PA21C:
Communicating Science During a Natural Hazard Crisis II Posters

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Session ID#: 27047

Session Description:
A natural hazard crisis requires the communication of scientific information rapidly, clearly, usefully, and to diverse audiences. How can scientists, who typically work and communicate at a more deliberate pace, convey information when time is short and lives are on the line? What can be done for communities or a country anxiously seeking more information, forecasts, and, perhaps, a bit of comfort? This session explores what happens when scientists and communicators must convey their limited knowledge on emerging phenomena to the public, policy makers, and an array of stakeholders. Session themes include: (1) Scientists as media and public spokespeople; (2) Communication strategies for joint responses by scientists and communication practitioners; (3) The psychological function of scientific information in times of crises; (4) Communication research that focuses on these problems. Our focus is on geological hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami and landslides, but papers on meteorological hazards are also welcome.
Primary Convener:  Michael L Blanpied, USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States
Conveners:  Sara McBride, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Lucile Jones, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Kelvin R Berryman, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Chairs:  Sara McBride, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand and Michael L Blanpied, USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael L Blanpied, USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]
8488 Volcanic hazards and risks [VOLCANOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hurricane Havoc – Mapping the Mayhem with NOAA’s National Water Model (289491)
Graeme R Aggett, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Monica Stone, NOAA, NWS Office of Water Prediction, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
What Googling Trends Tell Us About Public Interest in Earthquakes (244923)
Yen Joe Tan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Rijan Maharjan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Lessons Learned from L’Aquila Trial for Scientists’ Communication (287045)
Kazuki Koketsu, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Andrea Cerase, Universita la Sapienza di Roma, Rome, Italy, Alessandro Amato, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy and Satoko Oki, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan
ARISTOTLE (All Risk Integrated System TOward The hoListic Early-warning): a multi-hazard expert advice system for the EU disaster response (267650)
Alberto Michelini1, Gerhard Wotawa2 and Delia Arnold-Arias2, (1)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (2)ZAMG Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

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