Program

8:00-8:30am Light Breakfast
8:40-9:00am Session introductions and thank you to sponsoring organizations; Speakers: Jordan Gerth, BEC Chair, Heidi Centola, CWWCE Commissioner
9:00-9:30am Opening Keynote: A Fresh Look at the Weather Enterprise 20 Years after the “Fair Weather” Report; Speaker: Mary Glackin, Chair, Weather Enterprise Study Advisory Committee
9:30-10:30am Session 1 – Observations in Support of a Vibrant Enterprise; Moderator:  Don Berchoff; Speaker: Cory Springer, Ethereal Space, Renee Leduc, Narayan Strategy, Elizabeth Wilson, Synoptic Data
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am-12:00pm Session 2 – The Research Enterprise — Advancing the Science; Moderator: Jerry Brotzge, Western KY Univ., Panel:  Mike Farrar, NOAA; Curt Kolovson, MariaDB-ret, Daniel Rothenberg, OpenEarthAI
12:00-12:30pm Communicating Forecast Uncertainty 2: Replication and Extension of a Survey of the US Public’s Sources, Perceptions, Uses, and Values for Weather Information; Speaker:  Jeff Lazo, Jeffrey K. Lazo Consulting LLC
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:00pm NOAA Research and the Enterprise; Speaker:  Dr. John Cortinas, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, NOAA Research
2:00-3:00pm Session 3 – The Accessibility of Data Across the Enterprise Panel: Moderator: Carmen Jenkins, Palantir; Panel: Thomas Cavett, Tomorrow.io; Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather; Doug Schuster, NSF NCAR
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:00pm The AMS Climate Enterprise Initiative; Speaker:  Emma Tipton, AMS
4:00-5:00pm Session 4 – Community modeling and the future of NWP in the U.S.; Moderator: John Ten Hoeve, Panel: Fred Carr, University of Oklahoma. Cliff Mass, University of Washington; Neil Jacobs, NSF NCAR; Maoyi Huang, NOAA; Aaron Hill, University of Oklahoma; Gretchen Mullendore, NSF NC
5:00-5:15pm Reflections from day 1
6:00-8:00pm Icebreaker reception, TBA

 

8:00-8:30am Light Breakfast
8:30-9:00am Day 2 Opening Remarks; Speakers:  Jordan Gerth, BEC Chair; Anjuli Bamsai, AMS President
9:00-9:30am How the NWS Is Meeting the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow in partnership with the Academic, Commercial and Non-Profit Sectors; Speaker: Michelle Mainelli, NWS Deputy Director
9:30-10:30am Session 5 – Weather Forecasts and Decision Support Services; Moderator: Allison Allen, NOAA, Panelists: Marie Colton, Hydros; Matt Corey, Microsoft; Luke Peffers, JCSDA, Sue Haupt, NSF NCAR
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am-12:00pm Session 6 – Education and Training in Support of the Enterprise; Moderator: Dave Stensrud, Penn State; Panelists: Steve Bennett, The Demex Group; Liz Mulvihill, UCAR; David Green, NASA-ret
12:00-12:30pm What should the Meteorologist Series 1340 requirement really look like
Panelists:  Rich Clark, AMS Past-President; David Myrick, NOAA; Liz Mulvihill, UCAR
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:00pm Convergence Research in the Weather Enterprise; Speaker: Julie Demuth, NCAR
2:00-3:00pm Session 7 – Delivery and Support of Warning Services; Moderator: Jay Trobec, KELO-TV, Panelists:  Kim Klockow McClain, NOAA; Doug Hilderbrand, NOAA, John Morales, Climadata
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:00pm Related lessons and recommendations from the PWR report; Speaker:  Brad Colman, AMS Past-President
4:00-4:30pm Is the concept of the “Weather Enterprise” outdated?; Speaker: Pamitha Weerasinghe, Maxar
4:30-4:45pm Possible next steps in this study; Moderator:  Keith Seitter
4:45pm-5:00pm Closing Remarks; Speaker: Jordan Gerth