[SEMCO] Announcing the 2019 Hurricane Preparedness Webinar Series

[Holly Morin]

**apologies for cross-postings** 


The Hurricanes: Science and Society (HSS) <http://www.hurricanescience.org/> team at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (URI/GSO) is please to announce that it will again be hosting free hurricane preparedness webinars <http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/> in conjunction with Hurricane Preparedness Week <https://www.weather.gov/wrn/hurricane-preparedness> and the 2019 Hurricane Awareness Tour (HAT) <https://www.weather.gov/wrn/2019-hw-tours>. The HSS team will again partner with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) to provide webinars, for 4th through 6th grade classes, that will broadcast live from the HAT. 

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.

On Monday, May 6, 2019, at 10am EDT, a webinar focused on Northeast hurricane science/history will take place in conjunction with the Quonset/North Kingstown, RI stop of the HAT.   
On Thursday, May 9, at 10am EDT, a second webinar on hurricanes (but not focused on the Northeast) will be offered, in conjunction with the Charlotte, North Carolina, stop of the HAT.


Schools/classes wanting to participate MUST REGISTER in advance.
Register here: http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/ <http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/>


Please note, both webinars will be archived to the HSS website, 4th-6th grade webinars page <http://hurricanescience.org/resources/nhcwebinar/>, about 3-4 weeks after the HAT.


Questions?  Please contact Holly Morin (holly_morin at uri.edu <mailto:holly_morin at uri.edu>).



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