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Frist Workshop Agenda and Presentation Material

Day 1 — Tuesday, 08/14/2007

8:00 - 8:45am: Welcome/ Review Agenda/ Survey Analysis/ Review verification questions/ Glossary/ Logistics
Julie Demargne and Mary Mullusky
8:45 - 9:45am: OBJ1 - Verification concepts and methodologies Part I
Holly Hartmann (part 1)
9:45 - 10:00am: Break
10:00 - 11:00am: OBJ1 - Verification concepts and methodologies Part II
Kevin Werner
11:00 - 11:15am: Break
11:15am - 12:00pm: OBJ1 - Verification concepts and methodologies Part III and introduction to the lab
Holly Hartmann (part 2)
12:00 - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm: OBJ3 - Effective strategies to communicate verification information for specific RFC forecast products — lab
Holly Hartmann
2:00 - 2:15pm: Break
2:15 - 2:45pm: OBJ3 - Effective strategies to communicate verification information — report from lab<_a> (report document will be available later)
Holly Hartmann and the workshop participants
2:45 - 3:00pm: OBJ4 - Findings and recommendations of the Hydrologic Verification System Requirements Team
Julie Demargne
3:00 - 3:30pm: OBJ2 - Local capabilities with SR/ABRFC Verification activities
Bill Lawrence
3:30 - 3:45pm: Break
3:45 - 4:15pm: OBJ2 - Local capabilities with WR Water Supply verification
Kevin Werner (and Andrew Murray)
4:15 - 5:00pm: OBJ2 - Local capabilities with verification activities at 3 RFCs
Rob Shedd at NERFC
Tom Adams at OHRFC
Mike DeWeese at NCRFC

Day 2 — Wednesday, 08/15/2007

8:00 - 9:00am: OBJ2 - NWS Verification and NPVU Verification Pages
Tish Soulliard and Brent Macaloney
9:00 - 9:15am: OBJ2 - BOIVerify for grid-based verification
Ken Pomeroy
9:15 - 9:30am: Break
9:30 - 10:00am: Archiving Requirements - Current requirements
Julie Meyer
10:00 - 10:45am: OBJ2 - Forecast Services in IHFS (Logistical Verification) software capabilities
Mary Mullusky
10:45 - 11:00am: Break
11:00 - 11:45am: OBJ2 - Forecast Services in IHFS (Logistical Verification) software capabilities — lab, discussion and software survey
Mary Mullusky (exercises)
11:45am - 12:45pm: Lunch
12:45 - 2:00pm: OBJ2 - IVP software capabilities
Hank Herr
2:00 - 2:15pm: Break
2:15 - 3:45pm: OBJ2 - IVP software capabilities — lab
Hank Herr (exercise)
3:45 - 4:00pm: Break
4:00 - 5:00pm: OBJ2 - IVP software capabilities — lab, discussion and software survey
Hank Herr

Day 3 — Thursday, 08/16/2007

8:00 - 9:00am: OBJ2 - Probabilistic forecast verification
Allen Bradley
9:00 - 9:15am Break
9:15 - 10:30am: OBJ2 - EVS software capabilities
James Brown (part 1)
10:30 - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:00pm OBJ2 - EVS software capabilities — lab
James Brown (exercises)
12:00 - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm: OBJ2 - EVS software capabilities — lab continued
James Brown
2:00 - 2:15pm Break
2:15 - 3:15pm: OBJ3 - Future developments of EVS and software survey
James Brown (part 2)
3:15 - 3:30pm Break
3:30 - 5:00pm: Verification Teams/ Review Questions/ Discussion/ Deliverables/ Workshop Evaluation Survey
Julie Demargne and Mary Mullusky