Final Agenda
* = Student Presentation
| DAY 1: Tuesday, July 25th | ||
| 08:00-08:40 | Check-In, Name Tags, Light Refreshments | |
| 08:40-08:55 | Welcome and Logistics | Tristan L’Ecuyer, CIMSS |
| 08:55-09:00 | SSEC Welcome/Land Acknowledgement | Brad Pierce, SSEC |
| 09:00-10:00 | NOAA/CI/CSC Introductions | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Introduction to NOAA and NESDIS | Paul DiGiacomo, NOAA |
| 09:15-09:30 | CIRA Overview | Renate Brummer, CIRA |
| 09:30-09:45 | CISESS Overview | Hugo Berbery, CISESS |
| 09:45-10:00 | CIMSS and SSEC Overview | Tristan L’Ecuyer, CIMSS |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee/Discussion Break | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Presentations | Moderator: Wayne Feltz, CIMSS |
| 10:30-10:45 | Welcome from UW-Madison OVCRGE | Steve Ackerman, UW-Madison/OVCRGE |
| 10:45-11:00 | Research and Applications Supporting NOAA’s New Strategic and Implementation Plans for Climate Ready Nation, Equity and the New Blue Economy | Mitch Goldberg, CCNY CESSRST |
| 11:00-11:15 | NOAA Careers | Steve Goodman, Thunderbolt Global Analytics |
| 11:15-11:30 | GOES-R to Geo-XO | Dan Lindsey, GOES-R Project Scientist |
| 11:30-11:45 | GOES-R resources | Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ASPB |
| 11:45 | Organize into small groups for lunch | |
| 11:45-13:00 | No-Host Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:30 | Science Presentations | Moderator: Stephanie Ortland, CIMSS |
| 13:30-13:45 | Utilization of Satellite-derived Information for Improved Wildland Fire Behavior Forecasting * | Kyle Hilburn, CIRA |
| 13:45-14:00 | Physical-chemical properties of particles trapped hailstones collected in central Argentina * | Anthony Bernal Ayala, CIMSS |
| 14:00-14:15 | Preparing for GeoXO: Evaluating Pre-Convective Moisture Boundaries with Solar WV Absorption Bands * | Katurah McCants, CIRA |
| 14:15-14:30 | Long-term trend in Cloud Fraction using PATMOS-x v6.0 since 1980 * | Jongjin Seo, CIMSS |
| 14:30-14:45 | A climatology of thermodynamic vs. dynamic Arctic wintertime sea ice thickness effects during the CryoSat-2 era | James Anheuser, CIMSS |
| 14:45-15:00 | Intuitive Supercell Visualization using Virtual Reality * | Damian Figueroa, CISESS |
| 15:00-15:15 | A Low-cost Microwave Radiometer for Student Education * | Matias Calderon, CISESS |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee/Discussion Break | |
| 15:45-16:00 | The Journey from NOAA Student Programs to the NOAA Workforce | Alisa Young, NOAA-GLERL |
| 16:00-17:15 | Open Format Panel Discussion 1: Career Paths | Moderator: Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ASPB |
| Panelists: Jordan Gerth, Mayra Oyola-Merced, Alisa Young, and Tim Wagner | ||
| 17:30-19:00 | Ice Breaker (with Heavy Hors D’oeuvres and Cash Bar) | |
| DAY 2: Wednesday, July 26th | ||
| 08:15-08:45 | Arrive, Light Refreshments Sign-up for Hike/Building Tour | |
| 08:45-10:00 | Communication, Education, and Public Engagement | Moderator: James Anheuser, CIMSS |
| 08:45-09:00 | NESDIS User Engagement, Social Science, and Economic Studies | Jeff Key for Kat Hawley, NOAA/NESDIS/ASPB |
| 09:00-09:15 | The Value of Communication | Jean Phillips, SSEC |
| 09:15-09:30 | Enhancing Climate Change Communication through Art: Closing the Gap in Beliefs | Nan Li, UW-Madison/Life Sciences Communication |
| 09:30-09:45 | Education and Training at CIMSS | Margaret Mooney, CIMSS |
| 09:45-10:00 | Graduate Support for CI Research at Minority-Serving Institutions | Matt Rogers, CIRA |
| 10:00-10:15 | Creative Ways to Visualize Climate Data in Virtual Reality | Guangyang Fang, CISESS |
| 10:15-10:30 | Group Photograph | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/Discussion Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Posters (6) | Moderator: Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ASPB |
| 11:00-12:00 | Poster Flash talks (2 min each) | |
| Sea Ice Conditions Impacting the Northwest Passage * | Kyle Obremski, CIMSS | |
| Evaluation of Optical Flow Based Methods for Temporal Satellite Imagery (flash) * | Jackson Tobin, CIRA | |
| Developing Low-cost Microwave Radiometer for Student Training and Supporting JPSS programs * | Felix Ogordi, CISESS | |
| Using Virtual Reality to Demonstrate the Faraday Cage Effect and Its Application in Lightning Safety * | Ashmita Pyne, CISESS | |
| Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Methodology and Instrumentation * | Brianna Hauke, NOAA/STAR | |
| LROSE Tools to Estimate Surface Rain Rate * | Ian Cornejo, UW-AOS | |
| 12:00-13:30 | No-Host Lunch (organize into small groups for lunch) | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Open Format Panel Discussion 2: Professional Skills | Moderator: Tristan L’Ecuyer, CIMSS |
| Panelists: Marcia Cronce, Mark Kulie, Renate Brummer, and Satya Kalluri | ||
| 14:30-17:00 | Group Hike to Picnic Point, Terrace or Capitol (~1 hour each way) | |
| 17:00-TBD | No-Host Dinner/Concerts on the Square/Memorial Union | |
| DAY 3 (HALF-DAY): Thursday, July 27th | ||
| 08:15-08:45 | Arrive at AOSS: 1250 W Dayton St. Light Refreshments in Library (3rd floor) | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Building and SPARC Tours (two groups, 30 minutes for each tour) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Walk or bus to Pyle Center | |
| 10:30-12:15 | Science Presentations | Moderator: Lena Heuscher, CIMSS |
| 10:30-10:45 | Development of Deep-learning-Based Forward Algorithm for Low-cost Radiometer Cal/Val * | Niko Zhang, CISESS |
| 10:45-11:00 | Initial Capabilities of the Thunderstorm Nowcasting Tool * | Stephanie Ortland, CIMSS |
| 10:45-11:00 | All-weather LST fusion with Cumulative Distribution Function Matching and Multiresolution Kalman Filtering * | Shuo Xu, CISESS |
| 11:15-11:30 | Super-resolution of GOES-16 ABI imagery to a common high resolution with a convolutional neural network | Charles White, CIRA |
| 11:30-11:45 | Machine Learning Applications of the Tropical Cyclone Precipitation, Infrared, Microwave, and Environmental Dataset (TC PRIMED) | Naufal Razin, CIRA |
| 11:45-12:00 | The NOAA NESDIS Snowfall Rate Product: Insights into Measurement, Development and Applications | Yulan Hong, ESSIC |
| 12:00-12:15 | Student Awards | Tristan L’Ecuyer and Wayne Feltz |
| 12:15-12:30 | Closing Remarks | Moderators: Tristan L’Ecuyer and Jeff Key |
| 12:30 | Meeting Adjourns | |
