Session 3 |
| | Education and Training for Government and Military Meteorologists (Room 615/616) |
| | Cochairs: David Smith, USNA, Annapolis, MD; Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | The COMET Program: a decade of professional development for our civilian and military weather services 
Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO |
| 9:00 AM | 3.2 | VISIT -- providing teletraining for operational forecasters
Daniel T. Lindsey, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, A. Mostek, S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, J. F. Weaver, B. N. Grant, and J. LaDue |
| 9:15 AM | 3.3 | U.S. Navy Weather Training: Let the Revolution Begin 
Robert E. Kiser, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center, Gulfport, MS; and S. B. Wilson |
| 9:30 AM | | Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 3.5 | The COMET Program and the U.S. DoD: A Model Partnership in Meteorology Education
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Bol, D. Wesley, M. Sigafoose, W. Nuss, E. C. W. Willingham, and C. B. Miles |
| 11:15 AM | 3.6 | Short field programs as a vital part of courses in mesoscale meteorology in support of the PACS-SONET in Latin America
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Murillo |
|  | 3.7 | Inverting the Forecast Funnel
Kent A. Johnson, MSC, Kelowna, BC, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | 3.7a | The New Air Force and Army Staff Weather Officer Course: Expanded Weather Training for Joint Operations (Formerly paper 3.4)
Patrick M. Hayes, U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, Fort Huachuca, AZ |
| 11:45 AM | 3.8 | Air Force Weather Training “Responsive, Timely and Targeted”
Michael D. Bramhall, Lt Col, USAF, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE |
| 12:00 PM | 3.9 | The Air War College “Strategic Weather” elective: Lessons learned from a hybrid course
John M. Lanicci, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, AL |
| 12:15 PM | | Lunch Break
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