| Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall C
Poster Session 1 Poster Session |
Chairs: Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, Springfield, VA; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO
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| | P1.1 | Weather, Weather, Weather at National Hispanic University
Cecilia Serrano, AMS, San Jose, CA |
|  | P1.2 | Weather & Climate Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Geography and Geology
Jerry A. Griffith, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS |
| | P1.3 | Utilizing GLOBE as an Inquiry-Based Teaching Strategy in the Shenandoah Valley
M.K. Handley, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA; and M. Fenzel, M. Blanchard, and C. J. Brodrick |
| | P1.4 | Using online chat and discussion forums to foster student understanding of weather and oceanography topics and concepts
Matthew J. Benus, Purdue Univ., Hammond, IN |
| | P1.5 | Using Historic Events in Teaching the AMS Online Meteorology Course
Lallie F. Scott, Northeastern State Univ., Tahlequah, OK |
| | P1.6 | Use of radiosonde launch video coupled with data analysis lab activity to increase understanding of upper air data in an undergraduate introductory meteorology course
Tim R. Walsh, Wayland Baptist Univ., Plainview, TX; and M. Bryan |
| | P1.7 | The sea & sky connection in a high school physical science class
Ann Kelly, AMS/AERA, St. Louis, MO |
| | P1.8 | The Role of Government in Meteorological and Oceanographic Education
Faye W. McCollum, AMS/Atmospheric Resource Agent, Columbus, GA |
| | P1.9 | Teaching Online Weather at Gavilan College
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA |
| | P1.10 | Teaching Online Ocean Studies at Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
Michael Hunter, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA |
| | P1.11 | Teaching meteorological instrumentation on the cruise liner Explorer of the Seas
Bruce Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. Vargus, I. Jo, C. Maxwell, L. Farmer, and E. Williams |
| | P1.12 | Teaching elementary students about climate variability through the Globe Program
William R. Huskin, Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, PA |
| | P1.13 | Teaching an online oceanography laboratory course using the American Meteorological Society online ocean studies curriculum
Jacquelyn Hams, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA |
| | P1.14 | Supporting research efforts through enhanced education and hands-on learning: Issues of data quality and quantity
Lauren Bodenhamer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Postawko, M. Morrissey, and M. Koeka |
| | P1.15 | Successfully incorporating a "weather model' into an introductory meteorology class: what does it take?
Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
| | P1.16 | SPaRCE (Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment): Fifteen years of integrating research and education
Melissa Koeka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Postawko, L. Bodenhamer, and M. Morrissey |
| | P1.17 | SOAP: An undergraduate education and research program to measure and understand the climatology of storms in Southeast Texas
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and K. Brugman, L. Hopper, and C. Hernandez |
| | P1.18 | SERC resources for weather and climate educators
Bill Bruihler, Science Education Resource Center, Northfield, MN |
| | P1.19 | Results of the initial offering of Online Ocean Studies at Palo Alto College
Glen S. Tanck, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX |
| | P1.20 | Progress in the Implementation Of Online Ocean Studies in the Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences at North Carolina Central University
Harris E. Williams, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC |
| | P1.21 | Professional Development for Undergraduate Minority Meteorology Students Through the NOAA Educational Partnership with Minority Serving Institutions
John L. Shoemake Sr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and M. D. Benjamin, S. L. Dixon, K. D. Hair, M. L. Jones, and Q. D. Jones |
| | P1.22 | Preliminary results of a new laboratory exercise to study microscale spatial temperature changes on a university campus 
Steven B. Newman, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT |
| | P1.23 | Overcoming inertia: Building acceptance of and interest in new meteorology and oceanography courses
David M. Lawrence, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA |
| | P1.24 | Online Ocean Course at Columbus State University
William J. Frazier, Columbus State Univ., Columbus, GA |
| | P1.25 | OK-WARN: Oklahoma Weather Alert Remote Notification
Vincent T. Wood, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| | P1.26 | Laboratory Exercises for Enhancing Alaska Pacific University's online oceanography courses
Richard L. Myers Jr., Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK |
| | P1.27 | Introducing Online Ocean Studies at a large urban community college
Alta S. Cate, Houston Community College, Central Campus, Houston, TX |
| | P1.28 | Integration of Globe Protocols Across the High School Science Curriculum
Michael Jaycox, Rockingham County Public Schools, Harrisonburg, VA; and R. Kohrs and D. Zook |
| | P1.29 | Integrating online weather studies into a university flight training program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Gene A. Hetsel, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK |
| | P1.30 | Initiating Introduction of Online Weather Studies
Ravindra K. Malik, Albany State University, GA, Albany, GA |
| | P1.31 | Implementing Online Introductory Oceanography Lab and Lecture courses in a Large Urban University
Neptune Srimal, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL |
| | P1.32 | Implementing AMS Online Weather Studies and Online Ocean Studies at Columbia Union College
Serhii Kalynovskyi, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, MD |
| | P1.33 | Implementation Process of Online Ocean Studies Course for Non-Science Major Students
Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL |
| | P1.34 | Implementation of the AMS Online Ocean Studies into the distance course in Ocean Observing
Alexander V. Soloviev, Nova Southeastern Univ., Dania Beach, FL; and M. A. Tinsley and J. Dougan |
| | P1.35 | Implementation of AMS Online Ocean Studies Course at CCSN, Las Vegas, Nevada
Barbara Graham, Community College Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV |
| | P1.36 | Hurricanes and the Collapse of the Georgetown Rice Culture
Everett Spell, Columbia College, Columbia, SC; and M. Griffin |
| | P1.37 | Getting my feet wet: implementing Online Ocean Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Stuart J. Birnbaum, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX |
| | P1.38 | First-time teaching of online oceanography at a small community college
Michael T. Leach, New Mexico State Univ., Grants, NM |
| | P1.39 | Expanding Science Courses with Meteorology at Kapi`olani Community College
Mary Ann B. Esteban, AMS Education, Honolulu, HI |
| | P1.40 | Crafting an entertaining and informative weather display at the Lubbock Science Spectrum
Mark R. Conder, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and J. Weaver, S. Cobb, B. Lamarre, G. Skwira, C. Hill, E. Calianese, L. Vannozzi, and J. Hickman |
| | P1.41 | Convective Initiation in New Jersey (through student professional development)
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ; and S. L. Koenigstein, J. Lewis, R. Matthews, M. C. Rod, and M. Szczepanski |
| | P1.42 | An earth science hands-on activity based on Hurricane Katrina
Pedro Ramirez, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and S. LaDochy and W. C. Patzert |
| | P1.43 | AMS Online Weather Studies Course at Gallaudet University
Henry David Snyder, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC |
| | P1.44 | AMS Online Oceanography: implementation and delivery at the community college level
John M. Patterson, Paul D. Camp Community Collete, Suffolk, VA |
| | P1.45 | Activity Report on AMS Online Weather and Ocean Studies Courses at the University of Houston Downtown, Houston, Texas
Ayorinde O. Idowu, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX |
| | P1.47 | Probabilistic forecasting and the future of meteorology: Training for changing roles
Kent A. Johnson, MSC, Kelowna, BC, Canada |
| | P1.46 | Study of Environmental Factors Contributing to Severity of Wildfires in Volusia County, Florida
Rachelle Aupperle, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL; and V. S. David |
| | P1.48 | Preparing college students for On-Line Weather Studies
Melanie Patton Renfrew, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA |
| | P1.49 | Practicality in Teaching Weather
Dahwei Chang, College of the Southwest, Hobbs, NM |
| | P1.50 | Poster-Connecting weather to the environment: A short course on watersheds for weather broadcasters
Joseph Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and M. Kelsch, D. Owens, D. Sliter, and S. Espinoza |
| | P1.51 | Education and Climate
Ricardo J. Morales De Jesús, Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan |
| | P1.52 | Building Diversity in Meteorological Education in Texas Universities
Mary Jo Richardson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. Orville |
| | P1.53 | Meeting the weather and ocean education challenges in New York State
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and J. R. Ebert and W. Powell |
| | P1.54 | Conveying Global Circulation Patterns in HDTV
Ned Gardiner, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; and J. J. Janowiak |
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| Monday, 15 January 2007 |
| 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday
Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day) |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 206B
Session 1 K-12 and Popular Education Initiatives |
Organizers: Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 10:45 AM | 1.1 | Young Scholars Program
Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, Springfield, VA |
| 11:00 AM | 1.2 | Providing informal geoscience education for Upward Bound students: Integrated Design for Geoscience Education (IDGE) 
Tina J. Cartwright, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV; and T. Ensign |
| 11:15 AM | 1.3 | Promoting Earth Systems Education using Geospatial Technologies
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ |
| 11:30 AM | 1.4A | Earth2Class: Communicating Scientific Discoveries to Classroom Educators
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and G. J. Iturrino, C. M. Assumpcao, and F. D. Baggio |
| 11:45 AM | 1.5 | The history and sustainability of the CIMSS student workshop on atmospheric, earth, and space science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. S. Wade, W. L. Smith, T. H. Achtor, S. Ackerman, L. Avila, J. Brunner, and R. Pertzborn |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, 205
Joint Session 1 Educational Outreach and the Broadcast Media (Joint with 35th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology and 16th Symposium on Education) |
Organizers: Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV, Evansville, IN; David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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| 1:30 PM | J1.1 | Recalling Our Early Influences: How the Past Can Help Us Reach Out to Viewers and Students
Vince Condella, WITI-TV, Fox 6, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2:00 PM | J1.2 | Synergistic collaborations between the University of Wisconsin and WISC-TV 3
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Cannalte, S. Ackerman, J. E. Martin, and E. J. Hopkins |
| 2:15 PM | J1.3 | Citizen Science: Obtaining Environmenta Literacy through Science, Education , and Media Collaborations
Robert P. Wanton, NOAA/NWS, Mt. Holly, NJ; and J. D. Moore, K. Orr, and W. Huskin |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, 206B
Session 2 K-12 AND POPULAR EDUCATION INITIATIVES (cont) |
Chairs: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO
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| 4:00 PM | 2.1 | A summary report on EWOC 2006: An international conference to promote weather, ocean, and climate education
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and S. Q. Foster and J. M. Walker |
| 4:15 PM | 2.2 | Online Climate and Global Change Education through the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Gardiner, R. Russell, D. L. Ward, S. Q. Foster, and S. Henderson |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | How Partnering National Research Laboratories, Informal Science Educators, and Shoppers Converge at the Twenty Ninth Street Wonders of Science Project
Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Carbone, R. M. Johnson, S. Van Gundy, L. Adams, K. Becker, E. CoBabe-Ammanns, L. Curtis, P. Dusenbery, R. Foy, C. Himes, C. Howell, C. Knight, L. Koch, R. Morehouse, T. O'Brian, J. Rooney, and P. Schassburger |
| 4:45 PM | 2.4 | Educational Applications of the Science on a Sphere at the National Maritime Center
John Anderson, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith, R. L. Beale, D. Q. Robinson, B. H. Maggi, S. Ackerman, T. H. Achtor, T. Whittaker, and M. Mooney |
| 5:00 PM | 2.5A | Starting a local K-12 Student Chapter
Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO |
| 5:15 PM | 2.6 | Using Oceanography Examples to Teach Chemical Principles-A Sea of Connections!
Bruce G. Smith, Appleton North High School, Appleton, WI |
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| Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Tuesday, 206B
Session 3 University Educational Initiatives |
Chairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | Integrating web-based technological classroom tools into an undergraduate radar and satellite meteorology course
Mark S. Kulie, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman and R. Bennartz |
| 8:45 AM | 3.2 | Implementation of the WRF Model for Teaching Scientific Methodology in an Undergraduate Tropical Meteorology Course
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE |
| 9:00 AM | 3.3 | Experiences in integrating WRF model in undergraduate meteorology curriculum
Shing Yoh, Kean University, Union, NJ |
| | 3.4 | Teaching Excellence Award Winner Talk
Ramesh C. Srivastava, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 9:15 AM | 3.4A | An interactive thermodynamic diagram for use in meteorology instruction
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and A. Bol and A. Laing |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 206B
Session 4 University Educational Initiatives II |
Chairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA
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| 11:00 AM | 4.1 | Broadening Participation in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences though an Alliance for Undergraduate Research
Rebecca Haacker-Santos, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya and A. Calhoun |
| 11:15 AM | 4.2 | International Research Experiences for Graduate and Undergraduate Students during NAMMA.
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and A. Gaye |
| 11:30 AM | 4.3 | Students Partnering with Faculty in the Kean University Meteorology Research Program
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ; and S. L. Koenigstein, J. Lewis, R. Matthews, M. C. Rod, and M. Szczepanski |
| 11:45 AM | 4.4 | Integrating Research and Education: Strategies for Teaching Science Students about Public Outreach
Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Dunwoody, R. Yaros, and G. Zenner |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 206B
Session 5 University Educational Initiatives III |
Chairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA
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| 1:30 PM | 5.1 | Using Podcasts to Distribute Real Time Multimedia Meteorological Products
Brendon Hoch, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and L. Avilés |
| 1:45 PM | 5.2 | IDV Perspective: Climatology of the 2005 Hurricane Season
Shelley O. Holmberg, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and B. Etherton and J. Weber |
| 2:00 PM | 5.4 | Meteorology and oceanography come together in college courses
Robert H. Stewart, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 2:15 PM | 5.5 | Integration of Lecture, Laboratory and Hands-On Activities in an Introductory Severe Weather Course for Non-Majors
Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH |
| 2:30 PM | | Concluding Remarks
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD |
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| 3:30 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, 206B
Joint Session 3 Toward a Cyberinfrastructure for Education in Atmospheric and Related Sciences (Joint with 23rd Conference on IIPS and 16th Symposium on Education) |
Chairs: Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 3:30 PM | J3.1 | AIRNow Educational Tools: A Targeted Approach to Informing the Public About the Quality of the Air We Breathe
Scott A. Jackson, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. D. Conatser, J. E. White, T. Dye, R. A. Wayland, and P. Dickerson |
| 3:45 PM | J3.2 | Bridging the gap between Earth science and students: An integrated approach using NASA Earth science climate data
Erica J. Alston, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, S. W. Moore, P. C. Oots, C. S. Phelps, and D. Diones |
| 4:00 PM | J3.3 | Toward weather/health education in online CPR classes
Margaret Lynn Fowke, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:15 PM | J3.4 | Interactive GIS-based Environmental Activities for K-12 Educators
Linda Parrish, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and T. DeLiberty and D. R. Legates |
| 4:30 PM | J3.5 | Offering Advanced Meteorology Education at a Distance: The COMET Planetary Boundary Layer Symposium
Bruce Muller, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Lamos, B. C. Motta, and B. Greg |
| 4:45 PM | J3.6 | Web-based responder system for the geosciences
Perry J. Samson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and B. Van der Pluijm and S. Teasley |
| 5:00 PM | J3.7 | On-line meteorology textbooks for survey course on extreme weather
Perry J. Samson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. D. Ahrens |
| 5:15 PM | J3.8 | Reusable Content Objects (RCOs) for Science Education
Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker, T. Jasmine, and L. Howles |
| 5:30 PM | | Concluding Remarks
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