<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=""><div class=""><i class="">**apologies for cross-postings** </i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><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 hosting <b class="">FREE</b><a href="http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/" class=""><b class=""> 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 is again partnering 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>. The webinars will last approximately 1 hour, and will allow your classes to learn about hurricanes and their potential impacts, 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 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><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, <b class="">all webinars will be archived to the HSS website</b>, <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></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></body></html>