Broadcast meteorologists from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas will meet  April 22-23 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman for a climate change science workshops managed by The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media.

TV meteorologists from three states meet at the University of Oklahoma in Norman April 22 and 23 for a full-day climate science workshop.

The TV meteorologists will gather through a grant from The Grantham Foundation, funder of The Yale Forum, to Yale University’s Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Previous workshops along these lines were held at the University of Miami’s Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in 2010 and at The Field Museum in Chicago the previous year, with funding for both of those workshops provided by the McCormick Foundation of Chicago. In addition, The Yale Forum held a full-day Grantham-funded “short course” in Portland, Ore., in 2009 as part of the annual broadcast meteorologists meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

The by-invitation workshop at the University of Oklahoma, like the earlier workshops in the series, will feature a faculty consisting of both climate scientists and TV meteorologists with their own direct experiences in reporting on- and off-air on climate change science issues. As with the previous regional workshops, the Norman workshop presentations will include a focus on scientific knowns and unknowns of particular importance to the region — severe storms, wildfires, tornadoes, drought, and summer heat waves.

For further information, contact bud@yaleclimatemediaforum.org.