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Discipline Based Education Research (DBER) “investigates learning and teaching in a discipline using a range of methods with deep grounding in the discipline’s priorities, worldview, knowledge, and practices.” (National Research Council [NRC], 2012, p. 9). Atmospheric Science Education Research (ASER) therefore aims to improve teaching and learning in atmospheric science through the development of evidence-based knowledge and practices. It has been shown that many in the atmospheric science community highly value education research (Kopacz et al. 2021), but the atmospheric science community has yet to broadly encourage this type of scholarship (Charlevoix 2008, NRC 2012). Effective education is important for our future workforce and for ensuring a scientifically literate populace as citizens need to be able to make informed decisions regarding environmental security issues (e.g., energy, health, food, and water) that will affect the quality of their lives and those of their children (United States Global Change Research Program [USGCRP], 2009; Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research [UCAR], 2007).