Katie Wilson

Research Scientist

During graduate school, Dr. Wilson designed and conducted experiments in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed to examine the impact of rapidly-updating phased-array radar data on NWS forecasters’ warning decision processes. While Dr. Wilson’s training was primarily in meteorology, she has studied and applied methods from psychology and human factors to answer research questions that are interdisciplinary in nature. For example, methods have included cognitive task analysis, confidence-based and workload assessments, eye-tracking, and focus groups. Currently, Dr. Wilson is working with the Warn-on-Forecast group at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory to test operational applications of the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles (NEWS-e) from both research and operational meteorologists’ perspectives, while also evaluating its usability, strengths, and limitations. This research will contribute towards the development of a Warn-on-Forecast system prototype that is suitable for operations.