Looking back at the Summer WASIS week that was

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Looking back at the Summer WASIS week that was

• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of
  the next. Helen Keller

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WASIS
Culture Change
summer weather society integrated studies
Changing from what WAS to what IS the future of
integrated weather studies
Eve Gruntfest July 21, 2006
Its not just a summer romance
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Six barriers WASISers confronted

• POWERlessness I want to do it but I dont know
  how we have knowhow!
• 2. Social science methods are a mystery NO
  They are NOT
• 3. Surveys are not encouraged we have partners
  who can help
• 4. Disciplinary blinders excitement about
  collaborations new tools

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Barriers WASIS confronted

• 5. Its not in my job description - We will
  foster greater partnerships to solve important
  problems
• 6. WASIS ers emerge as charismatic policy
  entrepreneurs
• Not just a resume boondoggle Britt W.

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SYNERGIES of WAS IS

• Inventing creative, previously unimagined new
  tools, case studies, implementation strategies
• Life- long commitment from many vantage points
  researchers, practitioners, various backgrounds,
  public private
• New comrades

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WASIS succeeds when we are

• Included in major scientific initiatives
• Encouraged treated as equal partners

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WAS IS legacy projects
Warnings Making them better for everyone
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The Weather Enterprise is already feeling the
changes Movement on Verification Public/private
Partnerships! Making warnings better Jumping
on uncertainty report recommendations
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Powerful things have happened. We have moved
from WAS

• New leadership
• New partnerships
• New experiments

This is not a workshop where NOTHING lasts- -
-Energetic WASISersyouve got MOMENTUM
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What a full week! Very powerful experiences
looking back forward
A fieldtrip to meet with STAKEHOlders see
real world flood impacts
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Weve overcome adversity!
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and Lances shirt too

• Melissas newly polka-dotted pants

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WASIS lives on

• Summer 2007 workshop
• Applications for WASIS beyond weather
• Short course for AMS, for National Weather
  Service (in person or distance learning)
• WASIS for introducing meteorology to social
  scientists
• Development of edited collection /or book
  proposal
• Ongoing annual WAS IS
• Shorter, more focused, courses (e.g., qualitative
  research methods)
• Advanced WASISes
• Development of Capstone course for meteorology
  students at University of Oklahoma
• Funding to support WASIS research applications

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WAS ISers present their work

• Southwest Association of American Geographers
  meeting October 26-28, 2006 Norman, OK
• American Meteorological Society meeting San
  Antonio, TX, (abstract dealine Aug 1) January
• Great Divide workshop Billings, MT October 3-5,
  2006
• Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Great Lakes
  Association of American Geographers meeting
  Lincoln, NE, (abstract deadline Sep 1) October
  5-7, 2006
• THORPEX Bavaria December 2006
• AUS WASIS Melbourne February 2007
• Association of American Geographers meeting, San
  Francisco, CA (abstract deadline Oct 26)
  special sessions April 17-21, 2007
• Other WAS ISes NEXT SUMMER? W H E R E WILL WE
  MEET AGAIN?

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Commitment to Change! BREAKING through barriers!

• The BEST the BRIGHTEST
• the most FUN

MODEST GOAL CHANGING the missions of
meteorological research practice
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R e m e m b e r .
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WAS ISers are NOT the same old guys with new
toys
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The new fiesta SUMMER WAS ISers!
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Some of Whats Said in Boulder STAYS in Boulder
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Our Lasting IMPACTS make Big BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
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• P A S S I O N

P A S S I O N
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Thanks to Julie Sheldon for inspiration,
constructive criticism commitment
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Fairy tale comes true - Thanks to

• US Weather Research Program
• The National Oceanic Atmospheric
  Administration (NOAA)

The National Center for Atmospheric
Research Linda Mearns, Institute for the Study
of Society the Environment (ISSE) JEFF LAZO
the Societal Impacts Program (SIP)
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Well always have Boulder!
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WASIS
Culture change
summer weather society integrated studies
Changing from what WAS to what IS the future of
integrated weather studies
Way more than a summer romance.. lets stay in
constant touch