Description:

In many meteorology and atmospheric science programs, students interested in private sector careers experience a gap between the curricular examples and pedagogical tools they see, and the skills and background needed for employment. The 2019 NSF-sponsored workshop titled “Mind the Gap” developed, and further refined in a second 2022 workshop, a set of recommendations to address this gap. One key recommendation was to develop pedagogical tools or modules that could be implemented in preexisting atmospheric science core courses to be designed in partnership with relevant private and academic sector representatives and to be integrated into existing course syllabi, preferentially in core courses identified by the AMS standards. This session will expand on the AMS 2024 session on Mind the Gap by highlighting some of the implemented coursework and relevant efforts accomplished in the AMS community in closing the gap.