	SATURDAY 8 February	SUNDAY 9 February		MONDAY 10 February		TUESDAY 11 February		WEDNESDAY 12 February		THURSDAY 13 February
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Presidential Symposium on the History of the Atmospheric Sciences: People, Discoveries, and Technologies	TUE 11 FEB						History Symposium 1:25 PM-5:00 PM Symposium Ends 5:00 PM
Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges	SAT 8 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Sun 9 Feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		Mon 10 Feb Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Perspectives on Impacts and Response Options in North America 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM	Panel Discussion—Impacts on Multiple Sectors and Cross Cutting Issues 1:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Drought 2002—Impacts, Lessons, Management and Policy Innovations 4:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	Tues 11 Feb Flood Hydrology, Management, and Information Systems: Near and Real-Time Management, Impacts, Forecasting, and Communication Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Flood Hydrology Management and Information Systems Posters (JOINT WITH THE SYMP ON IMPACTS OF WATER VARIABILITY: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM Global Perspectives on Impacts 1:30 PM-4:45 PM Flood Hydrology, Management, Information Systems: Longer-Term Planning, Management, Impacts, and Forecasting Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM	Wed 12 Feb Water Management Issues - Role of Information 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Regional Integrated Assessments 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	Thur 13 Feb Weather Derivatives and the Value of Forecasts(Joint with the Symposium on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations) 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM Drought Impacts, Preparedness and Mitigation 11:00 AM-12:30 PM	Impacts Related to Global Climate Change - What do we know, and how can we best hedge our bets? 1:30 PM-3:30 PM Conference Ends 2:15 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
The Simpson Symposium								WED 12 FEB Coffee Break in Lobby of the Terrace Theater 9:30 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Day 1 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB Cloud Modelling 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Improving Weather Forecasting 9:00 AM-11:00 AM TRMM Science 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Tropical Cyclones: Genesis and Hot Towers 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Tropical Cyclones: Intensity and Structure 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Tropical Cyclones: Landfall 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Trpoical Cyclones: Large-scale Environment and Tropical Cyclones 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Water Spouts 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM Day 2 11:00 AM-4:30 PM	Closing 4:30 PM-4:45 PM Symposium Ends 5:00 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate	SAT 8 FEB 6:00 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB 6:00 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB 6:00 AM Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Spatial and temporal variability of water in all its phases: Part 1 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:00 AM-10:15 AM International H2O Project (IHOP) 10:45 AM-2:30 PM	Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All Its Phases: Part 2 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Spatial and Temporal Variability (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 2:30 PM-2:30 PM International H20 Project (IHOP) 2:30 PM-2:30 PM Linkages between the carbon and water cycles 4:00 PM-5:15 PM Sessions end for the day 5:15 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB 6:00 AM Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in all its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM Air-Sea Interaction and the Water Cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Instrumentation and Remote Sensing (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-9:45 AM	Weather and climate modeling of water in all its phases 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions end for the day 5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB 6:00 AM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 8:30 AM Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All its Phases: Part 3 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM U. S. Global Change Research Program water cycle initiative (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:25 PM-5:29 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Air-Sea interaction and the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and understanding the variability of water in weather and Climate and the 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere) 3:30 PM-5:15 PM Sessions end for the day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB 6:00 AM Field experiments and surface mesonetworks 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Role of vegetation and land cover/land use in the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM Weather and Climate Modeling of Water in all its Phases Poster Sessions 9:45 AM-11:00 AM U.S. Global Change Research Program Water Cycle Initiative Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Field Experiments and Surface Mesonetworks 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Role of Vegetation and Land Use/Land Cover in the water cycle Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Assimilation of water data in all its phases 1:30 PM-4:30 PM Symposium Ends 4:30 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
19th Conference on IIPS	SAT 8 FEB 7:30 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Radar IIPS and Applications 9:00 AM-12:15 PM Global Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology, and Climatology 1:30 PM-5:30 PM 19th IIPS Poster Session 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Sessions end for the day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB Emergence of Digital Libraries in Education (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:45 AM AWIPS 8:30 AM-1:30 PM Internet Applications and Web Portals 8:30 AM-1:30 PM Emergence of Digital Libraries (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorlogy, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Emergence of Digital Libraries in Education: Part II (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 11:00 AM-12:15 PM	GIS Applications 1:25 PM-5:25 PM European and Other International Applications 1:30 PM-3:30 PM EUROPEAN AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS—GCOS (Joint with 19 IIPS and 7 IOS) 3:25 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB INTERNET APPLICATIONS AND WEB PORTALS PART II 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION WEATHER PART II 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Satellite IIPS and Applications 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB AWIPS Part II 8:30 AM-12:15 PM INTERNET APPLICATIONS AND WEB PORTALS PART III 8:30 AM-1:45 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM	RADAR IIPS AND APPLICATIONS PART II 1:30 PM-5:30 PM APPLICATIONS IN METEOROLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, HYDROLOGY, AND CLIMATOLOGY PART II 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Conference Ends 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
17TH Conference on Hydrology	sat 8 feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	sun 9 feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB 6:00 AM Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Spatial and temporal variability of water in all its phases: Part 1 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:00 AM-10:15 AM SMEX and SMACEX 2002: Soil Moisture and Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Coupling 9:00 AM-11:45 AM	Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All Its Phases: Part 2 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Spatial and Temporal Variability (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 2:30 PM-2:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	tue 11 feb Land-Atmosphere Interactions 1: Regional, Continental and Global Scale Water and Energy Budgets 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Flood Hydrology, Management, and Information Systems: Near and Real-Time Management, Impacts, Forecasting, and Communication Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in all its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Flood Hydrology Management and Information Systems Posters (JOINT WITH THE SYMP ON IMPACTS OF WATER VARIABILITY: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Instrumentation and Remote Sensing (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-9:45 AM	Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2: Process Representation and Evaluation 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Flood Hydrology, Management, Information Systems: Longer-Term Planning, Management, Impacts, and Forecasting Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Conference Ends 4:45 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM	wed 12 feb Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All its Phases: Part 3 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Water Cycle-Atmospheric Chemistry Linkages(Joint with the 12th Conf on interactions of the sea and atmosphere, 5th Conf on atmospheric chemistry: gases, aerosols, and clouds, and the 17th conference on hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM U. S. Global Change Research Program water cycle initiative (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:25 PM-5:29 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	thur 13 feb Role of vegetation and land cover/land use in the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Satellite Measurements: Hydrological Impact and Land Surface Data Assimilation (Joint with the 17th Conference on Hydrology and the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM U.S. Global Change Research Program Water Cycle Initiative Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Role of Vegetation and Land Use/Land Cover in the water cycle Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Conference Ends 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations	Sat 8 Feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Sun 9 Feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		Mon 10 Feb Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM State of the Science: The Role of the Carbon Cycle in the Earth System 9:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Climate Change Modeling: I 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Observed Seasonal/Interannual Variability: I 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Poster Session: I 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	Tue 11 Feb Observed Climate Change: I 8:30 AM-12:00 PM Seasonal/Interannual Prediction 8:45 AM-12:00 PM Poster Session II 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Observed Seasonal/Interannual Variability: II 3:30 PM-5:45 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:45 PM	Wed 12 Feb Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: I 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Observed Climate Change: II 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM U. S. Global Change Research Program water cycle initiative (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 1:25 PM-5:29 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Model Diagnostics and Evaluation 1:30 PM-5:15 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	Thur 13 Feb Weather Derivatives and the Value of Forecasts(Joint with the Symposium on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations) 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Observed Climate Change: III 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: II 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM ENSO and Global-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Poster Session III 9:45 AM-11:00 AM U.S. Global Change Research Program Water Cycle Initiative Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM General Circulation and Teleconnections 11:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Climate Change Modeling: II 1:30 PM-5:15 PM ENSO and Global-scale atmosphere-ocean coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere ) 3:30 PM-5:45 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere	SAT 8 FEB 6:00 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB 6:00 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB 6:00 AM Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Tropical Atlantic coupled variability 9:00 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM extratropical atmosphere-ocean interaction 10:45 AM-2:15 PM	Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Extratropical Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tropical Atlantic Coupled Variability 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Part 1: Air-sea Fluxes and interfacial processes 4:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB 6:00 AM Part 2: Air-sea Fluxes and interfacial processes 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Air-Sea Fluxes and Interfacial Processes 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Air-Sea Interaction and the Water Cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Monsoon-Ocean Interaction 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Microscale and Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Observations of air-sea interaction (in situ and satellite) 11:00 AM-2:43 PM	Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM Monsoon-ocean interaction 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB 6:00 AM Water Cycle-Atmospheric Chemistry Linkages(Joint with the 12th Conf on interactions of the sea and atmosphere, 5th Conf on atmospheric chemistry: gases, aerosols, and clouds, and the 17th conference on hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea interaction (Joint Session between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Micro–Scale and Mesoscale air-sea interaction 1:30 PM-4:15 PM Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint Poster Session between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM Air-Sea interaction and the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and understanding the variability of water in weather and Climate and the 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere) 3:30 PM-5:15 PM Air-Sea and QuikSCAT Applications (Joint Poster Session between 12 Conference on Satellite Meteorology and 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB 6:00 AM RED SEAS Experiments 8:30 AM-2:15 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM ENSO and Global-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Red Seas Experiments and Active Remote Sensing of Air-Sea Interaction 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM-1:30 PM Active Remote Sensing of air-sea interaction 1:30 PM-4:15 PM General Sessions 2:15 PM-2:45 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM ENSO and Global-scale atmosphere-ocean coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere ) 3:30 PM-5:45 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Conference Ends 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation	SAT 8 Feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	sun 9 feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		mon 10 feb Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM In Memory of Dr Tim Crawford NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls 9:00 AM-9:15 AM Aircraft Measurements (This session is dedicated to Dr. Tim Crawford: NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls) 9:15 AM-9:59 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM Aircraft Measurements Past and Present (This session is dedicated to Dr. Tim Crawford: NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls) 10:45 AM-11:15 AM Open Discussion on Aircraft Measurements: How far have we come? 11:15 AM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Improved Weather Measurement Systems 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Posters 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Improved Weather Measurement Techniques 4:00 PM-4:45 PM Open Discussion on New/Improved Measurement Systems and Techniques 4:45 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	tue 11 feb Meteorological Measurement Networks I 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Meteorological Networks Quality Control and Assurance 11:00 AM-12:15 PM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM Meteorological Measurement Networks II 1:30 PM-2:15 PM Open Discussion on Meteorological Measurement Networks: Climate monitoring implications? 2:15 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30) 3:30 PM-4:00 PM Radiosonde Upper-Air Measurements 3:30 PM-4:45 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:00 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM	wed 12 feb Remote Sensing Measurement Intercomparisons 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Remote Sensing Measurements: Observations and Applications I 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM Remote Sensing Measurements: Observations and Applications II 3:30 PM-4:30 PM Open Discussion Remote Sensing: New retrieval methods? Are we headed in the right direction? 4:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	thur 13 feb Satellite Measurements: Hydrological Impact and Land Surface Data Assimilation (Joint with the 17th Conference on Hydrology and the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation 8:30 AM-12:15 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM-1:30 PM Surface Hydrological Measurements 1:30 PM-2:45 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM Surface Measurements 3:30 PM-4:30 PM Conference Ends 4:45 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
12th Symposium on Education	SAT 8 FEB 7:30 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM	Poster Session: K-12, Popular and University Educational Initiatives 5:30 PM-7:00 PM	MON 10 FEB Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM K–12 Educational Initiatives 8:30 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM Popular Education and Outreach Activities 10:45 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Special Session on Water and the Water Cycle: Part I 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM University and Professional Initiatives 2:30 PM-2:30 PM Special Session on Water and the Water Cycle: Part II 4:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB Emergence of Digital Libraries in Education (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Emergence of Digital Libraries (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorlogy, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Emergence of Digital Libraries in Education: Part II (Joint between 12th Symposium on Education and 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) 11:00 AM-12:15 PM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM University Educational Initiatives 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM University Educational Initiatives: Continued 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Symposium Ends 5:00 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Exhibit Hours: 1:30–7:30P.M. 1:30 PM-7:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM	Exhibit Hours: 1:30–6:00P.M. 1:30 PM-6:30 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography	SAT 8 FEB 7:30 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Welcome address 9:00 AM Keynote Address 9:15 AM-9:45 AM Climatology and Clouds 9:45 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM Climatology and Clouds 10:15 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Operational Applications 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Operational Applications and Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science) 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science) 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:00 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB Environmental Applications 8:15 AM-9:45 AM Environmental Applications 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Data Assimilation 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM Data Assimilation 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB Operational Implications of QuikSCAT 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea interaction (Joint Session between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint Poster Session between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM Air-Sea and QuikSCAT Applications (Joint Poster Session between 12 Conference on Satellite Meteorology and 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere) 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB Moisture, Fluxes and Retrievals 8:15 AM-9:45 AM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM Moisture, Fluxes and Retrievals 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM-1:30 PM New Technology, Methods and Future Sensors 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM New Technology, Methods and Future Sensors 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Conference Ends 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle	SAT 8 FEB 7:30 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Advances in observing systems 9:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Integrated Observing Systems 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 4:00 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB Observing system simulation 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.) 3:00 PM-3:30 PM EUROPEAN AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS—GCOS (Joint with 19 IIPS and 7 IOS) 3:25 PM-5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Assimilation and analysis 1:30 PM-4:31 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Symposium Ends 7:00 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM	Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds	SAT 8 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Sun 9 Feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		Mon 10 Feb Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Atmospheric Chemistry—General Papers and History 9:00 AM-11:15 AM Cloud Chemical Processes 11:15 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Regional and Global Scale Chemical Processes 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM General Poster Session 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 4:00 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	Tues 11 Feb Urban Air Chemistry 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Integration of Measurement and Modeling on Urban and Regional Scales 11:00 AM-2:14 PM	Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM	Wed 12 Feb Water Cycle-Atmospheric Chemistry Linkages(Joint with the 12th Conf on interactions of the sea and atmosphere, 5th Conf on atmospheric chemistry: gases, aerosols, and clouds, and the 17th conference on hydrology) 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM NEOPS Field Studies 1:30 PM-5:00 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	Thur 13 Feb Aerosols 8:30 AM-2:15 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM	Conference Ends 2:15 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) 3:00 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science	sat 8 feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	sun 9 feb Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON FEB 10 Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Generic AI Methods and Applications 9:00 AM-2:30 PM	Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Operational Applications and Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science) 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science) 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	tue 11 feb Neural Networks 8:30 AM-12:15 PM All AI applications 9:45 AM-11:00 AM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM All aspects of artificial intelligence applications to environmental sciences 2:15 PM-5:15 PM Conference Ends 4:45 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM	wed 12 feb Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	thur 13 feb Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM	Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM Conference Ends 5:30 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Symposium on the F-Scale and Severe-Weather Damage Assessment	SAT 8 FEB 7:30 AM Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration* 9:00 AM-5:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB Short Course Registration 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Conference Registration 9:00 AM-6:00 PM		MON 10 FEB Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) 7:30 AM-5:30 PM Welcoming Remarks 9:00 AM-9:15 AM Modifications to the Fujita Scale 9:15 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room 10:15 AM-10:45 AM Winds, Damage, and F-Scale I 10:45 AM-12:15 PM	Lunch Break 12:15 PM-1:30 PM Damage, Winds, and F-Scale II 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 2:30 PM Fujita Scale and Related Topics 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Panel Discussion: Winds, Damage, F-Scale 4:00 PM Sessions End for the Day 5:30 PM Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) 5:30 PM-7:30 PM	TUE 11 FEB Wind, Damage, and F-Scale III 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Impacts and Implications of the F-Scale 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Panel Discussion: F-Scale Ramifications 11:30 AM	Symposium Ends 12:15 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM	WED 12 FEB Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade 9:30 AM-10:00 AM Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Lunch Break 12:00 PM Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 1:30 PM Exhibit Hours: 1:30–7:30P.M. 1:30 PM-7:30 PM Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00 PM-7:30 PM AMS Annual Awards Banquet 7:30 PM-9:30 PM	THUR 13 FEB Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson 9:00 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break 9:45 AM	Exhibit Hours: 1:30–6:00P.M. 1:30 PM-6:30 PM Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Simpsons Banquet 6:00 PM Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Coastal Environments Interactive Symposium on Developments in Operational and Research Coastal Oceanography and Meteorology						TUE 11 FEB Opening Remarks 8:25 AM Ocean.US, Ocean Commission: Regional Observing System, Needed "National Backbone", etc. 8:30 AM-8:45 AM Operational Centers 8:45 AM-9:45 AM Poster Session 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Interagency Initiatives 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Emergent Operational Systems 11:30 AM-12:45 PM	Research Systems 12:45 PM-2:00 PM Human Resource Needs, Including Education and Training: Employers' Perspective—USN 2:00 PM-2:30 PM Human Resource Needs, Including Education and Training: Employers' Perspective—NOAA 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Human Resource Needs, Including Education and Training: Employers' Perspective—Industry 3:45 PM-4:15 PM Academia's Response 4:15 PM-5:15 PM Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC 5:00 PM-5:30 PM CODA 5:15 PM Symposium Ends 5:30 PM
Second Annual AMS Student Conference	SAT 8 FEB 6:00 AM Student Conference Registration 11:00 AM-1:00 PM	SUN 9 FEB 6:00 AM	Atmospheric Chemistry 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Weather/Forecasting 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Modeling 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Climate 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Observations/Remote Sensing 5:30 PM-7:30 PM

Poster Session : Grid View