2009 Hurricane Conferences

[skywarn]

The 2009 National Hurricane Conference will be held this year April 6-10 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas:
http://www.hurricanemeeting.com/

The 2009 Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference will be held May 10 - 15 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale,Florida:
http://www.flghc.org/



Stickied by vbhoutex

[wxman57]

There's also the 63rd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference in St. Petersburg, FL from March 2-5

http://www.ofcm.gov/homepage/text/spc_proj/ihc/hotelinfo.html

The Texas Hurricane and Homeland Security Conference will be held March 23-26 in San Antonio, TX.

http://texashelp.tamu.edu/hot-topics/?p=568

Three of us will be attending the IHC in St. Petersburg, and I'll be on a panel discussing hurricane size on the final day of the NHC in the closing session.

[thegreatdr]

There's also an inland impact of tropical cyclones workshop in Atlanta during this coming June.

[vbhoutex]

There's also an inland impact of tropical cyclones workshop in Atlanta during this coming June.

Can you give us a link or someone to contact to get the info?

[southerngale]

There's also an inland impact of tropical cyclones workshop in Atlanta during this coming June.

Can you give us a link or someone to contact to get the info?

June 10–12, 2009

Conference on the Inland Impacts of Tropical Cyclones

Sponsored by the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the AMS and NWA, the conference will be held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Abstracts are due by 6 February 2009. See details at http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/atlanta/iitc.html.

[wxman57]

Will any of you be at the IHC next week in St. Petersburg, FL? I'll be there with 2 of my team members:

http://www.ofcm.gov/homepage/text/spc_proj/ihc.html

Check out the agenda for a list of presentations. Cost is $175 to attend the 4 day conference.

[cycloneye]

Anyone from here is attending the Austin National Hurricane Conference?

[hurricanetrack]

I will be at the Florida Governor's Conference in May. I saw many people from S2k there in years past. Hope more of the same is on the way...

[wxman57]

Anyone from here is attending the Austin National Hurricane Conference?

Just got here (Austin) this afternoon. Ran into Max Mayfield talking to a few friends of mine. The Weather Channel film crew stopped by our booth as we were setting up looking to borrow our cart to hall some equipment from their truck. I helped them out and invited them back to interview us at some point during the conference. ;-( The hall opens at 9:30 tomorrow, so I can sleep in a bit. We'll have 5 of us here by Tomorrow afternoon, so I can attend some of the talks. Neil Frank is talking about "The Untold Story of the Bolivar Peninsula" at 4:30pm tomorrow. May be interesting.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Are the conferees going to do any socializing?


I went to college in Austin for over 5 years, and socialized heavily.


Anybody from AccuWeather coming? Dr. Masters? Jeff Lindner?

[wxman57]

Are you at the conference, Ed? Dr. Gray came by our booth yesterday. I complimented him on holding his ground with the AGW debate, and I mentioned that Phil Klotzbach was going to present his June seasonal outlook at our June 3 seminar in Houston. He's quite fond of Phil.

Dr. Neil Frank made a good presentation on "The Untold Story of the Bolivar Peninsula" yesterday afternoon, prefaced by a cautionary note to the AGW folks about the poor state of the hurricane database prior to recent years. He said we cannot discern any trends based on the data because we're probably naming 4-5 storms a season now that would have never been named in the past due to poor detection and changes in naming criteria.

Jeff Lindner is here - talked to him yesterday.

Was up until 11:30pm last night going over my presentation at the closing session tomorrow morning. Certainly the biggest crowd I've ever spoken before. I'll let the sales people watch the booth today while I attend some of the sessions. Jamie Rhome (NHC) says I can get a copy of the new SLOSH model with the inundate level output. He's speaking at 10:30 in a session that Jack Beven is moderating. Lix will make a presentation on track forecasting. He's a character.

[Ed Mahmoud]

I wish I was in Austin this week, but I have to work at the salt mines.


BTW, speaking of AGW, I have no idea if the IceCap.us web site run by Dr. Dewpoint (ie, Joe D'Aleo) (who rumor has it only has a Masters in met) is correct on these plots, but if they are, there shouldn't be an AGW argument at all. Of course, I suspect there is an agena at play, and IceCap may have an agenda of their own.

[GoldenTriangle]

I would have really loved to have heard Wxman and Bostwicks presentation.

[southerngale]

Anyone from here is attending the Austin National Hurricane Conference?

Storm2k meteorologist greg_kfdm_tv (from Beaumont, Tx.) was invited to speak at the National Hurricane Conference. I wish I had posted the info earlier.

KFDM Chief Meteorologist Greg Bostwick was invited to speak at the National Hurricane Conference. Greg and former KFDM meteorologist Gene Norman (now of KHOU TV in Houston) will talk about Ike during Thursday afternoon's session.

http://www.kfdm.com/news/hurricane_31042___article.html/speak_greg.html

I would have really loved to have heard Wxman and Bostwicks presentation.

Same here, as well as a few others.

[wxman57]

Greg Bostwick & I went to A&M together back in the late 1970s. He graduated in 1979, I in 1980. I did stop by his meeting room to say "hi" before his presentation, but I had to go listen to another presentation put on by one of our clients. By the time my session ended, Greg had already spoken and I didn't get a chance to talk with him afterward. I hadn't actually seen Greg since 1979. We spent many hours together in the A&M weather station plotting weather maps for use in the upper-level analysis classes.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Greg Bostwick & I went to A&M together back in the late 1970s. He graduated in 1979, I in 1980. I did stop by his meeting room to say "hi" before his presentation, but I had to go listen to another presentation put on by one of our clients. By the time my session ended, Greg had already spoken and I didn't get a chance to talk with him afterward. I hadn't actually seen Greg since 1979. We spent many hours together in the A&M weather station plotting weather maps for use in the upper-level analysis classes.

I have great sympathy for mets, The University of Texas no longer has a met program, and if one isn't going to journey to the Sunshine State (I assume nobody freezes at a place like Penn State or Plymouth State unless a local), I guess one must choose between two schools that, well, the less said the better.


But at least OU
1) Has storm chasing, and the SPC nearby
2) I don't know about Norman, but OKC is nearby. I hear Bryan is the land time forgot.
3) Actual football rivalry with Texas, with the winner likely going to a BCS bowl game. Sometimes the loser, as well.


This has been my thinking in case I ever won the Lotto and started a new career. Of course, been a year or more since I bought a Lotto ticket, so winning, a 14 million to one shot or so to begin with, ie, a tax on the mathematically challenged, becomes even more unlikely.


If I won the Lotto, I would try to talk my wife into a Florida school, actually. With my BS in petroleum engineering and a sound background in calculus and the physical sciences, maybe just go for a Masters, at the USC of the East, the expensive party school of Florida, that actually supposedly has a decent Master's program in Met.

I knew non-petroleum engineers back at Texas, including an Army Captain on a full ride from Uncle Sam while on active duty, with a non-Pet Eng degree, and he took a few non-grad classes to get caught up, and I think got a MS in 2 years.

[southerngale]

Greg Bostwick & I went to A&M together back in the late 1970s. He graduated in 1979, I in 1980. I did stop by his meeting room to say "hi" before his presentation, but I had to go listen to another presentation put on by one of our clients. By the time my session ended, Greg had already spoken and I didn't get a chance to talk with him afterward. I hadn't actually seen Greg since 1979. We spent many hours together in the A&M weather station plotting weather maps for use in the upper-level analysis classes.

Oh wow, I had no idea y'all went to A&M together. Small world. When he's posted here, do you know if he knew who you were? (wxman57 may not have given it away. lol. and I'm not sure if he knows your real name as some of us here do)
He's the most popular met in this area. He never hypes, so when he's warning it could be bad, people listen.

Dang, I wish I had been able to hear y'all at the conference.

[JonathanBelles]

Local ABC station just had Bill Read on live from Ft. Lauderdale. More of the same, but I think its the first time I've seen him on TV.