Program
5:00pm Opening remarks and speaker introductions
Hank Revercomb
Director, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Welcome to Wisconsin
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin
5:10pm NOAA’s Environmental Satellite Program: Past, Present, and Future
Gary Davis
Director, Office of Systems Development, NOAA/NESDIS
5:25pm 50 Years of Meteorological Satellite Experiments – The NASA Perspective
Franco Einaudi
Director, Earth Sciences Division, NASA GSFC
5:40pm Fifty Years of Innovation and Cooperation in Satellite Meteorology
Jérôme Lafeuille
Chief, Space Programme Office, World Meteorological Organization
5:55pm Introducing Satellite Data to the Public
Terry Kelly
Chairman and CEO, Weather Central, Inc.
6:10pm Suomi: Pragmatic Visionary
John Lewis
Adjunct Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
6:25pm Suomi’s ERB Experiments on Explorer VII and TIROS Satellites
Fred House
Professor, Drexel University
6:40pm Keynote Address
Science Investigations: The Legacy of Explorer VII
Tom VonderHaar
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Emeritus Director, CIRA Colorado State University
7:05pm Closing remarks
Hank Revercomb
Reception 7:15- 9:00pm