Session: Precollege Initiatives and Engagement in Atmospheric Education Poster Session (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 13 January 2020: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: 29th Conference on Education

Papers:

206

A Case Study of How AMS Mentoring and Meetings Can Help Develop Young Meteorologists

Mackenzie Pavlik, Concord–Carlisle High School, Concord, MA; and M. B. Yarker and T. Ruggiero

207

IBM’s Storm Technical Council Outreach Program

Michael J. Ventrice, The Weather Company, Andover, MA; and C. Stiles and A. P. Praino

208

STEM Education for Tomorrow's Workforce: Enabling Teachers to Engage Students in Standards-Based Investigations in the Context of Local Climate and Environmental Changes

Tamara Shapiro Ledley, Earth and Climate Science, Needham, MA

209

Integrating the Wedge Stabilization Game into Agricultural Education and Outreach Initiatives

Robert Simpson, Univ. of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN; and R. Tewari, J. E. Mehlhorn, B. Parr, and N. Musunuru

210

Using Local Examples of Wildlife Climate Adaptation to Start a Student-Centered, Nationwide Dialog on Climate Change

Danielle F. Lawson, North Carolina State Univ., North Carolina, NC; and A. E. Nesbitt, B. Whitehouse, D. E. Horton, K. T. Stevenson, M. N. Peterson, and D. J. Wuebbles

211

Communicating Weather Information to High School Students: What Do They Really Want?

Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and M. DeSimone, E. Zakhary, S. Yuhas, K. Magnotta, and D. Braunstein

212

Building and Programming a High School CO₂ Monitoring System

Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and M. R. Bednarek and K. Gonyea

213

No Correlation between Precipitation Amounts (Rain Gauge) and Brightness Temperature (GOES-16 ABI, Band 13)

Vicky Gorman, Citizen Science Education Program, Medford, NJ; and E. Garistina, L. Michaels, M. Doshi, and A. Fricke

214

CIMSS Student Workshop: STEM before STEM was Cool

Maria Vasys, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and M. Mooney, D. Herndon, P. Janssen, and I. Nasif

Handout (6.1 MB)

215

Improving K–12 Instruction of Coastal Climatology and Tree-Ring Science with the Louisiana Sea Grant

Jill Trepanier, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA; and C. S. Tucker, P. Blanchard, J. R. Jordan, and M. Schafer

Handout (49.8 MB)

216

An Interactive Demonstration of MetPy's Declarative Language: Moving from GEMPAK to MetPy as the Primary Analysis and Visualization Tool of Atmospheric Scientists

Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and R. M. May and Z. S. Bruick

Handout (3.4 MB)

217

Measuring Weather Together: The Role That Personal Weather Observations and Mentoring Partnerships Play in Engaging Students in Meteorology

William Owen, Concord–Carlisle High School, Concord, MA; and E. Rennert, M. Pavlik, A. Grant, L. Mccrory, M. Charde, and T. Ruggiero

218

Bonnets and Blizzards: Storytelling Makes Teaching Fun...and Effective!

Barbara Mayes Boustead, NWS, Norman, OK

Handout (1.2 MB)

219

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

Kathryn Boyd, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and A. U. Gold, F. Niepold, S. Lynds, A. Morton, M. Bruckner, K. Kirk, C. Manning, P. Chandler, and T. Shapiro Ledley

Handout (4.3 MB)

220

Case Studies: The Perfect Vehicle to Drive Compelling Data into a Classroom

Margaret Holzer, Rutgers Univ. and Chatham High School, New Brunswick, NJ