Town Hall Meetings


Building a Weather-Ready Nation through WRN Ambassador Training
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019

How would you use a airborne phased array research radar?
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizers: Chris Burghart, NCAR; Scott Ellis, NCAR
Facilitator: Scott Ellis, NCAR

Next Generation, Integrated Human-Earth Systems Science: LINKS through Convergent Disciplines, Capabilities, Methods, and Communities
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Robert W Vallario, DOE
Panelists: Gerald Geernaert, DOE; Renu Joseph, Department of Energy; Ian Kraucunas, PNNL; Paul Ullrich, Univ. of California, Davis

Sunday, 12 January 2020

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1:00 PM-2:30 PM: Sunday, 12 January 2020


Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Round-Table Discussion
Location: 104A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Doug Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS
Facilitators: Doug Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Brian Jackson, NWS
Panelist: Doug Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS

Monday, 13 January 2020

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12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


AMS & the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Location: 157AB (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Alicia Cheripka, OAR

Environment and Security:  AMS Partnerships for the Future
Location: 153B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Eileen Shea, CASE Consultants International

Getting creative with climate change outreach: promoting scientific engagement, improving science literacy, and building community
Location: 152 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Janel Hanrahan, Northern Vermont Univeristy-Lyndon
Facilitator: Janel Hanrahan, Northern Vermont Univeristy-Lyndon
Panelist: Jonathan Hutchinson, Northern Vermont Univeristy-Lyndon
Speaker: Janel Hanrahan, Northern Vermont Univeristy-Lyndon

The NASA Earth Science Flight Program - Investments In And Planning For The Next-Generation Earth Observatories: NASA HQ
Location: 251 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 10th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office
Facilitator: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis

Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


2019 NCEI Users’ Conference - Debrief And Path Forward
Location: 153A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Annette Hollingshead, Riverside Technology, inc.
Facilitators: Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information; Jenny Dissen, North Carolina State Univ., and North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies; Najimah jones, Riverside Technology, inc.

Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations -- A Discussion of the Definition UnderDevelopment for the Glossary of Meteorology
Location: 152 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: F. Martin Ralph, SIO
Facilitator: F. Martin Ralph, SIO

NOAA Modeling Forum
Location: 157AB (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA
Facilitator: Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA

NOAA Presidential Town Hall Meeting
Location: 253A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Charles Bell, NOAA

OPEN Government Data Act on Data Stewardship Planning for Federal Agencies
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates
Facilitator: Doug schuster, NCAR
Panelist: Edward J. Kearns, NOAA

United States Air Force Weather Capabilities Roadmap
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Andrew Travis, AWS
Speaker: John P. Dreher, AWS

Upcoming NASA Health and Air Quality Missions: the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) and Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO)
Location: 153B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Abigail Nastan, JPL
Panelists: Abigail Nastan, JPL; Michael Garay, NASA /JPL/California Institute of Technology; M. J. Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama; Aaron Naeger, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; John A. Haynes, NASA

Weather in the clouds: leveraging public clouds for scalable operational meteorology
Location: 156BC (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Gene Dolgin, ClimaCell

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Improving Field Campaign Data Archive Services at the NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Location: 153A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Greg Stossmeister, NCAR
Facilitator: James A. Moore, NCAR
Panelists: Linda Cully, NCAR; John Allison, NCAR; Scot Loehrer, NCAR

NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) Town Hall
Location: 153B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: J. A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate
Panelists: Paula Bontempi, NASA; L. Friedl, NASA, NASA Applied Sciences Program and USGEO co-chair agency; E. Ianson, NASA; P. Millar, NASA
Speaker: Sandra Alba Cauffman, Acting Earth Science Division Director, Science Mission Directorate, NASA

NASA Science and Space Weather
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Richard A. Behnke, Science Prime
Speaker: Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA

Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Forecasts for the Future, Visions and Dreams for the next 100 Years
Location: 152 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Timothy Schneider, UCAR

LWS Institutes: Pathways for Reducing Risk to Aviation and Satellite Operations
Location: 153B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Kendra Greb, UCAR
Facilitator: Madhulika guhathakurta, Ames Research Center
Panelist: Kathleen Malone, American Airlines
Speakers: W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies; Yongliang Zhang, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins Univ.

Linking the forecasting needs to solutions of the Analysis and Nowcast (0-18 Hour Forecast) through the requirements of the National Weather Service
Location: 251 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizers: Young-Joon Kim, NWS; Mark A. Tew, NWS
Facilitators: Young-Joon Kim, NWS; Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology Integration
Panelists: Bruce Smith, NWS; Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; C. Alexander, NOAA

NOAA Big Data Project Updates
Location: 153A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Nazila Merati, ERT, Inc
Facilitator: Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR
Panelists: Jonathon o'Neil, NOAA; Shane Glass, Google Inc.; Zachary L. Flamig, Univ. of Chicago; Joe Flasher, Amazon

NOAA Satellites and the Future
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Alek Krautmann, NOAA/NESDIS
Panelists: Stephen Volz, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services; Karen st Germain, NOAA/NESDIS; P. Sullivan, NOAA; Tim Walsh, NOAA/NESDIS; Ajay Mehta, NOAA/NESDIS

NWS Evolve – Strategic and Tactical Perspectives for the NWS Workforce and our Partners
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Aubry Bhattarai, NWS
Facilitators: Jason Tuell, NWS; Stephanie Koes, NOAA

The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Water Cycle Group: New Directions and Opportunities for U.S. Water and Energy Cycle Science
Location: 158 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Jennifer Arrigo, U.S. Global Change Research Program, National Coordination Office
Facilitator: Jennifer Arrigo, U.S. Global Change Research Program, National Coordination Office

Thursday, 16 January 2020

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12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Advocating for Science as an Expert or as a Citizen
Location: 152 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Lauren Kurtz, Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF)

GEOS-Chem model overview and new developments
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University

USGEO Town Hall
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Organizer: K. S. Becker, NESDIS
Speakers: Karen St. Germain, NESDIS; L. Friedl, NASA, NASA Applied Sciences Program and USGEO co-chair agency; Timothy Newman, USGS; Erik Noble, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy