{"id":564,"date":"2014-08-13T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:42","slug":"what-is-a-forensic-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/what-is-a-forensic-meteorologist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a forensic meteorologist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday August 14 at 1 pm EDT I will be giving a webinar on work I have done as a forensic meteorologist for the CoCoRaHS group. \u00a0Here is the blurb for the webinar:<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #000000\">Television shows featuring detectives who use cutting-edge science to solve crimes are among the most popular programs on television today.\u00a0 But did you know there are weather detectives, too?\u00a0 Certified consulting meteorologists are often called on to help determine the causes of accidents for court cases, and sometimes even solve serious crimes.\u00a0 Any lawyer with a case that has weather as a contributing factor can enlist a forensic meteorologist to help determine whether a particular weather condition was occurring at the time of an accident and what impact it had on the event.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this talk, we will look at the role of meteorologists as expert witnesses and see some examples of the kinds of questions they need to answer in a typical weather- or climate-related case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested, it is open to everyone, not just CoCoRaHS observers. \u00a0You can register for free at\u00a0<a title=\"Forensic meteorology webinar registration\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.gotomeeting.com\/register\/702437814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www3.gotomeeting.com\/register\/702437814<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday August 14 at 1 pm EDT I will be giving a webinar on work I have done as a forensic meteorologist for the CoCoRaHS group. \u00a0Here is the blurb for the webinar: Television shows featuring detectives who use cutting-edge science to solve crimes are among the most popular programs on television today.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22729,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/22729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}