Staff from the NOAA Office of Research, Transition, and Application (ORTA) will be at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Houston, TX.
Dr. Fiona Horsfall, Katie Geddes, and Alexander Bukvich will be giving presentations and co-chairing sessions.
ORTA’s engagement at AMS will advance our mission of supporting innovative research and development to achieve NOAA’s mission and strengthen the US economy. Our talks will highlight ORTA’s work to advance public-private partnerships, provide grants to small businesses, and support and track the transition of NOAA research and development (R&D) into products and services that benefit the American public.
You can find the ORTA presentations and Sessions at AMS below:
Presentations:
Tuesday 1/27 – 1:45 – 2:00 pm – Room 381A
Fiona Horsfall (Presenter) & Michael Kruk (Author): Frameworks for Public-Private Partnerships in the Weather Enterprise
Wednesday 1/28 – 9:00 – 9:15 am – Room 371A
Fiona Horsfall (Presenter & Author), Katie Geddes, Alex Bukvich, and Bryan Cole (Authors): Tracking Transition of NOAA’s Innovative Research and Development into Use
Wednesday 1/28 – 9:30 – 9:45 am – Room 342D
Fiona Horsfall (Presenter) & Michael Kruk (Author): Accelerating Innovation to Operations: An Update on the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
Chaired Sessions:
Katie Geddes (co-chair) – Session 9B – Advancing R2O and O2R in Weather Analysis and Forecast Systems: Technologies, Methodologies, and Approaches to Meet Evolving Forecasting Needs (Part I of IV)
Dr. Fiona Horsfall (co-chair) – Session 10B – Advancing R2O and O2R in Weather Analysis and Forecast Systems: Technologies, Methodologies, and Approaches to Meet Evolving Forecasting Needs (Part II of IV)
Alex Bukvich (co-chair) – Session 11B – Advancing R2O and O2R in Weather Analysis and Forecast Systems: Technologies, Methodologies, and Approaches to Meet Evolving Forecasting Needs (Part III of IV)