North American Hail Workshop

Across North America, hailstorms are responsible for over $10 billion dollars in annual property damage. The increase in the impact of hailstorms has outpaced advances in detection, forecasting, and mitigation. The National Science Foundation, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety are organizing the first North American Workshop on Hail and Hailstorms. The workshop will bring together public and private stakeholders to discuss the current state of the science regarding all facets of this peril and provide a look to the future. The workshop will be held at the NCAR Center Green 1 (CG1) campus, 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder, Colorado.

Scope

The workshop will focus on the following topics:

• Convection & hail in a changing climate
• Hail climatology & risk
• Hail damage, losses, and mitigation
• Hail detection & forecasting
• Microphysics and dynamics of hailstorms

The workshop will contain a blend of invited speakers, expert panel discussions, traditional symposia and poster sessions related to the topics listed above over the course of three full days.

Registration

The workshop registration fee is $150, due before July 1, 2018. Late registration is $250. Registration

National Weather Association Seal Holders can receive Continuing Education Credit, one CEU credit per full day of attendance.

AMS continuing education credit for Certified Consulting Meteorologists (CCM), Certified Broadcast Meteorologists (CBM), and Sealholders equals one professional development point per day of attendance.

Sponsorship & Exhibitor Opportunities

Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are available. For interested sponsors, and more information please contact the steering committee at hailworkshop2018@gmail.com.

Steering Committee

• Andrew Heymsfield, PhD – NCAR: Co-Chair
• Ian Giammanco, PhD – Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety: Co-Chair
• Jason Butke – Travelers Insurance
• Matthew Kumjian, PhD – Penn State University
• Hugh Morrison, PhD – NCAR
• Robert Wright – Robert L. Wright and Associates Inc.
• Bryan Wood – Assurant Inc.

Speaker & Presenter Information

Authors with accepted abstracts will be notified by the steering committee and once the program is finalized, speakers will receive an email with the specific session, date, and time of their presentation (or poster).

Oral Presentations

Speakers will have a total of 20 minutes allotted for their presentation and audience questions. Speakers should target 15-17 minutes for their presentations, which should allow for adequate audience participation. Session chairs will be rigid in ensuring we remain on schedule.

The aspect ratio for projector in the conference room is 16:9.

The file size limit is 55 MB. The following file types may be used: PDF document (*.pdf), Word document (*.doc), DOCX file (*.docx), RTF document (*.rtf), PowerPoint presentation (*.ppt), PowerPoint presentation (*.pps), PPTX file (*.pptx), or PPSX file (*.ppsx).

The conference room laptop will have Microsoft Office365, Powerpoint2016 . There will also be a Mac available for those speakers who prefer that platform.

For presenters wishing to use alternative media formats such as a Prezi, please notify the steering committee at hailworkshop2018@gmail.com. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs.

Presenters should bring their presentation on a USB thumb drive to the workshop. Speakers will be able to upload their presentation from the USB drive to the workshop laptop prior to each session. Speakers can also upload their presentation or a link (i.e. Dropbox, Google drive) to the file to hailworkshop@gmail.com and we will ensure it is pre-loaded prior to the start of the workshop.

Poster Presentations

There are two scheduled poster sessions where authors should be present at their poster. However, posters maybe put up at the start of the workshop and can remain displayed for the entire 3 days of the workshop. Poster presenters please collect your poster by 4 pm on Thursday August 16 or else they will be discarded afterwards.

Poster presenters please size your poster to fit on a 3.5 ft wide x 5 ft long display board.