Day 1 - October 25: Fire Weather
Keynote Speaker:
❖ Dr Richard Spinrad, NOAA Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator
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Session Chair:
❖ Robyn Heffernan, NOAA-National Weather Service
Presentations:
- NESDIS Fire Detections - Mitch Goldberg (NOAA/NESDIS) and Michael Pavolonis (NOAA/NESDIS)
- FireFly - Peter Vidmar (State of Colorado)
- OAR Smoke - Georg Grell (NOAA/OAR)
Q&A
13:55 - 14:15 Special Topic
NOAA’s Service Delivery Framework: Connecting User Engagement with Products and Services - Ellen Mecray (NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI)
Session Chair:
❖ Nicholaus Naslaur, US Bureau of Land Management
Presentations:
- WindNinja - Natalie Wagenbrenner (USDA)
- Coupled Modelling - Adam Kochanski (San Jose State Univ)
- Fire Danger - Matt Jolly (USDA)
Q&A
15:25 - 15:45 Special Topic
Partnerships & Commercialization - Kelly Wright (NOAA/OAR)
Session Chair:
❖ Wayne Mackenzie (NOAA/OAR)
Panelists:
- Paul Zielinski (Exec Director - Federal Labs Consortium)
- Dan Lockney (NASA Tech Transfer Manager)
- James Mitchell (Patent & Licensing Manager, USGS)
Q&A
ETW Co-Chair: Tom Cuff
Day 2 - October 26: Extreme Weather
Keynote Speaker:
❖ Dr. Louis Uccellini, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Assistant Administrator for Weather Services
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Session Chair:
❖ Nick Anderson, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Presentations:
- Micropulse Dial - Kevin Repasky (Montana St), Scott Spuler (NCAR)
- PAIR & HORUS Phased Array Radars - Robert Palmer (Univ of Oklahoma)
- Hotplate precipitation sensors - Tim Garrett (Univ of Utah)
- Evaluating Impact of In-Situ Obs from Dynamically Targeted Long-Range Long-Duration Balloons - Andrey Sushko (Windborne Systems, Inc)
- Development & Demonstration of Low-Cost, Standalone Mode S EHS Aircraft Derived Atmospheric Observation System for Enhanced Weather Forecasting - Michael McPartland (MIT - Lincoln Labs)
- Anonymization, Bias Correction & Assimilation of Smartphone Pressure Observations for Us in NWP in NOAA - Clifford Mass (Univ of Washington)
Break
Session Chair:
❖ Renee Richardson, NOAA-Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Panelists:
- Nick Anderson (NSF)
- Sandra LaCorte (NOAA/OAR)
- Chris Hedge (NOAA/NWS)
- Tabitha Huntemann (NOAA/NWS)
15:25 PM - 15:45 PM
Accelerating Transitions - Fiona Horsfall (NOAA/OAR)
Session Chair:
❖ Wayne Mackenzie, Session Chair, NOAA-Office of Atmospheric Research
Panelists:
- Amanda Horansky-McKinney (Naval Research Lab)
- James Mitchell (USGS)
- Christian Meinig (NOAA/PMEL)
- Joseph Cione (NOAA/OAR)
ETW Co-Chair: Tom Cuff
Day 3 - October 27: Great Lakes & Oceans
Keynote Speaker:
❖ Craig McLean, NOAA Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research (OAR), Acting Chief Scientist; Assistant Administrator
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Session Chair:
❖ Kelly Goodwin, NOAA/OAR
Presentations:
- Real-time sequencing on autonomous platform - Peter Thielen (Johns Hopkins U, APL)
- SPR chip for real-time HAB monitoring - Greg Doucette (NOAA), Bill Ussler (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- Under-ice AUV Demo Projects - Steve Ruberg (NOAA/OAR), Brett Hobson (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- NUI - Woods Hole/NASA/JPL - Andy Bowen (NASA/JPL), Chris German (NASA/JPL), Mike Jakuba (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
- SASe sampler (inexpensive, open access, 3D printing) - Nathan Formel (NOAA/OAR)
Discovery Panel
- Steve Ruberg (NOAA/OAR)
- Brett Hobson (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institution)
- Mike Weise ONR (Office of Naval Research)
- Genevieve Lind (NOAA/OAR)
- Wayne MacKenzie (NOAA/OAR)
13:55 PM - 14:15 PM
Lake Erie as a Test Bed - Steve Ruberg (NOAA/OAR)
Session Chair:
❖ Chris Beaverson, NOAA-Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Presentations
- eDNA collection technology: mesobot - Dana R Yoerger (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
- ScanEagle and other long-range platforms - Robyn Angliss (NOAA/NMFS)
Panel Discussion
- Robyn Angliss (NOAA/NMFS)
- Peter Esselman (USGS)
- Kim Parsons (NOAA/NMFS)
- Annette Hollingshead (NOAA/OAR)
15:25 PM - 15:45 PM Special Topic
Uncrewed Systems Transitions - Bryan Cole (NOAA/OAR)
Session Chair:
❖ Philip Hoffman, NOAA-Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Presentations:
- BGC Argo - Emily Smith (NOAA/OAR)
- Scenario Testing of the Ocean Aero Triton Hybrid AUV - Jason McKenna (Univ of Southern Mississippi)
Deployment Panel
- Emily Smith (NOAA/OAR)
- Jason McKenna (Univ of Southern Mississippi)
- Gabrielle Canonico (NOAA)
- Reagan Errera (NOAA)
- Mike Weise (Navy)
ETW Co-Chair: Rich Edwing
Day 4 - October 28: Climate
Keynote Speaker:
❖ Ko Barrett, NOAA-Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research (OAR), OAR Senior Advisor for Climate
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Session Chair:
❖ Diane Stanitski (NOAA/OAR), and Barry Lefer (NASA)
Presentations:
- NOAA High-altitude Operational Return Unmanned System for atmospheric sampling/obs - Bianca Baier (NOAA/OAR)
- NASA High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) - Amin Nehrir (NASA/LaRC)
- Multichannel Snow Radar (MSR) - John Paden (Univ of Kansas)
- Optical Plankton Imaging and Analysis System - Hassan Moustahfid (NOAA/IOOS)
- Lidar buoy - Alicia Gorton (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Panel Q&A
Break
Session Chair:
❖ Dr Amber Emory, NASA
Presentations:
- Carbon Mapper - Riley Duren (CEO)
- ecoDemonstrator work - Colm Sweeney (NOAA/OAR)
- SeaTrec - Yi Chao (SeaTrec)
- Ka-band Doppler scatterometer, DopplerScatt - Dr. Dragana Perkovic-Martin (NASA/JPL)
Panel Q&A
Break
Session Chair:
❖ Chris Meinig (NOAA/OAR/PMEL)
Presentations:
- NightFOX - Troy Thornberry (NOAA/OAR)
- Mid- and Long-Wave Infrared Digital Focal Plane Arrays for Earth Science Applications - Sarath Gunapala (NASA/JPL)
- Water vapor differential absorption lidar - Scott Spuler (NCAR)
- Seagliders - under ice measurements in changing Arctic - Luc Rainville (Univ of Washington)
