AMS 2026: CPAESS Staff Presentations


Saturday, January 24, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
17:30 - 19:30 Dawn Mullally CPAESS Business Office AMS Student Career Fair Career Fair Hall - Table 39 (Saturday evening) Information Sharing
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
17:30 - 19:00 Kim Klockow McClain National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Awards Ceremony Grand Ballroom B AMS Fellow Award
19:00 - 21:00 Dawn Mullally CPAESS Business Office AMS Student Career Fair Career Fair Hall - Table 39 (Sunday evening) Information Sharing
Monday, January 26, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
13:45 - 15:00 Alice Lau NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Session 3 - One Health in Action: Integrating Environmental Forecasts and Tools for Health Outcomes 362A (George R. Brown Convention Center) Oral presentation
14:15 - 14:30 Zorana Jelenak NOAA National Environmental and Stellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) 3.3 - Rain, Ocean, and Atmosphere Radar System (ROARS): The 2025 Hurricane Season 351B Oral presentation
15:00 - 16:30 Brooklyn Poutra US Carbon Cycle Science Program Observing and Modeling Human and Natural Impacts on Carbon Reservoirs - The Third Decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan Hall B3 (George R. Brown Convention Center) Poster
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
8:30 - 10:00 Elena Fernández NOAA WPO WINGS Fellowship Joint Session J5, AI-Driven Innovations in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal-to-Decadal Forecasting: From Foundational Models to Explainable Predictability I 342F Oral presentation
8:30 - 10:00 Alison Gregory NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Session 5 - Earth System Model Governance and Community Building 352A (GRB) Chair
8:30 - 10:00 Zorana Jelenak NOAA National Environmental and Stellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) Joint Session J5B - Calibration/Validation for Environmental Remote Sensing and Weather Prediction I 371A Oral presentation
15:00 - 16:30 Lucas Howard NOAA WPO WINGS Fellowship 378 - Assimilating Satellite Observations with a Machine Learning Radiative Transfer Emulator Hall B3 Oral presentation
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
9:45 - 13:00 Dawn Mullally CPAESS Business Office CPAESS Educational and Job Opportunities UCAR | NCAR Booth in the Exhibit Hall - Booth #119 Information Sharing
9:45 - 10:00 Zorana Jelenak NOAA National Environmental and Stellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) 9.6 - Tropical Cyclones Wind Structure: Insights from NOAA’s ASCAT Ultra-High-Resolution Winds 370D Oral presentation
9:45 - 10:00 Zorana Jelenak NOAA National Environmental and Stellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) 9.6 - Tropical Cyclones Wind Structure: Insights from NOAA’s ASCAT Ultra-High-Resolution Winds 370D Oral presentation
10:45 - 12:00 Kim Klockow McClain National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Panel Discussion 10A - Informed decision-making and ethics: Developing a blueprint for ethical weather and climate communication Grand Ballroom C Panel Discussion
11:45 - 12:00 Alison Gregory National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) 10.5 - Social Network Analysis (SNA) As a Tool for Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Efforts in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise 342F Oral presentation
13:45 - 15:00 Kim Klockow McClain National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Panel Discussion 11A - AMS LEO Panel: How We are Building a Weather Ready Nation w/ LEO Data 362C Panel Discussion
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Session date and time Presenter name Affiliation Session number and title Location/Room Presentation type
9:45 - 12:00 Brooklyn Poutra CPAESS Business Office U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and the 3rd Decadal Carbon Cycle Report UCAR | NCAR Booth in the Exhibit Hall - Booth #119 Information Sharing
15:00 - 18:00 Bohar Singh NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) 39th Conference on Climate Variability and Change not shown Poster