2007 Annual Meeting
Preliminary WMA Technical Session Agenda and Other Activities April 18-19, 2007

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Time

Activity

Name

Title

0800-0900

Registration

 

 

0900-0910

Welcome

Tommy Shearrer

 

General Interest Topics: Moderator - Joe Golden

0910-0930

Technical Program

Roland List

Needed Paradigm Change in Weather Modification

 

0930-0950

Technical Program

Tom Ryan

The Role of Weather Modification in the Colorado River Basin States Process

 

0950-1010

Technical Program

Daniel Chacon

Instruction Program for Weather Modification & Research Pilots

1010-1030

Break

 

 

General Interest Topics (cont.)

1030-1050

Technical Program

John Andrews

Current Weather Modification Activities in California

1050-1110

Technical Program

George Farazoulis

Weather Modification Activities in Greece and Cyprus

Inadvertent Weather Modification: Moderator - Joe Golden

1110-1130

Technical Program

Daniel Rosenfeld

SUPRECIP: in situ aircraft measurements of aerosols and cloud microstructure documenting the anthropogenic aerosols suppressing precipitation over the California central Sierra Nevada

1130-1150

Technical Program

Bill Woodley

Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding as a Means of Mitigating the Loss of Sierra Precipitation due to Pollution

 

 

 

 

 

1200-1700

Lunch/Cable Car Tour

 

 

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Time

Activity

Name

Title

Summer Weather Modification: Moderator - Bill Woodley

0850-0910

Technical Program

Iyyanki

Muralikrishna

Warm Cloud Seeding Operations during Monsoon 2006 in Andra Pradesh, India

0850-0910

Technical Program

Duncan Axisa

Cloud Interactions over Central Saudi Arabia

0910-0930

Technical Program

Terry Krauss

Precipitation Enhancement in Central Saudi Arabia: Preliminary Insights into the Precipitation Processes

Other Research Topics

0930-0950

Technical Program

Daniel Rosenfeld

The scientific basis, possibilities and limitations in hurricane seeding with ultra-fine hygroscopic particles for decreasing their intensity

0950-1010

Break

 

 

Other Research Topics (Cont.)

1010-1030

Technical Program

Daniel Rosenfeld

New insights to cloud seeding for enhancing precipitation and for hail suppression

1030-1050

Technical Program

Adam Thiesen

Polarimetric Cloud Analysis and Seeding Test

(POLCAST)

1050-1110

Technical Program

Dan Breed

Lessons From Around The World - Overview of Research Results from Recent International Programs

1110-1130

Technical Program

Tom DeFelice

Warm Cloud Seeding and potential environmental impacts (cloud de-acidification?)

1130-1300

Lunch

 

 

Winter Research Programs: Moderator - Byron Marler

1300-1320

Technical Program

Tara Jensen

Update on Numerical Modeling Efforts for the Wyoming Weather Modification Project

1320-1340

Technical Program

Rick Stone/

Brian McGurty

San Joaquin River Trace Chemistry Assessment Program: Preliminary Results from 2007 and a Comparative Summary of Results from 1994

1340-1400

Technical Program

Dan Breed

Issues in the Evaluation Design of the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project

1400-1420

Technical Program

Bruce Boe

Use of an Acoustic Ice Nucleus Counter in the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project

1420-1440

Technical Program

Steve Hunter

The Weather Damage Modification Program - Results of Cooperative Multi-State Applied Research

1440-1500

Break

 

 

Time

Activity

Name

Title

Winter Operational Programs: Moderator - Arlen Huggins

1500-1520

Technical Program

Rick Stone

Calibrating Ground-based Generators using Real-Time Particle Size Distribution Measurements

1520-1540

Technical Program

Anthony Morrison

An Analysis of Cloud Seeding Operations over Tasmania from 1964-2005

1540-1600

Technical Program

Don Griffith

Wyoming Salt River Wyoming Ranges Feasibility/Design Study

1600-1620

Technical Program

Byron Marler

Cloud Seeding Impacts?  Lake Bed Sediment Analyses

 

 

 

 

1800-1900

Cocktail Hour

 

Hosted, includes prize drawing

1900-2100

Banquet and Awards

 

 

Friday, April 20th

Time

Activity

   

 

0900-1030

Annual Meeting

1030-1100
Break

1100-1700

Seventh WMA-EWRI Joint Workshop on Evaluation Methods II: Operational Precipitation Enhancement Programs