Program Chairs:
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates paper is an Award WinnerSunday, 10 January 2016
7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016
Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016
Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016
Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Monday, 11 January 2016
9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Plenary Session
1
2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Location: La Nouvelle B-C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Moderator:
Panelists:
9:00 AM
Presidential Forum on Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
9:05 AM
Opening Remarks (by AMS President Alexander E. “Sandy” MacDonald)
9:15 AM
Introduction of Moderator McCann (MacDonald)
9:16 AM
Introduction of Speakers (McCann)
9:20 AM
Opening Remarks of Speakers
10:05 AM
Q&A
10:30 AM
Concluding Remarks
10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Coffee Break
Location: La Nouvelle Foyer ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Session
1
Building a Weather-Ready Nation Kickoff
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
11:00 AM
NOAA/NWS New Orleans WFO Meteorologist-in-Charge - Keynote Speaker: Ken Graham
Themed Joint Session
4
Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part I
Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health;
the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology;
and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
)
Speaker:
Chair:
11:00 AM
Panel
11:15 AM
Themed Joint Session 4 - Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part I
11:30 AM
Urban Health, Resiliency, and Adaptation: What We Learned from Katrina (Invited Presentation)
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Lecture
1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Session
2
Evolving the NWS to Become Second to None
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
2
Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part II
Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health;
the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology;
and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
)
Moderator:
Panelists:
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Session
3
Building a WRN Through Innovative Partnerships
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016
Exhibits Opening Reception, Ribbon Cutting, and Corporate Recognition
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Session
4
Evolving the Warning Paradigm to Better Inform Individuals
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
9:30 AM
4.5
Joint Session
7
Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones;
and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
)
Cochairs:
8:30 AM
Panel
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks by AMS President Sandy MacDonald
9:15 AM
Keynote Presentation by Former National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield
9:45 AM
Keynote Presentation by Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate
9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Joint Poster Session
1
Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina Monday/Tuesday Posters
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones;
and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
)
Cochairs:
476
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Joint Session
1
Integrating Social Science Methods into Decision Support Tools to Enhance Community Resilience
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
)
Chair:
Joint Session
8
Innovations and Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness, Communication and Resilience Since Katrina
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones;
and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
)
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Lecture
2
1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Session
5
Building a WRN Through More Effective Communications
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Chair:
Joint Session
9
Innovations in Observing Tropical Cyclones and Aspects of Storm Surge
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones;
and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
)
Cochairs:
3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Joint Session
3
Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 1 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships
)
Cochairs:
Joint Session
10
Advances in Modeling and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones and Associated Hazards
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones;
and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
)
Cochairs:
5:15 PM
Closing Remarks -- AMS President Sandy MacDonald
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Themed Joint Session
15
Understanding Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience: Part 3
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology;
and the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health
)
Chair:
10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Joint Session
4
Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 2 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships
)
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Lecture
3
Horton Lecture
Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies;
the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise;
the Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium;
the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health;
the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology;
the 13th Conference on Space Weather;
the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA;
the 30th Conference on Hydrology;
the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships;
the 25th Symposium on Education;
the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems;
the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA);
the Peter Lamb Symposium;
the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation;
the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice;
the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy;
the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact;
the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the Events;
the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry;
the 14th History Symposium;
the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions;
and the Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability
)
Session
6
NWS Foundational Data and Modeling Advances
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
Joint Session
16
Emergency Management: Education and Outreach to Better Prepare the Public
Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 25th Symposium on Education;
the 30th Conference on Hydrology;
and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
)
Cochairs:
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Poster Session
1
Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Joint Session
5
Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Health Early Warning Systems
Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health;
and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
)
Chair:
Session
7
Impact-based Decision Support Services
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Chair:
5:00 PM
7.5A
5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Joint Session
6
Earth Observations that Support Health Early Warning Systems and Monitoring of Disease Risks
Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health;
and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
)
Chair:
Session
8
Quantifying and Communicating Risk
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Session
9
Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Training and Outreach
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Session
10
Decision Support Tools Part 1
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Chair:
3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Coffee Break
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Session
11
Decision Support Tools Part 2
Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Chair:
5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016
AMS 96th Annual Meeting Adjourns