Emergency managers (EMs) and National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters routinely work together during natural disasters involving weather. Such disasters include hurricanes, tornadoes, severe windstorms, severe winter storms, wildland fires and so on. Emergency managers and their staff are often the first point of contact for NWS forecasters during a developing weather calamity. This study is designed to provide demographic information on the emergency management community — information that should help facilitate improved communications between these two key groups. The data provided via the “Data” tab are from a quality-controlled version of the larger Excel file collected during the demographic study. This larger file will appear for public use sometime in the future. Meanwhile, if you would like to use any of these preliminary results/graphs please acknowledge us as, “graphs (data) courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), website: http://www.cira.colostate.edu”
Fast, L.C., Weaver, J.F., Miller, S, &Ferrin, T. Jr. (2015). Training effects on emergency management activation response. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 71-77
Weaver, J., Harkabus, L. C., Braun, J., Miller, S., Cox, R., Griffith, J., & Mazur, R. J. (2014). An Overview of a Demographic Study of United States Emergency Managers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(2), 199-203. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00183.1
Fast, L.C., Weaver, J.F., Ferrin, T., Vila, O., & Miller S. (2013). Training effects on emergency management activiation response. Presented at the 26th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, to be held in San francisco, CA, 22-25 May 2014.
Weaver, J.F., Harkabus, L.C., Braun, J., Miller, S., Cox, R. Griffith, J. & Mazur, R.J. (2013). A demographic study of U.S. emergency managers. Bulletin of the International Association of Emergency Managers, 30, 10, 16 (cont).
Harkabus, L.C., Weaver, J., Miller, S. (2013). Understanding emergency management: Factors affecting disaster preparedness and outcomes. Presented at the 121st Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, July 31 – August 4, Honolulu, Hawaii.
