34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

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Thursday, 28 July 2005

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 28 July 2005


Coffee Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 28 July 2005


Coffee Break

Sunday, 31 July 2005

4:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 31 July 2005


Registration Opens

Monday, 1 August 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Mon 1 Aug

7:00 AM-8:00 AM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Registration continues through Friday, 5 August

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Short Course (Broadcast) Include Lunch

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Coffee Break

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Lunch Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Coffee Break

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 1 August 2005


Sessions End for the Day

Tuesday, 2 August 2005

8:40 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Session 1
Broadcasters Storm the Hill
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Jillene Wahl, WYFF-TV
8:40 AM
1.1
Welcome to Washington D.C
Robert T. Ryan, WRC-TV, Washington, DC; and D. Hill and T. Shutt
9:00 AM
14.1
Broadcast Meteorology–How are we doing in the year 2005?
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN

9:20 AM
1.3
Hurricane Ivan...was I the Terrible?
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA
9:40 AM
1.4
The 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, 2 August 2005


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Session 2
Risky Business: Severe Weather
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Jay Prater, KAKE-TV
10:30 AM
2.1
2004 Year in Tornadoes: What A Year It Was!
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Schaefer
10:45 AM
2.2
Severe Weather Workshop
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Session 3
Messy Business: Winter Weather
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Katie Horner, KCTV-5
1:30 PM
3.1
1:45 PM
3.2
Winter Weather Workshop
Peter Manousos, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Coffee Break

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Session 4
Putting your entourage together
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: David Bernard, WWL-TV
3:30 PM
4.1
University 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 PM
4.2
Covering the Storm: Broadcasting from the NWS Storm Prediction Center and other National Centers
Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and K. Tarp
4:00 PM
4.3
Clustering Severe Storms Across the United States
Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean and D. McCarthy
4:15 PM
4.4

4:30 PM-5:26 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Session 5
Capital Ideas - Vendor Session
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
4:30 PM
5.1
WSI. The disruptive weather company
Chris Goode, Director of Media Sales, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA

4:37 PM
5.2
Hyper-LOCAL…24X7
Peter Levy, President, Weather Metrics, Inc., Lenexa, KS

4:44 PM
5.3
ESP:LIVE
Joe DiGiovanni, WSI, Madison, WI

4:51 PM
5.4
4:58 PM
5.5
Public Safety Alert (PSA) Program
Bruce Thomas, Chief Meteorologist, Midland Radio Corp, Kansas City, MO

5:05 PM
5.6
Baron Services
Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL

5:12 PM
5.7
The Eco-celli Barometer--the first and only liquid mercury-free barometer
Mike Matvichuk, Allivan Marketing, LLC, Tyngsboro, MA

5:19 PM
5.8
Enhancements to the Galileo weather system
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and R. Ayres and M. Steinberg

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Sessions End for the Day

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 August 2005


Formal Opening of Exhibits

Wednesday, 3 August 2005

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Session 6
Taking the Floor: Meet the Broadcast Board
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Keynote Speaker
Political Science
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
9:30 AM
Partnerships for Environmental Literacy, serving the American
D. L. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Coffee Break

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


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Exhibits Open

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Joint Session 1
Joint AMS Panel on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
Location: Ambassador Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Hosts: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )
Moderator: Ron McPherson, AMS
Panelists: Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel; Bryan Hannegan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Ed Olenic, NCEP; Stephen E. Zebiak, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University

1:30 PM-3:15 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Joint Session 2
Environmental Education, Training, and Outreach
Location: Ambassador Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Hosts: (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
1:30 PM
J2.1
1:45 PM
J2.2
Weather 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
2:30 PM
J2.5
COMET Marine and Coastal Meteorology Modules
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Wesley and A. J. Bol
3:00 PM
J2.7

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Exhibits Open

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Joint Session 3
Forum on the Future Role of the Human in the Forecast Process Part 3: Roles of the Public and Private Sector
Location: Ambassador Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Hosts: (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

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 3 August 2005


Session 7
IABM Annual General Meeting: Everyone Welcome
Location: Ambassador Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

Sessions End for the Day

Thursday, 4 August 2005

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session 8
Something in the Air
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV
8:45 AM
8.1
Have 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 AM
8.2
A New Federal Alert System for Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation
Jason Samenow, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC; and C. S. Long and S. Monroe

9:15 AM
8.3
A perfect smog storm: review of the particle pollution episode in the Midwest from January 31 to February 6, 2005
Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and A. C. Chan, C. E. Lengyel, R. A. Wayland, and J. E. White
9:30 AM
8.4
U.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, 4 August 2005


Session 9
More Than Hot Air
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV
9:30 AM
9.1

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


1
Exhibits Open

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session 10
Monumental Ideas
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV
10:30 AM
10.1
Using satellite imagery to improve on-air forecasts and nowcasts
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO

11:00 AM
10.2
Put Some Meteors in Your Meteorology
J. Kelly Beatty, Night Sky Magazine, Cambridge, MA
11:30 AM
10.3

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session
Luncheon -- Joint -- Speaker Bob Ryan
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session 11
Different Languages, Same Weather
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Ronald Hearst, KYTV-3
1:30 PM
11.1
1:45 PM
11.2
Weathercasts the world over
Tomas Molina, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, Barcelona, Spain

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session 12
Being the station scientist
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV
2:00 PM
12.1
National 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 PM
12.3
2:30 PM
12.4

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


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Exhibits Open

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Session 13
More Being the Station Scientist
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Gene Norman, WGCL-TV
4:00 PM
13.2
Adding Space Weather to Your Broadcast
Rachel A. Weintraub, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
4:15 PM
13.3
Being the station scientist: Getting your hands dirty
Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI; and K. M. Wilson

5:45 PM-5:45 PM: Thursday, 4 August 2005


Sessions End for the Day

Friday, 5 August 2005

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Friday, 5 August 2005


Session 14
Do You Want Another Term?? Career Session
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Mark Nelsen, KPTV
9:00 AM
14.1
Broadcast Meteorology–How are we doing in the year 2005?
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN

9:30 AM
14.2
A retiring broadcast pioneer reflects
Harry Volkman, WFLD-TV, Chicago, IL

10:30 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 5 August 2005


Panel Discussion 1
Career Panel from the Broadcast Industry
Location: Diplomat Ballroom (Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington D.C.)
Host: 34th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Veronica Johnson, NBC4

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Friday, 5 August 2005


Conference Ends