IMPROVING COMMERCE AND REDUCING DEATHS AND INJURIES THROUGH INNOVATIVE WEATHER-RELATED R&D AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

July 25-27, 2007
Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner
8661 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, Virginia 22182

• Dr. Christopher Cluett, Battelle Memorial Institute, System Evaluation

• Mr. James Wright, 511 Travel Information Service Coordinator, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

• Ms. Julie Demuth, Associate Scientist, NCAR Societal Impacts Program (SIP)/Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE)/Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)

• Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, Consulting Sociologist

• Dr. Nelson Keeler, Director, Office of Aviation Programs, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

• Ms. Shelley J. Row, Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

• Mr. Richard Edwing, Marine Transportation System (MTS) Program Manager, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Dr. Alexander E. MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Administrator for NOAA Research Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes, and Director of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

• Mr. Kenneth M. Leonard, Director, Aviation Weather Office, Operations Planning Services, Federal Aviation Administration

• Mr. Jay J. Adams, Global Product Marketing Manager, Entertainment and Communications at Delphi

• Mr. Mark Gunzelman, Senior Scientist, Science and Technology Corporation

• Mr. Bob Dreisewerd, Vice President and Director of Forecast Services, Baron Services

• Mr. Jon Pollack, Vice-President GeoDecisions, Army’s IRRIS Program

• Dr. Walter Dabberdt, Director, Strategic Research, Vaisala Group

• Mr. Chris Bunce, Manager, Geotechnical Engineering, Canadian Pacific Railway

• Mr. Paul A. Pisano, Team Leader, Road Weather Management Program, Federal Highway Administration

• Dr. James O’Sullivan, Program Manager, NOAA Surface Weather Program, and Acting Chief, NWS Observing Services Division

• Colonel Michael Babcock, Deputy for Federal Programs, Directorate of Weather, United States Air Force

• Dr. Stephen J. Lord, Director, Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NOAA National Weather Service

• Dr. Kevin Petty, Scientific Program Manager, National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Mr. Ralph Patterson, Traffic Operation Center (TOC), Utah Department of Transportation

• Dr. Richard Shirkey, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, CISD/Battlefield Environment Division, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

• Mr. Jeffrey Johnson, Chief Science Officer, DTN/Meteorlogix

• Mr. John Ogren, Deputy Director, Central Region, NOAA National Weather Service

• Dr. Patrick Welsh, Executive Director, Advanced Weather Information Systems Laboratory, University of North Florida

• Mr. Dave Lusk, Senior Manager, Global Operations Control, FedEx Express

• Mr. Paul Trotter, Meteorologist-in-Charge, New Orleans/Baton Rouge WFO (Slidell) Louisiana

• Mr. Mike Steinberg, Senior Vice-President, AccuWeather, Inc.

• Ms. Gloria Kulesa, Team Leader, Aviation Weather Research Program, Federal Aviation Administration

• Mr. Leland D. Smithson, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Snow and Ice Pooled Fund Cooperative Program (SICOP) Coordinator

• Dr. Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Director, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

• Dr. Walter D. Bach, Jr., Program Manager, Environmental Sciences Division, Army Research Office, United States Army

• Ms. Mary M. Cairns, Senior Staff Meteorologist, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

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• Dr. John T. Snow, Professor of Meteorology, Dean, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, and Administrator, National Weather Center, University of Oklahoma

• Dr. Alexander E. MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Administrator for NOAA Research Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes, and Director of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

• Dr. Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma

• Mr. Anthony T. Furst, Director, Office of Freight Management and Operations, and Acting Director, Office of Transportation Operations, Federal Highway Administration