Second Tri-State Weather Conference Schedule
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8 to 9 a.m. Light breakfast and Registration
9:00 to 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Gary Lessor, Conference organizer
Dr. James Schmotter, President, Western Connecticut State University
9:15 to 9:35 Dr Mel Goldstein, News Channel 8, Climate Connecticut
9:35 to 9:55 Elena Novakovskaia, IBM Research Center, An Integrated Hydro-Meteorological System for Flood Forecasting in the New York City Metropolitan Area
9:55 to 10:20 Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, High resolution WRF and ADCIRC simulations of Hurricane Gloria for the New York City Metropolitan Region
10:20 to 10:40 Beverage break / Poster and Table Sessions
10:40 to 11:05 John Murray, NOAA/NWS, Upton/New York, A spatial Climatology of Convection in the Northeast U.S.
11:05 to 11:25 Ernest J Ostuno, NOAA/NWS, Grand Rapids, Michigan, A Rating Scale for Winter Storms Based on Impact to Travel
11:25 to 12:00 Morning keynote speaker, Berrien Moore III, Climate Central, Humans and the Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain?
12:00 to 12:30 Eleanor Vallier-Talbot, NOAA/NWS, Taunton/Massachusetts, A Retrospective of the June 1953 Flint and Worcester Tornadoes: How They Happened and What We Learned
12:30 to 1:10 BBQ Lunch
1:10 to 1:35 James Witt, Fleetweather, Retired, A Unique Look At Long-Range Forecasting
1:35 to 1:55 Michael Erickson, Stony Brook University, Potential Improvements to Precipitation and Hydrological Forecasts using Mesoscale Ensemble Weather Predictions
1:55 to 2:20 Tim Morrin, NOAA/NWS, Upton/New York, The Forgotten Blizzard of 1886 - Are our climate records better today?
2:20 to 2:45 Brian Colle, Stony Brook University, New York City Storm Surges: Climatology and an Analysis of the Wind and Cyclone Evolution
2:45 to 3:05 Beverage break / Poster and Table Sessions
3:05 to 3:30 Anthony Praino, IBM Research Center, Forecast Performance of an Operational Meso-Gamma-Scale Modeling System in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast during Tropical Storm Hanna
3:30 to 3:50 Patrick Maloit, NOAA/NWS, Upton/New York, The Winter Storm that "Clipped" the Tri-State
3:50 to 4:15 William Goodman, NOAA/NWS, Upton/New York, The Summer of 2007 - A Tale of Two Tornadic Events in the Tri-State
4:15 to 5:00 Afternoon, keynote speaker, Rich Rotunno, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Assistant Director, Mesoscale and Microscale Meterology. Models of Severe Convection: From Theory to Applications
5:00 Closing Remarks
