12:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Registration and Check-In

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Lyndon State College Alumni Reception in Valcour Room

8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Friday Night Icebreaker

Bill Chittick, Author of "The Worcester Tornado, June 9, 1953"

The Worcester Tornado, June 9, 1953: What is so rare as a day in June…

9:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Friday Night Social

Refreshments and Appetizers will be served

7:00 AM - 8:25 AM

Breakfast for Hotel Guests

Opening Remarks

NWS Burlington, VT Weather Briefing

Joe Villani, NOAA/NWS, Weather Forecast Office
Quantitative Snow Amount Forecast Verification for Central Pennsylvania

Cegeon Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction in a Multiple Zonal Jet Regime

Nolan Atkins, Lyndon State College
Damaging wind Mechanisms within Bow Echoes

Session 1b: EmeRALD III

Lance Bosart, SUNY Albany
"Wide Left" Surprise Snowstorms

Scott Runyon, SUNY Albany
A Statistical Analysis and Synoptic Climatology of Heat Waves over the United States

Eric Kelsey, SUNY Albany
Supertyphoon Dale (1996) Makes Waves from the Tropics to the North Pole

Heather Archambault, SUNY Albany
Cool-Season Regime Transition and Its Impact on Precipitation in the Northeast

Break and Poster Session

Session 2a: EMERALD I & II

Brian Yeaton, Mount Washington Observatory
Six Years of Weather Education, in and out of the Classroom; The programs of the Mount Washington Observatory

Brooke Taber, NWS Burlington, VT
A Synoptic and Mesoscale Analysis of the Saint Lawrence Valley Tornado Event on 9 June 2004

Eric C. Evenson, NWS Burlington, VT
Integration of an All-Hazards Concept into National Weather Service Operations

Michael Ekster, NWS Upton, NY
Elevated Mixed Layers and their Role in Significant Severe Thunderstorm Episodes in the Northeastern U.S.

Session 2b: EMERALD III

Alan Srock, SUNY Albany
Enhancement of Precipitation along the Southeast U.S. Coast Due to Mesoscale Features Induced by a Landfalling Tropical Cyclone

Joseph Kravitz, SUNY Albany
A Study of Coherent Tropopause Disturbances within the Northern Hemispheric Circumpolar Vortex

Tom Galarneau, SUNY Albany
Continental Anticyclones: A Climatology and Two Case Studies

Edward Argenta, Dugway Proving Ground
Job Opportunities at Army Test Ranges

Lunch

Opening Remarks and Raffle Prizes

Session 3a: EMERALD I & II

Thomas Hultquist, NWS Marquette, MI
A High Resolution Atmospheric Simulation of the 9-10 November 1975 "Edmund Fitzgerald" Storm

Michael Dutter, NWS Cleveland, OH
Numerical Simulation of Waves During the Final Voyage of the "Edmund Fitzgerald" 9-10 November 1975

Rob Eisenson, Western Connecticut State University
Teaching and Television: An Interesting Career Choice

Session 3b: EMERALD III

Shawn Milrad, McGill University
Dynamical Structures and Precipitation Distribution of Transitioning Tropical Cyclones in Eastern Canada, 1979-2004

William Minsinger
The 1927 Flood in Vermont and New England

Eyad Atallah, McGill University
Climate Change and Teleconnection Patterns: An Analysis of Temperature and Flow Regime Trends over North America

Break and Poster Session

Session 4: EMERALD I & II

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research
Role of Clouds and Soil Water in Climate Over Land

Jason Furtado, Colorado State University
Simulation of the Direct Effect of Stratospheric Anomalies on the Tropospheric Circulation

John Gyakum, McGill University
Warm Season Extreme Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting for the Burlington, VT Region

Weir Lundstedt, NWS Nashua, NH
WINDEX V2.0 - An Improved Forecast Technique to Assess the Threat of Snow Squall Potential over a given Area

Panel Discussion: University Amphitheater

Paul Sisson- Director of Operations at the National Weather Service in Burlington, VT

Jeremy Davis - Weather Routing/North Country Weather INC. in Glens Falls, NY

Mark Taylor - ONN The Ohio News Network in Columbus, OH Meteorologist

Cegeon Chan - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Student

Edward Argenta - Civilian Meteorologist in Utah

LSC Alumni Reception

Banquet Dinner

Speaker: Jim Cantore, Weather Channel - On-Camera Meteorologist, Field Meteorologist, Host of “Storm Stories”, Storm Tracker

Standing in a 100 mph Wind

Breakfast for Hotel Guests

Opening Remarks

Session 5: EMERALD I & II

Sunday Morning Speaker

Paul Kocin, Weather Channel - Winter Weather Expert
A Primer on Northeast Snowstorms

Michael Nahmias, Plymouth State University
A Climatology of Weather Influences on Electric Power Outages in New Hampshire

Dean D. Davison, Vice President, Philadelphia – Delaware Valley Chapter of the AMS
1000 Year Flood of Burlington County, New Jersey; The Effects and Lessons

Andrew Loconto and Melissa Wellman, Plymouth State University
A Statistical Analysis of Precipitation and Track of Alberta Clippers

Break and Poster Session

Session 6: EMERALD I & II

Keith Wagner, SUNY Albany
Moderate Precipitation Events in the Northeastern United States

Dr. Ron McTaggart-Cowan, SUNY Albany
Hurricane Juan: A Diagnostic and Compositing Study

Dr. Steven Skubis, SUNY Oswego
Diagnosing the Dynamics of Lake Effect Snow Bands

Closing Remarks