Second Special Session on Heat Health

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Monday, 30 January 2006

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12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Mon 30 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Operation and Development of the New NWS Heat/Health Systems
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Special Session on Heat Health
Organizer: Mark Tew, NOAA/NWS
  9:00 AM
1.1
Progress in the Nationalization of National Weather Service Heat/Health Warning Systems
Mark A. Tew, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. C. Young and J. G. Ferrell
  Recorded presentation

  9:15 AM
1.2
The new generation of heat/health warning systems: how they work
Laurence Kalkstein, University of Delaware, Marco Island, FL
  Recorded presentation

  9:30 AM
1.3
Utilizing the latest-generation excessive heat concepts in NOAA's National Weather Service forecast office operational environment
Gary Szatkowski, NOAA/National Weather Service, Mount Holly, NJ
  Recorded presentation

  9:45 AM
1.4
Using the System in Hot Summer Climates: Special Challenges
Anton F. Haffer, NOAA/NWSFO, Phoenix, AZ; and J. A. Skindlov

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

10:45 AM-12:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
System Implementation and Intervention Activities to Lessen Heat/Health Problems
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Special Session on Heat Health
Organizer: Laurence S. Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware
  10:45 AM
2.0
Hyperthermia Deaths of Children in Vehicles
Jan Null, San Francisco State University, Saratoga, CA, US Virgin Islands
  Recorded presentation

  11:00 AM
2.1
A survey of the public perception and response to heat warnings and advisories
Scott C. Sheridan, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH

  11:15 AM
2.2
How Does the National Weather Service Interact with Stakeholders? Outreach from the Perspective of a Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Henry E. (Ted) Buehner, NOAA/NWS, Seattle, WA
  Recorded presentation

  11:30 AM
2.3
EPA's Role in Saving Lives in Vulnerable Urban Areas
Jason Samenow, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC; and A. D. Perrin
  Recorded presentation

  11:45 AM
2.4
Development of a response guidebook for excessive heat events
David M. Mills, Stratus Consulting Inc., Boulder, CO
  Recorded presentation

  12:00 PM
2.5
The Analog City Study: What if the 2003 European Heat Wave Occurred in a Major U.S City?
J. Scott Greene, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Kalkstein
  Recorded presentation

12:00 PM-1:10 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Plenary Session 1
AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; the Event Program; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 15th Symposium on Education; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the Second Special Session on Heat Health )
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS
  12:00 PM
PL1.1
Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna

  12:10 PM
PL1.2
How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

  12:40 PM
PL1.3
THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (M)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Holton Symposium Banquet
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