14th Annual High
Plains Conference
August 12-13, 2010
Dodge City, Kansas
The 14th Annual High Plains Conference
will be
held August 12-13, 2010 at the Student Union Building on the campus of Dodge CityCommunity
College
in Dodge CityKansas.The conference will run from approximately 8 am - 5 pm on August
12 and
8 am - Noon on August 13. There will also be a banquet dinner/keynote
presentation on the evening of August 12. The conference is sponsored
by the
High Plains Chapter of the NWA/AMS.
The general theme of the conference centers on
weather that
affects the central and high plains regions of the U.S.The broad range of topics includes
severe
convective and winter weather, climate, educational programs, social
impacts,
new technology, etc.
The Keynote speakers will include:
- Don
Burgess with OU/CIMMS and Vortex -
Pam Heinselman with NSSL/Phased
Array Radar
Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE)
- "Doppler"
Dave Oliver from KFDA-TV 10,
a CBS affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas
Each session will begin with a Keynote speaker,
while the
remaining presenters will be given 20 minutes including
questions. The
tone of this conference is less formal than at national conferences.This provides a forum and/or training
platform for first time presenters, along with work that has not yet
had a
chance to go through the academic peer review process.
Abstracts are now
being accepted for the conference and may be sent to:
Fourteenth High Plains Conference Committee
National Weather Service 104 Airport Road Dodge City, Kansas67801
Email: aaron.johnson@noaa.gov
The abstract should be in Word document and no more than one
page in length.NWS employees are
reminded they should have their Science & Operations Officer review
the
abstract in accordance with NWSPD-100 (Clearance for the NWS Employee
Papers). The deadline for submitting
abstracts is August 4, 2010.
Authors will be notified of acceptance of abstracts
via email by August
1, 2010.
University students are encouraged to submit abstracts for
the conference, as a Student Paper Competition will be held with a cash
award
presented for the top presentation in both the graduate and
undergraduate
divisions.
Preliminary program, registration, hotel and general information
will be posted on the High Plains Chapter web sitewww.highplains-amsnwa.org
and updated as needed.You may also
contact one of the committee members listed below, at 620-225-6514 with
questions regarding the conference.
