• Welcoming Remarks

• Opening Remarks/Introduction

• Keynote Address
  

• Dr. Margaret Leinen, Assistant Director for Geosciences, NSF

• Dr. Jack Kaye, Director of the Research and Analysis Program within the NASA Earth-Sun System Division

• Mr. Michael Buckley, Acting Deputy Director, Mitigation Division, FEMA

• Mr. Robert Winokur, Technical Director, Office of the Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy
  
  
  

• A Record Smasher: Overview of the 2005 Hurricane Season

• 2005 NHC Forecast Verification

• Review of the 2005 Central Pacific Hurricane Season

• Joint Typhoon Warning Center: 2005 Year in Review

• Air Force Weather Agency Satellite Surveillance—2005 Tropical Cyclone Season

• A Review of Radar Operations at the Tropical Prediction Center during the 2005 Hurricane Season
  
  

• Session Leader Summary

• 53 WRS 2005 Hurricane Season Reconnaissance Summary

• NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) Flight Activities—2005 Hurricane Season

• Synthesis of SFMR and Airborne Doppler Radar Observations in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at Landfall

• Atmospheric Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon!

• NASA Airborne Hurricane Observations: Recent Experiences and Expectations Related to New Platform Capability

• Potential Role of UAS in Hurricane Research

• Using Large Ensembles of Low-Cost Lagrangian Drifters for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and Analysis

• Satellite-based Tropical Cyclone Current Intensity Consensus (SATCON)

• NOAA/NESDIS Near-Real Time Wind Vectors from WindSat Polarimetric Measurements

• ‘MIMIC’ Morphed Microwave Animations: 2005 TCs and New Displays

• Development of a Secondary Eyewall Formation Index for Improvement of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasting

• The Hurricane Rainbands and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX): Observations and Modeling of the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia, and Rita
  
  

• The Hurricane WRF (HWRF): Addressing our Nation’s Next Generation Hurricane Forecast Problems

• Summary of GFDL Model Upgrades for the 2006 Hurricane Season—A JHT Project Update

• Evaluation of the GFDL Coupled Hurricane-Wave-Ocean Prediction System for Transition to Operations—A JHT Project Update

• Hurricane Model Transitions to Operations at NCEP/EMC

• Operational Wave Modeling at NCEP beyond 2005

• Dynamic Initialization to Improve Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure Forecasts—A JHT Project Update

• Impact of Satellite Observations and Forecast Model Improvements on Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts

• Improving the Validation and Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall

• Application of Ocean Heat Content to Operational Forecasting during the 2004 and 2005 Hurricane Seasons

• On Forecasting Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma with the NOPP Project

• Tropical Transition: The Genesis of Tropical Cyclones from Extratropical Disturbances

• Performance of the Florida State University Hurricane Superensemble during 2005

• Air-Sea Interactions Processes in Tropical Cyclones Workshop
  

• Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT): 2006 Update

• Assimilating Moisture Information from Global Positioning System (GPS) Dropwindsondes into the NOAA Global Forecast System

• Drag Coefficient Distribution and Wind Speed Dependence in Tropical Cyclones

• VORTAC—A Utility to Deduce Central Pressure and Radius of Maximum Wind of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Using WSR-88D Data

• Mapping of Topographic Effects of Maximum Sustained Surface Wind Speeds in Landfalling Hurricanes

• Estimating Tropical Cyclone Wind Radii Utilizing an Empirical Inland Wind Decay Model

• Continued Development of Tropical Cyclone Wind Probability Products

• Operational SFMR-NAWIPS Airborne Processing and Data Distribution Products

• Improved Statistical Intensity Forecast Models

• Enhancement of SHIPS Using Passive Microwave Imager Data—2005 Testing

• Eastern Pacific Ocean Heat Content Estimates for SHIPS Forecasting for the Joint Hurricane Testbed
  

• Development and Implementation of NHC/JHT Products in ATCF

• Prediction of Consensus TC Track Forecast Error and Correctors to Improve Consensus TC Track Forecasts
  
  
  

• Hurricane Preparedness and Expectations: Lessons for the 2006 Hurricane Season from Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

• The Effect of Forecast Information on Evacuation Decisions

• Air Security after the Storm

• Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, Rita and Wilma in Navigation and Port Response and the Reopening Critical Supply Chains for Hurricane Relief and for Impacted Areas

• Summary of Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge on the Mississippi Coast

• Coastal-Change Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
  
  

• Lessons Learned from Infrastructure Impacts of Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

• Monitoring Hurricane Impacts on U.S. Agriculture at the NOAA/USDA Joint Agricultural Weather Facility

• Progress Toward Operational Implementation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Speed Probability Products

• Tropical Cyclone-Related Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting at HPC

• Experimental Storm Surge Simulations for Hurricane Katrina

• NOAA’s Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts—A Retrospective Look at the Exceptional 2005 Season and a Look Ahead to 2006
  

Dr. Joanne Simpson--2006

Dr. Frank D. Marks, Jr.--2005
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron--2005 Special
NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center--2005 Special
Mr. Max Mayfield--2004
Mr. Chris Velden--2003
Prof. Russell Elsberry--2002

• Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, SocResearch Miami

• Mr. Bryan Norcross, Director of Meteorology, WFOR, CBS4, Miami, Florida
  

• Dr. Brenda D. Phillips, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events, Oklahoma State University
  

• Dr. Velma J. Deleveaux, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. and Ms. Naomi Moye, Abraham’s Group
  

• Mr. Paul Trotter, NWS (WFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge)
  

• Dr. Robert Serafin, NCAR Director Emeritus and Chair, Board
  on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC)
  

• National Science Board’s Task Force on Hurricane Science and Engineering

• NOAA SAB Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group

• Interagency Strategic Research Plan for Tropical Cyclones: The Way Ahead

• Interagency Strategic Research Plan for Tropical Cyclones: The Way Ahead

• Interagency Strategic Research Plan for Tropical Cyclones: The Way Ahead
  

• WG/HWSOR: Review of Action Items and NHOP Changes

• Tropical Cyclone Reconnaissance and Observations Systems Wrap-up

• Workshop 1 Wrap-up - Getting the “Right” Message to the Customer

• Workshop 2 Wrap-up - Tropical Cyclone Research: Priorities for the Next Decade

• Final Wrap-up