Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Local Climate Information to Keep Producers Happy
Webinar Details
When:
Aug 16, 2018 3:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:00 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Pam Knox, Agricultural Climatologist for the Crop and Soil Sciences Department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia
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In this Climate Learning Network webinar, Pam Knox, Interim Director of the Georgia Weather network, will look at sources of climate data from a number of different agencies across the US and talk about how they can be used to document accidents, answer questions from reporters, monitor crop growth and conditions, and keep tabs on drought and floods in your county. She will also provide some links to sites you can visit to get projections of future climate for county officials or business planning.
Finding weather information is usually easy; just download an app or do a search on Google, and you are inundated with current weather information from many different sources. But try to find historical climate data or projections of future climate conditions, and you may find it much harder. In this webinar, Pam Knox, Interim Director of the Georgia Weather network, will look at sources of climate data from a number of different agencies across the US and talk about how they can be used to document accidents, answer questions from reporters, monitor crop growth and conditions, and keep tabs on drought and floods in your county. She will also provide some links to sites you can visit to get projections of future climate for county officials or business planning. If you have particular information that you are having trouble finding, you are welcome to bring your questions along to the webinar, and Pam will try to answer them (or tell you why she can't).
About Pam Knox
Pam Knox has served as an Agricultural Climatologist for the Crop and Soil Sciences Department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia since 2012, and is also currently serving as the Interim Director of the Georgia Weather Network. Prior to that she was the Assistant State Climatologist for Georgia beginning in 2001. In those positions she provided weather and climate data and analysis to a wide variety of users across the southeastern United States, analyzed weather and climate patterns across the region, and communicated those findings to stakeholders and other users in a variety of settings, including in meetings, on webinars and in other presentations, in factsheets and other publications, and through her blog “On the CASE” Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” at https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate. In addition, she is a regional coordinator for the volunteer CoCoRaHS (Community Cooperative Rain Hail and Snow) rainfall network in Georgia. Pam is an active Certified Consulting Meteorologist in the areas of forensic meteorology and climatology and a member of the American Meteorological Society’s Board on Certified Consulting Meteorologists.
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