| Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only |
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| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 125B
Session 1 Special Session on Educational Activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Cochairs: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; Priti P. Brahma, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:45 AM | | Introductory Remarks 
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| 11:00 AM | 1.1 | How do we create a climate literate society? A review of Climate Literacy essential principles and fundamental concepts that ensure climate literate citizens and students
Frank Niepold, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Ralston |
| 11:15 AM | 1.2 | NOAA's funding opportunities for educational projects and programs
Sarah Schoedinger, NOAA, Washington, DC ; and C. McDougall |
| 11:30 AM | 1.3 | NOAA's Office of Education Student Scholarship Opportunities
Priti P. Brahma, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Haskins |
| 11:45 AM | 1.4 | NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program: A Hands On Teacher Research Experience
Jennifer Hammond, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. M. Stanitski |
| 12:00 PM | 1.5 | The NOAA Ocean Data Education (NODE) Project
Michiko J. Martin, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Ibanez, K. S. Casey, C. Joyce, and T. Viola |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Tim Oke Symp Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 125B
Session 2 K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences |
Cochairs: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | The NOAA National Weather Service education products and services
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Cain |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Using NOAA data in the classroom 
Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Science education and the future shortage of scientific thinkers: Local solutions to a problem that affects us al
E. Ashley Steel, NOAA, Seattle, WA |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | EWOC 2009—the Eighth International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and T. Halenka and J. M. Walker |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Poster Session 1 Educational Initiatives Poster Session |
Cochairs: Marianne J. Hayes, AMS Education Resource Educator, Columbus, OH; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO
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| | P1.1 | Assessment of the Needs for Training Teachers in the American Red Cross Masters of Disaster Curriculum
Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and D. L. Walters |
| | P1.2 | “Implementing Online Ocean Studies in a traditional, lecture-only classroom using a “Lecture Tutorial” format
David J. Ludwikoski, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD |
| | P1.3 | Implementing AMS Ocean Studies into the University of Texas at Arlington Curriculum
Cornelia Winguth, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX |
| | P1.4 | DATASTREME COURSES - AN AMS/NOAA PARTNERSHIP FOR PRE-COLLEGE TEACHER TRAINING
James A. Brey, Univ. of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and R. S. Weinbeck, J. M. Moran, I. W. Geer, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, D. R. Smith, and B. A. Blair |
| | P1.5 | A field oriented introduction to Online Ocean Studies
Patricia Ann Crews, Florida Community College of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; and R. Sessions |
| | P1.6 | The importance of online ocean studies for circumarctic communities
John J. Kelley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and D. W. Norton, C. Madison, C. Gering, C. Lott, and H. Olson |
| | P1.7 | G 210 Oceanography course at Indiana University Northwest
Zoran Kilibarda, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN |
| | P1.8 | Using Conceptests in online oceanography classes
Mary Beck, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL |
| | P1.9 | Oceanography Online Course
Farnosh Saeedi, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY |
| | P1.12 | AMS Ocean Studies in the community college environment
Lynn D. Millwood, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX |
|  | P1.10 | Implementation of Online Ocean Studies at Amarillo College
Richard D. Hobbs, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX |
| | P1.11 | Ocean studies on an inland sea
Stacy R. Cotey, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, Baraga, Michigan |
| | P1.13 | Teaching oceanography in a desert
Rick Wiedenmann, New Mexico State University – Carlsbad, Carlsbad, NM |
| | P1.14 | A unique opportunity to exercise creativity: an entrepreneurial workshop for Research Experiences for Undergraduates participants
Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| | P1.15 | Online weather studies at Gavilan: year three
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA |
| | P1.16 | The Louisiana Lower Atmosphere Research Collaborative (LaLARC)
Boniface J. Mills, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA ; and A. T. Case Hanks, S. Chenoweth, and A. D. Feig |
| | P1.17 | Online Oceanography alternative science course for St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX
Carmen Nava-Fischer, St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX |
| | P1.18 | Developing climate change modules for middle and high schools on the Pacific Ocean-southern California climate connection
Pedro Ramirez, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and S. LaDochy and W. C. Patzert |
| | P1.19 | The Estimation of Wind Shear Hazard Index Using the Airborne Doppler Radar as a Laboratory Module for CCLI Project
Yasuko Umemoto, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Atmospheric Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhang, K. Brewster, T. Y. Yu, and M. Yeary |
| | P1.20 | Educational access to the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN) data
Christopher G. Herbster, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and K. Rauenzahn |
| | P1.21 | Applying LEAD in NCAS Weather Camp
Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and D. K. Bond, S. St. Gerard, E. Joseph, D. V. R. Morris, S. Yalda, T. Baltzer, and S. Marru |
| | P1.22 | Online Weather and Ocean Studies on the Rolling Plains of West Texas
Troy Lilly, Western Texas College, Snyder, TX |
| | P1.24 | Challenges Integrating AMS Ocean Studies into an existing program
David Grant, Brookdale Community College, Sandy Hook, NJ |
| | P1.25 | Implementing AMS Ocean Studies at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Janice Cooley, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS |
| | P1.23 | AMS Ocean Studies at Honolulu Community College
Richard Brill, Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, HI |
| | P1.26 | AMS Weather Studies And AMS Ocean Studies: Dynamic Undergraduate Geoscience Courses for Distance Education Programs
James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, and T. P. Kiley |
| | P1.27 | Reflections on the development of a new undergraduate course on Climate Change to be taught within an Internet Distance Learning Environment
Patrick L. Lawrence, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH |
| | P1.28 | Working in a Community of Outreach Research Experiences (The Working CORE)
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ |
| | P1.29 | Engaging undergraduates in Ocean-Atmosphere experiments: From teaching to research and outreach
Amit Tandon, Univ. of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, MA; and L. Illari and J. Marshall |
| | P1.31 | Teaching science teachers about Masters of Disaster
Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and S. Oliver, J. Knox, P. Schneider, and D. Walters |
| | P1.33 | Recent results in implementing a learning management system in the National Weather Service
LeRoy Spayd Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| | P1.34 | Education outreach from a NWS field office: "no one left behind"
Robert P. Wanton, NOAA/NWS, Mt. Holly, NJ |
| | P1.30 | Personal Forecasting: A Compacted Course in Meteorology for Non-Traditional Non-Science Students
Bruce G. Smith, University of Wisconsin Colleges, Appleton, WI |
| | P1.35 | Promoting Authentic Student Research Using MYNASA DATA
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and L. H. Chambers and S. W. Moore |
| | P1.36 | Deep Earth Academy: connecting the classroom with the ocean floor
Michael J. Passow, Dwight Morrow HS and NESTA, Englewood, NJ; and L. Peart and S. Katz Cooper |
| | P1.37 | Flood risk factors taught using "hands-on" table top watershed/floodplain model
David W. Chapman, Okemos High School, Okemos, MI; and M. L. Walton |
| | P1.32 | Lightning and Lightning Safety—NOAA's Efforts to Promote a Better Understanding of this Underrated Killer
John S. Jensenius Jr., NOAA/NWS, Gray, ME |
| | P1.38 | No, we didn't always have computers:history in the atmospheric science classroom
Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. Yalda |
| | P1.39 | NOAA NWS Training Program in Climate Services
Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR, Boulder, CO and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| | P1.40 | Not so lost in translation: bringing science to decision-makers through the Carolinas Coastal Climate Outreach Initiative
Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium/North Carolina Sea Grant, Charleston, SC; and R. H. Bacon, J. F. Thigpen, G. Carbone, and K. Dow |
| | P1.41 | Climate Discovery Online Courses for Educators from the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sandra Henderson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, D. L. Ward, K. Meymaris, E. Gardiner, B. Hatheway, and R. Russell |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 125B
Session 3 K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Part 2 |
Cochairs: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Project BudBurst: Citizen Science for All Seasons
Sandra Henderson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Meymaris, P. Alaback, K. Havens, J. Weltzin, and L. Benton |
| 4:15 PM | 3.2 | Enhancing climate literacy
Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and T. E. James and N. Giuliano |
| 4:30 PM | 3.3 | Exploring clouds, weather, climate, and modeling through bilingual content, interactives, and activities from the Windows to the Universe program and the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes
Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, D. A. Randall, S. Denning, R. Russell, E. Gardiner, B. Hatheway, and J. Bergman |
| 4:45 PM | 3.4 | Air quality course for science teachers at the University of Northern Iowa
Alan C. Czarnetzki, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| 5:00 PM | 3.5 | Promoting Climate Literacy through K–12 Professional Development Opportunities
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, L. Schiferl, J. Martin, and T. Whittaker |
| 5:15 PM | 3.6 | Educating the Public on the North American Monsoon System
Glen W. Sampson, NOAA/NWS, Tucson, AZ; and E. S. Pytlak |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 125B
Session 4 University and Professional Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Beyond the Conventional Classroom |
Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, Geocation, LLC, Boulder, CO; Donna J. Charlevoix, The GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Earth system science education through the Earth System Science Education Alliance
Michael R. Witiw, Seattle Pacific Univ., Seattle, WA; and E. Close and R. J. Myers |
| 8:45 AM | 4.2 | Developing Inquiry-Based Learning Modules for Integration into Introductory Atmospheric Science Courses for Non-Majors
James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. M. Mosier, C. C. Reed, C. Schumacher, and U. Karadkar |
| 9:00 AM | 4.3 | Increasing stakeholder engagement with new web-based technology, features, and social interaction: The Southwest Climate Change Network
Joe S. Abraham, Climate Assessment for the Southwest, Tucson, AZ |
| 9:15 AM | 4.4 | An Overview of the WxChallenge Forecasting Competition and Its Use as an Educational Tool
Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, M. Voss, and C. C. Weiss |
| 9:30 AM | 4.5 | European Meteorological Society and Education in Atmospheric Sciences
Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 125B
Session 5 University and Professional Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Strategies for Improving Diversity and Outreach |
Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, The GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO; Diane M. Stanitski, Geocation, LLC, Boulder, CO
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| 11:00 AM | 5.1 | Engaging Students with Disabilities in the atmospheric Science—Lessons learned from hosting Students with Disabilities in SOARS
Rebecca Haacker-Santos, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya |
| 11:15 AM | 5.2 | Untapped career opportunities for persons with visual impairments
Imke Durre, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:30 AM | 5.3 | ERAU McNair Scholars Program, students' learning, and their future career in meteorology
Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and K. E. Parsons |
| 11:45 AM | 5.4 | COMET® Education and Traiing: Embarking on New Horizons
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Abshire and T. Spangler |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 10 Satellite Education and Public Outreach (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 18th Symposium on Education, and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
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| 1:30 PM | J10.1 | GOES-R Proving Ground Program
James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Mostek, T. J. Schmit, S. D. Miller, A. S. Bachmeier, and M. DeMaria |
| 1:45 PM | J10.2 | Contributions from CIRA to the GOES-R Satellite Proving Ground
Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, D. Molenar, D. W. Hillger, E. J. Szoke, R. Brummer, A. P. Kuciauskas, F. J. Turk, and H. Gosden |
| 2:00 PM | J10.3 | Satellite Training Activities at CIMSS: Helping to Prepare Forecasters for the GOES-R and NPOESS Era
A. Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Gerth |
| 2:15 PM | J10.4 | After more than 10-years of e-Learning, what have we learned?
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:30 PM | J10.5 | Satellite Proving Ground for the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and E. C. Bruning, J. J. Gurka, R. Blakeslee, and D. Buechler |
| 2:45 PM | J10.6 | International Training Events and Educational Seminars on Satellite Remote Sensing
Paul Menzel, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, T. D. Rink, K. I. Strabala, L. E. Gumley, A. Huang, S. Ackerman, H. Revercomb, and B. Smith |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 125B
Joint Session 1 Joint Session Between 18Education and 25IIPS (Joint between the 18th Symposium on Education and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Thomas Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Lola Olsen, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
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| 3:30 PM | J1.1 | CoCoRaHS (The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network): Biggest Little Data Gathering Network for Education, Climate Monitoring and Research
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Reges, R. Cifelli, J. Turner, Z. Schwalbe, and O. Bliss |
| 3:45 PM | J1.2 | User Preferences for Weather Data Dissemination Standards on the Web
John L. Schattel Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Bunge and P. R. Hershberg |
| 4:00 PM | J1.3 | The CALMET conference: International sharing of approaches to education and training in hydrology and meteorology
Patrick Parrish, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. Spangler, J. Lamos, and W. Abshire |
| 4:15 PM | J1.4 | An interactive, integrated, instructional pathway to the LEAD science gateway
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. Clark, L. K. Davis, and E. N. Wiziecki |
| 4:30 PM | J1.5 | Weather radar education at the University of Oklahoma: An integrated interdisciplinary approach
Robert D. Palmer, Univeristy of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff, P. B. Chilson, G. E. Crain, K. K. Droegemeier, Y. Hong, M. Yeary, T. Y. Yu, G. Zhang, and Y. Zhang |
| 4:45 PM | J1.6 | The use of geovisualization in presenting weather and climate data to local decision makers
Mark Phillips, UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC; and J. G. Dobson, T. Pierce, and J. Fox |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 11 Satellite Forecaster Training (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the 18th Symposium on Education) |
Cochairs: Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 3:30 PM | J11.1 | NOAA Satellite Training
Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and M. DeMaria, J. J. Gurka, and T. J. Schmit |
| 3:45 PM | J11.2 | Training optimisation with web based training methodologies for satellite meteorology and related application areas
Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, , Germany |
| 4:00 PM | J11.3 | A new environmental satellite resource center on the web
Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Guarente, P. Parrish, and P. Dills |
| 4:15 PM | J11.4 | Transitioning NPOESS data to weather offices: The SPoRT paradigm with EOS data
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| 4:30 PM | J11.5 | Collaborative training efforts at the NESDIS Cooperative Institutes
Ingrid Guch, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Q. Kidder, P. Menzel, R. Ferraro, S. Ackerman, D. R. Khanbilvardi, T. Strub, B. Vant Hull, R. D. Hudson, and M. DeMaria |
| 4:45 PM | J11.6 | Navigating the hurricane highway: Understanding hurricanes with Google Earth
F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Kluge, A. Evan, K. Hutson, L. Kropuenske, T. Ledley, and M. Mooney |
| 5:00 PM | J11.7 | Applications of the NPOESS Imagers
T. F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins, F. J. Turk, P. Gaiser, M. Bettenhausen, and S. D. Miller |
| 5:15 PM | J11.8 | The NPOESS Data Exploitation Project
James G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. Silva, G. Goodrum, and T. Schott |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB
Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon |
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| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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