Agenda

28^th Annual U.S./Canada Great Lakes Operational

Meteorology Workshop

The full agenda and abstracts can be found here.

GLOMW Schedule May 2nd to May 5th, 2022

Monday, May 2nd – Marine Forecasting

Session Chair(s) – Greg Mann and Helen Yang

All times in EDT

Tuesday, May 3rd – Marine Forecasting

Session Chair(s) – Sherry Williams and Ryan Rozinskis 

All times in EDT

Wednesday, May 4th – Summer Severe Weather, Tornadoes and Tornado Warning Improvement

Session Chair(s) – John Boris and Ryan Rozinskis

All times in EDT

Thursday, May 5th – Summer Severe Weather, Tornadoes and Tornado Warning Improvement, Impact Based Forecasting and Verification and Lessons Learned From Pandemic Impacted Operations

Session Chair(s) – John Boris and Sherry Williams

All times in EDT

Registration:

Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6935697780473065995 (Good for all four days)

Attendees:

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The Brian Murphy Award

The Brian Murphy Award is presented at each Great Lakes workshop in honour of Brian Murphy, an Environment Canada meteorologist who was critical to the inception and success of the Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop.  In 1991, Brian opened collaboration with Tom Niziol in Buffalo, NY, and Dick Wagenmaker in Ann Arbor, MI, which resulted in the first small, but successful gathering of operational meteorologists at Pearson Airport in Toronto, ON, between forecasters from the Toronto office of Environment Canada, and the Buffalo and Ann Arbor offices of the U.S. National Weather Service.  

Sadly, Brian passed away at a relatively young age on June 30, 2004, in Windsor, ON, after a long illness, but his memory and commitment to operational weather forecasting in the Great Lakes region is celebrated each year with the ongoing success of the Great Lakes Workshop.  Beginning with the 2005 Great Lakes Workshop in Grand Rapids, MI, the Brian Murphy Award has been presented to the person with the best operationally relevant presentation at the GLOMW each year.

Environment and Climate Change Canada research meteorologist Dave Sills has composed a tribute to Brian, which you can read here.

Past Recipients of the Brian Murphy Operational Forecaster Presentation:

Note: The Brian Murphy Operational Forecaster Presentation was initiated at the 14th Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan in September of 2005, the first workshop held after Brian's passing.

2022 (28th): Virtual.  Nathan Marsili, NWS Northern Indiana  Talk Title: "Collective Lake Disturbances and the Relationship to "Type VI" Lake Effect Snow Events"

2019 (27th): Duluth, Minnesota.  Greg Mann, NWS Detroit/White Lake  Talk Title: "High Amplitude Inertia-Gravity Wave Driven Meteotsunami across the Lake Michigan Basin during the Transition Season"

2018 (26th): Cleveland, Ohio. Eric Lenning, NWS Chicago   Talk Title: “Evaluation of a Revised Bourgouin Layer-Energy Technique for Top-Down Precipitation-Type Forecasts”

2017 (25th): Buffalo, New York.  Jeff Logsdon, NWS Northern Indiana    Talk Title: "The Indiana/Ohio Tornado Outbreak of August 24, 2016"

2016 (24th): Toronto, Ontario.  Helen Yang, Ontario Storm Prediction Centre   Talk Title: “Exploring the Utility of SOLMA for Severe Thunderstorm Nowcasting of a QLCS Tornado Event”

2015 (23rd): Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dan Thompson and Trent Frey, NWS Detroit/White Lake   Talk Title: "Time Evolution of Radar-Derived Rotational Velocity in Supercells:  Implications for Impact-Based Warnings"

2014 (22nd): Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Justin Arnott, NWS Gaylord   Talk Title: "Predictability Horizons: Implications for Operational Forecasters"

2013 (21st): Toronto, Ontario.  The Brian Murphy Award was not presented. Conference was hosted via remote webinar presentations due to NOAA travel freeze.

2012 (20th): Chicago, Illinois.  Mark A. Thornton, LakeErieWX, LLC    Talk Title: "Tragedy Strikes the 2011 Chicago-Mac"

2011 (19th): Ithaca, New York.  Co-award Winners   Gina Ressler, McGill University   Talk Title: “Synoptic-Scale Analysis of Freezing Rain Events in Montreal, Canada”  -and-  Sophie Splawinski, McGill University   Talk Title:  “Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies Associated with Freezing Rain in Quebec City, QC and the St. Lawrence River Valley”

2010 (18th): Toronto, Ontario.  Dan Miller, NWS Duluth   Talk Title:  “Observations of Near-Surface Thermodynamic and Wind Shear Profiles on Significant Tornado Days”

2009: Great Lakes Workshop was not held - transition from fall meetings pre-2009, to spring meetings beginning in 2010

2008 (17th): Ann Arbor, Michigan.  TJ Turnage, NWS Grand Rapids   Talk Title:  "A Comparison of Heavy Snowfall Forecast Techniques"

2007 (16th): Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Ed Shimon, NWS Central Illinois   Talk Title:  "The 19 July 2006 Derecho Event - A Meteorology and Radar Review"

2006 (15th): Niagara Falls, Ontario. Mike Evans, NWS Binghamton    Talk Title  “Correlations Between Snowfall and NAM Forecast Parameters Widely Believed to be Associated with Banded Snowfall: Part 1 - Examination of Time-Height Cross-Sectional Data”

2005 (14th): Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bruce Smith, NWS Gaylord   Talk Title: "The Lake-Enhanced Snow Event of December 19, 2000"

The Bill Hibbert Award

The Bill Hibbert Award is presented at each Great Lakes workshop in honor of William Hibbert, a National Weather Service Buffalo, New York meteorologist.  Bill was the NWS Buffalo radar program leader, and was heavily involved with the initial operational assessment of polarimetric WSR-88D radar data in 2010.  

Sadly, Bill passed away in 2017 after a courageous battle with cancer.  Beginning with the 25th Great Lakes Workshop in Buffalo, NY in 2017, the Bill Hibbert Award has been presented to the person with the best presentation in the area of remote sensing application to operational meteorology at the GLOMW each year.

Past Recipients of the Bill Hibbert Remote Sensing Presentation:

Note: The Bill Hibbert Remote Sensing Presentation was initiated at the 25th Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, held in Buffalo, New York in April of 2017, the first workshop held after Bill's passing.

2022 (28th): Virtual.  Christopher M. Gitro, NWS Duluth, MN  Talk Title: "A Historical Look at Tracking Elevated Mixed Layers Through Satellite Imagery: A Northern U.S. and Southern Canadian Focus"

2019 (27th): Duluth, Minnesota.  Mark Kulie, NOAA/NESDIS  Talk Title: "Snowfall Observations @NWSMarquette: A Five-Year Retrospective"

2018 (26th): Cleveland, Ohio. Andy Hatzos,  NWS Wilmington    Talk Title: “The Six Tornadoes of May 24, 2017”

2017 (25th): Buffalo, New York.  Kirk Apffel,  NWS Buffalo    Talk Title: "Utilizing Dual-Polarization Instantaneous Precipitation Rate to Predict Flash Flooding"