Session 4 Informal Weather Education Outreach

Monday, 13 January 2025: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
350 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 34th Conference on Education
Chair:
Erik Lee Salna, FIU Extreme Events Institute, Miami, FL

This session would showcase informal weather education outreach activities, programs and events being done in local communities across the US and beyond. Partnerships between local, state and federal government, non-profit and for-profit partners would be highlighted. Examples of partners working together could be NOAA, NWS, NHC, AOML, emergency management agencies, universities, local science museums, corporations, and media. Some of these partners could also be Weather-Ready Nation Ambassadors. Speakers would make brief presentations followed by a panel discussion for Q&A with the audience.

Papers:
4:30 PM
4.1
EDU-CloudRoots: Transferring Fundamental Biospheric-Atmospheric Research to Elementary Schools in Remote Amazon Communities
Cybelli Barbosa, National Institute for Amazonian Research - INPA,, Manuas, Brazil; and O. K. Hartogensis, M. Janssens, H. deBoer, I. Luijkx, K. deBeurs, T. Raymaakers, and J. Vila

4:45 PM
4.2
Using Respectful Humor for Outreach of Meteorological Research
Aaron Price, Ph.D., American Meteorological Society, Chicago, MA; American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA; and C. Kauffman

Handout (1.1 MB)

5:00 PM
4.3
Authentically Connecting the Dots Between Weather, Climate and the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse.
Jacquelyn Bellefontaine, Mount Washington Observatory, Meredith, NH

5:15 PM
4.4
FIU Informal Weather Education Outreach
Erik L. Salna, M.S., FIU Extreme Events Institute, Miami, FL

5:30 PM
4.5
Developing Community Connections while Profiling the Urban Atmosphere during Urban Canyons 2024
Leanne Blind-Doskocil, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and D. A. Hence, M. A. Grover, S. W. Nesbitt, S. M. Collis, E. C. Wolff IV, W. McKeown-Robbie, M. Peters, K. Dudkowski, J. Skocinski, N. Markus, M. Graber, A. Ratkay, L. E. Rivelli-Zea, C. Riva, J. M. Sepulveda, A. Artz, P. Sharma, S. Wu, N. Olmedo, and S. Yoon

4.6
Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award Talk: Dr. Martin Baxter

Recorded Presentation
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner
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