| Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday
Weatherfest |
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, B314
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, B314
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B2
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 18 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, B214
Session 1 K-12 Education |
Cochairs: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO
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| 11:00 AM | 1.1 | An Approach to Thinking about Global Warming for Students in Elementary Schools 
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Fujimori, T. Iwaya, and T. Nakagawa |
| 11:15 AM | 1.2 | Lessons learned through climate change education programs at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Roberta M. Johnson, NESTA, Boulder, CO; and S. Henderson, S. Q. Foster, E. Gardiner, T. Eastburn, D. L. Ward, R. Russell, K. Meymaris, B. Hatheway, and L. Carbone |
| 11:30 AM | 1.3 | Chromakey curriculum for a high school meteorology class
Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Chelmsford, MA; and A. G. Coffin |
| 11:45 AM | 1.4 | A weather activity day for local schools in the Dept of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
Ross Reynolds, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B214
Joint Session 14 Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Sciences (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO; Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J14.1 | Mapping the UK's urban heat islands
Sylvia .H.E. Knight, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. Fordham |
| 1:45 PM | J14.2 | Educating citizens about severe weather awareness following the 22 May 2008 Northern Colorado tornado
Paul Nutter, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and D. Gaardner |
| 2:00 PM | J14.3 | Weather & Climate—Weatherwise Magazine's Newest Series
H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and M. Benner |
| 2:15 PM | J14.4 | Climate adaptation in coastal communities: A Sea Grant Climate Network approach to outreach
Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, SC; and C. Conger, R. H. Bacon, and J. Brown |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session |
Cochairs: Marianne J. Hayes, AMS Education Resource Educator, Columbus, OH; Laura Furgione, NOAA
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| | 1 | Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Climate Change and Society
Fred H. M. Semazzi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and G. Comstock, M. Correa, J. Fountain, J. Kiwanuka-Tondo,, M. Overton, S. Pantula, C. C. Hennon, J. F. Fox, E. Katz, and G. Voos |
| | 2 | A comparison of implementing the AMS Weather Studies course in a traditional vs online classroom
Kelly Esslinger, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ |
| | 3 | Teaching climate change with Earth system science modules: A fishy story
Steve LaDochy, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Ramirez, W. C. Patzert, and J. K. Willis |
| | 4 | Integrating complex and nonlinear systems thinking into the secondary education science curriculum
Benjamin J. Hatchett, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Gronstal, M. Slayden, D. R. Koracin, J. Ewing-Taylor, and J. C. Chow |
| | 5 | At the front lines of K-12 geoscience education: Perspectives from the 2008 survey of National Earth Science Teachers Association members
Roberta M. Johnson, NESTA, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Passow, A. Herrold, and P. Pennington |
| | 29 | The SUNY Oswego Storm Forecasting and Observation program's participation with VORTEX-2
Scott M. Steiger, SUNY, Oswego, NY |
| | 6 | Global climate change literacy for educators: Using on-line professional development to integrate content and pedagogy
Donna L. Woudenberg, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and D. C. Gosselin, R. J. Bonnstetter, C. S. Larson-Miller, and R. Low |
| | 7 | Online Weather Studies at Gavilan College: recent developments and future plans
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA |
| | 8 | AMS Online Weather Studies at College Southern Nevada
Barbara Graham, College Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV |
| | 9 | Standards-Based Science Teaching - So, Your State is Ready to Adopt New Benchmarks, GLEs, and Materials?
Paul Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL |
| | 10 | Teaching AMS undergraduate courses at a small, rural minority-serving community college
Michael T. Leach, New Mexico State University - Grants, Grants, NM |
| | 11 | A hybrid Online Weather course using archive files
Pedro Ramirez, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and S. LaDochy |
| | 12 | Bringing Weather Studies home
Rick Wiedenmann, New Mexico State University – Carlsbad, Carlsbad, NM |
| | 13 | Creating a good atmosphere in your Online Ocean/Weather Studies courses
Virginia M. Ragan, Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods, Kansas City, MO |
| | 14 | Online Ocean Studies at Amarillo College
Richard D. Hobbs, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX |
| | 15 | Three years of progress teaching an introductory oceanography class using the American Meteorological Society's Ocean Studies course
Jacquelyn Hams, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA |
| | 16 | The weather, the ocean, and cyberspace: Are they compatible?
Barbara Hillery, SUNY, Old Westbury, NY; and A. Manzi |
| | 17 | Application of Online Ocean Studies and Weather Studies at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico
Roene Neu, New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM |
| | 18 | Online Weather and Oceanography: Meeting the needs of a diverse student body at Alaska Pacific University
Richard L. Myers Jr., Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK |
| | 19 | The AMS Online Ocean Studies program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
John J. Kelley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Gering, C. Lott, H. Olson, and D. W. Norton |
| | 20 | An HBCU AMS Diversity Project Weather Studies course enhanced with community engagement content in support of inner-city emergency preparedness and response efforts
David A. Padgett, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN |
| | 21 | The Experience and Evaluation of a new undergraduate course on Climate Change
Patrick L. Lawrence, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH |
| | 22 | The Earth system science education alliance and global climate change education
Michael R. Witiw, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide, Everett, WA; and R. J. Myers and J. Botti |
| | 23 | MOSAIC for the Science Classroom: Mesospheric ozone investigations by high school students
Melinda Lekberg, Chelmsford High School, Chelmsford, MA; and A. E. E. Rogers and M. Needles |
| | 24 | EARTH2CLASS: connecting classroom teachers with climate change research
Michael J. Passow, Dwight Morrow HS and NESTA, Englewood, NJ; and C. M. Assumpcao and F. D. Baggio |
| | 25 | Educational resources about clouds, weather, climate, and modeling from the Windows to the Universe program and the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes
Susan Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, D. A. Randall, A. S. Denning, L. Gardiner, B. Hatheway, J. Genyuk, and R. Russell |
| | 26 | The DOE Global Change Education Program (GCEP): Mentoring Future Global Change Researchers
Rickey Petty, Department of Energy, Washington, DC; and J. S. Gaffney, N. A. Marley, and M. Constantin |
| | 27 | A Digital Archive of Significant West central and southwest Florida weather events to improve the public's response to future warnings
Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWS, Tampa Bay Area - Ruskin, FL; and J. Colson, K. J. Pugh, and J. M. Collins |
| | 28 | Creation of a new forecasting- and measurement-intensive field course at SJSU
Alison F.C. Bridger, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; and C. Clements and M. Voss |
| | 30 | The 2009 JCSDA Summer Colloquium on Data Assimilation
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. Baker, S. Lord, M. Rienecker, J. V. Zapotocny, P. A. Phoebus, S. J. Goodman, and K. Carey |
| | 31 | Curriculum expansion for AMS Weather and Ocean Studies at the University of Houston Downtown (UHD)
Ayorinde O. Idowu, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX |
| | 32 | The Collaborative Science Technology and Applied Research Program (CSTAR): The First Decade
Samuel P. Contorno, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. S. Waldstreicher |
| | 33 | NOAA: Teachers in the Lab
Daniel E. Wolfe, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, P. D. Blanken, and D. M. Stanitski |
| | 34 | From the sea floor to the classroom: IODP Deep Earth Academy educational outreach
Michael J. Passow, Dwight Morrow HS and NESTA, Englewood, NJ; and L. Peart and S. Katz Cooper |
| | 35 | Who is the citizen scientist? What have they learned from participating? Survey results from CoCoRaHS (the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network)
Missy Holzer, Rutgers University and Chatham High School, New Brunswick, NJ; and H. Reges, N. J. Doesken, R. Cifelli, Z. Schwalbe, and J. Turner |
| | 36 | NCAS Summer Weather Camps - Opening Doors To CAREERs in Meteorology
H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and D. V. R. Morris |
| | 37 | Meteorology and climatology education outreach: weathering the education paradigm
Quyen Arana, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Gruntfest |
| | 38 | ESIP teacher workshops
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. B. Meyer, N. L. Jackson, and T. Jasmin |
| | 39 | Engaging K-12 students from diverse backgrounds in atmospheric sciences – Hosting high school research internships at NCAR/UCAR
Lynette L. Laffea, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Haacker-Santos, K. Hunter, C. Loya-Hernandez, and R. Pandya |
| | 40 | AMS pre-college teacher professional development courses: A hands-on exploration of the dynamic Earth system
Ira W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and J. A. Brey, R. S. Weinbeck, J. M. Moran, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, T. P. Kiley Jr., and E. E. Ruwe |
| | 41 | The NOAA- National Weather Service Education Products and Services:
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Cain |
| | 42 | 10 Years of Online, Earth System Education through DLESE
Jamaica Jones, NCAR/UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | 43 | Bringing Global Climate Change Education to Alabama Classrooms
Marie Wooten, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL; and M. Simon, K. Fielman, M. K. Lee, Y. Lin, and L. Marzen |
| | 44 | Developing Chemistry Education Modules for High-School Global Climate Change Education (GCCE)
Ming-Kuo Lee, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL; and P. Norgaard, J. Cox, L. Marzen, M. Simon, and M. Wooten |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B214
Joint Session 2 Education Initiatives on Climate Variability and Global Climate Change (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education and the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change) |
Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA, Boulder, CO; David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 4:00 PM | J2.1 | Satellites, weather and climate (SWAC): Remote sensing meets the atmospheric sciences to enhance climate literacy
Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT |
| 4:15 PM | J2.2 | Climate Variability: Learning by Experience
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Reges, R. Cifelli, J. Turner, and Z. Schwalbe |
| 4:30 PM | J2.3 | AMS Climate Studies: Using real-world datasets in promoting climate science literacy
James A. Brey, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, T. P. Kiley Jr., and E. E. Ruwe |
| 4:45 PM | J2.4 | Public participation in climate science research: Plant phenology, climate change, and Project BudBurst
Sandra Henderson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Meymaris, P. Alaback, K. Havens, and J. Schwarz |
| 5:00 PM | J2.5 | Using video to support targeted behaviors on climate change
Joseph Cone, Oregon Sea Grant, Corvallis, OR |
| 5:15 PM | J2.6 | Participating the climate change in school: an Italian case study
Valentina Grasso, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Biometeorology, Florence, Italy; and F. Manzoli, F. Conti, F. Zabini, and T. Ercoli |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B1
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B214
Session 2 Diversity in the Workplace and the Pipeline |
Cochairs: Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Rickey Petty, Department of Energy, Washington, DC
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | The meteorological "pipeline", 1980 to 2005
Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and M. A. LeMone |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Gender and Atmospheric Sciences: A snapshot of demographics of atmospheric science students
Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | Building a Better Future by Preparing Ph.D.s for Tomorrow
Wendy Diaz, Kean University, Union, NJ; and P. J. Croft and J. Toney |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | Science and education outreach: A case study of mutual learning between children and young scientists
Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez, SOARS, UCAR, Lajas, PR; and S. Henderson and R. Pandya |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | Broadening participation in the Atmospheric Sciences though participatory research
Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B214
Joint Panel Discussion 1 Preparing the Next Generation to Meet New Demands on Science and Services (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research) |
Panelists: Quinton L. Williams, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; Genene Fisher, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Organizers: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B208
Kuettner Symposium Luncheon |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B214
Panel Discussion 2010 AMS Policy Statement on the Bachelor of Science Degree in the Atmospheric Sciences |
Moderator: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B214
Session 3 University Education |
Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO; Lourdes Avilés, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Assessing our assessment, how well do our meteorology majors learn?
Teresa M. Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and B. J. Wolf and C. A. Clark |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Requesting use of NSF facilities for education
Jose Meitin, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Baeuerle |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | The COMET Program: 20 Years of Innovative and Evolving Education and Training for the Atmospheric and Related Sciences
Timothy Spangler, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Lamos |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Education: Highlights from the 2009 Unidata Users Workshop
Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and S. Arms, L. D. Oolman, D. G. Lackmann, M. K. Ramamurthy, and L. I. Miller |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | Bringing authentic science practice to the undergraduate classroom
Kathleen Quardokus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Lasher-Trapp and E. M. Riggs |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6 | Eloquent Science: A course to improve scientific and communication skills
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B214
Joint Session 5 Using Technology to Move Beyond Lectures (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education and the 26th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Lola M. Olsen, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 3:30 PM | J5.1 | LectureTools: An Advanced Student Response System for the Geosciences
Perry J. Samson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 4:00 PM | J5.2 | An internet based aviation meteorology course
Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS |
| 4:15 PM | J5.3 | The impact of online applets on learning in an introductory meteorology lecture
Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman |
| 4:30 PM | J5.4 | The Lecture – what is it and why do we do it?
Steven Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 4:45 PM | J5.5 | Blended learning course development at Western Illinois University: meeting the needs of the first-generation college student in a hybrid class
Redina L. Herman, Western Illinois Univ., Macomb, IL |
| 5:00 PM | J5.6 | Lessons Learned from Conducting an International Student Climate Investigation: Data, Collaboration and Social Networking
Donna J. Charlevoix, The GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO; and E. E. Geary and M. Hoffman |
| 5:15 PM | J5.7 | A low-cost electronic chart wall for undergraduate program enhancement
Don T. Conlee, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and M. Perrotte and C. Mouchyn |
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| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208
Washington Symposium Breakfast |
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| 5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday
AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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