Time Banquet Hall Breakout Room TOPIC
    REGISTRATION     
7:00 - 8:15 70 min BREAKFAST    BREAKFAST AND 
     "BREAKFAST WITH MATT"             WEATHER BRIEFING 
    Welcoming Remarks    
8:15 - 8:30 15 min Glenn Field (National Weather Service-Taunton, MA)    
    Charles Orloff (Blue Hill Observatory Science Center - Milton, MA)    
    Examining Major El Nino Events and Their Impacts on Precipitation    
    and Flood Potential in the Northeast United States    
8:30 - 8:55 25 min David Vallee   CLIMATE
    NOAA / NWS / NERFC - Taunton, MA    
    XMACIS demonstration - examples of how to get climate statistics Topics for Teachers  
9:00 - 9:25 25 min Benjamin Sipprell A. J. Burnett CLIMATE 
    NOAA / NWS - Taunton, MA WCVB - TV 5, Boston, MA              
    Climate Matters: Resources to Bridge Weather and Climate    
9:30 - 10:05 35 min Sean Sublette   CLIMATE
    Climate Central - Princeton, NJ    
         
10:05 - 10:20 15 min BREAK        BREAK
         
    Snow Squalls in New England with a Changing Climate Picture Posts / Citizen Science  
10:20 - 10:55 35 min Dr. Frank Colby Craig Austen RESEARCH
    University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA Norwood, MA  
    Weather and the Science of Measurement: From Autonomous    
    Underwater Vehicles to Self-Driving Cars to Deflategate    
11:00 - 11:45 45 min Dr. John Leonard   RESEARCH
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA    
         
11:45 - 12:45 60 min LUNCH    LUNCH
         
    Blizzards, Hurricanes and Post-Tropical Storms: From Warnings     
    to Response (A Look at Canada's System)    
12:50 - 1:35 45 min Bob Robichaud   PREPAREDNESS
    Meteorological Service of Canada - Halifax, Nova Scotia    
    StormReady Rhode Island Initiative    
1:40 - 2:05 25 min Peter Gaynor and Stephen Conard   PREPAREDNESS
    Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency - Cranston, RI    
    Tornado Debris Signatures in the Northeast United States    
2:10 - 2:40 30 min Ryan Hanrahan   SEVERE WEATHER
    NBC Connecticut (WVIT-TV 30) - West Hartford, CT    
    Our Visitor From the Bahamas 25 Years Ago:  Hurricane Bob    
2:45 - 3:15 30 min Robert Thompson   HURRICANES
    NOAA / NWS - Taunton, MA    
         
3:15 - 3:30 15 min                                         BREAK                       BREAK
         
    25th Anniversary of the Perfect Storm - Halloween, 1991    
3:30 - 3:55  25 min Walter Drag   PERFECT STORM
    NOAA / NWS - Mount Holly, NJ    
    Surviving the Perfect Storm:  The Life and Death Decisions     
    Which Made it Possible    
4:00 - 4:55 55 min John Spillane   PERFECT STORM
    Retired - New York City Fire Dept. / Perfect Storm Pararescueman