<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class="">**apologies for cross-postings** </i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class="">The <a href="http://www.hurricanescience.org/" class=""><i class="">Hurricanes: Science and Society (HSS)</i></a> team at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (URI/GSO) is please to announce that it will again be hosting <a href="http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/" class=""><b class="">free hurricane preparedness webinars</b></a> in conjunction with <a href="https://www.weather.gov/wrn/hurricane-preparedness" class="">Hurricane Preparedness Week</a> and the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/wrn/2019-hw-tours" class=""><b class="">2019 Hurricane Awareness Tour (HAT)</b></a>. The HSS team will again partner with NOAA’s <b class="">National Hurricane Center (NHC</b>) and <b class="">Aircraft Operations Center (AOC)</b> to provide webinars, for <b class="">4th through 6th grade classes, </b><span class="">that will broadcast<b class=""> live from the HAT</b></span>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The purpose of these webinars is to raise understanding and awareness of hurricanes, hurricane hazards, and hurricane preparation in advance of each North Atlantic hurricane season. Videos, visualizations, graphics, and other media are included to engage students, and NHC forecasters and AOC aircraft personnel will speak live to the classrooms. The webinars will last approximately 1 hour, and will allow your classes to connect with hurricane experts, see the planes used to investigate and understand hurricanes, learn about hurricane-related careers (including “hurricane hunters”), and ask questions in real time.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">On Monday, May 6, 2019, at 10am EDT, </b><span class="">a webinar focused on</span><span class=""><b class=""> Northeast hurricane science/history </b>will take place in conjunction with the<b class=""> Quonset/North Kingstown, RI stop of the HAT.</b></span><b class=""> </b></div><div class=""><b class="">On Thursday, May 9, at 10am EDT</b>, a second webinar on hurricanes (but not focused on the Northeast) will be offered, in conjunction with the <b class="">Charlotte, North Carolina, stop of the HAT.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Schools/classes wanting to participate MUST REGISTER in advance.</b><br class=""></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Register here: <a href="http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/" class="">http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please note, both webinars will be archived to the HSS website, <a href="http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/" class="">4th-6th grade webinars page</a>, about 3-4 weeks after the HAT.</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Questions? Please contact Holly Morin (<a href="mailto:holly_morin@uri.edu" class="">holly_morin@uri.edu</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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