SeCAPS 2026 Agenda
SeCAPS Schedule
March 28th - Day 1
| Time | Event |
| 7:45 AM | Registration (Refreshments Available) |
| 8:15 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 AM | Pixels into Partnerships: Radar Training as a Catalyst for Collaboration, Brandon Black, Jessica Chace |
| 8:45 AM | Examining the impact of experience and experience narratives on risk perception and disaster preparedness messages, Lindsey Vazquez |
| 9:00 AM | Keynote - Micheal Simpson |
| 9:45 AM | Break / Networking |
| 10:00 AM | Utilizing Ground-Based Radar Analyses to Investigate Ocean-to-Land Differences in the Tropical Cyclone Wind Profile and Their Impacts on Tornadogenesis, Elizabeth Seiler |
| 10:15 AM | Poster Session |
| 10:45 AM | Tour of Coastal Weather Research Center |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch (Provided) / Networking |
| 1:00 PM | Keynote: From Broadcast to Broadband: The Evolution of Meteorology in a Digital-First Era, James Spann |
| 1:45 PM | Every scientist still needs to learn how to code, Tony Rice |
| 2:00 PM | Resume Workshop, John Gordon |
| 2:30 PM | Weather Balloon Launch |
| 3:00 PM | Synoptic Briefing |
| 5:00 PM | Mixer – Moe’s Original Barbecue, 701 Spring Hill Avenue Mobile, AL |
March 29th - Day 2
| Time | Event |
| 8:00 AM | Registration (Refreshments Available) |
| 8:15 AM | What’s New, SAM?, Austin Clark, Dr. Sytske Kimball, Cameron Clark |
| 8:30 AM | Hydroplaning Safety Campaign, John Gordon |
| 8:45 AM | So is it going to rain or not?: Examining cognitive overload, recall, risk perception, and satisfaction in contemporary TV weathercasts, Dr. Robert Gauthreaux III |
| 9:00 AM | Break / Networking |
| 9:15 AM | Keynote - Kim Klockow-McClain |
| 10:00 AM | Probabilis-what? Communicating Uncertainty Without Confusion, Morgan Barry |
| 10:15 AM | Break / Networking |
| 10:30 AM | Communications Panel, Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain, Lindsey Vazquez, Morgan Barry, Thomas Geboy |
| 11:15 AM | Every Problem is a Communications Problem, Mike Coyne |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch (Provided) & The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Weather Trivia, John Gordon |
| 1:15 PM | NWS Mobile Tornado Reanalysis: Improving the Accuracy of the Tornado Database, Michael Mugrage |
| 1:30 PM | Keynote: Climatological Defiance: Anatomy of the 21 January 2025 Central Gulf Coast Snow as a Multi-Centennial Outlier, Jeffrey Medlin |
| 2:15 PM | Closing Statements |