Poster Session 1 |
| | Poster Session Educational initiatives (Hall 4AB) |
| | Cochairs: Marianne C. Hayes, Pueblo del Sol Elementary School, Sierra Vista, AZ; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO
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| | P1.1 | Interactive Java applets for education
Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker |
| | P1.2 | Collaborations, training and distance education from your desktop to the world: using VISITview
Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Mostek |
| | P1.3 | The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): Designing for K-12 educators 
Holly Devaul, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya and M. Marlino |
| | P1.4 | Phytopia: An Education CD from Bigelow Labs and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Debra S. Brice, San Marcos Unified School District, San Marcos, CA |
| | P1.5 | Datastreme in San Diego: A teacher enhancement program in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Debra S. Brice, San Marcos Unified School District, San Marcos, CA |
| | P1.6 | NWS and AMS WeatherFest Outreach Activities 2003
Robert P. Wanton, NOAA/NWS, Mt. Holly, NJ; and J. D. Moore and W. Huskin |
| | P1.7 | Teaching High School Meteorology Through Live Event Learning
Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA, Windom Area Schools, Windom, MN |
| | P1.8 | Wisconsin Weather Stories
Anne Pryor, CIMMS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, M. Mooney, J. P. Leary, H. DeRosa, L. Holwerk, K. Karnauskas, C. C. Schmidt, and J. Yuenger |
| | P1.9 | Student Perceptions on Global Warming-Northern/Southern Hemispheres
Steve M. Carlson, AMS/AERA and Hermiston School District, Hermiston, OR |
| | P1.10 | What is an EWOC?
Faye W. McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA |
| | P1.11 | Using real-time data to improve application of science concepts in rural middle school students
Claire L. Waites, AMS/AERA, Elberta, AL; and R. Furman |
| | P1.12 | Scholastics the Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm Museum Exhibit
Cheryl D. McCallum, The Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, TX; and L. Nazarani |
| | P1.13 | Australian Indigenous weather knowledge
Greg Lehman, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia; and N. Tapper, M. Fletcher, J. Lantry, I. Bell, F. Longo, J. McBride, E. Stafford, H. Stern, and R. Whitaker |
| | P1.14 | Earth2Class: connecting cutting-edge science with the classroom
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, White Plains, NY; and C. M. Assumpcao and F. D. Baggio |
| | P1.15 | DataStreme WES: Participating Teachers Do Make a Difference
Philip Lacey, East Liverpool High School, Beaver, PA |
| | P1.16 | DataStreme Courses: Teacher Enhancement Utilizing Current Environmental Data and the Internet
Ira W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and R. S. Weinbeck, J. M. Moran, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, and B. A. Blair |
| | P1.17 | An evaluation of the Maury Project by its participants
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer |
| | P1.18 | WES Initiatives in North Carolina
Frankie C. Vann, Sampson County Schools Alternative Program, Clinton, NC |
| | P1.19 | Integrating earth science into the elementary school curriculum to meet the National Science Education Standrads
Thomas P. Kelly, Grandville Public Schools, Grandville, MI |
| | P1.20 | The Quest for Clouds and Volcanoes
Freida D. Blink, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV and the LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. A. Blink |
| | P1.21 | Local Implementation of American Meteorological Society’s Educational Materials
William R. Huskin, Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, PA; and J. Moore and R. Wanton |
| | P1.22 | The sea & sky connection
Ann T. Kelly, Our Lady of Sorrows School, St. Louis, MO |
| | P1.23 | Meteorology and Weather Monitoring Display for Nature Centers
Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT |
| | P1.24 | Paper moved, new paper number p1.54
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| | P1.24a | CoCo RaHS — Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Study
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |
| | P1.25 | Ground Hog Day as an Educational Tool
Jill F. Hasling, Weather Research Center, Houston, TX; and E. Murphy |
| | P1.26 | Weather and the U.S. manned spaceflight program: a brief chronology
Steven B. Newman, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT |
| | P1.27 | IMETS University
Patrick M. Hayes, U.S. Air Force, Fort Huachuca, AZ |
| | P1.28 | NASA missions CloudSat and CALIPSO join with the GLOBE Program: Student opportunities involving data collection and problem-based learning to support scientists researching climate change
Debra K. Krumm, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. Q. Robinson and B. Maggi |
| | P1.29 | Meteorology and the Emerging Scholars Option – Professional Devlopment and Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Development (MESO-PROUD)
Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and L. LeBlanc, R. Billips, and A. Haddox |
| | P1.30 | Mentoring Experiences for Teaching Students in Weather Investigators of Northeast–Louisiana (WIN-LA!)
Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and M. A. McLaurin and K. Roussy |
| | P1.31 | Undergraduate Workshop for Integration of Leadership and Leveraging (U-WILL)
Sarah E'. Allen, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, LA; and P. J. Croft |
| | P1.32 | Exploring Visualization in the Geosciences—EXPLORES!
Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and W. R. Lusher |
| | P1.33 | The Florida GLOBE Partnership Program
Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| | P1.34 | Teaching Weather Online: Five Steps to Success
James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin, Menasha, WI |
| | P1.35 | The University of Missouri-Columbia Online Cloud Atlas
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO |
| | P1.36 | Using Single-Station Statistical Weather Prediction Software to Instruct on Forecasting Methods
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. Pettegrew |
| | P1.37 | Earth Update / Space Update: fun ways to teach earth and space weather
Anastasia Furitsch, Reagan Middle School, Houston, TX; and P. Reiff and C. Law |
| | P1.38 | Using Ham Radio to Teach Space Weather
Patricia Reiff, Rice University, Houston, TX; and D. Garay and A. Furitsch |
| | P1.39 | The discovery of red sprites as an opportunity for informal science education
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research Inc./Sky Fire Productions Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and M. D. Schmidt |
| | P1.40 | Teaching with the new GEMS guide, "Living With a Star: From Sunscreen to Space Weather"
Gregory R. Schultz, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and I. Hawkins |
| | P1.41 | Three-lesson introduction of space weather to meteorology students
Paul Song, Univeristy of Massachussetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA; and A. Ridley and D. Knipp |
| | P1.42 | Web-based Learning Module for Undergraduate Science Students
Timothy Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. Killeen, T. Holzer, D. Kiessling, and D. Owens |
| | P1.43 | The COMET Program and MetEd: Continuing Education Resources for the Atmospheric Sciences Community
Timothy Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and V. Johnson, W. Schreiber-Abshire, J. Lamos, and G. Byrd |
| | P1.44 | Distance learning methods for numerical weather prediction (NWP) professional development training
Stephen D. Jascourt, UCAR/COMET, Silver Spring, MD; and W. R. Bua |
| | P1.45 | Use of NWP Developer-User Liaisons in Forecaster Professional Development Training
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and S. D. Jascourt |
| | P1.46 | NWP training for Defence and Civilian forecasters in the UK Met Office
Antony D.L. Evans, Met Office College, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom |
| | P1.47 | The NOAA center for atmospheric sciences at Howard University
Vernon R. Morris, Howard University, Washington, DC |
| | P1.48 | An AWIPS-Based Forecasting Course For Science Educators
Alan C. Czarnetzki, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| | P1.49 | Integration of a field component and inquiry-based learning in an instrumentation meteorology course
Dev Niyogi, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and V. K. Saxena |
| | P1.50 | Jetstream—The National Weather service Southern Region Weather School
Michael D. Vescio, NOAA/NWS, Pendleton, OR; and S. Cooper and D. Cain |
|  | P1.51 | New approaches to training NWS meteorologists in the Weather Forecast Offices of the 21st Century
John T Bradshaw, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL |
| | P1.52 | Spreading the Word about Climate Change
David D. Houghton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| | P1.53 | Outreach Activities for the Naval Research Laboratory’s Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPSTM)
Sue Chen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and H. Jin |
| | P1.54 | Initiating a New Partnership for the 21st Century: NOAA/NWS and JSU Promoting Diversity in Atmospheric Science through Research, Application, and in Partnership with the NWS (PDAS-RAP)
John L. Shoemake Sr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. P. Craven, R. S. Reddy, M. M. Watts, K. Coleman, A. Robinson-Cook, S. Ivey, K. Davenport, and A. Hayes |
| | P1.55 | Integrating Weather Studies in the Physical Sciences
Shermane A. Austin, Medgar Evers, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY; and L. P. Johnson, J. Flowers, and C. Baldwin |
| | P1.56 | AN ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES EXPERIENCE AT HAMPTON UNIVERSITY DURING FALL 2003
John Anderson, Hampton University, Hampton, VA |
| | P1.57 | WEATHER: A GATEWAY SCIENCE FOR PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS
Frank Robinson, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC |
| | P1.58 | USING ONLINE WEATHER CONTENT TO DEVELOP ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Lori Roy, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK; and R. L. Myers |
| | P1.59 | METEOROLOGY AT GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
John A. Zanazzi, Gateway Community College, Phoenix, AZ |
| | P1.60 | METEOROLOGICAL TOOLS THAT AID LOCAL MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICTS
Michael Hunter, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA |
| | P1.61 | INTERNET BASED SCIENCE CLASS: MEETING THE NEEDS OF BUSY STUDENTS
Kathryn Hedges, Prairie State Community College, Chicago Heights, IL |
| | P1.62 | IMPLEMENTING AN ON LINE WEATHER COURSE AND PROMOTING INVOLVEMENT BY UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENT POPULATIONS: SHARING EXPERIENCES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA'S INDIANS INTO GEOSCIENCES (INGEOS) PROGRAM
Lloyd W. Mitchell, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| | P1.63 | METEOROLOGY FOR EDUCATION MAJORS AND TEACHERS
Roberto Garza, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| | P1.64 | HOW ON-LINE WEATHER STUDIES WILL ENHANCE THE GEOSCIENCES AT TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERISTY (LAREDO, TX)?
Kenneth J. Tobin, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX |
| | P1.65 | AMS ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES: WHERE DID I BEGIN? WHERE HAVE I GONE?
M. Carol Walker, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA |
| | P1.66 | AMS ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES – A TOTALLY VIRTUAL COURSE IN METEOROLOGY
Aubrey Hartman, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA; and G. Fowler |
| | P1.67 | TEACHING ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES IN PUERTO RICO
Robin George Williams, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR |
| | P1.68 | COMPLETELY ONLINE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS WITH ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE
Dennis J. Edgell, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC |
| | P1.69 | METEOROLOGY IN THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS
David J. Smith, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands |
| | P1.70 | SEVERE WEATHER AND LOW PRESSURE
Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL |
| | P1.71 | PROPOSED ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES AT ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY AND THE USE OF NEAR REAL TIME DATA FROM THE ALABAMA MESONET (ALMNET) FOR WEATHER STUDIES
Teferi D. Tsegaye, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL |
| | P1.72 | PROGRESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES AT NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Harris E. Williams, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC |
| | P1.73 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE 3223: INTRODUCTION TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
Brian Cudnik, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX |
| | P1.74 | TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STUDENTS WEATHER USING REMOTE SENSING TO INTERPRET FLOOD DATA
Shobha Sriharan, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA |
| | P1.75 | ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES AT BLUEFIELD STATE COLLEGE
John White, Bluefield State College, Blefield, WV |
| | P1.76 | ONLINE DELIVERY OF METEOROLOGY USING THE BLACKBOARD PLATFORM
Aribilola S. Omolayo, California State University, Fresno, CA |
| | P1.77 | ONLINE (AND OFFLINE) WEATHER STUDIES
Charles J. Fuller, Triton College, River Grove, IL |
| | P1.78 | ON-LINE WEATHER COURSE AT LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE
Walter Childs III, Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC |
| | P1.79 | ONLINE METEOROLOGY AT PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Anthony L. Selimo, Passaic County Community College, Patterson, NJ |
| | P1.80 | METEOROLOGY AT SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
P.S. Gadiyaram, Southside Virginia Community College, Keysville, VA |