CILAMS Meeting Information

Upcoming Meeting Information

Time: Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 6:30 PM

Location: Za's, 1905 North Neil St., Champaign.

Speaker: Nancy Westcott, Illinois State Water Survey

Other Items of Note: Discussion of Central IL Weather Calendar.

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Past meeting information since 2000:

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	CITY	TOPIC
January 2008	Michael Palecki	Midwestern Regional Climate Center	Champaign, IL	Extending the Record of U.S. Heat and Cold Waves to the Mid-19th Century
October 2007	Edward Shimon	National Weather Service, Lincoln	Lincoln, IL	July 2006 Derecho
August 2007	John Walsh	University of Illinois	Champaign, IL	Recent climate change in the Arctic: Bellwether for the middle latitudes?
May 2007	Michael Spinar	Midwest Climate Center	Champaign, IL	Lake Effect Snow Morphologies
March 2007	Steve Hilberg / Jim Angel	CoCoRaHs	Springfield, IL	The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow Network in Illinois
January 2007	Angus Rockett	University of Illinois	Champaign, IL	Alternative Fuels
November 2006	Dagmar Budikova	Illinois State University	Bloomington, IL	Interaction Between Teleconnection Patterns and Associated Impact on U.S. Winter Climate
September 2006	Steve Nesbitt	University of Illinois	Lincoln, IL	Where are the Most Intense Thunderstorms on Earth?
July 2006	John Ogren	National Weather Service, Indianapolis, IN	Covington, IN	The Enchanced Fujita Scale
May 2006	Jay Searles	WILL-TV, Champaign, IL	Decatur, IL	The Ins and Outs of Broadcast Meteorology
March 2006	James Auten	National Weather Service, Lincoln	Bloomington, IL	A Look at Severe Weather Operations from Inside the National Weather Service
January 2006	Eric Snodgrass	University of Illinois	Champaign, IL	Synergizing High-Resolution EOS Terra Satellite Data and S-POLKa Radar Reflectivity to Assess Trade Wind Cumuli Precipitation
November 2005	Carl Bernacchi	Illinois State Water Survey	Decatur, IL	Carbon and Water Fluxes Over Corn and Soybean in a Changing Atmosphere
September 2005	Steve Hilberg	Midwestern Regional Climate Center	Lincoln, IL	Déjà Vu All Over Again – A Climatological Renaissance in the U.S.
July 2005	Patrick Francis	Bowling Green State University	Covington, IN	Association Between Seasonal Cycles of Teleconnections and Tornado Frequency in the United States
May 2005	Paul Merzlock	National Weather Service, Chicago	Decatur, IL	A Comparison of the 1990 Plainfield Tornado and the 2004 Roanoke Tornado
April 2005	Nancy Westcott	Illinois State Water Survey	Lincoln, IL	How Well Do We Measure Precipitation? A Comparison of Gage, Radar, and Multi-Sensor Estimates
January 2005	Mike Kruk	Illinois State Water Survey	Champaign, IL	Bow Echoes During BAMEX: Assessing Transitions in Surface Wind Damage Using WSR-88D Data
November 2004	James T. Moore	St. Louis University	Bloomington, IL	Atmospheric Processes Associated with Heavy Banded Snow Illustrated by a Case Study: 4-5 December 1999
September 2004	Dan Kelly	National Weather Service, Lincoln	Decatur, IL	Rawinsondes
July 2004	David Changnon	Northern Illinois University	Covington, IN	Extreme Dew Points on the Rise in the Midwest: Is this a Consequence of Changing Agricultural Practices?
May 2004	Mike Palecki	Illinois State Water Survey	Clinton, IL	Drought in the U.S: Are Conditions Changing?
March 2004	Harold Dameron	Illinois Dept. of Transportation	Champaign, IL	Roadway Weather Information Systems
November 2003	Greg McFarquhar	University of Illinois	Lincoln, IL	CAMEX-4 Observations and Mesoscale Modeling Simulations of Hurricane Erin (2001)
September 2003	Mike Tannura Chris Miller Fred Zacher	WCIA-TV NWS Lincoln DeWitt Cnty ESDA	Clinton, IL	Panel Discussion on Severe Weather Dissemination
June 2003	Jeff Trapp	Purdue University	Covington, IN	New Insight into Tornadoes and Damaging Winds with Squall Lines and Bow Echoes
April 2003	Various	Illinois State Water Survey	Champaign, IL	50th Anniversary of the Hook Echo
January 2003	Mike McClellan	Mobile Weather Team	Champaign, IL	Mobile Weather Team
October 2002	Bob Scott	Illinois State Water Survey	Bloomington, IL	The WARM Network
September 2002	Dave Kristovich	Illinois State Water Survey	N/A	Mesoscale Weather Systems Triggered by the Great Lakes
May 2002	Brad Ketcham	National Weather Service, Lincoln	Lincoln, IL	The Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS): A Digital Forecasting Process
March 2002	Roger Edwards	Storm Prediction Center	Decatur, IL	3 May 1999 Southern Plains Tornado
February 2002	Tom Bellinger	(Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety)	Decatur, IL	Mesoscale Effects near the Zion Nuclear Power Plant
December 2001	Maurice Bluestein	Purdue University at Indianapolis	Covington, IN	The New Wind Chill Index
October 2001	Fred Glass	National Weather Service, St. Louis	Decatur, IL	The Historic Union, Missouri, Flash flood of May 7, 2000
August 2001	Ken Kunkel	Illinois State Water Survey	Decatur, IL	Climatic Trends in Extreme Precipitation Events
December 2000	Charles Schweighauser	Astronomy and Physics at Uof I at Springfield	Clinton, IL	Stars and Galaxies
October 2000	Doris Rotzoll	NASA's Spaceflight Meteorology Group	Covington, IN	Forecasting for Spaceflights and other Spaceflight Information
August 2000	Brian Jewett	University of Illinois	Clinton, IL	The Initiation and Evolution of the July 19, 1996, Central Illinois Tornado
February 2000	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A