84th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 4: University Educational Initiatives (Room 615/616)

Tuesday, 13 January 2004: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM
Room 615/616
Cochairs:  Paul J. Croft, University of Louisiana and 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