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Preliminary Agenda (PDF)

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
8:30 a.m. Registration  
9:00 a.m.   Welcome
9:20 a.m. Keynote - Dr. Christian Kummerow From Radiative Transfer to NASA Missions and NOAA Cooperative Institutes
10:00 a.m. Patrick Meyers Envisioning Future Imagery: Activities at CICS-MD
10:20 a.m. Amir Ibrahim Polarimetric remote sensing for the retrieval of optical properties of the ocean
10:40 a.m. Jan Musial Probabilistic approach to cloud and snow detection on AVHRR imagery
11:00 a.m. Patrick Meyers Updating GPROF2010 for AMSR2/AMSRE
11:20 a.m.   Lunch on own
1:20 p.m. Panel: From Degree to Career Moderator: Jeff Key
Wayne, Feltz, Mike Foster, Patrick Meyers, Sarah Monette, and Min Oo
2:10 p.m. Tim Schmit Government Careers
2:30 p.m. Denny VanCleve Weather Ready Nation, What Is It and How Do We Get There?
2:50 p.m.   Break
3:15 p.m. Estation Gutierrez Simulations of a Heat Wave Event on New York City using a WRF Multilayer Urban Parameterization
3:35 p.m. Nathan Hosannah Effects of Aerosols on Microphysics and Warm-Season Precipitation in an Urban Environment
3:55 p.m. Jordan Gerth Sky Cover: Shining Light on a Gloomy Problem
4:15 p.m. Pedro Sequera Global Warming and Heating or COOLING? On California Coastal Cities
4:35 p.m. Curtis Seaman RGB Applications of VIIRS Imagery in Support of a Weather-Ready Nation
5:00 p.m. Poster Reception (Cash Bar) Posters will be displayed the entire conference

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
9:00 a.m.   Welcome
9:10 a.m. Soe Hlaing Validation of VIIRS Ocean Color primary products in coastal regions
9:40 a.m. Natalie Perlin Use of Satellite Observations to Measure Air-Sea Coupling and to Validate its Estimates from Numerical Atmospheric Models
10:00 a.m. Lide Jiang Ocean Diurnal Variations in China's East Coast Region Measured by the Korean Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI)
10:20 a.m.   Break
10:45 a.m. Panel: Do’s and Don’ts of Applying for Jobs Moderator: Chris Kummerow
Steve Brueske, Wayne Feltz, Andy Heidinger, and Denise Weidner
11:45 a.m. Luncheon Speaker – Dr. Tracey Holloway Networking for Scientific Careers
1:00 p.m. Kyle Nelson Mapping Weather and Climate via Social Media
1:20 p.m. Dustin Shea Demonstrating a Lightning Density Product at the Ocean Prediction Center
1:40 p.m. Pei Wang Improve Hurricane Sandy forecasts with hyperspectral infrared sounder data
2:00 p.m. Christopher Slocum Satellite Applications to Hurricane Intensity Forecasting
2:20 p.m. Panel: Outreach and Speaking to the Public Moderator: Wayne Feltz
Steve Ackerman, Jeff Craven, and Margaret Mooney
3:00 p.m.   Wrap up
3:30 p.m.   Tour of CIMSS/SSEC
7:00 p.m.   Concert on the Square (on your own)