Session: <em>See It, Hear It, Touch It</em> – Informal Weather Education Outreach (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

258C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: 29th Conference on Education

Cochairs:

Danny E. Mattox, Univ. of Oklahoma, K-20 Center, Norman, OK and Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., International Hurricane Research Center, Miami, FL

This session would showcase informal weather education outreach activities, programs and events being done in local communities across the US and beyond, including Owlie Skywarn and AMS WeatherFest as examples. 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. Select speakers would make brief presentations followed by a panel discussion for Q&A with the audience.

Papers:

1:30 PM

4.1

"Show Me" El Nino

Joe Witte, Aquent, Pasadena, CA

1:45 PM

4.2

FIU Extreme Events Institute Informal Weather Education Outreach

Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

2:00 PM

4.3

Linking Undergraduate Education to Service and Outreach: Twenty Years of Hands On Outreach and Fun at Valparaiso University MET Field Day