August 4, 1999 Library Discussion

with
Adele Chiesa
Learning Resource Center
National Emergency Training Center
Emmitsburg, MD

and
Roger Pielke, Jr.
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

Communication Between Researchers and Practitioners

SUMMARY

EIIP Virtual Library Presentation
Wednesday - August 4, 1999 - 12 Noon EDT

Communication Between Researchers and Practitioners

Adele Chiesa
Head of the Learning Resource Center
National Emergency Training Center
Emmitsburg, MD

Roger Pielke, Jr.,
Scientist
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

EIIP Moderator: Amy Sebring

The session in the EIIP Virtual Library was an outgrowth of a suggestion made during a recent Round Table session. A study on communication between researchers and practitioners was conducted in connection with the Second Assessment and it confirms the perception that there is a lack of communication between both groups. The session explored this issue with input from both the research and practitioner perspective with extremely good observations made during the dialogue.

The Forum hosted two very knowledgeable individuals for the discussion:
· Adele Chiesa, Chief of the Learning Resource Center at the National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, MD: Adele has worked as Librarian with FEMA, the USFA, and the LRC for 23 years, and assists practitioners with requests for information and resources.
· Roger Pielke, Jr., Scientist, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. Roger's research focuses on the relation of scientific information and public and private sector decision-making.

See the August 4, 1999 transcript in the EIIP Virtual Forum for the entire discussion and Q&A with the audience.

ADELE CHIESA

Learning Resource Center
National Emergency Training Center
Emmitsburg, MD

Adele Chiesa is the head of the Learning Resource Center (LRC) at FEMA's National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD. She has been a librarian with FEMA, the US Fire Administration (USFA) and the LRC for her entire 23 years of Federal service.

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ROGER A. PIELKE, JR.
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Scientist
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is a Scientist at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He also holds an affiliate professorship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado. With a B.A.in mathematics and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado, his research focuses on the relation of scientific information and public and private sector decision making.

His current areas of research are societal responses to extreme weather events, domestic and international policy responses to climate change, and United States science policy. He currently chairs the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Societal Impacts, and serves on the Science Steering Committees of the U.S. Weather Research Program’s and the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme among other advisory committees. He is a co-author (with his father) of Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impact on Society, published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons Press.

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