| Sunday, 9 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-5:40 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| 5:00 PM, Sunday
Poster Session 1 Education and Outreach Initiatives |
Organizers: Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, Springfield, VA; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO
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| | P1.1 | The COMET program and satellite meteorology training resources: Preparing for the next generation of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites
Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and S. Wang and T. F. Lee |
| | P1.2 | Satellite meteorology for middle and high school students and teachers
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, T. H. Achtor, and J. Brunner |
| | P1.3 | Making NASA Earth Observing System satellite data accessible to the K-12 and citizen scientist communities 
Lin H. Chambers, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and A. J. Dalton, C. S. Phelps, P. C. Oots, S. W. Moore, and F. M. Mims III |
| | P1.4 | DLESE Dynamic Weather Teaching Box: One in a series of online teaching boxes (classroom-ready instructional units) being developed by the Digital Library for Earth System Education community
Marianne Weingroff, DLESE Program Center, UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), Boulder, CO |
| | P1.5 | Using DLESE to Build the Earth Inforamtion System
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and W. R. Huskin |
| | P1.6 | Using Climatological and geological history to develop a physical model that describes changes in stream morphology in the upper Dearborn river.
Sarah Tolan, State College Area High School/AERA, State College, PA; and W. Weiss, J. Greenberg, M. Bell, S. Podwika, and C. Stachowski |
| | P1.7 | The greenhouse effect: web based instructional materials for non-science majors
Isidoros Doxas, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Garvin-Doxas and F. Bagenal |
| | P1.8 | The implementation of online weather studies at Texas Southern University during spring 2005
William R. Brown, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX |
| | P1.9 | Teaching of Meteorology to Non- Science Majors using Real-Time Datastream, Integrated Data Viewer and Interactive Technologies.
Elen Cutrim, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; and R. Nogueira and J. Mitchell |
| | P1.10 | The Significance of Online Weather Studies to Fire Science
William M. Welton, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS |
| | P1.11 | Weather Studies in Fort Valley State university - A realistic Approach
Osondu I,N Latimor M. III, PAGE, Fort Valley, GA |
| | P1.12 | Teaching Online Meteorology in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Terrence G. Miller, South Texas College (formerly South Texas Community College), Weslaco, Texas |
| | P1.13 | Proposed Online Weather Studies at the College of Menominee Nation and its Potential for Native American Students
William M. Van Lopik, College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI |
| | P1.14 | Online Weather Studies at SUNY / Old Westbury
Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, SUNY, Old Westbury, NY |
| | P1.15 | Online Weather Studies as an Ideal General Science Course
Serhii Kalynovs'kyi, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, MD |
| | P1.16 | Incorporating Online Weather Studies into a Physical Geography Course Curriculum
David A. Padgett, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN |
| | P1.17 | Implementation of AMS Online Weather Studies at Pasadena City College
David N. Douglass, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA; and Y. L. O'Connor |
| | P1.18 | Completely online weather courses
Gong-Yuh Lin, California State University , Northridge, Northridge, California |
| | P1.19 | Weather in the West: A new perspective on weather education in a science center
Jason C. Shafer, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Andrade |
| | P1.20 | Using WES Activities to reach At-Risk Students
Frankie C. Vann, Sampson County Schools Alternative Program/AERA, Clinton, NC |
| | P1.21 | Use of AMS Education Program Products in a cross-country, primary-elementary vertical grade collaboration
Freida D. Blink, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV, Las Vegas, NV; and S. K. Henke |
| | P1.22 | The sea & sky connection
Ann T. Kelly, Our Lady of Sorrows School, St. Louis, MO |
| | P1.23 | Understanding Weather Helps in Storm Chasing–Storm Chasing Helps Understand Weather: A Win-Win Situation
Joshua J. Jans, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen |
| | P1.24 | The educational activities of the Royal Meteorological Society
J. Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom |
| | P1.25 | Teaching High School Meteorology through Live Event Learning
Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA and Windom Area High School, Windom, MN |
| | P1.26 | Program on Education, Research and International Training for Students and Junior Scientists in Atmospheric Sciences
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen |
| | P1.27 | The date match problem - Some thoughts on matching the diverse schedules of colleges and universities with the Online Weather Studies dates.
James L Schmutz, Southern Wesleyan Univerity, Central, SC |
| | P1.28 | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Citizen Science for Volunteers and Preciptiation Information for Decision Makers
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS Network/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, N. Doesken, C. Gimmestad, and C. Spears |
| | P1.29 | Professional Development for Undergraduate Minority Meteorology Students Through NWS Summer Internship Programs and Individual NOAA Grants.
John L. Shoemake Sr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and M. Watts, R. S. Reddy, G. Holmes, S. Ivey, B. DeShields, K. Hair, L. Kennard, M. Jones, and T. Hartwell |
| | P1.31 | NASA's systems solutions for earth science education
Diane Schweizer, NASA, Washington, DC; and P. Coble and F. Lindsay |
| | P1.32 | Multi-Temporal Change Detection Analysis of Beach Erosion using Satellite Remote Sensing
Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL |
| | P1.33 | Meteorology for the Texas Teacher
Jimmy Rozell II, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX |
| | P1.34 | Lightning-caused recreation deaths and injuries
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ |
| | P1.35 | Lightning casualties and their proximity to surrounding cloud-to-ground lightning
Megan M. Lengyel, University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks, R. E. Holle, and M. A. Cooper, MD |
| | P1.36 | Investigating the chemical properties of Milky Stream in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area in Montana
Timothy Howell, State College High School and AERA, State College, PA; and K. McPherson, M. Selzer, and R. Shaak |
| | P1.37 | Hyperthermia Deaths of Children in Vehicles
Jan Null, San Francisco State University, Saratoga, CA, US Virgin Islands |
| | P1.38 | Forecast consulting as an educational tool
Louis A. Bowers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and J. F. Brodie, R. Dunk, A. V. Durante, J. R. Klein, M. R. Lanza, and M. A. Sannutti |
| | P1.39 | Enlightening Lightning! Coupling Earth Systems Research to K-12 Education Using Planetarium Presentations
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and D. House and M. Hibbs |
| | P1.40 | Elementary School Earth Systems Science Collaboration Project
Thomas P. Kelly, Grandville Public Schools, Grandville, MI; and D. Davis |
| | P1.41 | Educating Aviators in Visualizing Weather
Scott R. Winter, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen |
| | P1.42 | Earth2Class—expanding opportunities to link classroom teachers and research scientists
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Colubmia University, Palisades, NY; and G. J. Iturrino |
| | P1.43 | AMS @ LDEO: follow-up opportunities for AMS education program participants
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY |
| | P1.44 | Development Workshops for Middle School Teachers on Topics in Atmospheric Science
Natalie D Murray, University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Science, Tucson, Arizona; and T. Canizo |
| | P1.45 | Developing Online Precipitation Visualization Systems for Education
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, W. Teng, and L. Chiu |
| | P1.46 | DataStreme: Weather from the AMS to the Classroom
Hector Ibarra, AMS/AERA, Iowa City, IA; and R. Wolf |
| | P1.47 | DataStreme meeting extras: taking teachers a step further through delightful demos, fantastic fieldtrips, and terrific tours
James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and J. Clark, J. Moore, and B. Smith |
| | P1.48 | Clouds from top to bottom
Randy Furman, AMS Education Resource Agent, Milaca, MN |
| | P1.49 | Capitalizing on cloudscapes and other cloud opportunities as teaching resources
H. Michael Mogil, How the WeatherWorks, Rockville, MD |
| | P1.50 | Ballooning, the Hindenburg story and a Student Experiment
Jee-Yon Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Cheongju, Deajeon, South Korea; and H. S. Yoo and J. S. Kim |
| | P1.51 | Between the Chesapeake and the Atlantic: Teaching meteorology on the lower Delmarva Peninsula
Peter B. Mires, Eastern Shore Community College, Melfa, VA |
| | P1.52 | An examination of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and other vorticies using the EPIC Model
Christopher J. Melick, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and H. Md. Anip, A. Kunz, R. Morales-Juberias, A. R. Lupo, and P. S. Market |
| | P1.53 | AMS Pre-College Student Chapters: Touching the Future
Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO |
| | P1.54 | Alvernia and Cabrini Colleges: Adaptations of Educational Initiatives
George W. Rumpp, Alvernia College, Reading and Cabrini College, Radnor, PA; and P. E. Rumpp |
| | P1.55 | A new freshman-level course in Meteorology at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Ravi C. Nandigam, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX, Brownsville, TX |
| | P1.56 | A weather degree program for the new millennium: phase II
Kenneth E. Parsons, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and M. R. Sinclair, C. James, and R. Tomkins |
| | P1.57 | "Hands-on" diversity: Training underrepresented students through atmospheric experimentation
Joseph Everette, Howard University, Washington, DC; and J. D. Fuentes, D. D. Venable, V. R. Morris, B. Demoz, P. Kucera, G. S. Jenkins, F. Nzeffe, M. L. Robjhon, S. Walford, and R. Connell |
| | P1.58 | Using near-real-time data in K-6 educational outreach
Walter C. Oechel, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; and D. DeRoma, D. Ross, N. Taylor, C. Kelly, and J. Verfaillie |
| | P1.59 | The chemistry of the environment
Glendora Carter, Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, TX |
| | P1.60 | CLOUDSAT EDUCATION NETWORK
Jennifer Lockett, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. K. Krumm |
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| Monday, 10 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 13 January |
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| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Joint Session 1 Education Out Reach Activities on Living in the Coastal Zone (Joint between the 14th Symp on Education and the Symp on living in the Coastal Zone) |
Organizers: David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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| 9:00 AM | J1.0 | Welcoming Remarks: David R. Smith 
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD |
| 9:15 AM | J1.2 | How understanding the coastal zone is important to everyday life
Richard Spinrad, NOAA/Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:45 AM | J1.3 | The centers for ocean sciences education excellence (COSEE): a growing national network
Cheryl L. Peach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. R. Franks and S. B. Cook |
| 10:00 AM | J1.4 | Lessons Learned. . . Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence: Central Gulf of Mexico (COSEE:CGOM) Nonformal and formal education
Sharon H. Walker, University of Southern Mississippi and J. L. Scott Marine Education Center & Aquarium, Biloxi, MS; and S. A. Brown, S. Culipher-Ross, J. Kastler, J. Dindo, M. Spranger, R. Tinnin, R. D. Brook, P. Tuddenham, T. Bishop, and J. May-Brett |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster session room
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| 10:45 AM | J1.5 | Rip current training for coastal forecasters
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and K. Olson and T. Schott |
| 11:00 AM | J1.6 | Education and the Integrated Ocean Observing System
Blanche W. Meeson, Ocean.US, Arlington, VA |
| 11:15 AM | J1.7 | Education & public outreach for the NASA Aquarius Mission
Annette DeCharon, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME |
| 11:30 AM | J1.8 | The Maury Project and DataStreme Ocean: Teaching teachers about the coastal zone
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, and R. S. Weinbeck |
| 11:45 AM | J1.9 | The Integration of Maury Project Modules with a Middle School Science Kit - Catastrophic Events
Barbara K. Walton-Faria, Thompson Middle School, Newport, RI |
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| 10:15 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday
Session 1 K-12 and Popular Initiatives |
Organizers: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | STORM-E: A Weather Simulation
Jane Neuenschwander, NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, Wheeling, WV; and C. Mitsch |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | The Great UK Weather Watch
J. Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Lightning safety for schools: An update
James B. Lushine, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and W. P. Roeder and R. J. Vavrek |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | How to Use Public Education to Change Lightning Safety Standards (and Save Lives and Injuries)
Mary Ann Cooper, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; and R. L. Holle |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 1.5 | EdGCM: Enhancing Climate Education Through Climate Modeling Research Projects
Mark A. Chandler, NASA/GISS at Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. J. Richards and M. F. Shopsin |
| 4:15 PM | 1.6 | Hispanics in geo-sciences: An effort to motivate youngsters and parents
John Toohey-Morales, NBC Telemundo and Climadata, Miami, FL |
| 4:30 PM | 1.7 | Educating an informed citizenry: What should every student know about the oceans?
Robert Stewart, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 4:45 PM | 1.8 | AMS DataStreme courses - preparing teachers to use Earth system information
Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, E. W. Mills, E. J. Hopkins, D. R. Smith, and B. A. Blair |
| 5:00 PM | 1.9 | The NOAA and NWS outreach program for educators
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. simensky |
| 5:15 PM | 1.10 | Developing a GIS Using Real Time Earth Data: A Study of the Earth System
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ |
| 5:30 PM | 1.11 | Pacific Northwest Tsunamis: Generation and Effects!
Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2005 |
| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 University Educational Initiatives |
Organizers: Donna J. Charlevoix, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | NOAA Education and Training Program Opportunities
Nina L. Jackson, NOAA/NESDIS, Brandywine, MD |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Strategies for Broadening Participation in Atmospheric Sciences: Lessons Learned from the UCAR SOARS Program
Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | Activities, findings, and recent developments of the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
Daphne S. Zaras, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | A hands-on interdisciplinary laboratory program: an approach to strengthen the weather radar curriculum at the University of Oklahoma
M. Yeary, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Yu, R. Palmer, M. Biggerstaff, and L. D. Fink |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): promoting classroom research as a scholarly activity
Donna J. Charlevoix, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 2.6 | Attempts towards introducing an Online Weather Studies course in a rural college
Safianu Rabiu, Paul D. Camp Community College, Franklin, Virginia 23851, Franklin, VA |
| 11:15 AM | 2.7 | Online Weather Studies in a 2-year program in Applied Meteorology at West Virginia State University
Tina J. Cartwright, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV; and S. Fleegel |
| 11:30 AM | 2.8 | Climatology at a tribal college
Subodh K. Singh, Sinte Gleska University, Mission, SD |
| 11:45 AM | 2.9 | Attempting to improve communications skills: A senior capstone seminar course in meteorology
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and T. D. Sikora, B. B. Yoakum, and R. M. Kyhos |
| 12:00 PM | 2.10 | An assessment of the added value of a written course project in a general meteorology course
Kenneth E. Parsons, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and A. Beck and P. McElwain |
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| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Joint Session 7 Cyberinfrastructure to support atmospheric and Oceanic Education: Examples and strategies (Joint with 21IIPS and Education) |
Organizers: Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J7.1 | Geosciences education and cyberinfrastructure: an issue of local importance, but global dimensions
Clifford A. Jacobs, NSF, Arlington, VA |
| 1:45 PM | J7.2 | The National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (“FIGIT”)
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. B. Wilhelmson |
| 2:00 PM | J7.3 | Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD): Architecture, Technology Road Map and Deployment Strategy
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and V. Chandrasekar, R. Clark, D. Gannon, S. Graves, E. Joseph, M. Ramamurthy, R. Wilhelmson, K. Brewster, B. Domenico, T. Leyton, V. R. Morris, D. Murray, B. Plale, R. Ramachandran, D. Reed, J. Rushing, D. Weber, A. Wilson, M. Xue, and S. Yalda |
| 2:15 PM | J7.4 | LEAD LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and R. Clark, E. Joseph, J. Alameda, T. Baltzer, K. Droegemeier, D. Bender, and W. Yarnell |
| 2:30 PM | J7.5 | Distance learning training for aviation forecasters: Improving fog and convection forecasting with advanced science and technologies
Elizabeth M. Page, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. Dulong and V. Johnson |
| 2:45 PM | J7.6a | Satellite Observations for Science Education
Steve Ackerman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
|  | J7.6b | Web-based distance learning at Penn State University: Beyond shovelware
Lee Grenci, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | J7.7 | Open Source technologies in science education: what's your geek IQ?
Stephen L. Arnold, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA |
| 3:45 PM | J7.8 | Issues and trends in meteorology and hydrology and their implications for COMET scientific training
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Wesley, T. Spangler, W. Schreiber-Abshire, T. Dulong, and M. Kelsch |
| 4:00 PM | J7.9 | Evaluation of NOAA's NWS Advanced Warning Operations Course (AWOC)
Bradford N. Grant, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK |
| 4:15 PM | J7.10 | Supporting Earth Science Education with Online Visualization and Analysis Information Systems
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Berrick, G. Leptoukh, L. Pham, H. Rui, S. Shen, W. Teng, and T. Zhu |
| 4:30 PM | J7.11 | Advanced Computing in Environmental Sciences (ACES): Cyberinfrastructure for Atmospheric Research in Nevada
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 4:45 PM | J7.12 | An update on MADIS observation ingest, integration, quality control, and distribution capabilities
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin* |
| 5:00 PM | J7.13 | Managing the infrastructure of a 21st century meteorological service: Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment (SEMS) and the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)- A government/private sector partnership
Richard S. Penc, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Bellevue, NE; and F. VanWijngaarden, A. E. Ronn, and M. Bannister |
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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