Meteorological Symposium | Ohio University

The annual Meteorological Symposium is free and open to the public.

The event is sponsored by the Ohio University Chapter of the Meteorology Society.

Meteorological Symposium Speakers

Simone Lewis - National Weather Service
David Lewellen - West Virginia University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Scott Lutz - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Sarah Perfater - NOAA Weather Prediction Center
Hank Schyma - Independent Storm Chaser and Documentarian
Mark Elliot - The Weather Channel
Joseph Calderone - Senior Forecaster with the U.S. National Weather Service in Minneapolis-St. Paul
Christopher Hennon - University of North Carolina at Asheville Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Mike Bettes, The Weather Channel: 20 years of Chasing the Wind
Nicole Grams, Milwaukee County Land Information Office: Paving Your Own Path in Meteorology
Tim Marshall, Haag Engineering: El Reno, OK Tornado
Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois: "Gone with the wind:" The role of atmospheric aerosol for regional and global climate
Aaron Wilson, The Ohio State University: Extreme Weather and Climate Change in Ohio: Are they Related?
Allison Santorelli, Weather Prediction Center: Being a Surface Analysist with the WPC
Kevin Bartlett, United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson: 24 years in Air Force Weather, Iraq and Afghanistan are Different
Tim Liu, NASA: Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes Observed from Space

Ari Sarsalari, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, Georgia: April 28, 2014 Tornado Outbreak in the Tennessee Valley: Broadcaster's
Perspective
Phil Klotzbach, Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, Colorado: Atlantic Basin Seasonal
Hurricane Prediction
Mark Paquette, AccuWeather, State College, Pennsylvania: Long Range Forecasting- What it is and How We Make One
Hunter Clifton Outten, AccuWeather, State College, Pennsylvania: Long Range Forecasting- What it is and How We Make One
Meghan Henschen, American Electric Power (AEP), Columbus, Ohio: Building a Successful Path to Operational Meteorology
Stacy Stewart, National Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida: Predicting Tropical Cyclogenesis at the National Hurricane Center
Dan Miller, United States Air Force, Washington, DC: Meteorology Applied to Military Operations
Rebecca Jennings, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Atlanta, Georgia: Beyond the Perfect Forecast: Weather & Emergency Management
Brian Hoeth, National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters Regional Operations Center, Fort Worth, Texas: The NWS Southern Region Headquarters Regional Operations Center: What Would You Say ... You Do Here?

Ariel Cohen, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma: Severe Weather Forecasting and the Moore and El Reno, May 2013 Oklahoma Tornado Disasters
Kim Klockow, AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow, Washington D.C.: Communicating Uncertainty in Severe Weather Warnings
Erik Pindrock, AccuWeather, State College, Pennsylvania: A Synopsis of Super Typhoon Haiyan and Using Social Media as an Effective
Form of Communication
Paul Gehred, National Weather Service, Alaska: Weather on Fire
Mike Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, Florida:
Bill Kelly, WSYX Channel 6, Columbus, Ohio: 9-HOURS OF LIVE SEVERE WEATHER COVERAGE ? JUNE 12TH, 2013
Nick Webb, National Weather Service, Charleston, WV: Development of a Flash Flood Potential Index for NWS Charleston West Virginia County Warning Area
Joe Merchant, National Weather Service, Charleston, WV: April 3rd-4th 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak

William Lapenta, Acting Director of Environmental Modeling Center at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/NOAA/NWS: The Transition of Research to Operations: Perspectives from both sides of the ?Valley of Death."
Scott A. Lutz, Meteorological Services Government Representative for the 88th Operations Support Squadron, Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio. Operational Meteorology within The United States Air Force.
Trent Magill, WEWS News Channel 5, Cleveland, Ohio. The Changing role of Broadcast Meteorology.
Thomas Schmidlin, Professor at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio: New Challenges in Tornado Fatalities.
Ashley V. Novak, National Weather Service, Wilmington, Ohio: A Multi-Perspective Review of the June 29, 2012 Derecho.
Charles R. Hoffmant, Air Force Material Command Functional Manager for Weather, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: Tornado at McConnell AFB, April 2012.
Matthew R. Alto, AccuWeather, State College, Pennsylvania: A Look at the Private Weather Enterprise.
Kathryn Gilbert, Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland. The Development of Model Output Statistics.