Living on the Real World
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...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Moonshots, weather-readiness, and other human aspirations.
Doug Hilderbrand co-chairs with Eileen Shea the AMS Board on Enterprise Communication. We owe the two of them thanks for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Brian Bell’s forecasts for the weather enterprise
Many LOTRW readers may know Brian Bell, one of the more visionary and just-plain-interesting people in our community. Mr. Bell...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 7. Get your head on straight… and keep it there.
Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 6. Water.
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… In the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the 1980’s and 1990’s, it was...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 5. Stakeholders
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… There are many reasons to like the NWS Weather-Ready Nation initiative, but perhaps the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 4. People.
“There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as...
