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(Last updated: March, 2008)

Emily LaidlawEmily participates in research on the value of current and improved weather information and also manages the Societal Impacts Program's (SIP) collection of community information resources, which include Weather and Society Watch, a quarterly newsletter focusing on societal impacts, weather, and weather forecasting; the WxSoc newsgroup, which invites discussion of societal impacts by researchers, policy makers, and members of the general public; the Extreme Weather Sourcebook, a database of societal statistics for extreme weather events; the Societal Aspects of Weather Web site, a clearinghouse of online societal impacts resources; and the Digital Library on Societal Impacts (DLSI), a Web-based library of research findings related to the societal impacts of weather and the use and value of weather forecasts. Emily's role as information resources manager also involves maintaining SIP's Web site.

Emily is also a member/summer 2006 workshop particpant of Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS), a grassroots movement to effect change within the weather enterprise by fully integrating social science into meteorological research and practice. Emily provides ongoing support for WAS*IS by maintaining the WAS*IS Web site, working to integrate WAS*IS participants and projects, and assisting with planning for upcoming workshops and evaluations.

Emily's current weather research includes the Transportation Individual Sector Sensitivity Assessment (ISSA-T), a broad assessment of the transportation sector's sensitivity to weather aimed at better understanding how the sector uses and values weather forecast information and a project examining the challenges and caveats associated with current disaster loss estimation practices.