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Symposium Poster | The
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SATURDAY,
March 30, 2002. 8:30
AM-5:00 PM
Nebraska
Center for Continuing Education Conference Center,
33rd
& Holdrege Streets, Lincoln, NE.
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| Emmy Award winning Jeff Piotrowski has captured
stunning video and still images of weather for over 25 years. Jeff's storm
chasing has received national and international attention from CNN, Pioneer
Productions, Discovery Channel, TLC, Weather Channel, National Geographic,
NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox News Networks. Notable images of weather events
photographed by Jeff and his wife, Kathryn, are published worldwide.
Nebraska, the focus of Jeff's most intense storm chases of this decade. The most memorable being the Brady-Maxwell F3 tornado (May 17, 2000), Seward F4 tornado (June 13, 2001), and the near life threatening chase of the Edgar F3 tornado (Sept. 22, 2001). Jeff's weather pursuits do not end with storm chasing. His professional work focuses on sales & marketing with Baron Services Inc. offering state of the art storm tracking and Doppler radar systems to national television stations. |
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| Jim Reed specializes in still images of severe and unusual weather. Described by PHOTO Techniques magazine as "... one of America's most accomplished extreme weather photographers," Jim has photographed blizzards, droughts, ice storms, lightning, floods and tornadoes. He has been in the eye of four major hurricanes. His credits include The New York Times, NOAA, U.S. News & World Report, The Weather Channel, Weather for Dummies and the World Meteorological Organization. A professional storm chaser, Jim's assignments have included cover stories for Popular Science, Scientific American, and Weatherwise magazines. |
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| One of the most popular events at the last
CPSWS was the balloon launch at the conference center (it even made the
front page of the Lincoln paper the next day!). We will once again
have a balloon launch, track it by computers inside the conference center.
Mark Conner, who will direct the balloon launch, will also show some video taken from previous balloon trajectories over the midwest. |
The following local area broadcast meteorologists will be there for you to meet:
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| Ken Siemek, Channel 10/11, Lincoln | Brad Anderson, Channel 10/11, Lincoln | Tyson Pearsall, Channel 10/11, Lincoln |
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| Kevin Coskren, Channel 8, Lincoln | Sander Ludeman, Channel 8, Lincoln | Dean Wysocki, Channel 42, Omaha |
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| Mark Lee, Channel 3, Omaha |
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Mark Lee of KMTV and his storm chase van at the last CPSWS |
| Your local area broadcast meteorologists will be on hand to meet you and answer your questions about severe weather in our area. Mark Lee will also once again bring his storm chase van to the weather symposium this year. |
| Exhibitors:
Air Force ROTC (UNL) American Red Cross, Lincoln/Lancaster County Barnes and Noble Bookstores, "Weather for Dummies" Gage County REACT Heartland REACT High Plains Regional Climate Center KMTV Storm Chase Van Lincoln Amateur Radio Lancaster County Mobile Command Center Lancaster County Office of Emergency Management Lightning Stalker Photo Images National Drought Mitigation Office National Weather Service Nebraska Weather and Climate Information Center Professor Weather Radio Shack Skywarn Amateur Radio Association Storm Productions Time Warner Cable University of Nebraska Meteorology Program University of Nebraska Student Meteorology Club Weather Explorer Post (only one in the country!). Sponsors:
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| The CPSWS 2002 symposium is being brought to you with the financial assistance of the High Plains Regional Climate Center, the UNL Department of Geosciences, and the National Weather Service. |
| Also providing physical assistance with this symposium are the following groups: the UNL-Student AMS Chapter; the National Weather Service Office, Valley, NE; and, the SKYWARN Amateur Radio Association (Omaha). |