84th AMS Annual Meeting

: 13th Symposium on Education

13th Symposium on Education

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Saturday, 10 January 2004

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Saturday, 10 January 2004


SAT 10 JAN

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 10 January 2004


Short Course/Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 11 January 2004

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Sunday, 11 January 2004


SUN 11 JAN

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 11 January 2004


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2004


Conference Registration

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2004


Poster Session 1
Poster Session Educational initiatives (Hall 4AB)
Location: Hall 4AB
Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Marianne C. Hayes, Pueblo del Sol Elementary School; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District

Papers:
 
Interactive Java applets for education
Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker

 
Collaborations, training and distance education from your desktop to the world: using VISITview
Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Mostek

 
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): Designing for K-12 educators
Holly Devaul, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya and M. Marlino

http://www,dlese.org

Poster PDF (363.8 kB)
 
Phytopia: An Education CD from Bigelow Labs and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Debra S. Brice, San Marcos Unified School District, San Marcos, CA

 
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

 
NWS and AMS WeatherFest Outreach Activities 2003
Robert P. Wanton, NOAA/NWS, Mt. Holly, NJ; and J. D. Moore and W. Huskin

Poster PDF (33.8 kB)
 
Teaching High School Meteorology Through Live Event Learning
Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA, Windom Area Schools, Windom, MN

Poster PDF (92.6 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (202.6 kB)
 
Student Perceptions on Global Warming-Northern/Southern Hemispheres
Steve M. Carlson, AMS/AERA and Hermiston School District, Hermiston, OR

Poster PDF (128.9 kB)
 
What is an EWOC?
Faye W. McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA

Poster PDF (19.8 kB)
 
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

 
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

http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/

Poster PDF (85.9 kB)
 
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

http://www.earth2class.org

Poster PDF (19.4 kB)
 
DataStreme WES: Participating Teachers Do Make a Difference
Philip Lacey, East Liverpool High School, Beaver, PA

Poster PDF (26.0 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (90.4 kB)
 
An evaluation of the Maury Project by its participants
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer

Poster PDF (40.6 kB)
 
WES Initiatives in North Carolina
Frankie C. Vann, Sampson County Schools Alternative Program, Clinton, NC

http://

Poster PDF (75.5 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (65.8 kB)
 
Local Implementation of American Meteorological Society’s Educational Materials
William R. Huskin, Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, PA; and J. Moore and R. Wanton

Poster PDF (71.1 kB)
 
The sea & sky connection
Ann T. Kelly, Our Lady of Sorrows School, St. Louis, MO

 
Meteorology and Weather Monitoring Display for Nature Centers
Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Poster PDF (165.0 kB)
 
CoCo RaHS — Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Study
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

Poster PDF (387.2 kB)
 
Ground Hog Day as an Educational Tool
Jill F. Hasling, Weather Research Center, Houston, TX; and E. Murphy

http://www.wxresearch.org/papers/amszoo2.pdf

Poster PDF (655.6 kB)
 
Weather and the U.S. manned spaceflight program: a brief chronology
Steven B. Newman, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

Poster PDF (270.9 kB)
 
IMETS University
Patrick M. Hayes, U.S. Air Force, Fort Huachuca, AZ

Poster PDF (221.7 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (111.2 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (122.9 kB)
 
Undergraduate Workshop for Integration of Leadership and Leveraging (U-WILL)
Sarah E'. Allen, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, LA; and P. J. Croft

Poster PDF (123.6 kB)
 
Exploring Visualization in the Geosciences—EXPLORES!
Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and W. R. Lusher

http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
 
The Florida GLOBE Partnership Program
Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/Globe/

Poster PDF (95.1 kB)
 
Teaching Weather Online: Five Steps to Success
James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin, Menasha, WI

Poster PDF (100.4 kB)
 
The University of Missouri-Columbia Online Cloud Atlas
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

 
Using Single-Station Statistical Weather Prediction Software to Instruct on Forecasting Methods
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. Pettegrew

Poster PDF (86.6 kB)
 
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

http://earth.rice.edu

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)
 
Using Ham Radio to Teach Space Weather
Patricia Reiff, Rice University, Houston, TX; and D. Garay and A. Furitsch

http://earth.rice.edu

Poster PDF (730.9 kB)
 
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

http://www.Sky-Fire.TV

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
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

 
Three-lesson introduction of space weather to meteorology students
Paul Song, Univeristy of Massachussetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA; and A. Ridley and D. Knipp

Poster PDF (8.1 kB)
 
Web-based Learning Module for Undergraduate Science Students
Timothy Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. Killeen, T. Holzer, D. Kiessling, and D. Owens

Poster PDF (132.3 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (154.7 kB)
 
Distance learning methods for numerical weather prediction (NWP) professional development training
Stephen D. Jascourt, UCAR/COMET, Silver Spring, MD; and W. R. Bua

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Use of NWP Developer-User Liaisons in Forecaster Professional Development Training
William R. Bua, UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and S. D. Jascourt

Poster PDF (163.1 kB)
 
NWP training for Defence and Civilian forecasters in the UK Met Office
Antony D.L. Evans, Met Office College, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom

 
The NOAA center for atmospheric sciences at Howard University
Vernon R. Morris, Howard University, Washington, DC

 
An AWIPS-Based Forecasting Course For Science Educators
Alan C. Czarnetzki, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

http://www.uni.edu/storm

Poster PDF (32.9 kB)
 
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

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dsniyogi

Poster PDF (84.9 kB)
 
Jetstream—The National Weather service Southern Region Weather School
Michael D. Vescio, NOAA/NWS, Pendleton, OR; and S. Cooper and D. Cain

Poster PDF (231.0 kB)
 
P1.51
New approaches to training NWS meteorologists in the Weather Forecast Offices of the 21st Century

 
Spreading the Word about Climate Change
David D. Houghton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Poster PDF (25.8 kB)
 
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

 
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

 
WEATHER: A GATEWAY SCIENCE FOR PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS
Frank Robinson, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

 
USING ONLINE WEATHER CONTENT TO DEVELOP ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Lori Roy, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK; and R. L. Myers

Poster PDF (63.8 kB)
 
METEOROLOGY AT GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
John A. Zanazzi, Gateway Community College, Phoenix, AZ

 
METEOROLOGICAL TOOLS THAT AID LOCAL MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICTS
Michael Hunter, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA

 
INTERNET BASED SCIENCE CLASS: MEETING THE NEEDS OF BUSY STUDENTS
Kathryn Hedges, Prairie State Community College, Chicago Heights, IL

 
METEOROLOGY FOR EDUCATION MAJORS AND TEACHERS
Roberto Garza, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Poster PDF (82.5 kB)
 
AMS ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES: WHERE DID I BEGIN? WHERE HAVE I GONE?
M. Carol Walker, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA

 
AMS ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES – A TOTALLY VIRTUAL COURSE IN METEOROLOGY
Aubrey Hartman, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA; and G. Fowler

 
TEACHING ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES IN PUERTO RICO
Robin George Williams, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR

 
METEOROLOGY IN THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS
David J. Smith, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

http://

Poster PDF (60.6 kB)
 
SEVERE WEATHER AND LOW PRESSURE
Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL

Poster PDF (108.0 kB)
 
PHYSICAL SCIENCE 3223: INTRODUCTION TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
Brian Cudnik, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX

Poster PDF (690.0 kB)
 
TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STUDENTS WEATHER USING REMOTE SENSING TO INTERPRET FLOOD DATA
Shobha Sriharan, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA

Poster PDF (146.9 kB)
 
ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES AT BLUEFIELD STATE COLLEGE
John White, Bluefield State College, Blefield, WV

 
ONLINE DELIVERY OF METEOROLOGY USING THE BLACKBOARD PLATFORM
Aribilola S. Omolayo, California State University, Fresno, CA

Poster PDF (82.6 kB)
 
ONLINE (AND OFFLINE) WEATHER STUDIES
Charles J. Fuller, Triton College, River Grove, IL

 
ON-LINE WEATHER COURSE AT LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE
Walter Childs III, Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC

 
ONLINE METEOROLOGY AT PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Anthony L. Selimo, Passaic County Community College, Patterson, NJ

 
METEOROLOGY AT SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
P.S. Gadiyaram, Southside Virginia Community College, Keysville, VA

Monday, 12 January 2004

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Mon 12 Jan

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Registration continues through Thursday, 15 January

9:00 AM-1:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2004


1
K-12 and Popular initiatives (Room 615/616)
Location: Room 615/616
Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Weather Investigators of Northeast–Louisiana (WIN-LA!)
Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and L. LeBlanc

  9:15 AM
1.2
Immersing Instruction in Inquiry–The I 3 Project: Science Teachers as Researchers
Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and E. Pani, P. Watts, and B. Armfield

Poster PDF (233.4 kB)
  9:30 AM
1.3
EWOC-Connecting Educators Internationally
Steve M. Carlson, AERA and Hermiston School District, Hermiston, OR

Poster PDF (273.9 kB)
  10:00 AM
1.5
Wild About Weather: Shake, Rattle and Role
Faye McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA; and K. A. Murphy

  10:15 AM
1.6
Enlightening Lightning! Coupling Atmospheric Research to K-12 Education Using Planetarium Presentations
Richard Orville, Texas A&M University, College Sation, TX; and D. House, M. Hibbs, and E. Mansell

  10:30 AM
1.7
DataStreme Ocean: A new distance-learning course for the precollege teachers on the basics of oceanography
Ira W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, D. R. Smith, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, and J. H. Niebauer

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/DS-Ocean/home.html

  10:45 AM
1.8
A Maury Teacher at Sea with NOAA
Debra S. Brice, San Marcos Unified School District, San Marcos, CA

  11:00 AM
1.9
1984–004, Twenty years of successful professional development programs for educators
Lawrence Greenleaf, AMS/AERA, Belfast, ME; and J. Mulvany and S. Carlson

Poster PDF (74.9 kB)
  11:15 AM
Development of satellite meteorology teaching materials for grades 7-12
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, T. H. Achtor, and J. Brunner

Poster PDF (289.4 kB)
  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

  12:00 PM
Lunch Break

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Joint Session 1
Education and Outreach Activities in Space Weather (Joint Between the 13th Symposium on Education and the Symposium on Space Weather) (Room 615/16)
Location: Room 615/616
Sponsors: (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Education; and the Symposium on Space Weather )
Cochairs: Delores J. Knipp, U.S. Air Force Academy; Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  2:00 PM
Space weather—needs and capabilities
T. G. Onsager, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Kunches

  2:15 PM
Space weather and terrestrial weather: What common and uncommon themes do undergraduates encounter?
Delores J. Knipp, U.S. Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO; and L. Krause, T. Koehler, M. G. McHarg, and K. Brueske

  2:30 PM
Space Weather Education at the Air Force Institute of Technology
Devin J. Della-Rose, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and S. M. Quigley

  2:45 PM
The Relevance of Space Weather Science to Education Standards in Science and Mathematics
Cherilynn Ann Morrow, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO

  3:00 PM
Introducing Space Weather to the Standard Physics Curriculum
Isidoros Doxas, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Garvin-Doxas

  3:15 PM
Force 5: Comparing the great storms of Earth and Space
Carolyn Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX; and P. Reiff

http://earth.rice.edu

Poster PDF (211.2 kB)
  3:30 PM
Windows to the Universe: A Web-Based Resource for Space Weather Education
Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Russell, J. Bergman, E. Gardiner, J. Genyuk, S. Henderson, and D. Mastie

  3:45 PM
Space weather education using sounds from data and visualizations from simulations
L. M. Peticolas, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and J. G. Luhmann, W. P. Abbett, N. Craig, B. J. Mendez, and I. Sircar

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Sessions end for the Day

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2004


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

Tuesday, 13 January 2004

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2004


TUE 13 JAN

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2004


3
Education and Training for Government and Military Meteorologists (Room 615/616)
Location: Room 615/616
Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: David Smith, USNA; Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR

Papers:
  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

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/visithome.asp

Poster PDF (765.8 kB)
  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
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 Jr.

 
3.7
Inverting the Forecast Funnel

  10:15 AM
3.8
Air Force Weather Training “Responsive, Timely and Targeted”
Michael D. Bramhall, Lt Col, USAF, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break

  12:30 PM
Lunch Break

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2004


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break.

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2004


4
University Educational Initiatives (Room 615/616)
Location: Room 615/616
Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana; Donna J. Charlevoix, University of Illinois

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (80.1 kB)
  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

Poster PDF (432.9 kB)
  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/SOARS, Boulder, CO; and B. Domenico, M. Marlino, and D. Murray

http://www.dpc.ucar.edu/vgee

  3:00 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

  3:15 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

  4:15 PM
Instrument development and education in airborne science
Jeffrey Stith, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Rogers

Poster PDF (156.4 kB)
  4:30 PM
Concluding Remarks

  4:45 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2004


Sessions end for the day