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Katrina Voss

Katrina O. Voss is a science writer and former bilingual broadcast meteorologist for The Weather Channel Latin America and AccuWeather.[1] She is a science and research writer at Penn State’s Eberly College of Science[2] and has contributed to a number of scientific journals and magazines, including New Scientist,[3] The Humanist,[4] Free Inquiry,[5] and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[6] In 2006, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, she wrote about the psychological effects of sharing a name with a hurricane, pointing out that the majority, if not all, of hurricanes had been named after women.[7][8][9][10]

Voss holds an AMS Seal[11] and questioned the organization's decision to replace the program with the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal rather than leaning into the benefits of having broadcasters of wider educational backgrounds.[12] In an August 2009 issue of the New Scientist,[3] she advised people to "stop being precious" over their DNA.[13][14] She and her husband, anthropologist and geneticist Mark D. Shriver,[15] collaborated on a SciVee series called Reading Between the Genes.[16] Voss holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish literature and geosciences and meteorology.[17]

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  1. ^ "Voss". AccuWeather.[dead link]
  2. ^ "Katrina Voss". The Humanist. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  3. ^ a b Voss, Katrina (2009-08-24). "Your genome isn't that precious – give it away". New Scientist.
  4. ^ "If English Was Good Enough for Jesus…". The Humanist. July 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-09-23.
  5. ^ "The Latest Issue of Free Inquiry". Free Inquiry. Vol. 26, no. 2. February 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-02-06.
  6. ^ Voss, Katrina (June 2006). "Hurricane Ergo Sum". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 87 (6): 757–759. Bibcode:2006BAMS...87..757V. doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-6-757. JSTOR 26217180.
  7. ^ Swanson, Bob; Rice, Doyle (2006-07-10). "Sharing a Name with 'the Genghis Khan of Hurricanes". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07.
  8. ^ Keim, Brandon (2009-08-26). "What's in a (Hurricane) Name". Wired Magazine.
  9. ^ Thompson, Andrea (2006-07-26). "Hurricane [your name here]". ScienceLine. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  10. ^ "Hurricane Naming Stirs Controversy". Discovery Channel. Archived from the original on 2009-10-30. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
  11. ^ "List of AMS Television Seal Holders". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on 2008-09-15.
  12. ^ Voss, Katrina (2008). "On the Boxing of Broadcast Meteorologists". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 89 (5): 587–590. ProQuest 232623489.
  13. ^ Hawks, John (2009-09-16). "Is your genome worth guarding?". JohnHawks.net. Archived from the original on 2009-09-25.
  14. ^ "Who owns you?". Wheels Within Wheels. 2009-08-25.
  15. ^ "Races, Faces, Sex and Science" (PDF). Channel 4. 2009. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  16. ^ "Reading Between the Genes". SciVee. Archived from the original on 2009-10-12. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
  17. ^ Voss, Katrina (2006-02-26). "Thank You, Science" (PDF). Secular Humanist. Retrieved 2023-04-06.

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