Joint Session 7 Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
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:
Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc., Vice President, Science and Engineering Business Unit, Laurel, MD and Patrick A. Harr, NSF, Arlington, VA

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:
8:30 AM
Panel

8:45 AM
Joint Session 7 - Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina
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

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