Program: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology (38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology (23-27 June 2010))

Program Chairs: Tammie Souza , WTSP-CBS ; Joe Murgo , WTAJ-TV

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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Short Course and Conference Registration Open

Location: Peacock Alley (Deauville Beach Resort)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Welcome Reception Sponsored by the Exhibitors

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

Thursday, 24 June 2010

7:00 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Registration open through the Conference

Location: Peacock Alley (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:00 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Exhibits Open

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Session 1

Welcome to the Conference

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WTSP-CBS

9:00 AM

1.1

Welcome to Miami

9:15 AM

1.2

Introduction to the AMS Broadcast Board

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Session 2

Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

9:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:40 AM

2.1

Seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction: current capabilities and new directions

Ben P. Kirtman, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM

2.2

Winter 2009-2010: The AO, El Nino, and the LRC

Gary Lezak, Shawnee, KS

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

2.3

The merits and limitations of using ENSO phase as a winter forecasting tool in the northeastern United States

Richard Grimaldi Jr., State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; and R. Jaworski

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (29.1 kB)

10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Session 3

Out of this World

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

10:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:35 AM

3.1

Water on Mars and Future after Shuttle

George Haddad, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL

Recorded Presentation

10:55 AM

3.2

NASA Astronaut Talk

Speaker ToBeAnnounced, TBA, Unknown, MA

11:15 AM-11:35 AM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

11:35 AM-12:40 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Session 4

Career Development

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

11:35 AM

4.1

Nielsen Ratings in 2010 and Beyond

Frank L. Palumbo, The Neilsen Company, Oldsmar, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:55 AM

4.2

Broadcast Meteorology 2010 - A look at our profession in the current economy

Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN

12:10 PM

4.3

An assessment of broadcasters' use of new media and radar technology in TV severe weather coverage: benefits, challenges, and a need for training

Rachel E. Butterworth, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel and S. Veil

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (2.0 MB)

12:25 PM

4.4

AMS and peer review

Margaret A. LeMone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. P. Jorgensen

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (755.7 kB)

12:40 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Session 5

Vendor Session

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

12:40 PM

Baron Services

Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL

12:50 PM

WSI -

Tad Maguire, WSI, Andover, MA

Recorded Presentation

1:00 PM

AccuWeather: New Advances in Weather Display Systems

Loren Tobia, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA

Recorded Presentation

1:10 PM

Weather Central

Joe DiGiovanni, WSI, Madison, WI

1:20 PM

Energizer

Wendy Bain, Energizer, Clayton, MO

1:15 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Exhibits Open

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 24 June 2010

Buffet Lunch in the Exhibit Hall Sponsored by Energizer

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

Friday, 25 June 2010

8:00 AM-9:30 AM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Light Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:00 AM-1:30 PM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Exhibits Open

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:15 AM-10:00 AM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Session 6

Station Scientist

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

8:15 AM

6.1a

A PhD thesis concept: Informal science on TV

Joe Witte, WJLA TV 7, Arlington, VA

Recorded Presentation

8:23 AM

6.1

Exploring Weathercasters' Methods for Sharing Climate Change and For the First Time: How TV News Directors Envision the Station-Scientist Role

Kris Wilson, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. Witte

Recorded Presentation

8:43 AM

6.2

Coastal Issues and Sea Level Rise

Matthew Schrader, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL; and C. Bronson

Recorded Presentation

9:03 AM

6.3

Science On The Ice - A Media Expedition to the Bottom of the World

Dan Satterfield, WBOC, Salisbury, MD; and A. Posegate

Recorded Presentation

9:48 AM

6.4

Preparing for Climate Change: One County's Plan

Harvey Ruvin, Miami-Dade Clerk of the Courts, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:20 AM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

10:20 AM-11:50 AM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Session 7

Disaster Mitigation

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

10:20 AM

7.1

Remodeling of the Deadly EF-5 Plainfield, IL Tornado Using The WRF

Gino Izzi, NOAA/NWS, Chicago, IL

Recorded Presentation

10:40 AM

7.2

From Flood Loss to FloodSmart: How FEMA's Mitigation Tools Work to Reduce the Impact of Flood Disasters

Sandra K. Knight, FEMA, Crystal City, VA

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

7.3

Moving from Traditional Risk Communication to Edu-tainment --- How safety advocates are catching on to what some have known all along

Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:20 AM

7.4

Broadcast Meteorologists and Pre-event Messaging for a Nuclear Public Health Emergency

Charles W. Miller, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and M. C. McCurley

Recorded Presentation

11:35 AM

7.5

Sun Safety and Preventing Skin Cancer: Educating the Public through Social Media

Robert Burchard, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:50 AM-1:30 PM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Session 8

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Keynote Speaker

Luncheon and Keynote Speaker

Location: Le Jardin (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Tammie Souza, WFLD; Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV

1:30 PM

Featured Speaker Bill Read, NHC

Recorded Presentation

1:40 PM

Keynote Luncheon Speaker Craig Fugate, FEMA

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Dessert and Coffee in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

4:30 PM-4:35 PM: Friday, 25 June 2010

Exhibits Close

Location: Napoleon I&II (Deauville Beach Resort)

Saturday, 26 June 2010

8:30 AM-2:00 PM: Saturday, 26 June 2010

Field Trip to NHC and AOML: Ticket ($30) Required. See General Information for Details

Location: Deauville Beach Resort

Sunday, 27 June 2010

7:30 AM-8:30 AM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Light Breakfast in the Session Room Foyer

Location: Peacock Alley (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:30 AM-8:40 AM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Final Remarks from Alan and Where Are We Going.

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

8:40 AM-10:50 AM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Session 9

Severe Weather

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

8:40 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:45 AM

9.1

Using Twitter to receive storm reports

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS, Santa Teresa, NM; and C. Pieper

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

9.2

Using Building Science to Battle Weather-Related Disasters

Julie Rochman, Institute for Business & Home Safety, Tampa, FL

Recorded Presentation

9:20 AM

9.3

Historic Houston snow: Out on a limb

Gene Norman Jr., KHOU-TV, Houston, TX

9:35 AM

9.4

NOAA and the Media—Working Together to Reduce Storm Surge Deaths and Destruction

Jamie Rhome, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; and E. Rappaport, W. L. Read, and D. Feltgen

Recorded Presentation

9:50 AM

9.5

SPC Forecast Workshop - Assessment and Watch Issuance

Gregory Carbin, SPC, Norman, OK; and S. J. Weiss

Recorded Presentation

10:50 AM-11:05 AM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Coffee Break in the Meeting Room Foyer

Location: Peacock Alley (Deauville Beach Resort)

11:05 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Session 10

Climate and Climate Change

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

11:05 AM

Welcoming Remarks

11:10 AM

10.1

West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core Project

Joe Souney, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

10.2

Challenges to Accurate Measurement of Greenhouse Gases

Allan C. Eustis, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

10.3

Proper siting of temperature platforms, Network of Networks, and other ramblings

Richard N. Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:40 PM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Session 11

Molding a Career

Location: Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)

Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Cochairs: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV; Tammie Souza, WFLD

12:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

12:10 PM

11.2

The AMS Education Program: National-local partnerships to increase science literacy

James A. Brey, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, T. P. Kiley Jr., and E. E. Ruwe

Recorded Presentation

12:25 PM

11.3

Preparing the next generation of broadcast meteorologists through an inaugural radio and TV weather course

Nicholas Juliano, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; and R. Jaworski, J. Constantino, L. Raychel, and R. Grimaldi Jr.

Recorded Presentation

12:40 PM

11.4

ABC 7 Denver Internship

Marcus D. Walter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Recorded Presentation

12:55 PM

11.5

Passing fads and big changes: a walk through six decades of broadcast meteorology

Robert Henson, UCAR, Boulder, CO

1:10 PM

11.6

Public weather services in Tripoli

Younis Al-Fenadi, Libyan National Meteorological Centre (LNMC), Tripoli, Libya

Presentation PDF (70.0 kB)

1:25 PM

Oil and Weather do Mix

Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, Mobile, AL

Recorded Presentation

1:40 PM-1:45 PM: Sunday, 27 June 2010

Conference Ends

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