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)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
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:
Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, Honolulu, HI and Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc., Vice President, Science and Engineering Business Unit, Laurel, MD

Joint with the Board for Global Strategies

Papers:
10:30 AM
J4.1
Innovative Partnership Models to Advance the Delivery of Weather, Water and Climate Services
Mary M. Glackin, The Weather Company, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
J4.2
A New Global Weather Network: Changing the Face of Forecasting Models with the Power of Crowdsourcing Weather Observation Data Globally, with 400 Million Reports Coming in Daily, Already, from Asia and the US
Julia LeStage, Weathermob, Inc., Boston, MA; and T. Ishibashi
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J4.3
Interagency Science and Service: Vertical Farming in Hawaii and Taiwan
Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, Honolulu, HI; and C. Hyde
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
J4.4
Lessons Learned in Building Hydrometeorological Early Warning Systems in Developing Countries : Why Some Systems Fail and Others Succeed
Curt Barrett, USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), Westminster, MD; and S. A. Tokar
Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.4 MB)

11:30 AM
J4.5
The Most Effective Methods for Delivering Severe Weather Early Warnings to Fishermen on Lake Victoria
Richard Tushemereirwe, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics, Kampala, Uganda; and D. Tuhebwe, M. A. Cooper, and F. M. D'Ujanga
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J4.6
African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics
Mary Ann Cooper, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics, River Forest, IL; and R. Tushemereirwe, C. Gomes, E. Ataremwa, J. B. Ngamini, and F. C. Lubasi
Recorded Presentation

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