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Program Chairpersons:
Dr. Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 17 January 2010
6:00 AM-11:55 PM, Sunday, B201
Session Weather Preview Theater
 
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins
 
12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday
Weatherfest
 
3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, B314
First-Time Attendee Briefing
 
6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B2
Fellows Reception
 
Monday, 18 January 2010
7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open
 
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2
Presidential Forum
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B313
Joint Session 8 Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago…(I) (Joint between the Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago to 15 Years Ahead, the 13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International, and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
Cochairs: Dr. Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA
1:30 PMJ8.1Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago… Introduction  
Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA; and J. Phillips and S. Yalda
1:45 PMJ8.2Satellite Atmospheric Sounding Experiments—An Evolution Beginning with Nimbus-3  
William Smith Sr., Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA
2:15 PMJ8.3The Beginnings of Satellite Meteorology 50 Years Ago  
W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Phillips and L. Avila
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B313
Joint Session 9 Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago… (II) (Joint between the Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago to 15 Years Ahead, the 13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International, and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
Cochairs: Jean Phillips, Librarian, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
4:00 PMJ9.1The World According to GARP: Construction of a Global Meteorology, 1960–1980  
Erik M. Conway, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
4:30 PMJ9.250 Years of Satellite Observations of Weather and Climate; Some Lessons Learned  
Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
4:45 PMJ9.3The Evolution of the European Operational Meteorological Satellite Programmes and the Advancement of Applications  
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
5:00 PMJ9.4NOAA's Environmental Satellite Program: Past, Present, and Future  
Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS/OSD, Silver Spring, MD
 
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Exhibits Open
 
11:00 AM-11:15 AM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 1 Opening Remarks (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
11:00 AMJ1.1An Introduction to Joach Kuettner—A Renaissance man of meteorology  
Richard A. Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO
 
11:15 AM-11:45 AM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 2 Early Career (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
11:15 AMJ2.1Young Joachim Küttner Searching for Law in Disorder: Detecting Waves and Rotors through Intuitive Multi-disciplinarity  
Hans Volkert, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
11:45 AMPerlan  
Einer Enevoldson, The Perlan Project, Emeryville, CA
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
1:45 PM-2:30 PM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 3 Mountain Waves and Aviation (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
1:45 PMJ3.1Mountain wave research and aviation technology  
Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2:00 PMJ3.2Rotor Puzzle  
Vanda Grubisic, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
 
2:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 4 Man in Space (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
2:30 PMJ4.1Joachim Kuettner and the Beginning of the U.S. Manned Space Program: from Mercury to Apollo  
Renate Brummer, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
 
3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 5 Field Campaigns (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
3:30 PMJ5.1Joach Kuettner as the GATE Operations Director  
Edward J. Zipser, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
3:45 PMJ5.2Joachim Kuettner and Tropical Meteorology  
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
4:00 PMRemarks- Joachim Kuettner, UCAR, Boulder, CO  
4:15 PMJ5.3Field experiments: from hypothesis to policy making  
V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA
 
4:45 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, B203
Joint Session 6 Back to his Roots: Mountains and Winds (Joint between the The Joachim Kuettner Symposium and the Eighth Presidential History Symposium)
4:45 PMJ6.1The dynamics of orographic banner clouds  
Volkmar Wirth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mainz, Germany; and D. Reinert
 
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
8:30 AM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, B203
Session 1 Environmental History and the History of Atmospheric Sciences
8:30 AM1.1World Weather Watch and the Cold War: Trading Data Among 'The Space Powers and Others'  
Angelina R. Long, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
9:00 AM1.2How polar exploration, funded by sales of postage stamps and newspapers, brought frontal analysis to the United States  
Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
9:30 AM1.3The History (and Future) of Tornado Warning Dissemination in the United States  
Timothy A. Coleman, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B203
Session 2 Historical Aspects of Observational and Modeling Efforts
10:30 AM2.1Earth radiation budget research at Langley Research Center  extended abstract
G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and G. G. Gibson and E. F. Harrison
11:00 AM2.2"Cool line" for "hot line" times: establishing the World Weather Link  
Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
11:30 AM2.3NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program marine data rescue  extended abstract
J. Eric Freeman, SourceCorp, Inc., Asheville, NC; and H. B. Brown and M. Seiderman
 
11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, B203
Joint Session 7 Joint Session with ASLI/History Symposium (Joint between the Eighth Presidential History Symposium and the 13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International)
Chair: Jean Phillips, Librarian, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1:30 PMJ7.1It Was An Uncommonly Hot Summer: Using Weather Observations in Historical Novels and Films  
Jennifer Harbster, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
1:45 PMJ7.2NOAA's climate database modernization program - a decade of data rescue and modernization activities  extended abstract
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. T. Truesdell
2:15 PMJ7.3Claiming our fame: Gainesville, Georgia's incredible tornado history in maps and photographs  
Jamie D. Mitchem, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
 
7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4
AMS Annual Awards Banquet
 
Thursday, 21 January 2010
7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208
Washington Symposium Breakfast
 
9:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
 
5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday
AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns
 

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