Session 4 |
| | University Educational Initiatives (Room 615/616) |
| | Cochairs: Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; Donna J. Charlevoix, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | What Should We Teach In Introductory Meteorology? Let’s Ask The Students! 
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. A. Ackerman |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | A virtual tornadic thunderstorm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dyanmics through data collection and analysis
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. Cervato, C. Cruz-Neira, G. Faidley, and R. Heer |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Online Portfolios: Applications for University Education and Research
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and D. Herzmann |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Education and Outreach within the Modeling Environment for Atmospheric Discovery (MEAD) Project 
Daniel J. Bramer, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. Lathrop, S. Gordon, G. Love, B. Panoff, S. Ragan, and R. B. Wilhelmson |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Linking Interactive Concept Models into the Visual Geophysical Exploration Environment (VGEE)
Daniel J. Bramer, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Pandya, M. Marlino, D. Murray, J. McWhirter, S. Wier, T. Scheitlin, M. K. Ramamurthy, and R. B. Wilhelmson |
| 2:45 PM | 4.6 | Integrating meteorological tools and data into digital libraries: A strategy used in the Visual Geophysical Exploration Environment
Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR/DLESE, Boulder, CO; and B. Domenico, M. Marlino, and D. Murray |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 4.7 | GLOBE: Exciting new directions for the world-wide science education program
Margaret LeMone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. K. Krumm, J. D. Fellows, and E. E. Geary |
| 3:45 PM | 4.8 | An Exhibitation on Climate Change by the National Academy of Sciences
Eugene M. Rasmusson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Schultz |
| 4:00 PM | 4.9 | An Environmental Science Course at the University of Phoenix: One Class Delivered Three Ways at More Than 100 Campuses
Patrick M. Hayes, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ |
| 4:15 PM | 4.10 | Using Research on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) to Enhance Environmental Science Education in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Sophia Wilson, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA; and C. Garza |
| 4:30 PM | 4.11 | Air pollution forecasting in an undergraduate advanced synoptic meteorology course
Eric G. Hoffman, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH |
| 4:45 PM | 4.12 | Instrument development and education in airborne science
Jeffrey Stith, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Rogers |
| 5:00 PM | | Concluding Remarks
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