Program: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chairs: Douglas Hilderbrand , NOAA/NWS ; Jennifer Sprague , NOAA/NWS ; Dave Jones , StormCenter Communications, Inc.

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Sunday, 7 January 2018

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

WeatherFest

Location: Exhibit Hall 1 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

Plenary Session 1

18th Presidential Forum: Transforming Communication in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise—Focusing on Challenges Facing Our Sciences

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

4:00 PM

PL1.1

Transforming Communication in the Environmental Sciences: Some Thoughts from a Reluctant Participant (Invited Presentation)

Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

Monday, 8 January 2018

8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Plenary Session 2

Welcoming Address

Location: Austin, Texas

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Session 1

Better Communication through Social Media

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

8:45 AM

1.1

Words Matter: Social Media Comes of Age as Disaster Strikes

Gregory Romano, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Using Video to Communicate Weather Hazards

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and J. Laney and C. Dennhardt

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.2 MB)

9:15 AM

1.3

A Weather-Ready Nation Success Story in Social Media Engagement: #SafePlaceSelfie

Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Boucher, M. Barry, and C. Pieper

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Name Our Storms: Improving Communication of Severe Weather in the UK

Dee Cotgrove, Met Office, Exeter, UK

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Communicating Impactful Weather across the U.S./Mexico Border using Social Media

Jason Laney, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and T. Brice and M. Pazos

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.6 MB)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Panel Discussion 1

Defining “Vulnerability”: When One Size Fits None

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Moderator: Trevor Boucher, NOAA/NWSFO

Panelists: Linda Wasserman, Texas Impact; Rachella Shephard, Educational Resource Center on Deafness; Alyssa V. Bates, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS Warning Decision Training Division; Matthew Bolton, How The Weatherworks

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Lecture 1

2018 Haurwitz Lecture

Location: Salon K (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Cochairs: Ángel F. Adames, GFDL; Scott W. Powell, Colorado State Univ.

2:00 PM

L1.1

Some Observations of Normal Modes in the Atmosphere (Invited Presentation)

George N. Kiladis, ESRL, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM-4:15 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Session 2

Effective Communication and Partnership Techniques to Effect Change in Preparedness Behavior

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

2:00 PM

2.1

Building a Weather-Ready Nation Through Visual Storytelling

Corey Pieper, NWS, Fort Worth, TX

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.2

Research and Data-Driven Approaches to Motivate Preparedness Behavior

Jacqueline Snelling, FEMA, Washington, DC

2:30 PM

2.3

Extreme Weather Experience: Experiential Weather Edutainment

Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

2.4

Building a Weather-Ready Nation through the Integration of Communication and Education

Amber J. Liggett, Millersville Univ., Beaver, PA; and M. Scarzello Fairbanks and K. Garrett

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

2.5

Community Resilience: Increasing Public Understanding of Risk and Vulnerability to Natural Hazards through Informal Education

Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

2.6

Leveraging Podcast Medium to Enhance Absorption and Increase Preparedness Levels

Mark T. Jelinek, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

2.7

Building the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Initiative in U.S. Territories

Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and W. B. Aydlett, M. L. Aydlett, E. Lutu-McMoore, and J. Taifane

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

2.8

The "One Wyoming" Weather-Ready Nation Initiative

Tim Troutman, NWS, Riverton, WY; and C. Hahn

Manuscript (185.5 kB)

4:00 PM

2.9

Building a Weather Ready Nation: A New NWS Focus on Marine Ambassadors

Gregory Romano, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Exhibits Opening and Reception

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Ryan Symposium Reception

Location: The Reverbery at the Hilton (Austin, Texas)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Session 3

The Future of Predictive Services in America—Part I

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

8:30 AM

3.1

From Short Fuse Warnings to Long Range Forecasts: The Role of the Meteorologist in America's Weather Industry

Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and M. Moss and D. DePodwin

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

3.2

Comprehensive Reimagining of Emergency Alerting

Michael Gerber, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Hodan

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

3.3

WPC Pursuing Deeper Stakeholder Engagement for Future Innovation

Kathryn K. Gilbert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and G. M. Eosco, L. Girardi, G. W. Carbin, D. R. Novak, M. Klein, and J. Sprague

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

3.4

Context-Aware Weather Warning Systems

Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and J. E. Trainor, D. Westbrook, A. Bajaj, and E. J. Lyons

9:30 AM

3.5

Building a Maritime Weather-Ready Nation

Thomas J. Cuff, NOAA/NWS/Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

3.6

Cultural Implications of Evolving the National Weather Service to Provide Improved Impact-Based Decision Support Services

John E. Ten Hoeve III, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Coffee . Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Session 4

The Future of Predictive Services in America: Part II

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

4.1

Evolving to Achieve a Weather-Ready Nation

David Novak, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

4.2

Building a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) by Transforming the National Weather Service’s Dissemination Systems

Michelle Mainelli, Office of Dissemination, Silver Spring, MD; and C. S. Brunner, C. Hodan, B. Werwinski, and B. Dunford

Recorded Presentation

4.3

Transformational Change of Mass Dissemination for Weather and Warning Information in the National Weather Service

11:15 AM

4.4

Evolving the NWS: The Impacts Catalog Component

Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. W. Davis, M. Jackson, and M. Tew

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4.5

National Blend of Models Field Demonstrations: A Closer Look

Cammye Sims, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Cobb, M. J. Hudson, and M. A. Tew

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4.6

Using Geospatial Web Services to Transform Weather, Water, and Climate Information Communication

Kari L. Sheets, NWS, Bohemia, NY; and C. S. Brunner, S. Gilbert, N. Parikh, and D. Rinker

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Session 5

Two Sessions in One: Uncertainty, Risk, and Decision-Making (Part I) and International Community Contributions on Weather-Ready Nation-Like Efforts —Part II

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

1:30 PM

5.1

Major Risks, Uncertain Outcomes: Making Ensemble Forecasts Work for Multiple Audiences

Burrell E. Montz, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and R. H. Carr, K. Semmens, K. Maxfield, P. R. Ahnert, R. Shedd, and J. C. Elliott

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

5.2

8-10-Day Probabilistic Forecasts: What Do Users Need to Understand and Use Longer-Range Uncertainty Information in Decision-Making?

Rachel Hogan Carr, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA; and B. E. Montz, K. Maxfield, K. Semmens, D. Halperin, M. J. Bodner, J. A. Nelson Jr., J. Kastman, S. Ganetis, K. K. Gilbert, W. S. Lamberson, and J. Sprague

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

5.3

An Examination of Decision-Making by Emergency Managers During Severe Weather Events: A Test of Fuzzy Trace Theory

Shadya J. Sanders, Howard Univ., Washington, DC

2:15 PM

5.4

Communicating and Comprehending Uncertainty During a Significant Northeast Storm

Melissa Di Spigna, NWS, Upton, NY; and J. Picca

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

5.5

Winter Weather Science and Service Advances and Challenges

David Novak, NOAA/NCEP/Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

5.6

#DYK ECCC Uses DSD, TOPOWOAM, VCC, and IKEA? Making Sense of Canada's Weather Preparedness

3:00 PM

5.7

Disruptive Weather and Water Events: Framing the National and International Security Dimensions

Roger Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Goodman and A. King

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

5.8

Towards a Drought Information System for South America

Viviane Silva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Springs, MD; and G. Podesta, C. Saulo, J. Báez, R. Martinez, R. Pulwarty, M. Skansi, R. Stefanski, J. Camacho, and J. Peronto

3:30 PM

5.9

Joint Typhoon Warning Center: Tropical Cyclone Forecasting in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Pearl Harbor, HI

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Session 1

Weather-Ready Nation Poster Session

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

774

Examining the Utility of Twitter Hail Reports to Verify Spatiotemporally Dense Forecasts

Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, and C. Silva

775

A Tale of Two High Impact Events: Messaging and Communication Tactics for Environmentally Capricious Outcomes

Cynthia B. Elsenheimer, NWSFO, Jacksonville, FL; and N. McGinnis

776

Comparing NWSChat Usage Statistically by NWS Office, NWS Region, and NWSChat User Affiliation

Matthew Duplantis, NWSFO, Shreveport, LA

777

Integrated Weather Impact Team: A Multi-Sector Collaboration for Improved Preparedness and Response to Mitigate Tomorrow's Disasters

Dr. Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and M. Steinbugl, J. R. Scala, J. Jumper, P. A. Jung, B. Watson, C. Evanego, W. Gartner, C. Soelle, N. A. Wardle, J. Anshutz, and J. R. Banghoff

778

Relevance of the Oklahoma Mesonet for Impact-Based Decision Support: Current State and Outlook for the OK-FIRE Program

Monica O. Mattox, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Ziolkowska

779

National Water Model: Providing the Nation with Actionable Water Intelligence

Bradford Bates, NOAA, Tuscaloosa, AL; and F. Salas, N. Swain, M. Stone, G. Aggett, E. Clark, and J. Nelson

Poster 780 is now 6.3A

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Session 6

Effective Tropical Communication Techniques for Improved Preparedness

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

6.1

Communicating Hurricane Risk with Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study

Jase E. Bernhardt, Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

6.2

Messaging Extreme Winds associated with Major Hurricanes

David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

6.3A

Hurricane Havoc: Mapping the Mayhem with NOAA's National Water Model

Monica Stone, NOAA, Tuscaloosa, AL; and B. Bates, N. Swain, F. Salas, G. Aggett, and E. Clark

6.3

CERA: An Interactive Storm Surge Visualization Web Tool

9:15 AM

6.4

Testing Augmented Reality Tools for Communicating Storm Surge and Encouraging Preparedness: A Survey of Texas A&M at Galveston Students

David Retchless, Texas A&M Univ. at Galveston, Galveston, TX

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

6.5

A Fiscally Based Scale for Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge

Amanda M. Walker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and D. W. Titley, M. E. Mann, and R. G. Najjar

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

6.6

Building Trusted Partnerships between Media and the National Weather Service to Improve Threat Communication Prior to Hurricane Matthew

Maria M. Torres, NWSFO, Miami, FL; and I. Sans

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Session 7

Promoting Consistency in Communications and Better Understanding User Needs

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Cammye Sims, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

7.1

Consistency and Weather Communication: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Use of "Consistency"

Castle Adam Williams, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. J. Grundstein

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

7.2

Revisiting the Color Conundrum: On the Use of Color in Weather Displays

Matthew J. Bolton, Saint Leo Univ., Saint Leo, FL; and H. M. Mogil

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

7.3

Communications in the Eye of the Storm: Understanding NWS Decision Support Decisions

Sean Ernst, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Sprague and K. E. Klockow-McClain

Recorded Presentation

7.4

VORTEX-SE Social Science Activities with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, AL

11:30 AM

7.5

National Weather Service Tornado Warning Policy: Is It Time to Account for Weak and Short-Lived EF-0 Tornadoes?

James E. Lee, NWS, Sterling, VA; and S. M. Zubrick

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

7.6

A Social Science Analysis of Weather Messaging in the Decision Support Services Situation Report for Northeast Kansas Integrated Warning Team Core Partners

Audra Hennecke, NWSFO, Topeka, KS; and J. Johnson

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Lecture 2

2018 Horton Lecture

Location: Room 18A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM

L2.1

Rain Rates from Space: Past & Future (Invited Presentation)

Gerald R. North, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Session 8

Two Sessions in One: Hazard Simplification (Part I) and Awesome Collaboration Efforts (Part II)

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

8.1

NWS Hazard Simplification Project: A Roadmap for Change

Eli Jacks, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

8.2

Small Craft What? Proposed NWS Hazard Simplification Marine Product Consolidation and Reformatting

Allison L. Allen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Presenll, D. Wright, E. Jacks, A. T. Pirring, and K. Klockow

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

NWS Hazard Simplification: Effective Communication of Heat Hazards

Michelle Hawkins, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Jacks, J. G. Ferrell, A. Horvitz, A. T. Pirring, C. Williams, and G. M. Eosco

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

NWS Hazard Simplification: Assessing the Newly Reformatted What, When, Where Messages for Flash Flood and Winter Storm Warnings

Mark A. Casteel, The Pennsylvania State University York, York, PA

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

8.5

A Decade of NWS Storm-Based Warnings for Convective Threats: Analysis of the Paradigm and Considerations for the Future

Gregory M. Schoor, NWS/AFSO/FSD, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

8.6

NWS Integrated Team Models of Community Engagement

Bethany Perry, NOAA Central Region Collaboration Team, Kansas City, MO

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

8.7

NWSChat as a Decision Support Tool: Evolution and Severe Weather Applications

Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and R. MacDonald

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

8.8

Partners Operational Weather Simulation (POWS) Program at National Weather Service Louisville

Ryan J Sharp, NWS, Louisville, KY; and T. Funk

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.2 MB)

3:30 PM

8.9

Providing Spanish Translations to Build a Weather-Ready Nation

Krizia Negron-Hernandez, NWS, Key West, FL; and L. Johnson

Joint Session 46

Informing Heat-Health Practitioners to Reduce Risk through Impact-Based Decision Support

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

Cochairs: Hunter Jones, NOAA; Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

J46.6

The Impact of Social Vulnerability and Environmental Risk Factors on Heat Stress Hospitalizations in New York City

1:30 PM

J46.1

Record-Setting Heat and Heat-Related Deaths in Maricopa County, AZ, in 2016: Cause and Effect?

David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. Putnam, A. Urban, P. Iniguez, and V. Berisha

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J46.2

Heat—Health Risk Assessments to Support the Development of Impact-Based Decision Support Systems: Assessing the Role of Social Vulnerability Metrics

Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA

2:00 PM

J46.3

The Hidden Health Costs of Extreme Heat Exposures on Outdoor Workers in the California Central Valley

Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. F. Wehner and F. Castillo

2:15 PM

J46.4

Forecasting Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature: Eliminating Heat Stress Illnesses at High School and Collegiate Levels

Mark Hyer, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

Break

2:45 PM

J46.5

Use of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature to Make Informed Decisions in Activity Modification During Physical Activity in the Heat

Yuri Hosokawa, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. Casa

3:00 PM

J46.7

Engaging Stakeholders in the Development and Evaluation of Web-Based Tools to Address Heat-Related Illness in North Carolina

Ashley R. Ward, NOAA, Chapel Hill, NC

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

J46.8

Developing Resilience to Public Health Risks of Extreme Heat in the U.S.−Mexico Border Region

Gregg M. Garfin, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Jones, J. Vanos, S. Leroy, P. Juarez-Carrillo, and A. Monteblanco

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

98th AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Thursday, 11 January 2018

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 9

Impact-Based Decision Support Services: Climate and Health

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Hunter Jones, NOAA

8:30 AM

9.1

Refocusing and Evolving Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Services in NOAA’s National Weather Service

Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, V. Silva, M. R. Mangan, J. C. Meyers, and J. Zdrojewski

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

9.2

Communicating Climate through the NOAA ENSO Blog

Emily J. Becker, NOAA, College Park, MD; and M. L'Heureux and T. DiLiberto

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

9.3

The Integrated Information Systems (IIS) Approach to Climate Services: NIDIS and NIHHIS

Hunter M. Jones, NOAA, Silver Spring, TX; and J. Trtanj, R. Pulwarty, and S. Giltz

9:15 AM

9.4

NOAA/NWS Western Region Experimental HeatRisk Project: Providing A New Heat Service for a WRN

Michael J. Staudenmaier Jr., NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Bair, P. Iniguez, M. Mead, B. Rasch, and D. T. Van Cleave

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Exhibit Hall Breakfast

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 10

Creating a Weather-Ready Nation "For All"

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

10.1

How Urban Economically Disadvantaged People Receive Weather Information in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Timothy J. Halbach, NWS, Dousman, WI; and D. Peroff

Recorded Presentation

Handout (889.4 kB)

10:45 AM

10.2

The Multimedia Assistance in Spanish (MAS) Program

Orlando Bermudez, NOAA/NWS, New Braunfels, TX; and J. W. Zeitler

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

10.3

National Weather Service MAS Team: Providing Services to Spanish Speaking Communities During High Impact Events

Maria M. Torres, NWSFO, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

10.4

A Culture of Clouds: Translating Meteorology into the Navajo Language

Natalie Elizabeth Panasiak, Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC; and V. Allen and A. L. Merriman

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

10.5

Exploring Differences in Weather Knowledge and Perceptions in Autistic and Non-Autistic Individuals

Matthew J. Bolton, Saint Leo Univ., Saint Leo, FL; and W. G. Blumberg, H. M. Mogil, and L. K. Ault

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Lecture 3

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM

L3.1

New Perspectives on the Role of Internal Variability in Regional Climate Change and Climate Model Evaluation (Invited Presentation)

Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 11

Impact-Based Decision Support Services: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

CoChair: Cammye Sims, NWS

1:30 PM

11.1

An Impact-Based Decision Support Paradigm for National Weather Service Wildfire Forecast and Warning Services

T. Todd Lindley, NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK; and G. P. Murdoch, R. Heffernan, N. J. Nauslar, and A. Gerard

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

11.2

Deep Training in the National Weather Service: The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management’s 2016 Earth, Wind, and Fire Exercise with Core Partners

Jonathan Kurtz, NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK; and T. Lindley, R. Smith, V. N. Mahale, and B. R. Bowers

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

11.3

Advancing Modeling Capabilities and Impact Analysis Tools to Improve Preparedness for Major Hurricane Hazard Events

Isaac Ginis, Univ. of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and D. Ullman, T. Hara, C. Kincaid, K. Rosa, X. Chen, B. Thomas, A. Becker, P. Stempel, R. Witkop, P. Rubinoff, W. Huang, M. Orr, R. Thomas, R. Thompson, M. Belk, P. Morey, and S. Conard

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

11.4

The ADCIRC Surge Guidance System for Coastal Zone Decision Support

Jason G. Fleming, Seahorse Coastal Consulting, Morehead City, NC; and R. Luettich, M. E. Agnew, C. Kaiser, N. Dill, and Z. Cobell

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

11.5

Texas Flash Flood Coalition: Finding Solutions to Alert Citizens in the Deadliest Flash Flood Alley of the United States

Hector Guerrero, NOAA/NWS, San Angelo, TX; and R. Sedwick

2:45 PM

11.6

Impact-Based Predictions of Human Risk to Flash Flood across the United States

Galateia Terti, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France; and I. Ruin, J. J. Gourley, P. E. Kirstetter, Z. L. Flamig, J. Blanchet, A. Arthur, and S. Anquetin

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Coffee Break

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 12

Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) Innovation and Best Practices

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Chair: Christopher Hedge, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

12.1

Exploring Scanning Strategies to Improve Radar Warning Operations across North Central and Northeast Louisiana with the New Univ. of Louisiana at Monroe's Radar

Cynthia K. Palmer, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and M. M. Berry, T. A. Murphy, C. Entremont, and D. Lamb

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

12.2

Utilizing the Automated Atmospheric River Detection Technique (ARDT) in the Early Discovery of Extreme Flooding Events and Conveying the Flood Threat with Simplistic Imagery

Felecia Bowser, NWS, Shreveport, LA; and T. Washington

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

12.3A

NOAA/NWS External Grant Programs: Collaborating with the Univ. Research Community

Christopher Hedge, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Toepfer and J. Cortinas Jr.

Recorded Presentation

12.3

FASTER: A Scientific Approach to Coastal California Evacuations during Tsunamis

12.4

Meteotsunamis: Recent Progress toward and Interdisciplinary Operational Forecsting Capability

4:45 PM

12.5

Multi-Year Strongest California Drought from 500-m SNPP/VIIRS

Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD

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Sunday, 7 January 2018

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

WeatherFest

Location: Exhibit Hall 1 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

PL 1

Plenary Session 18th Presidential Forum: Transforming Communication in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise—Focusing on Challenges Facing Our Sciences

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Monday, 8 January 2018

8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Plenary Session Welcoming Address

Location: Austin, Texas

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Better Communication through Social Media

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

PD 1

Panel Discussion Defining “Vulnerability”: When One Size Fits None

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

The 2018 AMS Annual Meeting Planning Sub-Committee for Vulnerable Populations will host a panel discussion, allowing members of, or advocates for, underserved communities to educate the audience on considerations for their communities and how the Weather Enterprise could serve them more effectively. Panelists representing various vulnerabilities, such as the inability to hear or see, lack English literacy, or difficulty evacuating, will talk about their experiences during severe weather events and their needs.

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Lecture 2018 Haurwitz Lecture

Location: Salon K (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

2018 Haurwitz Lecture

2:00 PM-4:15 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Effective Communication and Partnership Techniques to Effect Change in Preparedness Behavior

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

4:15 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Exhibits Opening and Reception

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Ryan Symposium Reception

Location: The Reverbery at the Hilton (Austin, Texas)

The Robert T. Ryan Symposium will conclude with a cocktail reception welcoming symposium attendees, along with Bob's numerous colleagues and former interns from across the weather enterprise. With a short program hosted by symposium co-chair and AMS Fellow Veronica Johnson of WJLA in Washington, D.C., this casual event will honor Bob for his distinguished career, achievements, and contributions to the American Meteorological Society.

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

The Future of Predictive Services in America—Part I

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

As a joint session between the SIXTH SYMPOSIUM ON BUILDING A WEATHER-READY NATION: ENHANCING OUR NATION and the SIXTH SYMPOSIUM ON THE WEATHER, WATER, AND CLIMATE ENTERPRISE, this session would explore futuristic visions of how weather, water, and climate predictive services will evolve and serve America over the next several decades. We would like to invite a broad and diverse combination of thinkers and practitioners from across the public, private, and academic sectors and potentially outside of traditional AMS disciplines that will describe how weather, water, and climate forecasts and forecasters will transform their information into services to make America stronger. The focus would be on service and the associated science and technologies that enable delivery of information to support decision making rather than on the core science and technology behind creating the forecast. Perspectives will take into consideration larger trends in science, technology, economics, information sharing, sector roles in the enterprise, political institutions, and social behavior. We envision this would be a single session with four to five 15 minute presentations. The organizers would be members of the Office of Organizational Excellence in the National Weather Service, a staff office at the intersection of strategy and enterprise engagement, monitoring trends and ensuring the NWS is pointed in the right direction to deliver the very best services to the Nation. Based on the level of interest of previous Emerging Technologies town halls, we anticipate that this session would also have a high level of interest and would appeal to a wide breadth of conference participants.

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Coffee . Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

The Future of Predictive Services in America: Part II

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Two Sessions in One: Uncertainty, Risk, and Decision-Making (Part I) and International Community Contributions on Weather-Ready Nation-Like Efforts —Part II

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

We encourage all attendees to take the opportunity to grab a snack and coffee and spend this extended afternoon break networking with colleagues and viewing the hundreds of posters on display in the poster hall. Poster displays are grouped by conference and change each day.

P 1

Poster Session Weather-Ready Nation Poster Session

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Effective Tropical Communication Techniques for Improved Preparedness

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Promoting Consistency in Communications and Better Understanding User Needs

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

L 2

Lecture 2018 Horton Lecture

Location: Room 18A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Two Sessions in One: Hazard Simplification (Part I) and Awesome Collaboration Efforts (Part II)

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

J 46

Joint Session Informing Heat-Health Practitioners to Reduce Risk through Impact-Based Decision Support

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session will directly address a common shortcoming of climate and health interventions: it is difficult to truly change decision-making processes, change behavior, and evaluate effectiveness. This session will feature current research on, and narratives about, and approaches to doing this in some of the most vulnerable communities. Each presentation will focus on a specific decision-maker class, a population they serve, and the methods they use to truly change understanding and compel action to support vulnerable communities. All presentations will also demonstrate how these changes are evaluated and how learning from each extreme heat event and enhancing resilience can be built into systems of climate information and decision making.

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

98th AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Thursday, 11 January 2018

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Impact-Based Decision Support Services: Climate and Health

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Exhibit Hall Breakfast

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Creating a Weather-Ready Nation "For All"

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

L 3

Lecture Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Impact-Based Decision Support Services: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Coffee Break

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) Innovation and Best Practices

Location: Ballroom E (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

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Session 12 Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Sunday, 7 January 2018

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