For the conference program, see the CPASW Conference Agenda (PDF).

Links to PDFs of speaker presentations are included in the listings, below.

TUESDAY, March 22

Opening Remarks

• Richard Galbraith, VP for Research, University of Vermont
  (Introduction by William Falls, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, UVM)
• Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont State Climatologist, University of Vermont
• Fiona Horsfall, Chief of Climate Services Branch, NOAA National Weather Service

Welcome

• Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont
  (Introduction by Andrew Nash, Meteorologist-in-Charge, WFO Burlington)
• Remarks from Senator Leahy's Office

Keynote Address

• Introductions by Fiona Horsfall, Chief of Climate Services Branch, NOAA National Weather Service
• The Global Weather, Climate, and Water Enterprise: Helping to Build Resilient Communities (PDF)
  David Grimes, WMO President, Assistant Deputy Minister and Head of Environment and Climate Change Canada's Meteorological Service
• "The Challenge of Decision-Making in a Changing Climate"
  Filipe Lucio, Director, Global Framework for Climate Services, World Meteorological Organization

Session 1: Food Resilience

• Moderator: Richard Choularton, United Nations World Food Programme - Rome
• Achieving Food Security amid Disparate and Volatile Climate Regimes: Climate Adaptation/Mitigation Strategies at Play in Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and North Dakota (PDF)
  Gregory Gust, NOAA/NWS Grand Forks, ND
• Bridging the Gap of Users' Knowledge on Climate through Climate Field School - Indonesia Experience (PDF)
  Noer Hayati, Indonesia Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG)
• Farmer Perception and Index Design in Weather Insurance for Agriculture in the Developing World
  Molly Brown, University of Maryland, College Park
• Integrating Climate Considerations into Conservation Planning Decisions by Agricultural Producers (PDF)
  Daniel Dostie, NRCS liaison to the Northeast USDA Climate Hub
• Gridded Spring Forecast Maps for Natural Resource Planning (PDF)
  Alyssa Rosemartin, USA National Phenology Network/University of Arizona
• Temperature Trends during Vermont's Maple Sugaring Season (PDF)
  Paul Sisson, NOAA/NWS, WFO Burlington, VT

Session 2: Interactive Decision Support Services Tool Demonstrations

• Moderator: Nichole Becker, NOAA/NWS WFO Gray, ME
• Research to Applications in Action: Some examples from PSD-ESRL (PDF)
  Andrea Ray, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division
• Accessing and Visualizing Satellite Data for Fisheries Managers in the Northeast Large Marine Ecosystem
  Riley Young Morse, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
• Automated Design Storm Notification System (PDF)
  Patrick Guinan, University of Missouri
• Detection of Hydrologic Non-stationarities using Traditional and Emerging Statistical Change Point Detection Methods
  Bryan Baker, US Army Corps of Engineers (presented by Douglas Friedman, BAH contractor at USACE)
• Climate Data Access Tools Using the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) (PDF)
  Keith Eggleston, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University
• A Historical Hourly Climate Database and its Value-Added Resource Potential (PDF)
  Michael Timlin, Midwest Regional Climate Center

Session 3: Climate and Health Panel

• Moderator: David Grass, VT Department of Health
• Climate Change, Lyme Disease, and other Vector-borne Diseases in Vermont (PDF)
  Nathaniel Schafrick, Vermont Department of Health
• Using Climate Data to Ascertain Risk of Dengue Fever (PDF)
  Brunilda Lugo, CASE Consultants International
  Marjorie McGuirk, CASE Consultants International
• Validation Results of a Spatially Fine-Scale Air Temperature Statistical Model in New York City (PDF)
  Brian Vant-Hull, CREST Institute, City University of New York
• A Baseline System for Forecasting Excessive Heat Events at Sub-seasonal Lead Times (PDF)
  Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland - ESSIC/CICS

WEDNESDAY, March 22

Keynote Address

• Introduction by David Rosowsky, Provost and Senior Vice President, UVM
• Preparing for the Storm: Reflections on Flooding, Community Resilience and the Important role of Climate Science (PDF)
  Deborah Markowitz, Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

Session 1: Managing Water Resources and Flooding

• Moderator: Ellen Mecray, NOAA / NESDIS
• Improving Situational Awareness of Flash Flooding in a Small Urban Catchment by Integrating Meteorological Analysis into a Geospatial Framework (PDF)
  John Goff, NOAA/NWS WFO Burlington, VT
  Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, University of Vermont
• Northern Fire and Ice: Climate Services and Advance Planning for Spring River Ice Break-up and Wildfires in Alaska (PDF)
  Richard Thoman, NOAA/NWS Alaska Region
• Improving Operational Real-Time Flood Forecasting and Flood Inundation Mapping in the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River Watershed: A Cooperative Effort between Canada and the US for Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River (PDF)
  Robert Flynn, U.S. Geological Survey
  William Saunders, NOAA/NWS Northeast RFC
• Probabilistic Flood Forecasting, Hazard Assessment and Adaptation Studies for the US Northeast (PDF)
  Philip Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology

Session 2: Hydro-meteorological Disaster Risk Assessment and Management

• Moderator: Andrew Nash, NOAA/NWS WFO Burlington, VT
• Implementing IRDR's peril classification in SHELDUS (PDF)
  Melanie Gall, Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina
• Quantifying Seasonal Nutrient and Sediment Loads with Relation to Land Use and Soil Properties in Vermont's Lake Champlain Basin (PDF)
  Baxter Miatke, University of Vermont - Environmental Engineering
• Climatic Forecasts of Surface Water Anomalies (PDF)
  Thomas Parris, ISciences, L.L.C.
• Connecting Seasonal Predictions into Decision-making in the Greater Horn of Africa (PDF)
  Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Climate Change and the Future of Winter Road Performance in New England (PDF)
  Jillian Crowley, University of New Hampshire (presented by Jennifer Jacobs, UNH)
• Future Intensity Duration Frequency Curves for Climate Change Resiliency in New York (PDF)
  Art DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University (presented by Keith Eggleston, NERCC)

Session 3: Interactive Decision Support Services Tool Demonstations

• Moderator: Keith Eggleston, Northeast Regional Climate Center / Cornell University
• Monitoring & Reporting Drought in Canada - The Online Canadian Drought Monitor Application (PDF)
  Patrick Cherneski, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Drought Monitoring with a High Resolution SPEI (PDF)
  Rebecca Ward, State Climate Office of North Carolina
• Extreme Precipitation Dashboard for Water Resource Managers and City Planners (PDF)
  Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA Climate Program Office
• Monitoring for Extreme Climatological Impacts on Vegetation - the MRCC's Vegetation Impact Program (VIP) (PDF)
  Beth Hall, University of Illinois
• Visualizing Climate Data Projections for Decision Support (PDF)
  David Herring, NOAA Climate Program Office
• The NW Climate Toolbox (PDF)
  Kathie Dello, PNW Climate Impacts Research Consortium

Banquet Dinner Talk

• Introduction by Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont State Climatologist, University of Vermont, &
  David Herring, NOAA Climate Program Office
• America’s Two "Climate Changes"
  Dan Kahan, Yale University
  Elizabeth K. Dollard, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology

THURSDAY, March 24

Session 1: Coastal Issues in Disaster Risk Assessment and Management

• Moderator: Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS Climate Services Branch
• Building Resilience on the Georgia Coast (PDF)
  Madeleine Russell, Georgia Sea Grant
• A Climate of Change: Preparing for an Uncertain Fishing Future by Bringing Communities Together with Climate and Marine Scientists to Understand Predictive Capabilities and Information Needs (PDF)
  Nick Battista, Island Institute (presented by Susie Arnold, Island Institute)
• Climate Services for Coastal Area Management in Indonesia (PDF)
  Marjuki (Jack), Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Indonesia (BMKG)
• Resilience to Coastal Storms in Urban Neighborhoods (PDF)
  Malgosia Madajewicz, The Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
• Improving Community Resilience through the Integration of Climate Services in Adaptation Decision-Making in the Southwest Coastal Bangladesh (PDF)
  Saleh Ahmed, The University of Arizona

Session 2: Regional and Local Climate Services / User Engagement

• Moderator: Mike Halpert, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center
• NOAA Regional Climate Services: Integrating Climate Information across Sectors and Partners (PDF)
  Ellen Mecray, NOAA / NESDIS
• The Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast: A NOAA RISA Project Focused on Co-generated Climate Science Information for Urban Decision-makers (PDF)
  Radley Horton, Columbia University / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• The Delaware Environmental Observing System: Decision Support for Coastal Flooding and Snowfall (PDF)
  Daniel Leathers, University of Delaware (presented by Tina Callahan, DEMAC)
• Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Casco Bay Region of Maine (PDF)
  Duane Verner, Argonne National Laboratory
  Bill DeLong, DHS
• Adaptation of Vermont State Park Visitors to Climate Change (PDF)
  William Valliere, University of Vermont

Session 3: Panel

• Moderators: Daniel Barrie, NOAA Climate Program Office; Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, UVM
• Needs for and Scientific Feasibility of Local & Regional Seasonal Precipitation Predictions (PDF)
  Andrea Ray, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division
  Robert D'Arienzo, VELCO
  Shrad Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara
  Jason Shafer, Lyndon State College
  Mike Halpert, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center

Session 4: Localizing Climate Information

• Moderator: Alex Bryan, DOI Northeast Climate Science Center
• Introduction of Dynamical Regional Downscaling (DSJRA-55) Using the JRA-55 Reanalysis and Discussion for Possibility of its Practical Use (PDF)
  Nobuyuki Kayaba, Climate Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency
• A Statistical Model for Climate Downscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Engineering Infrastructure Design and Adaptation (PDF)
  Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire, Durham
• Data-driven Impact Projections for Climate Risk Management (PDF)
  Terrance Thompson, LMI
• Extreme Weather Events and Transportation Infrastructure - A Framework for Benefit-Cost Analysis (PDF)
  Sam Merrill, GEI Consultants

Summary and Closing Remarks

• Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont State Climatologist, University of Vermont
• Fiona Horsfall, Chief of Climate Services Branch, NOAA National Weather Service