if any, between global warming and hurricanes, in the absence of data/observation or the presence of unreliable data/observations? How can we best develop a coordinated national effort to provide urgently required information for planning, community response and infrastructure development.
Moderator
* Dr. Anthony Socci, Senior Science Fellow, American Meteorological Society
Speakers
* Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
* Dr. William K. M. Lau, Chief, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,
* Dr. Greg Holland, Director, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory,
* Dr. Gabriel Vecchi, Research Oceanographer, Climate diagnostics Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab/NOAA, Princeton, NJ.
* Thomas R. Knutson, Research Meteorologist, Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab/NOAA,
Overview of Hurricanes and Climate Change (a.k.a. global warming)
The understanding of climate change, including its effects on hurricanes, rests on three essential scientific techniques: theory, observation, and computational modeling. Each of these three approaches has unique strengths and limitations. In this talk, I will discuss the application of each of these to understanding the effect of climate change on hurricane activity and demonstrate that while each approach is compromised by uncertainties, taken together they present a persuasive picture of increasing hurricane risk as the climate warms.
Trends in tropical rainfall are more readily detectable in the form of changes in rainfall characteristics, rather than in rainfall total. From satellite data, we find that in the tropics there is a strong positive trend in extreme heavy and very light rains, coupled to a negative trend in moderate rain. Climatologically over tropical oceans, a large portion (over 60%) of most extreme heavy rainfall (top 5%) can be identified with those coming from tropical cyclones. Over the
Saharan dust can affect tropical cyclones development, and may be a factor contributing to long-term hurricane statistics and possibly in seasonal hurricane forecasts. The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) can suppress tropical cyclogenesis through entrainment of hot, dry air into a developing cyclone, increasing stability and denying the developing system of its moisture supply. Saharan dust may also pre-condition the
Global Warming and Hurricane Activity
The past century has seen
This heightened hurricane activity is unlikely to decrease in the future and we may see further increases. If so, current planning, building and coastal levee systems may prove to be inadequate, leading to more New Orleans-type disasters. The National Hurricane Research Initiative is designed to provide us with the tools to assess this future threat, to develop improved forecast and community response approaches, and to establish coastal planning approach to minimize the potential for future disasters. It is an initiative of critical national importance, which deserves strong and urgent support.
Long-term changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity: Looking Forward and Looking Back
To understand how human-induced climate change influences global and Atlantic tropical cyclone activity it is essential to have accurate records of past tropical cyclone variations and to model future climate conditions. The ways that tropical cyclones are measured have evolved over time, thereby influencing the homogeneity of the record. Statistical techniques can help, however, to estimate these deficiencies in the century-scale record. To project future conditions, global climate models (GCMs) – though not perfect – are our best tools. Although current computing power prevents GCMs from explicitly representing tropical cyclones, GCMs do indicate robust changes in many of the large-scale environmental conditions that are known to influence tropical cyclone activity, such as the thermodynamic structure of the atmosphere and vertical wind shear. Analyses of climate models and reconstructions of past tropical cyclone records indicate:
* Observational evidence for century-scale changes in tropical cyclone activity is mixed, depending on the metric chosen, on the statistical correction applied to the data and on the time interval being examined.
* Climate model projections of the
* Outside of the
* Although questions remain about the detailed response of tropical cyclone activity to human-induced climate change, we have relatively much greater confidence in the projected response of other large-scale climate conditions to increasing greenhouse gases (e.g., global warming, surface temperatures over land warm faster than over ocean, Arctic sea ice reduction, increase in ocean heat content, etc.).
Modeling the Response of Atlantic Hurricanes to Climate Variability and Change
A pressing question concerning ongoing global warming is whether human-caused warming of the planet has had any discernible impact on Atlantic hurricane activity. Confidence in any such a link is currently hampered by both data quality issues for the hurricane observational record and by limited work specifically targeting this question from a modeling perspective. Based on existing studies to date:
* Observed data, including consideration of data problems, give conflicting indications on whether there have been significant increases in Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane numbers.
* High resolution models consistently project increasing hurricane intensities and rainfall rates for the late 21st century, but whether there will be more or fewer hurricanes remains uncertain.
* A new modeling approach reproduces many important aspects of Atlantic hurricane activity observed since 1980, and thus shows promise as a tool for both understanding past variations and for making more reliable projections of future hurricane activity.
Dr. Lau has received numerous awards for his research and his scientific leadership, including among others, the AMS Meisinger Award in 1997; the John Lindsay Award,1998; the NASA Exceptional Science Achievement Award, 1991; the William Nordberg Award (GSFC highest award in Earth Sciences), 2002. He is a Goddard Senior Fellow, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society since 1988, and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2007. Dr. Lau has published over 190 refereed papers, book Chapters in refereed journals. He is the principal author of a book “Intraseasonal Variability in the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere System”, published in 2006. Dr. Lau received his B. Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the
Dr. Greg Holland is currently Director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at the
Dr. Holland has authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and book chapters, as well as dozens of planning documents, scientific prospectuses and workshop papers. He has given several hundred invited talks worldwide, as well as many contributed presentations at national and international conferences on hurricanes and related. He has also convened several national and international workshops, and served on several national and international committees and science-planning initiatives.
Dr. Gabriel Vecchi is a Research Oceanographer at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in
Dr. Vecchi currently serves on the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Indian Ocean Panel, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. His awards include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the American Geophysical Union’s Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters, and the
Thomas R. Knutson has been a Research Meteorologist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in
He currently serves on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Expert Team on Climate Impacts on Tropical Cyclones, and was a major contributor to the December 2006 WMO “Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change”. He is a member of a U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) committee developing an assessment report on “Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate,” the AMS Climate Variability and Change Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Climate. Mr. Knutson has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed science journals or book chapters.
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