Program: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology (30th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)

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Monday, 25 June 2001

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 25 June 2001

Workshop Registration

Tuesday, 26 June 2001

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 26 June 2001

Workshop Registration

8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 26 June 2001

Workshop on Severe Weather Forecasting in the New Millenium for Broadcast Meteorologists

Organizer: Dan McCarthy, NOAA/SPC

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 26 June 2001

Conference Registration

Wednesday, 27 June 2001

7:30 AM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Conference Registration Continues Through Saturday, 30 June

8:15 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Session 1

Welcome To Minneapolis

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Mike McClellan, Mobile Weather Team, Inc.

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

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Session 2

30 Years of Broadcast Meteorology: Then, Now and the Future

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV

9:00 AM

2.1

National Weather Service: Looking Back 30 Years and Looking to the Future

John E. Jones Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 AM

2.2

The Last 30+ Years of Broadcast Meteorology...How Far We've Come...Or Have We?

Harvey Leonard, WHDH-TV, Boston, MA; and R. E. Albert

10:00 AM

2.3

Tornado Trends Across the United States 1950 - 2000

Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK

10:20 AM-10:40 AM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Coffee Break

10:40 AM-12:20 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Session 3

Changing Technology: How We Present the Weather

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV

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

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Exhibits Open with cash & carry lunch

12:15 PM-1:40 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:50 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Session 4A

How the Internet is Changing Broadcast Meteorology

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Heather Tesch, The Weather Channel

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

4A.4

Update on Professional Affairs

Ray Ban, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

2:40 PM

4A.3a

Coffee Break

2:50 PM-2:50 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Panel Discussion 1

Broadcast Board Panel Discussion

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Moderator: Mike McClellan, Chairperson, AMS Broadcast Meteorology Board and Mobile Weather Team, Inc.

Panelists: Jon Ahlquist, Florida State Univ.; James Jaggers, WHBQ-TV; Samantha Mohr, KTVK-TV; Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV; Heather Tesch, The Weather Channel; John McLaughlin, KCCI-TV; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV

3:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Exhibit Hours

3:40 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Session 4B

Hype: How much is too much?

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

3:40 PM

4B.1

Public Response to Media Hype: Who's To Blame?

Dave Jones, StormCenter.Com, Ellicott City, MD

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Sessions end for the day

5:00 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 27 June 2001

Welcome Reception (Cash Bar)

Thursday, 28 June 2001

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Session 5

Science vs. Entertainment and Management vs. Audience Expectation: Part I

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Jon Ahlquist, Florida State Univ.

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

10:00 AM-10:10 AM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Coffee Break

10:10 AM-11:40 AM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Session 6

Science vs. Entertainment and Management vs. Audience Expectation: Part II

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV

10:10 AM

6.1

Long Range Weather Forecasts: Valuable or Valueless?

Allan C. Eustis, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

10:40 AM

6.2

The Fujita Scale: What Does It Really Tell Us About Tornadoes?

Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. T. Schaefer

11:10 AM

6.3

The UPS and DOWNS of Meteorology

H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Rockville, MD; and B. G. Levine

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Exhibits Open with Cash & Carry Lunch

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Session 7

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Organizer: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV

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

3:30 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Sessions End for the day

3:30 PM-6:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Exhibit Hours

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Reception (Cash Bar)

6:30 PM-6:30 PM: Thursday, 28 June 2001

Keynote Speaker

Conference Banquet (Minneapolis Hilton Hotel). Speaker: Harry Volkman. Title: Highs and Lows in 50 Plus years of TV

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Friday, 29 June 2001

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Friday, 29 June 2001

Panel Discussion 2

Hiring in the 21st Century—The Changing Face of TV

Host: 30th Broadcast Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Moderator: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV

Panelists: Terry O'Reilly, CONUS Communications Company; Ted Canova, WCCO-TV; Peter Goldberg, N.S. Bienstock; Rick Gevers, Rick Gevers and Associates; Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV; Rich Appuzo, WXIX-TV; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV