Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

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


Sat 28 Jan

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-8:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Symposium Introduction
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Cochairs: Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS; Mary M. Cairns, Retired
  8:30 AM
1.1
Symposium Introduction: Stuart
Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS, Wakefield, VA

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 2
Public Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Organizer: Lanz Rothfusz, NOAA/NWS
  8:45 AM
2.1
Partnerships to Improve Safety and Mobility on the Nation's Highways
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 3
Private Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Chair: Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Inc
  11:00 AM
3.1
XM Satellite Marine Weather - The successful result of Stennis Space Center's technology cluster
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and E. Valenti and Y. Li
  11:15 AM
3.2
Title to be announced
Christopher D. Bedford CCM, Sailing Weather Service, LLC, Watertown, MA
  11:30 AM
3.3
Title to be announced.
Jan Dutton, AWS Convergence Tech../WeatherBug Government and Professional Services, Gaithersburg, MD

  11:45 AM
3.4
Title to be Announced..
Steven Root, WeatherBank, Inc., Edmond, OK

  12:00 PM
3.5

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


Exhbits Open (T)

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-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Academic Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Chair: Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR
  2:00 PM
4.2
Mixing Politics and Science
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  2:30 PM
4.4
Some Personal Memories of Developing Commercial Lightning Detection Systems
E. Philip Krider, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  2:45 PM
4.900
Discussion

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


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

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


Session 5
Discussion of Policy and Issues
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Moderators: George L. Frederick Jr., AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise and Vaisala Measurement Systems; Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS; Mary M. Cairns, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology

Thursday, 2 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Symposium Ends