| Monday, 25 June 2001 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
Workshop Registration |
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| Tuesday, 26 June 2001 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Tuesday
Workshop Registration |
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| 8:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Workshop on Severe Weather Forecasting in the New Millenium for Broadcast Meteorologists |
Organizer: Dan McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK
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| 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Conference Registration |
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| Wednesday, 27 June 2001 |
| 7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Conference Registration Continues Through Saturday, 30 June |
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| 8:15 AM-9:00 AM, Wednesday
Session 1 Welcome To Minneapolis |
Organizer: Mike McClellan, Mobile Weather Team, Inc., Peoria, IL
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| 8:15 AM | 1.1 | Welcoming Remarks
Mike McClellan, Mobile Weather Team, Inc., Peoria, IL |
| 8:25 AM | 1.2 | Welcome from the AMS
Robert Serafin, AMS President and UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 8:40 AM | 1.3 | Welcome to Minneapolis
Sam Scaman, KMSP-TV, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Session 2 30 Years of Broadcast Meteorology: Then, Now and the Future |
Organizer: Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN
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| 10:20 AM-10:40 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:40 AM-12:20 PM, Wednesday
Session 3 Changing Technology: How We Present the Weather |
Organizer: Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN
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| 10:40 AM | 3.1 | Effects of Improved Television Weather Graphics and Visual/Verbal Redundancy on Viewer Comprehension
D. James Siebert, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, NM |
| 11:05 AM | 3.2 | How Live Satellite Images Will Effect Local Weather Reporting
Malcolm LeCompte, AstroVision International, Gaithersberg, MD |
| 11:30 AM | 3.3 | River Level and Flood Forecasting Service for the new millenium
Craig M. Edwards, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN |
| 11:55 AM | 3.4 | Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science
Alicia Torres, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD |
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| 12:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open with cash & carry lunch |
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| 12:15 PM-1:40 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:50 PM, Wednesday
Session 4A How the Internet is Changing Broadcast Meteorology |
Organizer: Heather Tesch, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 1:30 PM | 4A.1 | Your Weather Website: Creating, Maintaining, and Improving
Elissa Lynn, KXTV, Sacramento, CA; and B. Montgomery |
| 1:50 PM | 4A.2 | The importance of web and sky cameras to complement NWS modernization
Fred M. Remer, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. Hovde |
| 2:10 PM | 4A.3 | How to easily retain "look and feel" of on-air weather content on your web site
Ronald J. Sznaider, DTN Kavouras Weather Services, Burnsville, MN; and B. Castello, P. Gonzales, and D. Chenevert |
| 2:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 2:40 PM | 4A.4 | Update on Professional Affairs
Ray Ban, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA |
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| 2:50 PM, Wednesday
Panel Discussion 1 Broadcast Board Panel Discussion |
Panelists: Jon Ahlquist, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; James Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN; Samantha Mohr, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, AZ; Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, MO; Heather Tesch, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; John McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN
Moderator: Mike McClellan, Chairperson, AMS Broadcast Meteorology Board and Mobile Weather Team, Inc., Peoria, IL
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| 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:40 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 4B Hype: How much is too much? |
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| 4:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Welcome Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| Thursday, 28 June 2001 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Session 5 Science vs. Entertainment and Management vs. Audience Expectation: Part I |
Organizer: Jon Ahlquist, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Amazing, incredible and unbelievable
Paul S. Joseph, Journal Broadcast Group/WTMJ TV, Milwaukee, WI |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | Seven words you can't say on TV
Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL |
| 9:30 AM | 5.3 | The New Metro Almanac
Ed Phillips, KNXV-TV/KTAR Radio, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| 10:00 AM-10:10 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:10 AM-11:40 AM, Thursday
Session 6 Science vs. Entertainment and Management vs. Audience Expectation: Part II |
Organizer: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open with Cash & Carry Lunch |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Session 7 Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? |
Organizer: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, MO
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | The Global Observing System Needed for Prediction of Global Change
Alexander E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO |
| 2:10 PM | 7.2 | The climate is not warming but sea level is rising: a paradox?
S. Fred Singer, Science & Environmental Policy Project, Arlington, VA |
| 2:50 PM | 7.3 | The Potential Consequences of Climate Change for the US—Results from the National Assessment
Michael C. MacCracken, National Assessment Coordination Office, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC |
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| 3:30 PM, Thursday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 6:30 PM, Thursday
Keynote Session Conference Banquet (Minneapolis Hilton Hotel). Speaker: Harry Volkman. Title: Highs and Lows in 50 Plus years of TV |
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| Friday, 29 June 2001 |
| 8:30 AM, Friday
Panel Discussion 2 Hiring in the 21st Century—The Changing Face of TV |
Panelists: Terry O'Reilly, CONUS Communications Company; Ted Canova, WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN; Peter Goldberg, N.S. Bienstock; Rick Gevers, Rick Gevers and Associates; Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL; Rich Appuzo, WXIX-TV, Cincinnati, OH; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN
Moderator: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, MO
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| 10:00 AM-10:10 AM, Friday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:10 AM-11:30 AM, Friday
Session 8 Holding on to that Job with Constant Change . . . Station Ownership and Doing More with less |
Organizer: John McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA
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| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Friday
Lunch Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Friday
Exhibits Open with Cash & Carry Lunch |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Friday
Session 9 Vendor Presentations |
Organizer: Samantha Mohr, KPIX, San Francisco, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 9.1 | From 5 Minutes to 48 Hours: A New Weather Forecasting Paradigm
Pete Sappanos, DTN/Kavouras Weather Services, Burnsville, MN; and D. Chenevert, R. Sznaider, M. D. Eilts, J. W. Conway, and R. Carpenter |
| 1:50 PM | 9.2 | Visual Forecasting—Taking the forecast to the next level
Sam Scaman, KMSP-TV, Minneapolis, MN; and M. Quadling and H. Quadling |
| 2:10 PM | 9.3 | Automated Tracking, Alerting and Prediction of Dangerous Convective Storms: An Assessment of the COBRA Radar Algorithms
Gregory S. Wilson, Baron Services Inc., Huntsville, AL |
| 2:30 PM | 9.4 | Personal MicroCast—Personalized weather forecasts to secure your
Terry Kelly, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI |
| 2:50 PM | 9.5 | Changing Technology—How We Present the Weather
Tad McGuire, WSI, Billerica, MA |
| 3:10 PM | 9.6 | The Next Thing in TV Weather Systems
Ken Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
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| 3:30 PM-3:40 PM, Friday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, Friday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:40 PM-4:45 PM, Friday
Session 10 AMS Seal Program |
Organizer: Dave Miller, WFRV-TV, Green Bay, WI
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| 4:45 PM, Friday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:30 PM, Friday
Minnesota Twins Baseball Game |
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| Saturday, 30 June 2001 |
| 12:00 AM, Saturday
Session Sat 30 June |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Session 11 Educating Yourself and the Viewer: What Does the Future Hold for the Broadcast Meteorologist?: Part I |
Organizer: Jon Ahlquist, Flordia State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
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| 8:30 AM | 11.1 | Verification of VIPIR Shear Detection Algoritm using multiple WSR-88D radars during 8 April 1999, 2 July 1999 and 11 May 2000 Iowa Supercell Storms
John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA; and J. Stephen |
| 9:00 AM | 11.2 | My-Cast, the science of personal meteorology
Paul Douglas, WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN; and C. Burfeind |
| 9:30 AM | 11.3 | Weather support to 2002 Olympics
Tom Potter, Univ. of Utah and Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| 10:00 AM-10:10 AM, Saturday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:10 AM-11:30 AM, Saturday
Session 12 Educating Yourself and the Viewer: What Does the Future Hold for the Broadcast Meteorologist?: Part II |
Organizer: Samantha Mohr, KPIX, San Francisco, CA
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| 10:10 AM | 12.1 | A Model for Enhancing Awareness through Collaborative Education Programs
John D. Moore, AMS/AERA, Blackwood, NJ; and K. Orr, J. Nese, and R. P. Wanton |
| 10:30 AM | 12.2 | Weather Symbols—What Do They Mean?
Jacob Swick, WRC-TV, Washington, DC; and R. T. Ryan |
| 11:00 AM | 12.3 | Communicating the confidence in your forecast
Jon E. Ahlquist, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
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| 11:30 AM, Saturday
Closing Remarks |
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| 12:00 PM, Saturday
Conference ends |
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