Reggina Cabrera, Chief, Eastern Region Hydrologic Services Division, National Weather Service (NWS)
Barbara Watson, Meteorologist-in-Charge, Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Binghamton, NWS

Keynote: Forecasting Extreme Rainfall - Wes Junker, Heavy Precipitation Forecast Expert

Session Chair: Michael Evans, Science and Operations Officer, WFO Binghamton, NWS

8:50 - 9:10 a.m. Evaluation of a Challenging Warm Season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (QPF) Month: June 2009 - Brendon Rubin-Oster, National Center for Environmental Prediction, Heavy Precipitation Center (HPC), NWS

9:10 - 9:35 a.m. Life on the Edge: Patterns and Probabilities of Heavy Rainfall - Richard Grumm, WFO State College, NWS

9:40 - 10:00 a.m. Reconstruction of Flood Magnitude, Inundation Extent and Flow Patterns in an Urban Flood - Dr. Andrew Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Convective Moderator: Chris Gitro, WFO Binghamton, NWS

• Techniques to Improve Flash Flood Warning Performance - Michael Jurewicz, WFO Binghamton, NWS
• August 4, 2009 Louisville Flash Flood: A Case Study - Frank Pereira, HPC, NWS
• DHM-TF: Flash Flood Forecasting with NEXRAD Precipitation Data and a Threshold Frequency Implementation of a Distributed Hydrologic Model - Brian Cosgrove, Office of Hydrologic Development, NWS
• Northeast Convective Flash Floods: Helping Forecasters Stay Ahead of Rising Water - Joseph Villani, WFO Albany, NWS

Mid-latitude Moderator: Ray Kruzdlo, WFO Mt. Holly, NWS

• Rainfall Organization and Atmospheric Conditions of Heavy Precipitation in the Northeastern United States - Stephen Jessup, Cornell University
• Model-Derived Precipitation Potential Placement - Jeffery Myers, Ohio River Forecast Center, NWS
• Forecasting Heavy Precipitation Associated with Cool-Season 500-hPa Cutoff Cyclones in the Northeast - Melissa Payer, SUNY Albany
• Comparison of Flash Flood Producing Narrow Cold Frontal Rain Bands on November 16, 2006 and January 25, 2010 in Northeast PA and Southern NY - Michael Evans, NWS

Non-traditional Moderator: Greg Hanson, WFO Burlington, NWS

• Appalachian Debris Flows: The Need to Increase Awareness and Preparedness - Stephen Keighton, WFO Blacksburg, NWS
• RFC/WFO Support of a potential dam Failure: A Review of the Whittenton Pond Dam Crisis of 2005 - David Vallee, Northeast River Forecast Center and Nicole Belk, WFO Taunton, NWS
• Mechanisms for Predecessor Rain Events in Advance of Tropical Cyclones - Benjamin Moore, SUNY Albany
• The Role of a Predecessor Rainfall Event (PRE) in the Devastating Floods Associated with Tropical Cyclone Agnes in June, 1972 - Michael Jurewicz, NWS

Poster Session Award Certificates (Coordinator: Michael Schaffner, NWS)

Keynote: Flash Flood Forecasting - Matt Kelsch, COMET Hydrometeorologist

Session Chair: Richard Grumm, NWS

12:40 - 1:15 Dual Pol Radar - Paul Schlatter, Warning Decision Training Branch, NWS. Note: this is a zip file. Unzip into temporary directory and then play the presentation.
1:15 - 1:40 The Future of Hydrologic Modeling - Dave Radell, Eastern Region Scientific Services Division, NWS

Precipitation Estimation and Remote Sensing Moderator: Michael Jurewicz, NWS

• Canadian Dual Pole - Mark Alliksaar, Environment Canada
• Flood and Discharge Monitoring During the 2008 Flood in Iowa Using AMSR-E data - Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST, CUNY
• Satellite Rainfall Estimation - Sheldon Kusselson, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service

Hydrologic Modeling Moderator: Steve DiRienzo, WFO Albany

• Real-Time Flash Flood Forecasting in Small Fast-Responding Watersheds using a Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Model - Michael Schaffner, NWS
• Improving Flash Food Prediction in Multiple Environments - Patrick Broxton, University of Arizona
• Ensemble River Stage Forecasts from the Site Specific Hydrologic Predictor - Alan Cope, WFO Mount Holly, NWS

2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break (networking, light snacks, refreshments)

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Plenary Session: Collaborative Opportunities (panel discussion)

Facilitator: Dave Vallee, NWS

3:00 - 3:10 "Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research" Program (CSTAR) Warren Snyder, WFO Albany
3:10 - 3:20 Bringing Partners Together - Andrew Dehoff, P.E., Planning and Operations, Susquehanna River Basin Commission
3:20 - 3:30 NOAA-CREST - Reza Khanbilvardi, Ph.D., P.E., NOAA-CREST
3:30 - 3:40 NWS Eastern Region Hydrologic Services - George McKillop, Eastern Region Hydrologic Services Division, NWS
3:40 - 4:00 Open Discussion, Q&A

4:00 - 4:30 p.m. Wrap-up: Where Do We Go from Here? Identifying Future Research and Modeling Needs to Advance Flash Flood Forecasting

Facilitator: Alan Rezek, WFO Charleston, WV, NWS

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner, Outdoor Barbeque