| Thursday, 28 July 2005 |
| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| Sunday, 31 July 2005 |
| 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Registration Opens |
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| Monday, 1 August 2005 |
| 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Friday, 5 August |
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| 8:30 AM, Monday
Short Course (Broadcast) Include Lunch |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| Tuesday, 2 August 2005 |
| 8:40 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 1 Broadcasters Storm the Hill |
Chair: Jillene Wahl, WYFF-TV, Greenville, SC
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| 8:40 AM | 1.1 | Welcome to Washington D.C
Robert T. Ryan, WRC-TV, Washington, DC; and D. Hill and T. Shutt |
| 9:00 AM | 14.1 | Broadcast Meteorology–How are we doing in the year 2005?
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN |
| 9:20 AM | 1.3 | Hurricane Ivan...was I the Terrible?
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA |
| 9:40 AM | 1.4 | The impact of legislation on broadcast meteorologists
Barry Lee Myers, AccuWeather Inc, State College, PA; and D. J. N. Myers and M. A. Steinberg |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 2 Risky Business: Severe Weather |
Chair: Jay Prater, KAKE-TV, Wichita, KS
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 3 Messy Business: Winter Weather |
Chair: Katie Horner, KCTV-5, Kansas City, KS
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 4 Putting your entourage together |
Chair: David Bernard, WWL-TV, New Orleans, LA
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | University Partnerships: the Huntsville, Alabama Experiment
Wayne M. MacKenzie Jr., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, B. T. Huffines, and K. Watts |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | Covering the Storm: Broadcasting from the NWS Storm Prediction Center and other National Centers 
Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and K. Tarp |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | Clustering Severe Storms Across the United States 
Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean and D. McCarthy |
| 4:15 PM | 4.4 | User–Centric™ Weather–The Future of Broadcast Meteorology
Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS |
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| 4:30 PM-5:26 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 5 Capital Ideas - Vendor Session |
| 4:30 PM | 5.1 | WSI. The disruptive weather company
Chris Goode, Director of Media Sales, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA |
| 4:37 PM | 5.2 | Hyper-LOCAL…24X7
Peter Levy, President, Weather Metrics, Inc., Lenexa, KS |
| 4:44 PM | 5.3 | ESP:LIVE
Joe DiGiovanni, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI |
| 4:51 PM | 5.4 | USEPA's SunWise Program and Meteorologist: Working Together to Teach Kids Sun Safety
Linda Rutsch, USEPA SunWise Team, Washington, DC |
| 4:58 PM | 5.5 | Public Safety Alert (PSA) Program
Bruce Thomas, Chief Meteorologist, Midland Radio Corp, Kansas City, MO |
| 5:05 PM | 5.6 | Baron Services
Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL |
| 5:12 PM | 5.7 | The Eco-celli Barometer--the first and only liquid mercury-free barometer
Mike Matvichuk, Allivan Marketing, LLC, Tyngsboro, MA |
| 5:19 PM | 5.8 | Enhancements to the Galileo weather system
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and R. Ayres and M. Steinberg |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Formal Opening of Exhibits |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| Wednesday, 3 August 2005 |
| 8:30 AM, Wednesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 6 Taking the Floor: Meet the Broadcast Board |
Chair: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN
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| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Keynote Session Political Science |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Exhibits Open |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 1 Joint AMS Panel on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology) |
Panelists: Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel, Boulder, CO; Bryan Hannegan, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; Stephen E. Zebiak, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University
Moderator: Ron McPherson, AMS, Boston, MA
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| 1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 2 Environmental Education, Training, and Outreach (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology) |
Chair: Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | Supporting the broadcast meteorology community through continuing education initiatives
Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and G. Fishel |
| 1:45 PM | J2.2 | Weather impacts on watersheds: development of Web-based curriculum for broadcast meteorologists
Joseph Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Owens, M. Kelsch, S. Espinoza, and D. Sliter |
| 2:00 PM | J2.3 | The Numerical Weather Prediction Professional Development Series (NWP PDS)
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and S. D. Jascourt |
| 2:15 PM | J2.4 | Satellite education and training resources for the forecast community: advances in meteorological satellite data and applications
Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and S. Wang |
| 2:30 PM | J2.5 | COMET Marine and Coastal Meteorology Modules
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Wesley and A. J. Bol |
| 2:45 PM | J2.6 | COMET ensemble prediction training
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD |
| 3:00 PM | J2.7 | COMET® case studies in hydrometeorology training
Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 3 Forum on the Future Role of the Human in the Forecast Process Part 3: Roles of the Public and Private Sector (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology) |
Moderator: Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS, Wakefield, VA
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Session 7 IABM Annual General Meeting: Everyone Welcome |
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| Thursday, 4 August 2005 |
| 8:45 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 8 Something in the Air |
Chair: Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, VA
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| 8:45 AM | 8.1 | Have NBC’s WeatherPlus channels changed the broadcast weather environment?
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and D. R. L. Rainey and M. A. Steinberg |
| 9:00 AM | 8.2 | A New Federal Alert System for Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation
Jason Samenow, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC; and C. S. Long and S. Monroe |
| 9:15 AM | 8.3 | A perfect smog storm: review of the particle pollution episode in the Midwest from January 31 to February 6, 2005
Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and A. C. Chan, C. E. Lengyel, R. A. Wayland, and J. E. White |
| 9:30 AM | 8.4 | U.S. EPA's AIRNow program: A partnership broadcasters can breathe easy over
Richard A. Wayland, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. E. White, S. A. Jackson, and T. S. Dye |
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| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 9 More Than Hot Air |
Chair: Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV, Evansville, IN
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
1 Exhibits Open |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 10 Monumental Ideas |
Chair: Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC
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| 10:30 AM | 10.1 | Using satellite imagery to improve on-air forecasts and nowcasts
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:00 AM | 10.2 | Put Some Meteors in Your Meteorology
J. Kelly Beatty, Night Sky Magazine, Cambridge, MA |
| 11:30 AM | 10.3 | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Citizen Science for Volunteers and Preciptiation Information for Decision Makers
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS Network/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli and N. J. Doesken |
| 11:45 AM | 10.4 | The weather pattern cycle discovery (forecasting long range)
Gary Lezak, Shawnee, KS |
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| 12:00 PM, Thursday
Session Luncheon -- Joint -- Speaker Bob Ryan |
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| 1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 11 Different Languages, Same Weather |
Chair: Ronald Hearst, KYTV-3, Springfield, MO
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| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 12 Being the station scientist |
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
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| 2:00 PM | 12.1 | National Weather Service Digital Services: Building a Weather Database Together
Glenn Austin, NOAA/NWS/Office of Climate, Water, & Weather Services, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Horvitz, C. Alex, D. Young, and K. Gurka |
| 2:15 PM | 12.3 | Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS) Helping you be the Station Scientist
Emilie Lorditch, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD |
| 2:30 PM | 12.4 | Introduction to Being the Station Scientist
Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Thursday
1 Exhibits Open |
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| 3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 13 More Being the Station Scientist |
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
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| 5:45 PM, Thursday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| Friday, 5 August 2005 |
| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 14 Do You Want Another Term?? Career Session |
Chair: Mark Nelsen, KPTV, Portland, OR
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| 10:30 AM, Friday, Diplomat Ballroom
Panel Discussion 1 Career Panel from the Broadcast Industry |
Chair: Veronica Johnson, NBC4, Washington, DC
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| 12:00 PM, Friday
Conference Ends |
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