Expanding Horizons Draft Agenda
June 22nd through 27th,
2003
- Sunday-Registration, Opening Reception
- Monday-Unidata at 20
- Tuesday- GIS
- Wednesday-Case Studies
- Thursday-Policy and Education
- Friday-Panel Discussion
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On Sunday, join us for a
reception on the lawn at CU's Williams Village Dormitory
from 4 - 7 pm. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and volleyball.
On Monday morning,
we begin with presentations focused on Unidata at 20.
- Dave Fulker, one of
the founding members of Unidata and the current director of UCAR's NSDL program,
will talk about Unidata's past.
- Mohan
Ramamurthy, Unidata's director, will talk about Unidata
at present.
- Cliff Jacobs,
Unidata's NSF program sponsor, will talk about Unidata's future.
- Bill
Fingerhut of Lyndon State College's Department of
Meteorology and a Unidata Users Committee member, Charlie
Murphy of Kean University of New Jersey's Department of
Geology and Meteorology and a Unidata Policy Committee member, Don
Murray of Unidata, and Rajul
Pandya of Unidata and the DLESE program, will present
IDV and VGEE labs.
On Tuesday, we focus
on GIS.
- Ted Habermann of NOAA
NGDC will give a presentation titled "What is GIS?"
- Scott
Shipley of Raytheon & George Mason University
will give a GIS presentation.
- Olga
Wilhelmi of UCAR ESIG will give a GIS presentation.
- John Ferree of the
National Weather Service will give a presentation on The Weather Event Simulator.
- We will have Intro to GIS labs by Brian
Nelson, a Graduate Research Assistant at the University
of Iowa, John McIntosh,
an Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma, and Sam
Batzli of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Environmental
Sensing Center.
- At 10am we will convene on the front steps of FL2 for a group
photo.
- In the evening we have arranged for a dinner
and activities at UCAR's Mesa Lab. We are planning
tours of the facility and maybe short hikes.
Wednesday is devoted
to Case Studies.
- Joe Klemp
of UCAR MMM will give a presentation on the WRF model development and perhaps
discuss how WRF will be used in the future to address problems dealing with
societal impacts through the application of WRF-Chem/WRF-Hurricane/WRF-Fire
WX.
- Alex DeCaria
of Millersville University's Department of Earth Sciences will give a presentation
on using GIS (ArcView 8.X) to analyze 7-years worth of lightning data from
the NLDN for SE Pennsylvania, how he imported the data into ArcView, and the
methods used to analyze it.
- Daryl
Herzmann of the University of Iowa will will discuss
mesonets and GPS.
- John Merrill
of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and Unidata's
Policy Committee chair will talk about model output.
- Pete Pokrandt of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison will also discuss model output.
- Theresa
Carpenter a hydrologic engineer with the Hydrologic
Research Center
in San Diego will provide combination of a lecture on HRC's activities in
the area of combining GIS, remotely-sensing data (radar, satellite) and hydrologic
modeling, with a short hands-on demo.
- Stefano
Nativi of the University of Florence, Italy will present
a lab on the 'mimi' system for flood modeling using both real time andarchived.
- Dale Morris
and Kevin Kloesel of the University of Oklahoma will
present a lab on emergency management.
- And, finally, we will offer a Meet the
Developers session where guests will have a chance to
talk to Unidata staff.
- In the evening, we will be having our traditional cookout
at Flagstaff Mountain. We are planning a naturalist
talk for the evening as well.
Thursday's topic
is policy and education.
- Sam
Williamson, Director of the Office of the Federal
Coordinator for Meteorology, will give a presentation on weather and making
policy.
- Kyle Beatty
of Risk Management Solutions, Inc.will give a presentation.
- Kevin Kloesel will
give a lecture on the setup and operations of the OK-First (state wide emergency
managers) and On-Alert (National)including how they use weather data and state
mesonet data with other data to produce web served products for use in emergency
weather situations.
- John Weaver
of CIRA/CSU will give a hydromet plenary session.
- Tom Priddy
of the University of Kentucky will talk about the setup and tailoring
of products for use by the states agriculture community
- Labs will be a repeat of Wednesday's so guests have an opportunity to attend
a different session.
Friday's schedule includes
a panel discussion and wraps up at a half day.
- We will begin with a presentation by May
Yuan of the University of Oklahoma on GIS.
- We will hold a panel discussion.
- Mark Laufersweiler
of the University of Oklahoma and Michael
Morgan of the University of Wisconsin, our meeting chairs,
will lead a meeting wrap up.
- Guests are welcome to stay for lunch.
