Education and Outreach Award

Recipient(s)
Eve Gruntfest, Julie Demuth, Sheldon Drobot, Mary Hayden, Olga Wilhelmi (all ISSE), and Jeff Lazo (WSAP). Co-nominees included Rebecca Morss (ESSL/MMM) and Matt Kelsch (UOP/COMET).
Award Year
2006
Award Type
internal
Awarding Organization or Entity
UCAR

For Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS). WAS*IS is an innovative series of workshops, education and outreach activities, and community building efforts aimed at improving the integration of weather and social science. Its goal is to empower practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in all sectors of the weather enterprise to forge new relationships and to develop and use new tools for more effective socio-economic applications and evaluations of weather products.