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Following is a list of scheduled live
teleconferences and interviews with storm chasers, weather experts, graphic
imagers, and other luminaries in the field of severe storm research.
These webcasts occurred in 1997
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Tuesday, May 20
10:00 a.m.
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Harold Brooks, National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
Brooks will
discuss computer visualization projects at
NSSL,
as well as challenges involved in visualizing and predicting tornadoes.
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Wednesday, May 21
2:00 p.m.
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Bob Wilhelmson, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a founder
of the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.
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Wilhemson will
discuss the role of visualization techniques in weater research,
as well as his groundbreaking work with virtual reality visualization.
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Thursday, May 22
10:00 a.m.
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Josh Wurman, University of Oklahoma and VORTEX
A member of the Verification
of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX),
Wurman will discuss his project, Doppler
on Wheels.
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Thursday, May 29
10:00 a.m.
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Perry Samson, University of Michigan
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Perry Samson will discuss the
causes of severe storms and why they happen where they do. Perry
Samson has also developed many tools
and curricula for weather exploration by middle and elementary
school students.
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Saturday, May 31
2:00 p.m.
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Habib Zagapor, Industrial Light and Magic
Members of the
ILM
special effects visualization team from the film
Twister
will discuss their work.
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Tuesday, June 3
2:00 p.m.
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Dennis Boccippio, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
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Boccippio will speak about his
work studying tropical storms, thunderstorms, squall lines, microbursts
and, primarily, lightning. His work at
Marshall
Space Flight Center
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NASA
is to develop a new sensor to detect global lightning from space.
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Thursday, June 5
2:00 pm
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Alfred Bedard, Physics Professor at the University of Colorado,
and Research Scientist at the Environmental Technology Lab of NOAA
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A member of the team that designed
"Toto," the real-world model for tornado-tracking equipment
seen in the film
Twister,
Bedard will discuss his experimental
meteorology research work both in the laboratory and in the field.
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Special thanks to:
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Tom
Grazulis,
Director
of the
Tornado Project,
a small company that documents tornado lore and history.
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