| Sunday, 23 June 2002 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Workshop Registration |
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| Monday, 24 June 2002 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Monday
Workshop Registration |
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| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday
Workshop On Hurricanes |
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| 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration |
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| Tuesday, 25 June 2002 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Conference Registration Continues Through Friday, 28 June |
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| 8:30 AM-8:45 AM, Tuesday
Welcoming Remarks |
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| 8:45 AM-9:00 AM, Tuesday
Introductory Remarks |
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| 9:00 AM-9:10 AM, Tuesday
Weather Breifing |
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| 9:10 AM-9:40 AM, Tuesday
Introduction to Colonial Williamsburg |
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| 9:40 AM-9:50 AM, Tuesday
Announcements |
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| 9:50 AM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 1 American Weather History |
| 9:50 AM | 1.1 | From Sailing Ships to the Internet
George A. Winterling, WJXT TV, Jacksonville, FL |
| 10:05 AM | 1.2 | How the weather affected key events during the American Revolution
Elliot Abrams, Accuweather, Inc., State College, PA |
| 10:20 AM | 1.3 | A look at the "Saxby Gale" of October 1869
Joseph M. Rao, Cablevision/News 12 Westchester, Yonkers, NY |
| 10:35 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 1.4 | THE Storm of the Century: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI |
| 11:15 AM | 1.5 | Weather services in Canada and the United States—130 years of cooperation - a model for international meteorology
David W. Phillips, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | 1.6 | History of commercial sector weather innovation
Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| 11:45 AM | 1.7 | Hurricane Andrew—10 Years Later
Bryan Norcross, WFOR/CBS-TV, Miami, FL |
| 12:00 PM | 1.8 | Virgina's Early Weather History: "Postcasting" Conditions Prior to the Official Records
Dennis Blanton, Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
| 12:15 PM | 1.9 | They Taught the World to Fly—The Wright Brothers North Carolina Experience
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 12:30 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 Present Issues, Ideas, Systems and Products in Broadcast Meteorology: Part I |
| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | A Primer on AMS Finances: Where Do The $ Come From, and Where Do They Go?
Ron McPherson, AMS, Boston, MA |
| 2:00 PM | 2.2 | Analysis of cloud systems by means of Q-vector fields and satellite images
Dariusz Chaadyniak, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2:15 PM | 2.3 | Satellite Derived Data and Imagery in Your Weathercasts
Allan Eustis, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Tutza |
| 2:30 PM | 2.4 | The Weather...After September 11, 2001
David F. Jones, StormCenter.com, Inc., Severna Park, MD |
| 2:45 PM | 2.5 | New Opportunity to Publish Operationally-Focused Articles in the BAMS
Kenneth F. Carey, Department of Defense, Fairfax, VA |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:15 PM | 2.6 | Software application for preparation of meteorological data analysis
Ireneusz Winnicki, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and D. Chaadyniak and K. Kroszczyñski |
| 3:30 PM | 2.7 | Seeing Arizona with Web Cams and Weather Stations
Ed Phillips, KNXV-TV, KTAR Radio, Phoenix, AZ |
| 3:45 PM | 2.8 | Confessions from a Catalonian Climate
Tomas Molina, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, Barcelona, Spain |
| 4:00 PM | 2.9 | EPA's SunWise Meteorologist Outreach Project
Jason P. Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC; and L. G. Wilcut |
| 4:15 PM | 2.10 | Once in a blue moon
Todd Glickman, WCBS Newsradio-880, New York, NY |
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| 3:30 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 4:30 PM, Tuesday
Panel Discussion Meet your AMS Broadcast Board and Proposal for a New Broadcast Seal Process |
Panelists: Samantha Mohr, KPIX-TV, San Francisco, CA; Kathy Orr, WCAU-TV, Bala-Cynwyd, PA; Gary Ley, WJAR-TV, Providence, RI; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN; Claire Martin, Global TV, Edmonton, AB Canada; Mike Davis, WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH; John McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA; Eric Salna, KBMT-TV, Beaumont, TX; Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, VA; Jay Trobec, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD; David Tillman, KTRK-TV, Houston, TX
Moderators: Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN; Ray Ban, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Welcome Reception w/ Exhibits (Cash Bar) |
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| Wednesday, 26 June 2002 |
| 8:00 AM-8:10 AM, Wednesday
Weather Briefing |
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| 8:10 AM-8:15 AM, Wednesday
Announcements |
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| 8:15 AM, Wednesday
Session 3 Special Workshop: Eyes on the Environment—Watershed Education for Broadcast Meteorologists |
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| 9:50 AM-10:20 AM, Wednesday
EPA Address. Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC |
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| 10:20 AM-10:45 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:45 AM, Wednesday
Session 3 Special Workshop: Eyes on the Environment—Watershed Education for Broadcast Meteorologists (Continued) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday
NOAA ADDRESS. Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (Vice Admiral USN, Retired), Washington, DC |
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| 2:30 PM-4:45 PM, Wednesday
Session 4 Present Issues, Ideas, Systems and Products in Broadcast Meteorology: Part II |
| 2:30 PM | 4.1 | RTNDA Presentation
Dave Busiek, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA |
| 2:45 PM | 4.2 | Trouble in Paradise—Adverse effects of coding errors and lack of format standardization on dissemination of severe weather Watch, Warning, and Advisory products issued by the National Weather Service.
Marvin McInnis, First Alert Weather Warning Systems, Olathe, KS |
| 3:00 PM | 4.3 | Modernized Lemon Technique using WSR-88D Data
John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA |
| 3:15 PM | 4.4 | WARM WINTER SURPRISE..."HAS GLOBAL WARMING KICKED IN"
Joseph S. D'Aleo, WSI, Bilerica, MA |
| 3:30 PM | 4.5 | Urban tornadoes: are the risks growing?
Bob Henson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Freedman and H. Brooks |
| 3:45 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 4.6 | FCC Rules on Access to Emergency Information on Television For People With Hearing and Vision Disabilities
K. Dane Snowden, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC |
| 4:15 PM | 4.7 | Cold Facts and Hot Air
Inge Niedek, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
| 4:30 PM | 4.8 | American Forces Network Weather Center
Robert Matheson, American Forces Radio and Television Service, March ARB, CA; and D. M. Tirschel and R. T. Williams |
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| 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 4:45 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 5 Vendor Session: Part I |
| 4:45 PM | 5.1 | Broadcast weather presentations—a change in the wind
Jim Brihan, WSI Corp., Billerica, MA |
| 5:00 PM | 5.2 | Statistical Analysis of TVS Attributes and Baron's Shear SCITs During Various Severe Weather Events
Greg Wilson, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and K. L. Moncla and S. Ford |
| 5:15 PM | 5.3 | Weather Central Inc. Presentation
Bill Boss, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI |
| 5:30 PM | 5.4 | The MxWeatherSpan line of broadcast products and services from Meteorlogix
Ron Sznaider, Meteorlogix, Minneapolis, MN; and J. Block and B. Castello |
| 5:45 PM | 5.5 | Nature Revealed
Anthony J. Derda Jr., CG Development, Amarillo, TX |
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| 6:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception w/Exhibits (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday
Conference Banquet (Speaker: Harry Volkman "50 years of Highs and Lows of a Television Weather Pioneer") |
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| Thursday, 27 June 2002 |
| 8:00 AM-8:10 AM, Thursday
Weather Briefing |
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| 8:10 AM, Thursday
Announcements |
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| 8:20 AM-9:05 AM, Thursday
Session 6 Vendor Session: Part II |
| 8:20 AM | 6.1 | A high resolution, local point forecast model
Jainene Long, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| 8:35 AM | 6.2 | An Internet site for professional meteorologists
James T. Candor, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| 8:50 AM | 6.3 | The Next Thing in Television Weather Systems
Jainene Long, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
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| 9:05 AM-12:05 PM, Thursday
Session 7 Ideas for Improving Television Weathercasts, Communications and Coverage of Severe Weather |
|  | 7.1 | The Forecast is Partly Funny
Norman Dvoskin, News 12 Long Island, Melville, NY |
| 9:05 AM | 7.2 | A Call To Action for Severe Weather Outlooks and Watches
Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK |
| 9:20 AM | 7.3 | What Should the Media Say When the Government Is Ignoring the Watches and Warnings?
Bryan Norcross, WFOR-TV/CBS-TV, Miami, FL |
| 9:35 AM | 7.4 | Bad Meteorology
Craig James, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, MI |
| 9:50 AM | 7.5 | Forecast, Coverage and Impact of Tropical Storm Allison on Southeast Texas
Keith R. Monahan, KHWB-TV, Houston, TX |
| 10:05 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 7.6 | School WeatherNets: Worth the Effort?
John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA |
| | 7.7 | The Presentation of Temperature Information in Television Broadcasts: What is Normal?
Stacy Allen, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and E. Aldrich, K. Eric, A. R. Lupo, E. McCoy, D. Schmidt, A. Akyuz, M. Edwards, C. Halcomb, E. Wise, and D. Beiger |
| 10:35 AM | 7.8 | Severe Weather Communication via the Internet
James T. Candor, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| 10:50 AM | 7.9 | Realtime, Dual Frequency, High Resolution Radar Processing for Significant Weather
Gregory Wilson, Baron Services, Huntsville, AL; and K. Moncla and S. Ford |
| 11:05 AM | 7.10 | Elements of compelling wall-to-wall severe weather coverage
Jay Trobec, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD |
| 11:20 AM | 7.11 | Long Range Forecasting
Joseph Bastardi, AccuWeather Inc., State College, PA |
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| 10:00 AM-6:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 12:05 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Thursday
NOAA Presentation. Topics: Private-Public Partnership, and Digital Forecasting. Brigadier General John J. Kelly, Jr., Director, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 2:30 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday
Session 8 Future Issues, Systems, Practices and Products of Broadcast Meteorology |
| 2:30 PM | 8.1 | ……and there’s a wonderful view of Mont Blanc
Gerald Fleming, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, Wexford, Ireland |
| 2:45 PM | 8.2 | Back to the future with polar orbiting satellite data
Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Eustis |
| 3:00 PM | 8.3 | Moving into the digital world - literally
Robin John Reed, WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, VA |
| 3:15 PM | 8.4 | How can we be better communicators . . . what viewers think
James Darr, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and R. Ryan |
| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:45 PM | 8.5 | Dealing with uncertainties in forecasts
M. Steven Tracton, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
| 4:00 PM | 8.6 | NOAA’s New England Temperature and Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Program - Description and Outreach Opportunities
Ralph A. Petersen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Rogers and P. Y. Whung |
| 4:15 PM | 8.7 | It's A Small, Small World!
John Teather, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, New Milton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; and B. Giles |
| 4:30 PM | 8.8 | GIFTS –The Precursor of Future Geostationary Satellite Sounders – Description and Outreach Opportunities
Ralph A. Petersen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. L. Smith, F. W. Harrison, D. E. Hinton, H. E. Revercome, G. E. Bingham, J. C. Dodge, and A. S. Levine |
| 4:45 PM | 8.9 | Watch-By-County: What Is It and How Will It Change Watch Presentation
Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. T. Schaefer |
| 5:00 PM | 8.10 | National Weather Service priorities
Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather Inc., State College, PA; and B. L. Myers and M. A. Steinberg |
| 5:15 PM | 8.11 | A MODERNIZED COOPERATIVE OBSERVER NETWORK
Andrew H. Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Friday, 28 June 2002 |
| 8:00 AM-8:10 AM, Friday
Weather Briefing |
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| 8:10 AM-8:20 AM, Friday
Announcements |
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| 8:20 AM-10:15 AM, Friday
Session 9 Workshop. Global Warming and the Broadcast Meteorologist: Latest Findings and How to Commuicate Them. |
Organizer: Janine Bloomfield, Environmental Defense, Boston, MA
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | Welcome
Janine Bloomfield, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA |
| 8:35 AM | 9.2 | Observed Climate Variations and Change: Facts and Fiction
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:05 AM | 9.3 | What every broadcast meteorologist should know about global warming
Anthony J. Broccoli, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ |
| 9:30 AM | 9.4 | Potential Impacts of Climate Change to Selected Regions of the United States
Janine Bloomfield, Environmental Defense, Boston, MA |
| 9:45 AM | 9.5 | Communicating Climate Science to the Public, The Climate Stock Program
Bob Henson, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 10:00 AM | 9.6 | Climate Coverage on Local TV: Rising to the Challenge
Mish Michaels, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA and WBZ-TV4, Boston, MA |
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| 10:15 AM-10:30 AM, Friday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Friday
Session 10 Career Development Workshop |
Organizer: Erik Salna, KBMT-TV, Beaumont, TX
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| 10:30 AM | 10.1 | ARE YOU OVERWHELMED? DEADLINES, CONTRACTS, JOB SECURITY, NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR WORK AND FAMILY, I'M GOING NUTS! STRESS MANAGEMENT
Don Martin, Williamsburg Community Hospital, Williamsburg, VA |
| 10:50 AM | 10.2 | ONE DAY, MOST OF YOU WILL GET OUT OF TV? CHANGING CAREER DIRECTION
Tad McGuire, WSI, Chicago, IL |
| 11:10 AM | 10.3 | DON'T LISTEN TO STUPID ADVICE! CHARTING YOUR CAREER PATH
Pam Pulner, Pam Pulner & Associates, Washington, DC |
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| 11:30 AM, Friday
Panel Discussion Career Development Workshop Panel Discussion |
Panelists: Joe Rovitto, Clemensen & Rovitto, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Mark Pimental, WTVR-TV, Richmond, VA; Pam Pulner, Pulner & Associates, Washington, DC; Steve Swienckowski, The David Crane Agency, Inc., Raleigh, NC; Terri Smith, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; Michael Valentine, WVEC-TV, Norfolk, VA; Mark Neerman, WTVR-TV, Richmond, VA; Nancy Kent Smith, WWBT-TV, Richmond, VA; John Wessling, WTKR-TV, Norfolk, VA
Moderator: Eric Salna, KBMT-TV, Beaumont, TX
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| 12:30 PM, Friday
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