The 8th Annual Great Lakes Meteorology Conference will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at Strongbow Inn in Valparaiso, IN. Registration begins at 9 AM, and the conference will last from 10 AM to 7 PM. The keynote speaker is Les Lemon, a researcher for the National Weather Service Warning Decision Training Branch and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at Oklahoma University who is known for his work in the design and development of the WSR-88D radar system. Registration for the conference is now closed.

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List of Speakers (click to view abstracts)

Andrew Clausen, Southwest Airlines
Mary Ann Cooper, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Raquel Evaristo, Valparaiso University
John Gumm, WKRC-TV Cincinnati
Brian Hirth, Texas Tech University, VORTEX2
Sam Lashley, National Weather Service-Northern Indiana
Les Lemon, CIMMS, founder of WSR-88D
Eric Lenning, National Weather Service-Chicago
David Plummer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Rodriguez, National Weather Service-Chicago
Robert Simpson, National Weather Service-Northern Indiana
Ginger Zee, WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago

Poster Session Participants

Kristen Bradford
Kelsey Obenour
Vanessa Vincente

Previous Conferences

The 7th Annual Great Lakes Meteorology Conference took place on Saturday, March 28, 2009. It featured keynote speaker Tim Marshall of Haag Engineering. Check out pictures from the conference!

The 6th Annual Great Lakes Meteorology Conference took place on April 5, 2008 and featured keynote speaker Dr. Louis Uccellini (director of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction), Mike Umscheid, Ginger Zee, and many others.