CMOS Congress 2023

May 2023, St. John’s, NL

CORC CoP helped to organize and participated in several sessions at CMOS Congress 2023 in St. John’s. Video recordings of these sessions are provided here. Click the links (images) to view the session abstracts and recordings.

Mixed Media and Crossed Wires: Challenges and Opportunities Presented by Contemporary and Traditional Media for Disaster Preparedness, Warning, and Response Communication

Panelists: Steve Bowen, Armel Castellan, Amber Silver, Jennifer Spinney.

Moderator: Joel Finnis. (1:34:38)

Advances in Weather & Climate Risk Communication – Part 1

Presentation Session: six presentations, 15 minutes each; total time 1:35:20

Presenters: Amber Silver, Renee Sieber, Karen Smith, Yumeng Zhang & Victoria Slonosky, Joel Finnis, and Devon Telford

  1. Machine Classification of Official Weather Alerts on Canadian Social Media to Improve Public Engagement and Situational Awareness – Renee Sieber
  2. The influence of affective response on information seeking during Hurricane Fiona: Analysis of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model – Amber Silver
  3. Spatial Distribution of Heat Vulnerability in Toronto – Karen Smith
  4. Breaking the equation between extreme weather and disruptive events – Victoria Slonosky and Yumeng Zhang
  5. Sea Change in Marine Forecasting & Fishing Safety: Navigating Weather and Relationships in Commercial Fisheries – Joel Finnis
  6. Predicting and Alerting for Coastal Flooding Project – Devon Telford

Advances in Weather & Climate Risk Communication – Part 2

Presentation Session: five presentations 15 minutes each; total time 1:25:00

Presenters: Lea Braschi, Carrington Pomeroy, Charles Antoine, Charles Lin, and G.S. Strong

  1. Crossing Discipline Boundaries to Fill Climate Information Gaps – Lea Braschi
  2. Climate-Change Scaled IDF data: a new user-driven dataset on ClimateData.ca – Carrington Pomeroy
  3. Costing Climate Resilient Infrastructure On-Reserve – Charles Antoine
  4. Consumers and citizens making impact on Canada’s Net Zero challenge – Charles Lin
  5. The Immoralities of Climate Change – G.S. Strong