{"id":15,"date":"2017-09-20T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/weatherconference\/speakers\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:22:52","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Tri-State Weather Conference Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Saturday, September 21, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Science Building Midtown Campus<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Western Connecticut State University, 181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Keynote Speaker<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/dr-jason-tuell\/\">Dr. Jason Tuell<\/a>, <\/b><i>Director, Eastern Region <\/i>National Weather Service<\/p>\n<p><b>Keynote Topic:<\/b>\u00a0<b>National Weather Service Transformation: \u00a0Today and Tomorrow<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Speakers<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a id=\"OWA353a967f-05b0-63fb-9095-db48573dbabf\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/paul-taschereau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Paul Taschereau<\/a><\/b>, \u00a0<i>PeriShip Global, Branford, CT<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Topic: 30th Anniversary of the July 15, 1995 Superderecho<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a id=\"OWAf831ba30-6ff7-db82-8bd3-86590b84f774\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/hayden-frank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Hayden Frank<\/a><\/b>, National Weather Service Boston, MA<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic:<\/b>\u00a0<b>Challenges of Forecasting the February 13th, 2024 Nor\u2019easter<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/joe-rao\/\">Joe Rao<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Space.com&#8217;s skywatching columnist<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic: <em>A Comet is Coming! (Maybe)<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/edward-roedel\/\"><b>Edward Roedel<\/b><\/a>, Avangrid, New Haven, CT<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic:<\/b>\u00a0<b>Climate Change, The Effect on the Electric Grid and Plans to Keep it Resilient<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/stephen-wagener\/\"><b>Stephen Wagener<\/b><\/a>, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic: Predictions and Projections of Health Impacts in a Changing Climate<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/jason-m-cordeira\/\"><b>Jason M. Cordeira<\/b><\/a>, UCSD\/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Albany, NY<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic:<\/b>\u00a0<b>Characteristics, Impacts, and Historical Perspectives of Atmospheric Rivers along the U.S. East Coast during Winter 2023\u20132024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dominic Ramunni,<\/b><a id=\"OWA9accf89e-cfd0-ab3c-d39b-d544c1fc4304\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/dave-radell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">\u00a0<\/a>National Weather Service New York, New York<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic: R<\/b><b>eview of the August\u00a0Historic CT Flash Flood Event and June\u00a0Severe Storms<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wcsu-edu-gil-simmons\/\"><b>Gil Simmons<\/b><\/a>, WTNH Channel 8, New Haven, CT<\/p>\n<p><b>Topic: Humanizing the Science of Weather<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/faye-morrone\/\">Faye Morrone<\/a>.<\/b><a id=\"OWA9accf89e-cfd0-ab3c-d39b-d544c1fc4304\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weather\/dave-radell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">\u00a0<\/a>National Weather Service New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><b>Using AI-Powered Translations to Expand Access to Weather Information Across the <\/b><b>Tri-State<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>The registration fee is $25<\/strong>\u00a0and will\u00a0<strong>include a continental breakfast and a pizza\/salad bar lunch<\/strong>, along with conference materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Please register online.<a href=\"https:\/\/wcsutickets.regfox.com\/ninth-tri-state-weather-conference-registration-92124\"><strong>\u00a0wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/registration<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">NO CHARGE for any high school, college or university students, but you must preregister and show your school I.D. at check in.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Continental breakfast will be served from 8:15 to 9:00 a.m. in the Science Building Atrium. Please arrive early for check-in and breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Gary Lessor, Conference Chair, Western Connecticut State University\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lessorg@wcsu.edu\">lessorg@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Mark Kramer, Conference Co-Chair, AMS NYC\/LI Chapter\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nycliams@weathermarkpro.com\">nycliams@weathermarkpro.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 21, 2024 Science Building Midtown Campus Western Connecticut State University, 181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810 &nbsp; Keynote Speaker Dr. Jason Tuell, Director, Eastern Region National Weather Service Keynote Topic:\u00a0National Weather Service Transformation: \u00a0Today and Tomorrow Speakers Paul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}