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CSSL Symposium

Posted 1 Nov 2024

The first CSSL Symposium brought leading severe storms experts from across the globe to Western on October 29th to celebrate the launch of the CSSL and the beginning of a new era of severe storms research and knowledge sharing in Canada. The symposium was held at Museum London along the shore of the Thames River in downtown London, Ontario. The detailed agenda can be found below.

Note that the symposium was recorded - you can find it here!

CSSL Symposium Agenda

Session 1 - CSSL Introduction

8:00 AM	Registration
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks
9:10 AM	Gregory Kopp Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory David Sills Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory - Northern Tornadoes Project

Session 2 - Keynote Lectures

9:40 AM	Harold Brooks National Severe Storms Laboratory
10:10 AM	Pieter Groenemeijer European Severe Storms Laboratory
10:40 AM	Coffee Break

Session 3 - Severe Storms Meteorology

10:50 AM	Daniel Michelson Environment & Climate Change Canada
11:10 AM	James LaDue National Weather Service — Warning Decision Training Division
11:30 AM	Paola Salio University of Buenos Aires
11:50 AM	Joshua Soderholm Bureau of Meteorology — Australian Government
12:10 PM	John Allen Central Michigan University
12:30 PM	Lunch

Session 4 - Severe Storms Engineering

1:30 PM	Girma Bitsuamlak Wind Engineering, Energy, and Environment Dome
1:50 PM	Tanya Brown-Giammanco National Institute of Standards and Technology
2:10 PM	Frank Lombardo University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2:30 PM	Forrest Masters University of Florida
2:50 PM	Yukio Tamura Chongqing University
3:10 PM	Coffee Break

Session 5 - Severe Storms Impacts

3:20 PM	Paul Kovacs Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
3:40 PM	Laura Twidle Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc.
4:00 PM	Jen Henderson Texas Tech University — Risk and Equity in Disasters Lab
4:20 PM	Daphne LaDue University of Oklahoma — Center of Analysis & Prediction of Storms

 

Session 6 - CSSL Operations & Research

4:40 PM	John Hanesiak University of Manitoba
4:50 PM	Jennifer Spinney York University
5:00 PM	Julian Brimelow Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory — Northern Hail Project
5:10 PM	Connell Miller Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory — Northern Mesonet Project
5:20 PM	Closing Remarks
5:30 PM	Symposium Adjourns
6:30 PM	Dinner The Great Hall — Western University