| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 230
Session 1 World Wide High Impact Weather—2008 |
Chair: Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | International Events 
Klaus E. Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | Coastal Flooding throughout the Federated States of Micronesia 
Bill Ward, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI |
| 9:15 AM | 1.3 | Chinese Weather 2008
Bi Baogui, National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, , China |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Tropical cyclone prediction in the North Indian Ocean: Nargis and Myanmar
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Berlinger and J. Masters |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 230
Session 2 High Impact Marine Events |
Chair: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL
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| 11:00 AM | 2.1 | Rip Currents: An Underrated Hazard
Steven R. Pfaff, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, NC |
| 11:15 AM | 2.2 | Weather Impacts: The Aleutian Low
Aimee Devaris, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:30 AM | 2.3 | The “Tehuantepecer” Gale—An Extreme Gap Wind Event
Hugh D. Cobb III, NOAA/NWS/TPC, Miami, FL |
| 11:45 AM | 2.4 | Dead Zones Grow With More Precipitation, Animals and Fuel Demand
Robert E. Magnien, NOAA/Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, and the Impacts of 2008) |
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | (Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007
Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA |
| 2:00 PM | J2.2 | Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray |
| 2:15 PM | J2.3 | An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL
Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich |
| 2:30 PM | J2.4 | An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin |
| 2:45 PM | J2.5 | Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City
Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday, Room 230
Session 3 High Impact US Weather Events |
Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT
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| 3:30 PM | 3.1 | The Midwest Flooding of June 2008: A National Weather Service Assessment
James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
| 3:45 PM | 3.2 | Major Winter Weather Events in the US, 2007–2008: Overview and Impacts
Douglas A. Wesley, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO |
| 4:00 PM | 3.3 | The 2008 California Fires (and elsewhere)
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 4:15 PM | 3.4 | Atlantic Hurricanes
William L. Read, NOAA/TPC, Miami, FL |
| 4:30 PM | 3.5 | The 2008 U.S. Tornado Year: An Early and Angry Start
Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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