The 3rd Annual NOAA/NESDIS/CoRP Science Symposium
“NPOESS, GOES-R and Beyond: New Observations and Applications to Benefit Society”
Hosted by the Cooperative Institute to Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
August 15 & 16, 2006 – Colorado State University – Fort Collins, Colorado
Presentation
Oral Presentations
August 15, 2006 Hilton Fort Collins
Session One: Introduction and Overview – Chair: Mark DeMaria | ||
Presenter/Photo | Affiliation | Title with link to PowerPoint Presentation |
Ingrid Guch | NESDIS/StAR | Cooperative Research Program |
Carl Hoffman | IPO | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Program Overview |
Tim Schmit | NESDIS/StAR | GOES-R Overview |
Andrew Heidinger | NESDIS/StAR | VIIRS Cloud Products |
Hai-Tien Lee | CICS/UM | Earth Radiation Budget Observations |
Don Reinke | CIRA/CSU | CloudSat Data Processing Center – It’s Alive! |
Session Two: Poster Session – Chair: Ken Eis | ||
Presenter/Photo | Affiliation | Title with Link to the PowerPoint Presentation |
Ken Eis | CIRA/CSU | Overview of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) |
August 16, 2006 Hilton Fort Collins
Session Three: NPOESS and GOES Applications – Chair: Debra Molenar | ||
Presenter/Photo | Affiliation | Title with Link to the PowerPoint Presentation |
Don Hillger | NESDIS/StAR | GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Color Product Development |
Ana Prados | UMBC | GOES-R Aersol Products and Applications |
Dan Lindsey | NESDIS/StAR | Severe Weather Applications with GOES-R: What will severe weather look like through the “eyes” of GOES-R? |
Ray Zehr | NESDIS/StAR | Tropical Cyclone Applications |
Zhenglong Li | CIMSS/UW | GOES-12 Sounder SFOV sounding improvement |
Session Four: Numerical Modeling Studies – Chair: Dan Lindsey | ||
Presenter/Photo | Affiliation | Title with Link to the PowerPoint Presentation |
Dusanka Zupanski | CIRA/CSU | Ensemble Kalman Filter Methods |
Masahiro Kazumori | NCEP/EMC | Impact study of AMSR-E radiances in NCEP Global Data Assimilation System |
Louie Grasso | CIRA/CSU | Synthetic satellite imagery |
Session Five: Proxy Data Studies and Training – Chair: Don Hillger | ||
Presenter/Photo | Affiliation | Title with Link to the PowerPoint Presentation |
Manajit Sengupta | CIRA/CSU | Radiative Transfer Modeling for Simulating GOES-R imagery |
Nikki Prive | CIRA/CSU | A Global Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Observational Network |
Larry O’Neill | COAS/OSU | Coupled Interactions Between Surface Winds and Sea Surface Temperature |
Bernadette Connell | CIRA/CSU | National and International Training Highlights |
Poster Presentations
Attendees
1. Albavrak, Arif (CIRA)
2. Arkin, Phillip (CICS)
3. Birkenheuer, Daniel (NOAA/OAR)
4. Brummer, Renate (CIRA)
5. Canals, Jorge (CREST)
6. Choi, Byoung-Ju (CIOS)
7. Connell, Bernadette (CIRA)
8. DeMaria, Mark (NOAA/NESDIS)
9. Eis, Kenneth (CIRA)
10. Fetter, Antonio (COAS)
11. Forsythe, John (CIRA)
12. Grasso, Louie (CIRA)
13. Guch, Ingrid (NOAA/NESDIS)
14. Gutman, Seth (NOAA/OAR)
15. Haney, John (Lockheed)
16. Harrington, Alex (CIMSS)
17. Harris, Andrew (CICS)
18. Heidinger, Andrew (NOAA/NESDIS)
19. Hernandez, Cecilia (CREST)
20. Hillger, Don (NOAA/NESDIS)
21. Hoffman, Carl (NPOESS)
22. Holst, Hillary (Lockheed)
23. Kankiewicz, Adam (CIRA)
24. Kavanaugh, Maria (COAS)
25. Kazumori, Masahiro (NCEP)
26. Kidder, Stan (CIRA)
27. Lakhankar, Tarendra (CIRA)
28. Lee, Hai-Tien (CICS)
29. Li, Zhenglong (CIMSS)
30. Lindsey, Dan (NOAA/NESDIS)
31. Lipschutz, Bob (CIRA)
32. Lugo, Eric (CREST)
33. Matsumoto, Cliff (CIRA)
34. Mhando, Bernard (CREST)
35. Mittaz, Jonathan (CICS)
36. Molenar, Debra (NOAA/NESDIS)
37. Nazari, Rouzbeh (CREST)
38. Noh, Y.J. (CIRA)
39. O’Neill, Larry (COAS)
40. Parsiani, Hamed (CREST)
41. Partain, Phillip (CIRA)
42. Paul, Sydney (CREST)
43. Prados, Ana (UMBC)
44. Prive, Nikki (CIRA)
45. Reinke, Don (CIRA)
46. Reyes, Patrick (CREST)
47. Rios, Carlos (CREST)
48. Rosario, Vazjier (CREST)
49. Sapiano, Mathew (CICS)
50. Schmit, Tim (NOAA/NESDIS)
51. Sengupta, Manajit (CIRA)
52. Sieglaff, Justin (CIMSS)
53. Spells, Christopher (CREST)
54. Stewart, Jebb (CIRA)
55. Streett, Davida (NOAA/NESDIS)
56. Strub, Ted (CIOS)
57. Tessendorf, Sarah (CIRA)
58. Vila, Daniel (CICS)
59. Wang, Nai-Yu (CICS)
60. Yesalusky, Melissa (CREST)
61. Zehr, Ray (NOAA/NESDIS)
62. Zupanski, Dusanka (CIRA)
Awards

The award for the best poster was presented to Mathew Sapiano of CICS Mathew’s poster was entitled: Intercomparing and evaluation high-resolution precipitation products.
Posters judged by Stan Kidder and John Knaff of CIRA
Symposium Committee
Planning: Mark DeMaria (Chair), Joanne Divico, Kathy Fryer, Don Hillger, Holli Knutson, Kevin Micke, Debra Molenar
IT Support: Debra Molenar, Hiro Gosden, Kevin Micke
Photographer: Greg DeMaria
Posters: Marilyn Watson, Ryan Cearley, Jonni Fleagane, Kaisha Jekel, Rachel Danner
Poster Judges: John Knaff, Stan Kidder
Travel: Donna Buckley, Susan Devine, Kathy Fryer, Staci Jones
Van Drivers: Jack Dostalek, Daniel Coleman, Ryan Cearley