Gina Eosco

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Gina Eosco is the Weather Program Office’s (WPO) 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. This division ensures that research and development projects are useful, usable, and used through co-development and transitioning research into operations, applications, and knowledge transfer. 

For the last six years, she led the development and expansive growth of WPO’s Social Science Program (SSP) from inception to a five-member team supporting $20 million in research and development projects. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, Eosco focuses on the human dimensions of weather science, forecasts, and services, ensuring that people, including forecasters, partners, and the public, 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 (including encouraging instrument and data publishing), and developing evaluation tools to measure progress, impact, and change.

Eosco is an active member of the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. She is the 2019 recipient of the AMS Award for Early Career Professional Achievement and the 2020 recipient of OAR’s Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award. Eosco earned her MS and PhD in weather risk communication from Cornell University and a BS in environmental science and policy from the University of Maryland.