 The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most intense and recent memory, causing billions of dollars in damage, loss of life, and significantly impacting the U.S. and the Caribbean. And there's still a need to accurately predict when and where these powerful storms will make landfall and the impacts that come with them. In her 2018 NCAR Explorer Series talk, Dr. Rebecca Morse will be discussing these issues and more. Specifically, Dr. Morse will discuss the successes of modern hurricane prediction as well as her research to understand hurricane evacuation, decision making, and improve hurricane risk communication, and how new technology, including social media, is planned apart in all of this. So my name is Rebecca Morse. I'm a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. I'll be talking about the improvements in hurricane weather forecasting in the last few decades, and what kind of improvements we can expect to see in the future, and also the challenges and the successes of communicating risk to populations at risk and helping people make protective decisions. So come and see my talk in July. To learn more about the NCAR Explorer Series, visit the link shown here.