Katrina Voss
American pop science presenter and writer
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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, prompting discussion about the fact 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]
