34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology (Expanded View)

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Compact View of Conference

Thursday, 28 July 2005
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break
 
Sunday, 31 July 2005
4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Registration Opens
 
Monday, 1 August 2005
7:00 AM-8:00 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Friday, 5 August
 
8:30 AM, Monday
Short Course (Broadcast) Include Lunch
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break
 
5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the Day
 
Tuesday, 2 August 2005
8:40 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 1 Broadcasters Storm the Hill
Chair: Jillene Wahl, WYFF-TV, Greenville, SC
8:40 AM1.1Welcome to Washington D.C  
Robert T. Ryan, WRC-TV, Washington, DC; and D. Hill and T. Shutt
9:00 AM14.1Broadcast Meteorology–How are we doing in the year 2005?  
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN
9:20 AM1.3Hurricane Ivan...was I the Terrible?  
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA
9:40 AM1.4The impact of legislation on broadcast meteorologists  
Barry Lee Myers, AccuWeather Inc, State College, PA; and D. J. N. Myers and M. A. Steinberg
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday
Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 2 Risky Business: Severe Weather
Chair: Jay Prater, KAKE-TV, Wichita, KS
10:30 AM2.12004 Year in Tornadoes: What A Year It Was!  extended abstract
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Schaefer
10:45 AM2.2Severe Weather Workshop  
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 3 Messy Business: Winter Weather
Chair: Katie Horner, KCTV-5, Kansas City, KS
1:30 PM3.1The night the lights went out in Georgia  
Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
1:45 PM3.2Winter Weather Workshop  
Peter Manousos, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 4 Putting your entourage together
Chair: David Bernard, WWL-TV, New Orleans, LA
3:30 PM4.1University Partnerships: the Huntsville, Alabama Experiment  
Wayne M. MacKenzie Jr., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, B. T. Huffines, and K. Watts
3:45 PM4.2Covering the Storm: Broadcasting from the NWS Storm Prediction Center and other National Centers  extended abstract
Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and K. Tarp
4:00 PM4.3Clustering Severe Storms Across the United States  extended abstract wrf recording
Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean and D. McCarthy
4:15 PM4.4User–Centric™ Weather–The Future of Broadcast Meteorology  
Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS
 
4:30 PM-5:26 PM, Tuesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 5 Capital Ideas - Vendor Session
4:30 PM5.1WSI. The disruptive weather company  
Chris Goode, Director of Media Sales, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA
4:37 PM5.2Hyper-LOCAL…24X7  
Peter Levy, President, Weather Metrics, Inc., Lenexa, KS
4:44 PM5.3ESP:LIVE  
Joe DiGiovanni, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI
4:51 PM5.4USEPA's SunWise Program and Meteorologist: Working Together to Teach Kids Sun Safety  
Linda Rutsch, USEPA SunWise Team, Washington, DC
4:58 PM5.5Public Safety Alert (PSA) Program  
Bruce Thomas, Chief Meteorologist, Midland Radio Corp, Kansas City, MO
5:05 PM5.6Baron Services  
Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL
5:12 PM5.7The Eco-celli Barometer--the first and only liquid mercury-free barometer  
Mike Matvichuk, Allivan Marketing, LLC, Tyngsboro, MA
5:19 PM5.8Enhancements to the Galileo weather system  
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and R. Ayres and M. Steinberg
 
5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Formal Opening of Exhibits
 
5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions End for the Day
 
Wednesday, 3 August 2005
8:30 AM, Wednesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 6 Taking the Floor: Meet the Broadcast Board
Chair: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN
 
9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Diplomat Ballroom
Keynote Session Political Science
9:30 AMPartnerships for Environmental Literacy, serving the American  
D. L. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Exhibits Open
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 1 Joint AMS Panel on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)
Panelists: Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel, Boulder, CO; Bryan Hannegan, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; Stephen E. Zebiak, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University
Moderator: Ron McPherson, AMS, Boston, MA
 
1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 2 Environmental Education, Training, and Outreach (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)
Chair: Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
1:30 PMJ2.1Supporting the broadcast meteorology community through continuing education initiatives  extended abstract wrf recording
Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and G. Fishel
1:45 PMJ2.2Weather impacts on watersheds: development of Web-based curriculum for broadcast meteorologists  
Joseph Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Owens, M. Kelsch, S. Espinoza, and D. Sliter
2:00 PMJ2.3The Numerical Weather Prediction Professional Development Series (NWP PDS)  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and S. D. Jascourt
2:15 PMJ2.4Satellite education and training resources for the forecast community: advances in meteorological satellite data and applications  extended abstract wrf recording
Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and S. Wang
2:30 PMJ2.5COMET Marine and Coastal Meteorology Modules  extended abstract wrf recording
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Wesley and A. J. Bol
2:45 PMJ2.6COMET ensemble prediction training  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD
3:00 PMJ2.7COMET® case studies in hydrometeorology training  
Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open
 
3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Joint Session 3 Forum on the Future Role of the Human in the Forecast Process Part 3: Roles of the Public and Private Sector (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)
Moderator: Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS, Wakefield, VA
 
5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day
 
5:30 PM, Wednesday, Ambassador Ballroom
Session 7 IABM Annual General Meeting: Everyone Welcome
 
Thursday, 4 August 2005
8:45 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 8 Something in the Air
Chair: Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, VA
8:45 AM8.1Have NBC’s WeatherPlus channels changed the broadcast weather environment?  
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and D. R. L. Rainey and M. A. Steinberg
9:00 AM8.2A New Federal Alert System for Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation  
Jason Samenow, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC; and C. S. Long and S. Monroe
9:15 AM8.3A perfect smog storm: review of the particle pollution episode in the Midwest from January 31 to February 6, 2005   wrf recording
Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and A. C. Chan, C. E. Lengyel, R. A. Wayland, and J. E. White
9:30 AM8.4U.S. EPA's AIRNow program: A partnership broadcasters can breathe easy over  
Richard A. Wayland, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. E. White, S. A. Jackson, and T. S. Dye
 
9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 9 More Than Hot Air
Chair: Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV, Evansville, IN
9:30 AM9.1How do communities respond? Intervention activities to lower heat-related mortality  
Alan D. Perrin, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC; and J. Samenow
9:45 AM9.2A National Heat/Health Warning System: Improvement over current system  
Mark Tew, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
1 Exhibits Open
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 10 Monumental Ideas
Chair: Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC
10:30 AM10.1Using satellite imagery to improve on-air forecasts and nowcasts  
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO
11:00 AM10.2Put Some Meteors in Your Meteorology  
J. Kelly Beatty, Night Sky Magazine, Cambridge, MA
11:30 AM10.3The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Citizen Science for Volunteers and Preciptiation Information for Decision Makers  
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS Network/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli and N. J. Doesken
11:45 AM10.4The weather pattern cycle discovery (forecasting long range)  
Gary Lezak, Shawnee, KS
 
12:00 PM, Thursday
Session Luncheon -- Joint -- Speaker Bob Ryan
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 11 Different Languages, Same Weather
Chair: Ronald Hearst, KYTV-3, Springfield, MO
1:30 PM11.1Diplomacy 101: Geneva and the WMO  
John Toohey-Morales, NBC Telemundo and Climadata, Miami, FL
1:45 PM11.2Weathercasts the world over  
Tomas Molina, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, Barcelona, Spain
 
2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 12 Being the station scientist
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
2:00 PM12.1National Weather Service Digital Services: Building a Weather Database Together  
Glenn Austin, NOAA/NWS/Office of Climate, Water, & Weather Services, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Horvitz, C. Alex, D. Young, and K. Gurka
2:15 PM12.3Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS) Helping you be the Station Scientist  extended abstract wrf recording
Emilie Lorditch, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
2:30 PM12.4Introduction to Being the Station Scientist  
Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Thursday
1 Exhibits Open
 
3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 13 More Being the Station Scientist
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
3:30 PM13.1Being the station scientist: Getting your resources together  
Gene Norman, WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA
4:00 PM13.2Adding Space Weather to Your Broadcast  
Rachel A. Weintraub, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
4:15 PM13.3Being the station scientist: Getting your hands dirty  
Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI; and K. M. Wilson
 
5:45 PM, Thursday
Sessions End for the Day
 
Friday, 5 August 2005
9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 14 Do You Want Another Term?? Career Session
Chair: Mark Nelsen, KPTV, Portland, OR
9:00 AM14.1Broadcast Meteorology–How are we doing in the year 2005?  
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN
9:30 AM14.2A retiring broadcast pioneer reflects  
Harry Volkman, WFLD-TV, Chicago, IL
 
10:30 AM, Friday, Diplomat Ballroom
Panel Discussion 1 Career Panel from the Broadcast Industry
Chair: Veronica Johnson, NBC4, Washington, DC
 
12:00 PM, Friday
Conference Ends
 

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