Forty teachers from as far as Harrisburg and Philadelphia participated in the 6 Degrees of Connection Educator Workshop held at NNC. The workshop was part of the 6 Degrees of Connection project funded through a NASA grant to NNC that aims to increase knowledge and interest in STEM topics and careers in middle school students... Read More -
NNC’s ongoing research into the public response to flood and hydrologic forecasts was highlighted in three separate presentations at the 2018 annual American Meteorological Society conference in Austin, Texas this week. Executive Director Rachel Hogan Carr presented on NNC’s work with the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service (NWS), which focused on improving... Read More -
Since 2012, Nurture Nature Center has conducted a series of social science research studies on the ways that residents and emergency managers in flood-prone communities throughout the Eastern United States use various flood forecast products issued by NWS, to help make recommendations for how they can be improved to become easier to understand and more... Read More -
Nurture Nature Center is advancing its work on flooding through a new grant-funded project and the release of two new peer-reviewed journal articles on social science research studies conducted by the organization. The new study, "Major Risks, Uncertain Outcomes: Making Ensemble Forecasts Work for Multiple Audiences," is a two-year study designed to understand and make... Read More -
Nurture Nature Center's project, called 6 Degrees of Influence: Understanding the Interconnectedness of Earth Systems, supports NASA's education mission to advance high quality STEM education through the development of NOAA Science on a Sphere and related programming for middle school students, teachers, and minority undergraduates. Read More -
In April 2015, Nurture Nature Center released the final report for its study, They Had the Facts, Why Didn’t They Act?: Understanding and Improving Public Response to NWS Coastal Flood Forecasts. Findings suggest that emergency briefings are an important communication tool for the public, and the report makes other suggestions for improving communicating during coastal... Read More -