# Presentation: 182013

## Closing Remarks

**Mr. Samuel P. Williamson**
**Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research**** **

## Thanks to everyone for making this a success
Objectives were met
Executive Summary of conference proceedings will be published by 1 October 
Forum Proceedings should be published within 3-4 months
Please – safe trip home! 

- Objectives were met
- Executive Summary of conference proceedings will be published by 1 October
- Forum Proceedings should be published within 3-4 months
- Please – safe trip home!

- Closing Remarks

## A Closing Thanks to the Partners

- The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate
- Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM)

## A Very Special Thanksto Everyone!!

- Thanks to everyone who helped make sure *Challenges in Urban Meteorology: A Forum for Users and Providers*** **was a success!
- Members of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology staff
- Science and Technology Corporation
- Key Speakers
- Chairpersons
- Panelists
- Moderators
- Rapporteurs and Timers
- A Very Special “Thank You” to the participants of the conference, who were instrumental in making this conference a success

## Great Speakers FromDay 1

- Dr Kathie Olsen, Associate Director of Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Ms Nancy Suski, Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response Portfolio, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Mr Eric Webster, Majority Staff Director, House Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards
- Dr Ronald McPherson, Executive Director, American Meteorological Society
- Dr Gilbert Brunet, Associate Director, Meteorological Research, Meteorological Services of Canada

## Great Speakers FromDay 2

- Dr Walter Bach Jr., Program Manager, Environmental Sciences Division, Engineering Sciences Directorate, U.S. Army Research Office
- Dr. James R. Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Deputy Administrator

## Great Speakers FromDay 3

- Mr Dave Jones, Founder, President and CEO, StormCenter Communications Inc. and President, Foundation for Earth Science
- Dr Richard Rosen, Assistant Administrator, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA
- Ms Chris Elfring, Director, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Academy of Sciences
- Dr Elbert Friday, WeatherNews Professor of Meteorology and Founding Director of the Sasaki Applied Research Institute, University of Oklahoma
- Dr Paul Try, Senior Vice President, Science and Technology Corporation

## SUPER PANELSPanel 1

- Co-moderators:
- Dr John A. Dutton, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology and Dean Emeritus College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
- Mr Ray Ban, Executive Vice President of Meteorology Science and Strategy, The Weather Channel
- Panelists**:**
- Dr John Hayes, NOAA/NWS
- Dr Josephine Malilay, CDC
- Mr Richard Carbone, NCAR
- Dr Sharon Leduc, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

## SUPER PANELSPanel 2

- Co-moderators:
- Dr Douglas DeMaster, NOAA/NMFS
- Dr Laurence S. Kalkstein, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware
- Panelists**:**
- Dr Leroy Spayd, NOAA/NWS Meteorological Services Division
- Mr Allan Stahl, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
- Charles B. Chestnut, Institute for Water Resources, USACE
- Dr Sue Grimmond, Professor Indiana University, President, International Association for Urban Climate

## SUPER PANELSPanel 3

- Co-moderators:
- Dr Rayford P. Hosker, Jr., NOAA/OAR
- Dr Ken Crawford, Oklahoma State Climatologist
- Panelists**:**
- Dr Walter Dabberdt, Vaisala  * *
- Mr Richard Fry, DTRA
- Dr Jan Dutton, AWS Weather Bug
- Dr John McGinley, NOAA, Forecast Systems Laboratory

## SUPER PANELSPanel 4

- Co-moderators:
- Dr Alexander MacDonald, Director, NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
- Dr J. Marshall Shepherd, Research Meteorologist, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
- Panelists**:**
- Dr Robert Bornstein, San Jose State University
- Dr Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- Mr John Pace, DTRA
- Mr David Williams, EPA, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Sciences Division

## SUPER PANELSPanel 5

- Co-moderators:
- Mr Harvey Ryland, President and CEO, Institute for Business and Home Safety
- Ms Margaret Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center
- Panelists**:**
- Mr Ranger Dorn, Battalion Chief, Ventura Co. Fire Department
- Mr John Gambel, DHS/FEMA
- Ms Janet Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management

## Great Workshop Sessions

- Workshop 1A:
- Dr Stephen Lord, NOAA/NCEP
- Col Mark Weadon, Air Force Weather Deputy for Federal Programs, NOAA
- Workshop 1B:
- Dr Betty Hearn Morrow, Consultant and Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Florida International University
- Mr Floyd F. Hauth, Colonel, USAF (Ret), Senior Scientist, Science and Technology Corporation

## Great Workshop Sessions

- Workshop 2A:
- Mr Richard Fry, Defense Threat Reduction Agency  * *
- Dr Sharon LeDuc, Deputy Director, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
- Workshop 2B:
- Dr Douglas DeMaster, NOAA/NMFS
- Dr John R. Scala, Millersville University

## Great Workshop Sessions

- Workshop 3A:
- Dr David Krantz, Columbia University
- Ms Sandy Thomson, WANE-TV, Fort Wayne, IN
- Workshop 3B:
- CDR Stephanie Hamilton, USN, DTRA   * *
- Dr Steve Hanna, Harvard School of Public Health

## Thanks for the Great Support

**THE DOUBLETREE**
**Ms Trina Gomez **

## Conference Proceedings 

- Forum executive summary and presentations on-hand will be posted to the OFCM Web Page within two weeks
- Forum proceedings should be available in 3-4 months

## THANK YOU