Gina Eosco Email & Phone Number

Dr. Gina Eosco is the Weather Program Office’s Division Chief for Science, Technology, and Society overseeing an interdisciplinary set of WPO programs including the Testbed and Vortex Program, Joint Technology Transfer Initiative, and the Social Science Program. Together, this Division ensures that research and development projects are useful, usable, and used through co-development and transitioning research into applications. For the last 6 years (2017-2023) , she led the development and expansive growth of WPO’s Social Science Program (SSP) from inception to a 6 member team supporting $20 million in active research and development projects. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, Gina focuses on the human dimensions of weather science, forecasts, and services ensuring that people, including forecasters, partners, and publics, are part of the research and application process. During her tenure, the SSP developed three main focus areas: transferring social science knowledge through research to applications, advancing social science data and associated infrastructure needs, and developing evaluation tools to measure progress, impact, and change.Prior to joining WPO, Gina worked for Eastern Research Group where she worked closely with the National Weather Service on evaluating products, developing new warnings, and most notably, working on the hazard simplification project, an evaluation of the NWS watch, warning, and advisory program. She has extensive facilitation experience conducting focus groups and workshops across the country with emergency managers, broadcast meteorologists, NWS forecasters, and the public. Gina is an active member of the Society for Risk Analysis, National Weather Association, as well as the American Meteorological Society. She is the 2019 recipient of the AMS Award for Early Career Professional Achievement, as well as the 2020 recipient of OAR’s Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award. Dr. Eosco earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in weather risk communication from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Maryland.

Listed skills include Research, Community Outreach, Data Analysis, Climate Change, and 16 others.