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Curriculum Vitae (abbreviated)

Rebecca E. Morss
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
Voice: 303-497-8172
FAX: 303-497-8171
E-mail: morss at ucar.edu

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EDUCATION

	Feb 1999	Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Jun 1993	B.A. in Chemistry, general and departmental honors The University of Chicago
		Graduate level coursework in public policy and related areas at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and University of Colorado at Boulder

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	2005-present	Scientist II
	2002-2005	Scientist I Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division & Institute for the Study of Society and Environment; National Center for Atmospheric Research
	2000-2001	Post-doctoral Fellow Advanced Study Program; National Center for Atmospheric Research
	2000	Post-doctoral Associate Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean; University of Washington
	1999	Post-doctoral Associate
	1994-1998	Graduate Research Assistant Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	1994	Research Intern Science, Space, and Technology Committee; U.S. House of Representatives

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Morss, R. E., J. Demuth, and J. K. Lazo, 2008: Communicating uncertainty in weather forecasts: A survey of the U.S. Public. Weather and Forecasting, in press.

Morss, R. E., and F. Zhang, 2008: Linking meteorological education to reality: A prototype undergraduate research study of public response to Hurricane Rita forecasts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press.

Morss, R. E., J. K. Lazo, B. G. Brown, H. E. Brooks, P. T. Ganderton, and B. N. Mills, 2008: Societal and economic research and applications for weather forecasts: Priorities for the North American THORPEX program. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 335–346.

Morss, R. E., and E. Wahl, 2007: An ethical analysis of prediction and decision making: The case of the Red River flood of 1997. Environmental Hazards, 7, 342-352.

Zhang, F., R. E. Morss, J. A. Sippel, T. K. Beckman, N. C. Clements, N. L. Hampshire, J. N. Harvey, J. M. Hernandez, Z. C. Morgan, R. M. Mosier, S. Wang, and S. D. Winkley, 2007: An in-person survey investigating public perceptions of and responses to Hurricane Rita forecasts along the Texas Coast. Weather and Forecasting, 22, 1177-1190.

Morss, R. E., and F. M. Ralph, 2007: Use of information by National Weather Service forecasters and emergency managers during CALJET and PACJET-2001. Weather and Forecasting, 22, 539-555.

Morss, R. E., O. V. Wilhelmi, M. W. Downton, and E. Gruntfest, 2005: Flood risk, uncertainty, and scientific information for decision-making: Lessons from an interdisciplinary project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 1593-1601.

Downton, M. W., R. E. Morss, O. V. Wilhelmi, E. C. Gruntfest, and M. L. Higgins, 2005: Interactions between scientific uncertainty and flood management decisions: Two case studies in Colorado. Environmental Hazards, 6, 134-136.

Morss, R. E., and W. H. Hooke, 2005: The outlook for U.S. meteorological research in a commercializing world: Fair early, but clouds moving in? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 921–936.

Morss, R. E., K. A. Miller, and M. S. Vasil, 2005: A systematic economic approach to evaluating public investment in observations for weather forecasting. Monthly Weather Review, 133, 374–388.

Morss, R. E., 2005: Problem definition in atmospheric science public policy: The example of observing system design for weather prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 181–191.

Morss, R. E., and D. S. Battisti, 2004: Designing efficient observing networks for ENSO prediction. Journal of Climate, 17, 3074-3089.

Morss, R. E., and D. S. Battisti, 2004: Evaluating observing requirements for ENSO prediction: Experiments with an intermediate coupled model. Journal of Climate, 17, 3057-3073.

Morss, R. E., and K. A. Emanuel, 2002: Influence of added observations on analysis and forecast errors: Results from idealized systems. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 128, 285-321.

Morss, R. E., K. A. Emanuel, and C. Snyder, 2001: Idealized adaptive observation strategies for improving numerical weather prediction. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 210-232.

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