Presentations

Below is a curated selection of presentations. For the full list, please refer to my CV

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Extreme Heat

Olson, M. (July 2024). Heat communication: Understanding challenges and improving strategies for public safety. Extreme Heat Workshop: Emerging Risks from Concurrent, Compounding, and Record-Breaking Heat (Sponsored by Columbia Climate School), New York, NY. View slides

Pollock, B., Olson, M.K., Sutton, J. (July 2024). Extreme heat information: Bridging the gap between expert jargon and public understanding [Poster Presentation]. 49th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO. View poster

Olson, M. K, Sutton, J., and Pollock, B. (January 2024) Assessing public understanding and interpretation of heat-related information for improved heat risk communication. The 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice, American Meteorological Society's 104th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. View slides

Olson, M. K., Sutton, J., & Olivas, S. (January 2023). Understanding the public’s interpretation of extreme heat products. American Meteorological Society’s 18th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. View slides

Risk and Crisis Communication

Olson, M. K. (September 2024). Bridging the gap between science and the public: A conversation with Dr. Micki Olson. Invited presentation to all Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff. Virtual. View slides

Olson, M. K., Covello, V., Siegel, V., & Quiett Smith, C. (June 2024). Risk communications. J. Wieder (Moderator), FEMA Risk Communications, Crisis Communications, and Community Engagement Summit. Washington, DC. View workshop report

Dr. Olson speaking at FEMA’s first Risk Communications,

Crisis Communications, and Community Engagement Summit

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Alerts and Warnings

Olson, M.K. (March 2024). The Message Design Dashboard. Invited presentation for FEMA IPAWS Alert, Warning, and Notification Webinar. Virtual. View slides

Olson, M. K. (September 2023). A decade of Wireless Emergency Alerts. Invited presentation for the 2023 IPAWS User Conference. View recording. View slides.

Olson, M. K. (April 2022). Principles & practices for designing high-impact weather warning messages. The Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) Workshop on Societal Impacts of Severe/High Impact Weather. Virtual. View slides