Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Our science: protecting the public in the 21st century.
“If your science doesn’t correspond to reality, you’re going to lose lives.” – Alexander E. MacDonald AMS Summer Community Meeting...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Anthropocene primate faces a new water challenge.
In 2014 the anthropologist Clive Finlayson published a delightful little, but intellectually-rich book entitled The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Robert Mayer White, 1923-2015.
“NOAA is now positioned to advance United States in an environmentally sustainable manner. And that is the central problem of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Jim Mahoney: the NAPAP years.
(This is the second part of a two-part tribute to James R. Mahoney)[1] James R. Mahoney is possibly best remembered...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering James Richard Mahoney (1938-2015).
“Think forward.” – masthead on the LeMoyne College Website Living on the real world – reality – is personal. James...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The sacred work of meteorologists.
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra (?[1]) The confluence of three events this past...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Katrina (and the human condition).
These past weeks, you’ve likely found yourself struggling to stay afloat in a storm surge of ten-year Hurricane Katrina remembrance....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial reading… from the Huffington Post and The Economist
“Our job is to ensure that NOAA is as relevant fifteen years from now as it is today.” – John...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weekend thoughts… on “Agency.”
Social scientists stress the importance of agency, defined along the following lines: “In the social sciences, agency is the capacity...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want a Weather-Ready Nation? If so, build “agency”.
But here’s the kicker: whether in weather emergencies, or disaster recovery, or in building national capacity and infrastructure for weather...
