Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Sat 28 Jan

The American Meteorological Society and the Impact Weather Program Committee wishes to express its appreciation to ITT Industries for its support of this year’s program

7:30 AM-7:31 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 29 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Registration

Monday, 30 January 2006

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

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-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

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Tue 31 Jan

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Top Stories of 2005
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year
Chair: Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC
  8:30 AM
1.1
Welcome and Introduction
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK
  8:40 AM
1.2
Top World Stories
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
  9:00 AM
1.3
Guatemala Hurricane Impacts
E. Hardie Sanchez-Bennett, Instituto Nacional de Sismolog, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  9:15 AM
1.4
African Drought, Locust, Famine
Douglas Lecomte, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
  9:30 AM
1.5
India Floods: 37' Rain in One Day in Bombay
Sanjiv Nair, Technology Bhavan, New Delhi, India
  9:45 AM
1.6
Worst Flooding in China in 100 Years
Jixin Xu, China Meteorology Bureau, Bejing, China

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Interviews with Speakers: Stephanie Kenitzer, AMS

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Exhbits Open (T)

11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 3
Hurricane Impacts (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD
  11:15 AM
JPD3.1
  11:25 AM
JPD3.2
Hurricanes and Science Policy (Invited Presentation)
Amy Carroll, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC

  11:35 AM
JPD3.3
Health Effects of 2005 Hurricanes
Anna Marie, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
  11:45 AM
JPD3.4
Impact on Marine Ecosystems and Fishing Industry
John Oliver, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD
  11:55 AM
JPD3.5
Impact of the Nations Economy
Daniel Bachman, Office of Policy Development, Washington, DC
  12:05 PM
JPD3.900
Discussion

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
Hosts: (Joint between the Event Program; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 15th Symposium on Education; 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 Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; 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 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; and the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year )

1:45 PM-2:35 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 4
Weather, Energy, and the Economy (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
  1:45 PM
JPD4.1
Strong Space Weather in 2005
Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO
  1:55 PM
JPD4.2
  2:05 PM
JPD4.3
Petroleum & Natural Gas: Hurricane and Temperature Impacts
Paul Janish, Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc., Houston, TX
  2:15 PM
JPD4.4
The Changing Landscape in Insurance
Jeffrey Rouch, Nationwide Insurance, Washington, DC
  2:25 PM
JPD4.900
Discussion

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 2
U.S. Weather 2005
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year
Chair: Bradley Colman, NOAA/NWS
  3:30 PM
2.1
California Debris Flow
Susan Cannon, USGS, San Diego, CA
  3:45 PM
2.2
  4:00 PM
2.3
Drought
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
  4:15 PM
2.4
2005: A Strange Tornado Year
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. W. McCarthy and G. W. Carbin
  4:30 PM
2.5
Winter Weather
Paul J. Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 5
2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Where Do We Go from Here? (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel
  7:00 PM
JPD5.1
Preparedness
Shirley Laska, Center for Hazards Assessment, New Orleans, LA

  7:10 PM
JPD5.2
Mitigation of Flood Impacts
Lisa Jones, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, State Association of Flood Plain Managers, Columbia, SC
  7:20 PM
JPD5.3
Mitigation of Structural Damage
Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Houston, TX

  7:30 PM
JPD5.4
Media Coverage
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA
  7:40 PM
JPD5.5
Policy and Preparedness (Invited Presentation)
Tom Jones, Senate Sub-Committee on Disaster Prevention and Prediction, Washington, DC

  8:10 PM
JPD5.900
Discussion

9:00 PM-9:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 6
Live Coverage of Hurricanes from a Meteorologists Perspective (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Stuart Ostro, The Weather Channel
Panelists: James Cantore, The Weather Channel; Jeff Morrow, The Weather Channel; Stephanie Abrams, The Weather Channel