| Saturday, 28 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-7:31 AM, Saturday
Short Course and Student Conference Registration |
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| Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 Educational Initiatives |
Organizer: Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, Springfield, VA
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| | P1.1 | A Decade of AMS DataStreme Courses—Teachers Using Earth System Information 
Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, D. R. Smith, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, and B. A. Blair |
| | P1.2 | Using DLESE to facilitate high quality Earth Science Education
Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington |
| | P1.3 | Using DLESE to bring atmospheric and oceanographic digital resources to the classroom
William R. Huskin, Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, PA; and J. D. Moore |
| | P1.4 | Satellite observations in science education
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker, T. Jasmin, and L. howles |
| | P1.5 | Undergraduates Providing Weather Activities for Research and Development of Skills at Kean University (UPWARDS at Kean!)
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ |
| | P1.6 | PROBLEM BASED LEARNING: OBSERVING THE EARTH
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ |
| | P1.7 | Initiating Undergraduate Student Research Projects in Operational Meteorology: Kean University Operational Undergraduate Research in Meteorology & Professional Activities and Collaborative Training (KU-OUR-METPACT)
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ |
| | P1.8 | U.S. Air Force Graduate Research in Meteorology
Lee A. Byerle, AWS, Papillion, NE; and R. B. Telfeyan |
| | P1.9 | Bringing cutting-edge research to the classroom: Earth2Class
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and G. J. Iturrino, C. M. Assumpcao, and F. D. Baggio |
| | P1.10 | AMS DataStreme programs in the Empire and Garden States
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and W. D. Blanchard, C. A. Hildreth, J. D. Moore, G. G. Hofer, and J. T. Williams |
| | P1.11 | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commitment to Developing Minority Meteorologists and Atmospheric Scientists
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and G. S. Holmes, K. N. Venable, D. J. Gavin, D. Newton, M. M. Watts, and J. L. Shoemake |
| | P1.12 | The Scientists' Notebook as a learning tool
Barbara K. Walton-Faria, Thompson Middle School, Newport, RI |
| | P1.13 | Strategies for Broadening Participation in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences at the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Level
Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | P1.14 | The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)—A discipline agnostic tool for geoscience exploration
Don Murray, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter |
| | P1.15 | The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Science Summer Camp: International Training on GPS Meteorology for U.S. Students
Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Prinzi-Kimbro |
| | P1.17 | The 2005 NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) Weather Camps
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and L. White, E. Joseph, S. Yalda, D. Rainney, and R. Jones |
| | P1.18 | Teaching numerical weather prediction and data initialization using Richardson's model: An internet-based utility
Gregory A. Wassel, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. A. Knox |
| | P1.19 | Summer haze hazard
Lisa Mozer, Fernback Science Center, Atlanta, GA |
| | P1.20 | Serving diverse urban undergraduate students with AMS online earth science courses
Steve LaDochy, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA; and P. Ramirez |
| | P1.21 | NASA CloudSat: Students and scientists have their heads in the clouds
Debra K. Krumm, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Lockett |
| | P1.22 | Meteorology Week during Plymouth State University's Pakistani Teachers Institute
Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH |
| | P1.23 | Learning Objects in Multimedia Materials: The COMET Program
Sherwood Wang, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Parrish, P. Dills, and B. Muller |
| | P1.24 | International EWOC's
Faye McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA |
| | P1.25 | Enlightening lightning!
Richard Orville, Texas A&M Univ., College Sation, TX; and D. H. House and M. F. Hibbs |
| | P1.26 | Classroom Exercises in GIS Meteorology
Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia |
| | P1.27 | Assessing the Effect of Weather on Sea Turtle Nests, Daytona Beach, Florida
Richard K. Snow, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and M. M. Snow |
| | P1.28 | Applying interactive Learning tools in the Advanced Warning Operations Course
James LaDue, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and K. L. Manross, D. Morris, and P. T. Schlatter |
| | P1.29 | An interdisciplinary field course in marine and atmospheric systems
Mike E. Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and J. Windsor and K. Johnson |
| | P1.30 | A new perspective on surface weather maps
Steven J. Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI |
| | P1.31 | Use of the Clark Atlanta University Energy Balance Module in a Freshman Earth System Science Course
Randal L. N. Mandock, Clark Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, GA; and G. W. Grams, I. Mills, and O. Fayanjuola |
| | P1.32 | Teaching Online Weather Studies at the University of Houston
Sharon Zhong, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and R. Perna |
| | P1.33 | Teaching Online Weather Studies as a hybrid course in traditional classroom setting
Ravi C. Nandigam Sr., Univ. of Texas, Brownsville, TX |
| | P1.34 | Teaching meteorology at the University of Texas, El Paso
Thomas E. Gill, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX |
| | P1.35 | Promotion for AMS Online Weather Studies at Del Mar College
Roger Steinberg, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX |
| | P1.36 | Progress Towards Implementation of the American Meteorological Society Online Weather Studies Course at Clark Atlanta University
Randal L. N. Mandock, Clark Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, GA; and G. W. Grams |
| | P1.37 | Online Weather Studies Diversity Project: Enhancing an HBCU weather and climate course
David A. Padgett, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN |
| | P1.38 | Online weather studies at Gavilan College
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA |
| | P1.39 | Online Weather Studies at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI): Estrella Mountain Community College
George D. Greenly Jr., Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, AZ |
| | P1.40 | Online weather studies and Weatherbug achieve: The best of both worlds.
David Quesada, Saint Thomas Univ., Miami Gardens, FL |
| | P1.41 | Online Lab Science Course: Meeting the needs of a non-traditional student
James E. Edson Jr., Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, AR |
| | P1.42 | Methodology and observations from the implementation of AMS Online Weather Studies in a junior-level college course during Spring 2005
John A. Keyantash, California State Univ., Carson, CA |
| | P1.43 | Meteorology at Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
Lynn D. Millwood, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX |
| | P1.44 | Meteorology and earth/space science at Heritage University
Gregory S. Van Doren, Heritage Univ., Toppenish, WA |
| | P1.45 | Introducing Online Meteorology at New Mexico Junior College
Roene Neu, New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM; and K. Holladay |
| | P1.46 | Increasing opportunities for minority students through a meteorology course
Joe Omojola, Southern Univ., New Orleans, LA |
| | P1.47 | Implementing the Online Weather Studies into a research base learning community
Ricardo J. Morales-De Jesús, Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR |
| | P1.48 | Implementation of Online Weather Studies at Harold Washington College, Chicago, Illinois
Dana L. Perry, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL |
| | P1.49 | Evaluation of the impact of the NWC REU program compared with other undergraduate research experiences
Wilson J. Gonzalez-Espada, Arkansas Tech Univ., Russellville, AR; and D. S. Zaras |
| | P1.50 | Developing reading skills in a fully on-line weather class
Mary E. Dowse, Western New Mexico Univ., Silver City, NM |
| | P1.51 | Creating effective teaching strategies for broadcast meteorology instruction using online weather information
Janet I. Halpin, Chicago State Univ., Chicago, IL |
| | P1.52 | Completely Online Weather Courses at CSUN
Gong-Yuh Lin, California State Univ., Northridge, California |
| | P1.53 | Bilingual Online Weather Studies: enhancing diversity through collaborations
Erin Argyilan, Indiana Univ., Gary, IN; and A. R. Rentas |
| | P1.54 | Best Practices of Local Air Quality Outreach Programs
Chelsea Jenkins, SHENAIR Institute, James Madison Univ., Winchester, VA; and T. Hedinger, C. J. Brodrick, and J. Giraytys |
| | P1.55 | Assessing Student's Understanding of Online Weather Media
Matthew J. Benus, Purdue Univ., Hammond, IN |
| | P1.56 | AN ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES EXPERIENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH GAMEP PROGRAM AT Dillard University DURING Spring 2005
Abdalla Darwish, Dillard Univ., New Orleans, LA; and K. Foster |
| | P1.57 | A Study of Diurnal Circumference Changes in Trees by Students in Clark Atlanta University's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
Randal L. N. Mandock, Clark Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, GA; and B. Woods and D. James |
| | P1.58 | Weather Outside our Window: Data-Rich, Inquiry-Based Case Studies on Rocky Mountain Front Range Weather
Sandra Laursen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Avallone, J. P. Hacker, W. Schreiber-Abshire, and B. Hendrickson |
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| Monday, 30 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday
Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February |
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| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, A402
Session 1 K-12 Education and Public Outreach Initiatives |
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 9:00 AM | | Introductory Remarks
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| 9:15 AM | 1.1 | Why Scientists Must Move Beyond K-12 Classroom Visits to Active Participants in Professional Development Courses for Teachers 
Andrea Dawn Melvin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel, D. S. Arndt, L. A. Gmachl, and M. A. Shafer |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | The NWS outreach program for teachers and students, a new business model
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | NOAA's Environmental Literacy Grants Program
Carrie McDougall, NOAA, Washington, DC; and S. Schoedinger |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Satellite meteorology resources for K-16 educators and students
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | NOAA Educational Programs Helping Teachers and Students
Nina L. Jackson, NOAA/NESDIS, Brandywine, MD |
|  | 1.6 | Oceans to classrooms with national marine sanctuaries
Michiko J. Martin, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Dudchik, D. Bizot, D. Hayes, C. Sakas, and A. McCurdy |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6A | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): "Hands-On" Science for Communities Right in their own Backyards
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, R. C. Cifelli, and J. Turner |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Advanced atmosphere workshop for certified GLOBE teachers
Tina J. Cartwright, West Virginia Univ./Community Technical College, Institute, WV; and S. Fleegel |
| 11:30 AM | 1.8 | EWOC 2006 – An international conference to promote meteorological and oceanographic education
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and S. Q. Foster and M. Walker |
| 11:45 AM | 1.9 | Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary/National Geographic Field Study
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and A. Tranchitella |
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| 12:00 PM-1:10 PM, Monday
Plenary Session 1 AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer) |
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College, London United Kingdom; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 12:00 PM | PL1.1 | Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna |
| 12:10 PM | PL1.2 | How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 12:40 PM | PL1.3 | THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, A402
Session 2 K-12 Educational Outreach Activities for Space Weather |
Cochairs: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; Genene M. Fisher, AMS, Washington, DC
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Windows to the Universe: A growing educational resource with new climate and space weather content, Spanish-language pages, and ways to collaborate
Roberta Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Gardiner, R. Russell, M. LaGrave, J. Genyuk, J. Bergman, and T. Metcalfe |
| 2:00 PM | 2.2 | Education and Public Outreach with a NASA Space Weather Mission (SDO)
Emilie Drobnes, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland; and D. Scherrer, D. Pesnell, and B. Thompson |
| 2:15 PM | 2.3 | NASA's THEMIS Mission and the Involvement of Schools
N. Craig, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and L. M. Peticolas |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2) |
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| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, A402
Joint Session 1 Educational Outreach Activities for Space Weather (Joint with 15th Symposium on Education and 3rd Symposium on Space Weather) |
Cochairs: Genene Fisher, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC; David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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| 4:00 PM | J1.1 | Space Weather in CPR classes? From Science to Practice!
Margaret Lynn Fowke, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:15 PM | J1.2 | Where and Why Does Space Weather Occur?
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and D. J. Knipp |
| 4:30 PM | J1.3 | Using NASA Space Data in K-12 Education
Arthur I. Poland, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and G. Colon and E. Felicite-Maurice |
| | J1.4 | The Space Public Outreach Team: A model for K-12 public outreach in Montana
Henry D. Winter III, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT; and D. E. McKenzie |
| 4:45 PM | J1.4A | Space Weather Education on Windows to the Universe
Randy Russell, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, S. Q. Foster, J. Bergman, E. Gardiner, J. Genyuk, and M. LaGrave |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (M) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Holton Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, A402
Session 3 University and Professional Education |
Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA; Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | Evaluating learning and performance in the Warning Decision Training Branch's Distance Learning Operation Courses
Brandon Albert Miller, School of Earth and Atmopsheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. N. Grant and W. J. Gonzalez-Espada |
| 8:45 AM | 3.2 | Successful statewide public safety outreach: cultivating technology and andragogy in Oklahoma
Derek Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and A. Reader |
| 9:00 AM | 3.3 | The COMET Residence Program at 15: the changing face of classroom education
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Abshire |
| 9:15 AM | 3.4 | Enhancing diversity in the geosciences through national dissemination of AMS Online Weather Studies and Online Ocean Studies at minority serving institutions
Ira W. Geer, AMS, Washington, DC; and E. W. Mills, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, W. A. Porter, J. L. Harris, J. A. Brey, and W. R. Foniri |
| 9:30 AM | 3.5 | The Jackson State University Meteorology Program's Role In Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Training And Research
Quinton L. Williams, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy, L. White, H. P. Liu, M. M. Watts, and J. L. Shoemake |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 3.6 | Tablet PC: an educational aid for lecture-based survey meteorology courses
Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. K. Jackman and T. E. Twine |
| 11:15 AM | 3.7 | Using an Active-Learning Quiz Series in an Introductory Meteorology College Course
Neil F. Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and L. A. Golson, K. E. Wood, and K. Feasel |
| 11:30 AM | 3.8 | The design of effective teaching materials for climate change science
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA |
| 11:45 AM | 3.9 | Relative humidity: What do students know about it?
Sherman E. Fredrickson, NOAA/NSSL; and P. L. Heinselman, W. J. Gonzalez-Espada, and D. Zaras |
| 12:00 PM | 3.10 | Problem based learning: meteorological instrumentation
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T) |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Plenary Session Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.) |
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| 1:45 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, A402
Joint Session 4 Tools to Enhance Weather and Climate Data Use in the Classroom (Joint with 15th Symposium on Education and 22nd Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems) |
Cochairs: Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 1:45 PM | J4.1 | LEAD education initiatives
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. D. Clark and E. Joseph |
| 2:00 PM | J4.2 | Using ocean observing system data to promote ocean science literacy in the southeast U.S.
Mary C. Greganti, Univ. of Georgia, Savannah, GA; and J. R. Nelson and C. Simoniello |
| 2:15 PM | J4.3 | NOAA's NowCOAST: A GIS-Web Mapping Portal to Discover and Display Real-Time Coastal Observations, Satellite Imagery and NOAA Forecasts
Michael Allard, Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Wengren and J. G. W. Kelley |
| 2:30 PM | J4.4 | Tools for Exploring NASA Earth Observing System Climate Data in K-12 Classrooms
Erica J. Alston, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, C. S. Phelps, P. C. Oots, and S. W. Moore |
| 2:45 PM | J4.5 | The NCAR climate and global change professional development program
Dennis L. Ward, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and R. M. Johnson, S. Henderson, R. Russell, L. Gardiner, S. Gallagher, K. Meymaris, and J. Genyuk |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | J4.6 | DLESE Teaching Boxes and Web Services: A learning context for using data in the classroom
Lynne K. Davis, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Weatherley |
| 3:45 PM | J4.7 | An earth science web site for Randolph High School
Christopher Duvall, Randolph High School, Randolph, NJ |
| 4:00 PM | J4.8 | A modern, PC/Mac visualization tool for K-20 students
Renee A. McPherson, OCS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Wolfinbarger, J. B. Basara, A. D. Melvin, and D. S. Arndt |
| 4:15 PM | J4.9 | Enhancing weather and climate data use in the classroom with multimedia modules
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and N. Gardiner |
| 4:30 PM | J4.10 | A progress report on the Hands—on interdisciplinary laboratory program: an approach to strengthen the weather radar curriculum at the University of Oklahoma
M. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. A. Dubois, T. Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, M. Biggerstaff, L. D. Fink, and C. Ahern |
| 4:45 PM | J4.11 | Curriculum Development in Atmospheric Instrumentation for Undergraduates
Melanie Wetzel, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and W. P. Arnott |
| 5:00 PM | J4.12 | The UNF Advanced Weather Information Systems Laboratory: A novel approach to information systems for Engineering Education
Patrick T. Welsh, Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL; and J. D. Lambert |
| 5:15 PM | J4.13 | Beyond Bob Dylan: Integrating music and video into meteorology courses
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (W) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 2 February 2006 |
| 12:00 AM, Thursday
Symposium Ends |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
AMS iPod Raffle in Exhibit Hall |
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