85th AMS Annual Meeting

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)

Monday, 10 January 2005: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Organizers:  David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy and Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University
Papers:
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks: David R. Smith
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

  9:15 AM
  9:45 AM
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
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
Rip current training for coastal forecasters
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and K. Olson and T. Schott

http://meted.ucar.edu

  10:30 AM
Education and the Integrated Ocean Observing System
Blanche W. Meeson, Ocean.US, Arlington, VA

http://www.ocean.us

  10:45 AM
Education & public outreach for the NASA Aquarius Mission
Annette DeCharon, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME

http://aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov

  11:00 AM
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

  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in Poster session room