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Wednesday Detailed Agenda (May 20, 2009)
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7:00 am to 5:00 pm Registration (at registration desk)
7:30 am to 4:00 pm Exhibition Open (Salon A/B/C/D/E)
7:30 am to 8:30 am Continental Breakfast (Salon A/B/C/D/E)
8:00 am to 12:00 pm NESDIS 111th Technical Working Group meeting (Sun Down)
Hosted by Kay Metcalf
8:30 am to 10:00 am General Plenary Session 1 (Salon F/G/H/I/J)
Moderator: Kevin Stewart
NHWC Welcome, Kevin Stewart, NHWC President
Conference Welcome & Logistics, Chad Kudym, 2009 coordinator
FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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"Future Directions of the Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program"
Mr. Steven L. Stockton, P.E., Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Washington, D.C.
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"Tropical Cyclones and Floods - Some Observations Over the Past 40 Years"
Mr. Bill Read, Director, National Hurricane Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Weather Service, Miami, Florida
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10:00 am to 10:30 am BREAK (Salon A/B/C/D/E)
Sponsored by Campbell Scientific
10:30 am to 12:00 pm General Plenary Session II (Salon F/G/H/I/J)
Moderator: Brian McCallum, NHWC Vice-President
FEATURED GUEST SPEAKERS:
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"Comprehensive Water Planning"
Mr. Duane A. Smith, Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and President of the
Western States Water Council, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"When (Not If) the "Big One" Comes - What Then?"
Mr. Jack Riessen, P.E., Senior Technical Expert on Water Policy and Program Issues,
Iowa Department of Water Resources, Des Moines, Iowa
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"Managing Water in the West"
Mr. Michael Gabaldon, Director of Technical Services, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
Denver, Colorado
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12:00 pm to 1:30 am LUNCH (Colorado Ballroom)
FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER
Moderator: Glenn Austin, NHWC Executive Director
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"Water Availability Issues in the Adjudication of Water Rights"
Honorable Gregory J. Hobbs, Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, Denver, Colorado
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1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 1: Exploring New Partnerships--Working
Together Towards Common Goals, Part I (Salon F)
Moderator: Chris Crompton, NHWC Treasurer
Thomas Graziano-"National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's
Partnerships in AHPS Flood Mapping"
David Herlong-"Improving Flood Risks and Awareness in North
Carolina"
Tom Ogden-"Monterrey County, CA Wildfire Rehabilitation
Project"
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 2: Navigating the Technological Frontiers--New
Precipitation Forecasting Techniques, Part I (Salon G/H)
Moderator: Scott Morlock
James Logan-"Real-time and Forecasted Gage-Adjusted Radar
Rainfall"
Gregory Story-"Assessment of the National Severe Storms
Laboratory's Next Generation Quantitative Precipitation
Estimation Products at the NWS West Gulf River Forecast
Center"
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 3: Navigating the Technological Frontiers--Data
Analysis & Modeling Techniques, Part I (Salon I/J)
Moderator: Glenn Austin, NHWC Executive Director
Jacob LaFontaine-"Hydrologic Characteristics of Watersheds in the
Chattahoochee River Basin and Atlanta, Georgia, 2003-2006"
Douglas Hultstrand-"Improving Hydrologic Analysis and
` Applications through the Use of Quality Controlled Radar
Data and the Storm Precipitation Analysis System"
Tom Burnet-"High-Resolution Near-Real-Time US Land Surface
Model with Radar Data Assimilation and Stream Routing"
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 4: Braving the Communications Wilderness--
Communicating Flood Risk (Game Creek)
Moderator: Steve Fitzgerald, NHWC Director
Benjamin Pratt-"Strategies in Risk Communication: Flood Inundation
Maps in the Upper Susquehanna River Basin"
Victor Hom-"National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Flood
Risk Communication"
Berry Williams-"Changes are Coming-A New Way of Scoring Local
Flood Warning Programs under the Community Rating System"
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 5: New Hydrologic Warning Direction--Drought
(Blue Sky)
Moderator: George Wilkins, NHWC Director
Michael Brewer-"Monitoring Drought in a Changing Climate"
Christopher Smith-"Managing a Streamgaging Network During
Extreme Drought Conditions"
Mark Svoboda-"The National Integrated Drought Information System
(NIDIS): Viewing Drought through a Portal"
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm BREAK (Salon A/B/C/D/E)
Sponsored by Campbell Scientific
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 6: Exploring New Partnerships--Flood Warning
System Success Stories, Part I (Salon F)
Moderator: Dan Miller
Esteban Velez-"Expanding and Updating the INA-CIRSA Flash
Flood Warning System"
Jeff Lindner-"Hurricane Ike Impact: Harris County ALERT System"
Kent Frantz-"Installing Stream Gages in Flash Flood Prone Areas:
A Success Story"
Bob Blanchard-"Development of a Flood Warning System for Hot
Springs, Arkansas"
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 7: Navigating the Technological Frontiers--Data
Quality Issues (Salon G/H)
Moderator: Marian Baker, NHWC Director
Janice Fulford-"Water-Level Measurements with Radar: Results and
Observations"
David Haynes-"True or False Security"
Larry Bohman-"Collection, Quality Assurance, and Presentation of
USGS Precipitation Data"
Markus Ritsch-"Douglas County, Colorado Flood Hazard Inventory
Tool"
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 8: Braving the Communications Wilderness--Flood
Stories, Part I (Salon I/J)
Moderator: Gene Stallings, NHWC Consultant
Michael Schaffner-"The June 19, 2007 Flash Flood: An Extreme
Rainfall Event in Small Headwater Basins of the Catskill
Mountains, New York"
George Wilkins-"The Poomacha Early Warning System: Real-
Time Debris Flow Monitoring for Tribal Lands in San Diego
County, California"
Steve Buan-"Verification and Post-User Analysis of the 95%
Confidence Interval Quantitative Precipitation Forecast River
Ensembles During the Summer Midwest 2008 Flood"
Rob Middlemis-Brown-"Flood of 2008: Recurrence Intervals and
Water-Quality Loads for Major River Basins in Iowa"
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 9: New Hydrologic Warning Direction--Climate
Change and Its Effects on Hydrologic Hazards (Game Creek)
Moderator: Ilse Gayl, NHWC Director
Larry Schick-"Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers on Flooding in
Western Washington"
Robert Kimbrough-"Atmospheric Rivers: Relating Major Weather
Systems to Flooding in Western Washington"
John Henz-"Drought or Wet Decades in Colorado: Climate
Variability or a Case for Climate Change?"
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 10: Exploring New Partnerships--Hurricane
Threats (Blue Sky)
Moderator: Andrew Knaak
Long Li-"Storm Surge Flood Hazards of Hurricane Katrina 2005"
Jeff East-"Mapping Hurricane Inland Storm Tides"
Jonathan Newby-"Floods in Eastern Florida from Tropical Storm
Fay, August 2008"
Joel Lanier-"Inland and Coastal Flood Forecast Operations During
Northern Florida Land-Falling Tropical Cyclones"
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Exhibition Hall closed for cleaning
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Vendor Reception with door prizes!! (Salon A/B/C/D/E)
7:30 pm to 11:00 pm Hospitality Suite Open
Sponsored by Hydrolynx, Inc.
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