Joint Session 8 Innovations and Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness, Communication and Resilience Since Katrina

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
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:
Joshua Hacker, NCAR, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO and Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Earth Science Office/Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center, Huntsville, AL

Organized by the AMS Committees on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology, as well as jointly with the Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather and 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Papers:
11:00 AM
J8.1
Taking Katrina Storm Surge Resilience Lessons to Galveston Bay
William Read, Former Director, National Hurricane Center, League City, TX
11:15 AM
J8.2
11:30 AM
J8.3
Communicating Hurricane and Storm Surge Risks in the Modern Information Environment
Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis, C. Snyder, K. Fossell, D. A. Ahijevych, K. M. Anderson, C. M. Barton, J. L. Demuth, H. Lazrus, L. Palen, J. Watts, and O. Wilhelmi
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