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Program Chairpersons:
Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle

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Sunday, 21 June 2009
	7:30 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, Pacific Northwest Foyer Registration for Short Course
	2:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday, Pacific Northwest Foyer Registration Opens
Monday, 22 June 2009
	7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Foyer Registration Continues through 25, June
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Monday, Cascade Ballroom Opening Breakfast Reception
	10:00 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 1 Welcome to Portland
Panelists: Matt Zaffino, KGW Television, Portland, OR; Mark Nelsen, KPTV Television, Beaverton, OR; Bruce Sussman, KOIN Television, Portland, OR; Rod Hill, KATU Television, Portland, OR Chair: Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle, Seattle, WA
10:00 AM 1.1 Opening Remarks   Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle, Seattle, WA 10:05 AM 1.2 Welcome to Portland: Panel Discussion   Matt Zaffino, KGW Television, Portland, OR; and M. Nelsen, B. Sussman, and R. Hill 10:45 AM 1.3 Portland Extremes: The Heat, Cold, & Snow   Mark Nelson, KMGH-TV, Denver, CO 11:00 AM 1.4 Overview of Severe Weather   Bruce Sussman, KOIN Television, Portland, OR
	10:45 AM-11:15 AM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 2 Severe Weather Coverage: Case Studies
Chair: George Lessens, WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI
10:45 AM 2.1 Hurricane Ike: before, during & after   Gene Norman Jr., KHOU-TV, Houston, TX 2.2 Hurricane Ike storm surge study   Tim Heller, KTRK ABC 13, Houston, TX 11:00 AM 2.3 Tornado in Murfreesboro, TN   Davis Nolan, WKRN TV, Nashville, TN
	11:15 AM-11:45 AM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Panel Discussion 1 Severe Weather Coverage: A Panel Discussion
Panelists: Gene Norman, Jr., KHOU-TV, Houston, TX; Tim Heller, KTRK ABC 13, Houston, TX; Maureen McCann, News 8 Austin, Austin, TX; Joe Witte, WJLA TV 7, Arlington, VA; Tammie Souza, WFLD, Chicago, IL; Warren Davis Nolan, WKRN TV, Nashville, TN; Mike Alger, KTVN-TV, Reno, NV Moderator: George Lessens, WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI
11:15 AM PD1.1 Discussion   Gene Norman Jr., KHOU-TV, Houston, TX; and T. Heller, M. McCann, J. Witte, T. Souza, W. D. Nolan, and M. Alger
	11:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 3 Regional Forecasting Challenges
11:45 AM 3.1 Forecasting/economic potential of the wind energy business   Justin Sharp, PPM Energy, Portland, OR
	12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Monday Vendor Training with Lunch on Own
	2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 4 Severe Weather: Additional Challenges & Tools
Chair: Maureen McCann, News 8 Austin, Austin, TX
Paper 4.1 has been moved. New paper number 4.4A   2:00 PM 4.1A The increasing role of social media during high impact weather events   John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK; and J. Demuth, G. M. Eosco, and N. S. Johnson 2:15 PM 4.2 The Baron Tornado Index, leading the next generation of tornado detection improvements   Matthew Alan Havin, Baron Services Inc., Huntsville, AL 2:30 PM 4.3 NOAA/NESDIS satellite products and direct readout overview   Thomas M. Renkevens, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD, Camp Springs, MD   Paper 4.4 has been moved. New paper number 4.1A   2:45 PM 4.4A Patterns in U.S. tornado vulnerability over the last decade   Gregory W. Carbin, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, Cascade Ballroom Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 5 Severe Weather: Additional Challenges & Tools II
Chair: Richard N. Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX
3:30 PM 5.1 Severe weather display system   Loren Tobia, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Smith and K. Reeves 3:45 PM 5.2 GOES-R Baseline Instruments   James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD
	4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 6 Expanding Broadcast Meteorologist Capabilities
Chair: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV, Altoona, PA
4:00 PM 6.1 Update on the NEEF/COMET climate change module   Victoria Johnson, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Sliter and J. P. Lamos 4:15 PM 6.2 Preparing the next generation of broadcast meteorologists through an educational outreach project   Nicholas Juliano, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; and R. Jaworski and R. Grimaldi
	4:30 PM-5:15 PM, Monday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 7 Regional Forecasting Challenges II
Chair: Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle, Seattle, WA
4:30 PM 7.1 Rivers in the Sky are Flooding the Northwest: Impacts of the Pineapple Express   Larry J. Schick,, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA 4:45 PM 7.2 Northwest Volcanoes: Past, Present and Future Challenges   Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
	9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Field Trip:Cascade Volcano Observatory and NW Flood Forecast Center
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
	8:00 AM-8:50 AM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom 8 The Meteorologist as the Station Scientist-Special Sessions
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks   8:05 AM 8.1 NEEF / COMET Educational Opportunities for Station Scientists   Joseph P. Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO 8:20 AM 8.2 Heavenly Highlights and International Year of Astronomy   J. Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope Magazine, Cambridge, MA
	8:50 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Panel Discussion 2 Climate Change Panel Discussion: "How to Communicate Climate Change"
Panelists: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Scott Miller, KING-TV, Seattle, WA; Matt Zaffino, KGW Television, Portland, OR Moderator: Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI
8:50 AM Panel Discussion   9:50 AM Station Scientist Award Presentation
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Cascade Ballroom Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 9 The Meteorologist as the Station Scientist-Special Sessions II
10:30 AM 9.1 What You Need to Know if a Radiological Event Occurs in Your Area   Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI; and C. W. Miller and W. M. Thomas 10:50 AM 9.2 Space Weather: Everything You Need to Know for the Weathercast of the Future   William J. Murtagh, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO 11:10 AM 9.3 The Three Things Broadcasters Need to Know About TSUNAMIS   Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA 11:40 AM 9.4 Station Scientist: Using the New Technologies in Broadcasting   Jim Gandy, WLTX-TV, Columbia, SC
	12:00 PM-1:45 PM, Wednesday, Multnomah Lunch Banquet with Speaker
	1:45 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 10 Vendor Session
Chair: Tammie Souza, WFLD, Chicago, IL
1:45 PM 10.1 An Overview of WSI's 4km RPM Model   Peter P. Neilley, WSI, Corp, Andover, MA; and T. A. Hutchinson 2:00 PM 10.2 The convergence of weather radar and geospatial technology, live 3-D everything   Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL 2:15 PM 10.3 A new HD display system   Loren Tobia, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Smith and K. Reeves 2:30 PM 10.4 Weathering the storm of a tough economy by creating compelling coverage during newscasts and on the digital tier   Eric Levy, Weather Metrics, Inc., Overland Park, KS 10.4A PAPER WITHDRAWN
	2:45 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 11 New Tools and Applications for Broadcasting
Chair: Tammie Souza, WFLD, Chicago, IL
11.1 Viewer-friendly long-range forecasts using Lezak's Recurring Cycle (LRC)   Gary Lezak, Shawnee, KS 2:45 PM 11.4 22 Things I've Learned in 22 Years of TV Weather   Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL 3:00 PM 11.2 Preparing for the flood...of data   Jamison Hawkins, Lockheed Martin, Greenbelt, MD 3:15 PM 11.3 Weather-Media, A Tool More Requested in Senegal   Sadibou Ba, Agence Nationale de la Météorologie du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal; and M. Kamara and A. Diop
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Cascade Ballroom Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
	4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 12 Fire and Floods: Special Weather Challenges & Resources
Chair: Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL
4:00 PM 12.1 Advances in Flood Forecasting-The Northwest Experience   Donald Laurine, NOAA, Portland, OR 4:15 PM 12.2 Fire Threat Resources and Forecasting   John Saltenberger, Department of the Interior, Portland, OR
Thursday, 25 June 2009
	9:00 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Panel Discussion 3 The Future of our Industry & Profession
Moderator: Mike Alger, KTVN-TV, Reno, NV
9:00 AM PD3.1 The Future of our Industry & Profession: Opening Remarks   Mike Alger, KTVN-TV, Reno, NV 9:15 AM PD3.2 The Future of our Industry & Profession: Panel Discussion   Dale Steinke, King5.com, Seattle, WA; and J. B. Renner
	9:45 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday Coffee Break
	10:00 AM-10:45 AM, Thursday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Session 13 Special Weather Issues for Your Viewers
Chair: Nancy Dignon, WTXL, Midway, FL
10:00 AM 13.1 Preventing Skin Cancer: Educating the Public on National Sun Safety Day   Drusilla Hufford, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 10:15 AM 13.2 Hyperthermia deaths of children in vehicles   Jan Null, San Francisco State University, Saratoga, CA, US Virgin Islands 10:30 AM 13.3 22 Things in 22 Years   Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL
	10:45 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday, Pacific Northwest Ballroom Panel Discussion 4 Meet the Board
Panelists: Mike Alger, KTVN-TV, Reno, NV; Nancy Dignon, WTXL, Midway, FL; George Lessens, WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI; Jeff B. Renner, KING Television, Seattle, Seattle, WA; Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL; Tammie Souza, WFLD, Chicago, IL; Richard N. Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX; Maureen McCann, News 8 Austin, Austin, TX; Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV, Altoona, PA Chair: Sean Sublette, WSET Television, Lynchburg, VA
10:45 AM PD4.1 Earning Professional Development Points-Issues & Strategies   George Lessens, WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI 11:00 AM Panel Discussion

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