92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Session 1: K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach Initiatives


Cochairs:  Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator and Teresa Eastburn, NCAR
Papers:
 
1.1
Golden Words From Elementary Kids: Can I Show You My Observation!
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and K. Gebhart

 
1.2
Making the Community Weatherwise Through Informal Science Education At the Nation's First Weather Museum
Maureen T. Maiuri, The John C. Freeman Weather Museum at Weather Research Center, Houston, TX; and J. F. Hasling, CCM

 
1.3
The Use of Social Media to Improve Climate Literacy: The Green Ninja Project
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and D. Chai, B. Dallas, and B. Sarrafan

 
1.4
The Young Meteorologist Program
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

 
1.5
A Rapidly Expanding Summer Weather Camp Program That Opens Doors to CAREERs in Meteorology
H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and B. G. Levine and V. R. Morris

 
1.6
Improvements to AMS Pre-College Programs: Results of a Self-Study on DataStreme Atmosphere, Ocean and Earth's Climate System
Robert S. Weinbeck, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and J. A. Brey, I. W. Geer, E. W. Mills, and K. A. Nugnes