RISE 2019 Conference

Transforming University Engagement In Pre- and Post-Disaster Environments: Lessons from Puerto Rico

Weather Extremes Prediction: Today’s Challenges & the Need to Transition to User-driven Adaptive Modeling for Emergency Management

 

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, November 18

Location: PAC Recital Hall

This panel will emphasize the need to provide tailored and adaptive weather and flood risk information to decision makers before and during an extreme weather event. Numerical weather prediction outputs are traditionally (usually due to practical considerations) provided on a static grid at set times. This panel will discuss opportunities for technological advances in modeling, data assimilation including utilization of adaptive grids - all empowered by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning - to address the needs of decision makers. Emphasis is given to the needs of emergency managers.

Moderator

 


Christopher Thorncroft
Interim Director of Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Director NYS Mesonet and COE, Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York

Panelist

 


Brian Colle
Atmospheric Science Division Director / Professor, Stony Brook University


Jenni Evans
President, American Meteorology Society Director, Institute for CyberScience Professor, Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University


Rick Luettich
Professor and Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Rebecca Morss
Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab, National Center for Atmospheric Research


Lloyd Treinish
Chief Scientist - Environmental Modeling, Climate, Weather and Deep Thunder, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center