50+ creative weather projects have helped expand my academic partnerships with researchers.  This has led to multiple major research proposals, creative media production proposals, and an invitation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to do a federal assessment of Hurricane Ida. The relationships fostered through my creative work also garnered an invitation to produce a national special on the 100-year history of broadcasting, and it also led to working in partnership with a network meteorologist on my documentary series. The creative works have opened numerous doors for me to give educational webinars on the impact of weather disasters to journalists and their communities, engage with meteorologists with the National Weather Service, and go into cities and neighborhoods impacted by disasters. This allowed me to do field, qualitative, and quantitative research. with experienced social scientists affiliated with all major entities in the weather enterprise around the country and develop relationships for future research. In recent months, I’ve been invited to speak on a panel for the Alabama Emergency Management as they are doing Disaster Resiliency Summits around the state, and the organizers have sought my insights, guidance, and documentation on planning the other three held in 2022.