Taylor Maciag

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Taylor Maciag

Research Associate

tdewinter@ou.edu
taylor.dewinter@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 3104

Education

MS, Geography, University of Oklahoma
BS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Affiliated CIWRO Team

Behavioral Insights Unit

About

Taylor is a member of CIWRO/NSSL’s Behavioral Insights Unit, and has a background in both meteorology and geography. Her research focuses on how end-users (emergency managers, public, etc.) interpret and use weather information, including research with future technologies in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed and post-event fieldwork studies. Her fieldwork experience involves engaging with a variety of decision makers including emergency managers, forecasters, and the general public, to understand communication processes before, during, and after severe weather events.

Research Focus

Human behavior in risk perception, decision-making, and response to hazardous weather
End-user interpretation and use of weather information
Enhancing research-to-operation relationships

CIWRO Research Themes

Social and Socioeconomic Impacts of High Impact Weather

Publications

Maciag, T.A., H. Obermeier, K. Berry, M.J. Krocak, K. Klockow-McClain, and D. Hogg, 2024: Emergency manager preferences for rapidly updating severe weather warnings. Wea. Forecasting, in review.
DeWinter-Maciag, T.A. and R.A. McPherson, 2023: A spatial analysis of decisions made in response to simulated tornado warnings in the United States. Wea. Climate Soc. 15, 999-1011, https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-22-0133.1.

Conference presentations

Maciag, T., D. Hogg, H. Obermeier, K. Berry, M. Krocak, A.C. Wanless, S. Stormer, and T. Lindley, 2024: How do emergency managers in Oklahoma use fire weather products?: A preliminary study. 19th Symp. Societal Applications, Policy, Research, and Practice, Baltimore, MD, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1A.2, https://ams.confex.com/ams/104ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/432356.
Maciag, T., 2023: Forecasters: Overcoming gaps in the geography of the IWT during the 4 Nov 2022 tornado outbreak, Showcase Session #2, Kansas City, MO, National Weather Association, https://nwas.org/2023-showcase-list/
Klockow McClain, K., T. DeWinter, A. Gaviria, D. Hogg, J. Sharpe, and J. Trujillo-Falcón, 2023: Dec 10, 2021 Mid-South tornado outbreak: An integrated study of forecast communication and public response, 18th Symp. Societal Applications: Policy, Research, and Practice, Denver, CO, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 7B.1, https://ams.confex.com/ams/103ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/413123.
DeWinter, T., J. Trujillo-Falcón, K. Klockow-McClain, H. Obermeier, and K. Berry, 2022: Impacts of uncertainty on end-users communicating Threats-In-Motion, Special Session: Recent progress in Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) Severe, Pittsburgh, PA, National Weather Association, https://nwas.org/annual-meeting-events/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting-preliminary-agenda/
DeWinter, T., D. Hogg, and K. Klockow-McClain, 2022: Impacts of uncertainty on emergency managers communicating Threats-In-Motion, 6th Conf. Weather Warnings and Communications, Milwaukee, WI, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 4.7, https://ams.confex.com/ams/49BC6WxComm/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/403083.
DeWinter, T., R. McPherson, J. Koch, and K. Klockow-McClain, 2022: A spatial analysis of simulated tornado warning decisions in the United States, 17th Symp. Societal Applications: Policy, Research, and Practice, Virtual, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 199, https://ams.confex.com/ams/102ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/399270.
DeWinter, T., R. McPherson, J. Koch, and K. Klockow-McClain, 2021: A spatial analysis of simulated tornado warning decisions in the United States: Preliminary results, poster, Virtual, American Association of Geographers.

Professional organizations

American Meteorological Society