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'''Katrina Voss''' worked as a bilingual broadcast meteorologist for [[The Weather Channel Latin America]] and [[AccuWeather]] |
'''Katrina Voss''' worked as a bilingual broadcast meteorologist for [[The Weather Channel Latin America]] and [[AccuWeather]]<ref>[[AccuWeather]] [http://www.accuweather.com/news-bio.asp?partner=)&blog=voss]</ref> and holds the AMS Seal.<ref>[[American Meteorological Society]] [http://www.ametsoc.org/memdir/seallist/get_listoftv.cfm] List of Sealholders.</ref> |
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She is known for being a regular columnist for ''[[Free Inquiry]]'' magazine<ref>[[Free Inquiry]] [http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=index] </ref> |
She is known for being a regular columnist for the secular humanist journal ''[[Free Inquiry]]'' magazine.<ref>[[Free Inquiry]] [http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=index] </ref> Her work has also appeared in ''[[New Scientist]]'',<ref>[[New Scientist]] 24 August 2009, [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327224.500-give-your-dna-away.html] "Your genome isn't that precious – give it away."</ref> ''The Humanist'',<ref>The Humanist (www.thehumanist.org) July/August 2009, [http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/09_jul_aug/Voss.html] "If English was Good Enough."</ref> and ''[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]]''<ref>[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]] June 2006, [http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FBAMS-87-6-757&ct=1] "Hurricane Ergo Sum."</ref> where she wrote about what it is like to share a name with a devastating hurricane. After [[Hurricane Katrina]]'s impact in 2005, her comments on hurricane naming and its psychological consequences were cited in the media.<ref>[[USA Today]] July 10, 2006, [http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2006/07/sharing_a_name_.html?loc=interstitialskip] "Sharing a Name with 'the Genghis Khan of Hurricanes'."</ref> <ref>[[Wired Magazine]] (Wired Science) August 26, 2009 [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/weather/] "What's in a (Hurricane) Name."</ref> <ref>ScienceLine July 26, 2006, [http://www.scienceline.org/2006/07/26/blog-thompson-hurricane/] "Hurricane-Your Name Here."</ref> <ref>[[Discovery Channel]] (Discover Channel news website) July 10, 2006, [http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/07/10/hurricanenames_pla.html?category=human&guid=2006071011150] "Hurricane Naming Stirs Controversy."</ref> She has also questioned the merits of the [[American Meteorological Society]]'s phasing out of their Seal of Approval and replacement with the [[Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] (CBM) Seal.<ref>[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]] May 2008, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7476/is_200805/ai_n32277857/?tag=content;col1] "On the Boxing of Broadcast Meteorologists."</ref> |
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In an August 2009 issue of ''[[New Scientist]]'', she took a controversial position on DNA privacy.<ref>[http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/biotech/testing/is-your-genome-worth-guarding-2009.html][http://bendreth.com/?cat=16]</ref> |
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Katrina Voss worked as a bilingual broadcast meteorologist for The Weather Channel Latin America and AccuWeather[1] and holds the AMS Seal.[2] She is known for being a regular columnist for the secular humanist journal Free Inquiry magazine.[3] Her work has also appeared in New Scientist,[4] The Humanist,[5] and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society[6] where she wrote about what it is like to share a name with a devastating hurricane. After Hurricane Katrina's impact in 2005, her comments on hurricane naming and its psychological consequences were cited in the media.[7] [8] [9] [10] She has also questioned the merits of the American Meteorological Society's phasing out of their Seal of Approval and replacement with the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Seal.[11]
In an August 2009 issue of New Scientist, she took a controversial position on DNA privacy.[12]
She is a science education video contributor to SciVee[13] and is married to population geneticist Mark D. Shriver.
References
- ^ AccuWeather [1]
- ^ American Meteorological Society [2] List of Sealholders.
- ^ Free Inquiry [3]
- ^ New Scientist 24 August 2009, [4] "Your genome isn't that precious – give it away."
- ^ The Humanist (www.thehumanist.org) July/August 2009, [5] "If English was Good Enough."
- ^ Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society June 2006, [6] "Hurricane Ergo Sum."
- ^ USA Today July 10, 2006, [7] "Sharing a Name with 'the Genghis Khan of Hurricanes'."
- ^ Wired Magazine (Wired Science) August 26, 2009 [8] "What's in a (Hurricane) Name."
- ^ ScienceLine July 26, 2006, [9] "Hurricane-Your Name Here."
- ^ Discovery Channel (Discover Channel news website) July 10, 2006, [10] "Hurricane Naming Stirs Controversy."
- ^ Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society May 2008, [11] "On the Boxing of Broadcast Meteorologists."
- ^ [12][13]
- ^ SciVee [14]
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