Long Beach, CA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flooding in the Southwestern U.S., severe drought in California, and tropical storms on the East, West, and Gulf Coasts. Will more extreme weather-related events hit our nation? What can we do to prepare and adapt? The Aquarium of the Pacific in Southern California invites you to find out by watching its Extreme Weather webcast featuring NOAA’s National Weather Service Meteorologist-In-Charge Mark Jackson; Glen M. MacDonald, UCLA professor of geography, ecology, and evolutionary biology; and Aquarium President and CEO Dr. Jerry R. Schubel. The webcast will be available for viewing on the Aquarium’s website tomorrow. The Aquarium held the webcast today during the debut of its new program Extreme Weather created for NOAA’s Science on a Sphere® (SOS) platform.
The public can experience the Extreme Weather program at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, and NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. The show is available to more than 100 institutions around the world through NOAA’s SOS Network. “This program has a capacity to reach more than 50 million people around the globe. We hope it inspires the development of preparations to adapt to the increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather and to reduce the vulnerability of communities and increase their resilience,” said Dr. Schubel.
The Extreme Weather SOS show was funded by The Miller Foundation. View the trailer at http://youtu.be/jS2TYUYNXLM. The Aquarium creates SOS programming about pressing environmental issues from extreme weather to sea level rise to share with its 1.5 million visitors as well as institutions around the world with this technology. The Aquarium also projects current NOAA data on this sphere in its Ocean Science Center and via interactive live webcasts to illustrate and analyze the impact of extreme weather-related events on our nation. The SOS can show near-real-time data fed from NOAA and NASA satellites and other monitoring systems. These data document weather, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, sea surface temperature, and more.