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Thursday, 15 January 2004
	8:30 AM-11:15 AM, Thursday, Room 604 Session 1 Session 1 (Room 604)
Organizer: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL
8:30 AM 1.1 Advanced Offshore Forecasting and Ship Routing   Robert L. Cohen, Weathernews Oceanroutes, Sunnyvale, CA 8:45 AM 1.2 Private Sector Operational Oceanography in the Gulf of Mexico: Eddy Watch and Eddy Net   James W. Feeney, Horizon Marine, Marion, MA 9:00 AM 1.3 Ship Motion Prediction and Vessel Stress Monitoring, etc.   Henry Chen, Oceanweather Inc., Cos Cob, CT 9:15 AM 1.4 Ocean Instrumentation Industry Update – a 20 year Perspective   Harold Maxfield, RD Instruments, San Diego, CA 9:30 AM 1.5 Use of Ocean Sensors on AUVs – an Application Overview   Kevin Mccarthy, Hydroid, Falmouth, MA 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break(Hall 4AB)   11:00 AM 1.6 Experience with Coastal Mesonets   Jay Titlow III, WeatherFlow, Inc., Poquoson, VA
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 4AB Poster Session 1 Poster Session (Hall 4AB)
P1.1 The public-private relationship one year after the National Research Council report   Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and B. L. Myers   P1.2 Hourly updated numerical weather forecasts for aviation and other transportation systems from the Rapid Update Cycle   Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Koch
	11:15 AM-2:00 PM, Thursday, Room 604 Session 2 Session 2 (Room 604)
11:15 AM 2.1 Synergies between the IOOS and Oil-Spill Modeling   Eric Anderson, Applied Science Associates, Inc., Naragansett, RI 11:30 AM 2.2 Data Needs of Water-Quality Modelers and How the IOOS Could Benefit   Jim Fitzpatrick, HydroQual, Mahwah, NJ 11:45 AM 2.3 Importance of an Integrated Observing System for the Mississippi Sound/Bight Forecast Model: A Case Study   Quamrul Ahsam, HydroQual, Mahwah, NJ 12:00 PM 2.4 The Use of Meteorologists as Consultants and Testifying Experts in Maritime Law Cases   Joe Misenti, Cozen O’ Connor, Seattle, WA 12:15 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 2.5 SAIC Power Industry Requirements for Atmospheric and Oceanic Info   Mary G. Altalo, SAIC, McLean, VA 1:45 PM 2.6 Impact of Forecasts on Emergency Grid Management and Energy Marketing   Todd Davis, TBA, TBA, AL
	2:00 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday, Room 604 Session 3 Session 3 (Room 604)
Chair: Mary G. Altalo, SAIC, McLean, VA
2:00 PM 3.1 Subsea Fiber Optic Cable Networks for Data Acquisition and Telemetry   Jim Byous, Gulf Fiber Corporation, Houston, TX 2:15 PM 3.2 Shore-based 802.11 (Wi-Fi) 2-way Broadband Communications to/from Nearshore (Line of Sight) Sensors/buoys   Kevin Comer, Harris Corporation, Palm Bay, FL 2:30 PM 3.3 Satellite Telemetry as a Means of Transmitting/Receiving Broadband Data from Sensor Buoys OTH (Over the Horizon) for Sites too Distant from Shore to use Wi-Fi   Andy Clark, Harris Corporation, Inc., Melbourne, FL 2:45 PM Coffee Break
	3:00 PM, Thursday Registration Desk Closes
	3:15 PM, Thursday, Room 604 Panel Discussion 1 The Challenges of Building Meteorological Observing Equipment for the Coastal Environment (Room 604)
Moderator: Paul M. Fransioli, J3AQM, LLC, Las Vegas, NV
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 604 Session 4 Session 4 (Room 604)
Chair: Robert L. Cohen, Weathernews Oceanroutes, Sunnyvale, CA
4:00 PM 4.1 The Status and Plans for Coastal-IOOS   Eric Lindstrom, OCEAN.US/NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 4:15 PM 4.2 SEA-COOS: A Representative Regional Coastal Observing System   Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL 4:30 PM Panel
	5:00 PM, Thursday Symposium Ends
	6:00 PM, Thursday Norm Phillips Banquet

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