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Sunday, 2 July 2006
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday Registration begins
Monday, 3 July 2006
	7:00 AM, Monday Registration Continues through Friday, 7 July
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Monday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 1 Opening of Conference, Welcoming Remarks
Chairperson: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks   9:00 AM 1.2 Role of a National Center in Weather, Ocean and Climate Education (Special Invited Keynote Presentation)   Tim Killeen, NCAR, TBD, TBD
	9:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 2 Education and outreach for the coastal and marine environment
Chairperson: Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom
9:30 AM 2.1 Hurricanes -- The "WOC" in EWOC   John L. Kermond, UCAR, Silver Spring, MD 9:45 AM 2.2 Hurricane Strike!: An interactive Web-based tool to teach kids about hurricane science and safety   Victoria Johnson, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Parrish and D. Owens 10:00 AM 2.3 Promoting Lifelong Ocean Education: Shaping Tomorrow's Earth Stewards and the Science and Technology Workforce   Blanche W. Meeson, Ocean.US/NASA, Arlington, VA   2.4 PAPER WITHDRAWN   10:15 AM 2.4A Developing Extensions to Maury Project Modules to Enhance Teacher Utilization of the SouthEast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS) Web Site   George W. Rumpp, Alvernia College, Reading, PA, Collegeville, PA; and D. Smith and T. K. Hathaway 10:30 AM Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-2:30 PM, Monday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 3 Informal education for meteorology and oceanography
Chairperson: Joseph M. Moran, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, Green Bay, WI
11:00 AM 3.1 Nowcasting for the future: an interactive museum exhibit for teaching weather   Brian E. Rogan, Museum of Science, Boston, Boston, MA 11:15 AM 3.2 The UCAR Public Visitor Program - at the intersection where science, schools, society, and informal learning meet   Teresa Eastburn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Barnes 11:30 AM 3.3 Voices of Science: A Case Study of NCAR's "Climate Future" Exhibit   Linda Carbone, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Foster, R. Johnson, and N. Science Advisory Committee 11:45 AM 3.4 Climate and weather, the two go together: Girl Scouts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research program   Kristen L. Corbosiero, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Cheruvu, J. H. Richter, C. Johnson, and T. Eastburn 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:00 PM 3.5 Flood safety: what have historic flash floods taught us?   Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Abshire 1:15 PM 3.6 The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network—“Informal Atmospheric Science in the Community: What can we accomplish?”   Henry Reges, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Turner 1:30 PM 3.7 Educational programs of the Mount Washington Observatory   Marsha A. Rich, AMS Atmospheric Education Resource Agent, Chichester, NH 1:45 PM 3.8 WeatherFest, a new education outreach program   Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. F. Hasling 2:00 PM Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Workshops Session 4 AMS Module Workshops
Chairperson: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.1 Coastal Upwelling and El Nino: The Maury Project Style! (Centre Green Building 1, Room 3131)   James Backus, The Maury Project, Brookfield, CT 2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.2 Wind driven ocean circulation workshop (Centre Greene South)   Thomas P. Kelly, Grandville Public Schools, Grandville, MI; and G. Rausch 2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.3 Building ideas with AMS blocks (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 3150)   Carol A. Hildreth, AMS/AERA, Mechanicville, NY 2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.4 Highs and Lows (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 2503)   Donald H. Schulteis, Ontario (CA) High School, Upland, CA 2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.5 A Maury Project Module: Density-Driven Ocean Circulation (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 2126)   Craig Croone, AMS/Maury, Northfield, MN 2:30 PM-4:00 PM W4.6 Enhancing Math and Science Education Through Project Atmosphere's Severe Weather Module (Centre Greene Building 1, Cafeteria)   William Huskin, AMS Education Resource Agent, Doylestown, PA; and J. D. Moore
	4:00 PM, Monday Sessions End for the Day
	4:00 PM, Monday Depart for Reception at Mesa Lab
Tuesday, 4 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Millennium Room Poster Session 1 Poster Session
Chairperson: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO
P1.1 A Decade of Education and Outreach Programs at a National Weather Service Forecast Office   Eleanor Vallier-Talbot, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and W. T. Babcock P1.3 Using DLESE to bring atmospheric and oceanographic digital resources to the classroom   William Huskin, AMS Education Resource Agent, Doylestown, PA; and J. D. Moore P1.4 PAPER WITHDRAWN   P1.4A Teaching Earth System Science Research for High School Students   Elizabeth Anne McCook, Urbana High School, Ijamsville, MD P1.5 Using DLESE to facilitate high quality Earth Science Education   Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington P1.6 Everyday Weather, Project Atmosphere and DataStreme, “Reaching Out To The Educational System and Community!   Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington P1.7 Meteorology and oceanography topics in the New York State science curriculum   Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY; and M. R. Wolk P1.8 “WeatherWise”: A kit for Girl Scouts to learn about weather and careers in the atmospheric sciences   Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Buhr, K. Young, S. Lynds, and S. Hug P1.9 MY NASA DATA: A resource for Climate and Ocean Education   Dennis Diones, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, E. J. Alston, S. W. Moore, P. C. Oots, and C. S. Phelps P1.10 Weather and climate in primary and secondary education: Possibilities and restrictions in the new Norwegian national curriculum compared with the old   Pål J. Kirkeby Hansen, Oslo University College, N-0130 Oslo, Norway P1.11 Hurricane season 2004 and beach erosion in Volusia County, Florida   Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL P1.12 Understanding rip currents in the nearshore environment: a new generation of oceanography visualizations   Kevin K. Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. V. Johnson P1.13 AMS Local Implementation Teams in Action: A Decade of Change   Robert P. Wanton, National Weather Service, Mt. Holly, NJ; and J. D. Moore, K. Orr, and W. Huskin P1.14 Caught in the drift: sea-beans and ocean currents   Terri Kirby Hathaway, North Carolina Sea Grant, Manteo, NC P1.15 Developing Extensions to Maury Project Modules to Enhance Teacher Utilization of the SE Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS) Web Site   George W. Rumpp, Alvernia College, Reading and Cabrini College, Radnor, PA; and D. Smith and T. K. Hathaway P1.16 Twelve years of Maury Project summer workshops: A pictorial history   David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer and D. E. McManus P1.17 Teaching middle school students about wind-driven currents through a learning cycle model   Barbara K. Walton-Faria, Thompson Middle School, Newport, RI P1.18 Oceanography in the Middle: Middle school, Middle of the Continent.   Craig Croone, AMS/Maury, Northfield, MN P1.19 The Royal Meteorological Society's educational activities   Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom P1.20 MetLinkInternational – the Royal Meteorological Society's principal online weather project   Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom P1.21 RainCatch – an online weather project for children aged 8-12 and individuals of any age   Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom P1.22 New Resources for Schools: Multi–Agency Educational Initiatives of the Royal Meteorological Society   V. Aldridge, Roseburn Primary School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom; and O. Bray P1.23 Meteorology at the National Festival of Science, Engineering and Technology in South Africa   Charlotte May McBride, South African Weather Service, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa P1.24 Start Your Own AMS K-12 Student Chapter   Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO P1.25 The sea & sky connection in a high school physical science class   Ann Kelly, AMS/AERA, St. Louis, MO P1.26 The role of interest circles in preparing students for meteorology careers in Cuba   Mayra Santana, Sociedad Meteorológica de Cuba, Ciudad Habana, Cuba; and O. Garcia and J. Machado P1.27 Collaboration of state DataStreme programs in North Carolina   Fanette Hines Entzminger, Farmville Central High School Farmville,NC AMS DataStreme LIT Leader NC, Farmville, NC; and F. C. Vann P1.28 PAPER WITHDRAWN   P1.29 SAC -C Cloud Atlas   I. Velasco, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and L. Vidal and A. L. Flores P1.30 Educator resources at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK   Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Swift and J. Snow P1.31 Online science classes meet student demand for flexibility and meaningful content   Kathryn Hedges, Prairie State Community College, Chicago Heights, IL P1.32 Introducing leadership models and NCAR's multi-disciplinary research to undergraduates   Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Barnes and K. K. Droegemeier P1.33 PAPER WITHDRAWN   P1.34 Learning to Interpret Colors on a Radar Image   Celeste Lehrer, St. Mary/St. Michael School, Cato, WI P1.35 ANALYSING THE PRESENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES IN SPANISH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TEXT BOOKS   Adelaida Portela Lozano, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and R. M. Rodríguez Jiménez and Á. B. Capa P1.36 ESIP and CIMSS: Increasing the Use and Usability of Satellite Data in Science Classrooms (Poster)   Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman P1.37 Ocean Literacy through US Science Standards   Beth Jewell, NOAA Office of Education, Washington, DC; and S. Schoedinger and C. McDougall P1.38 Education and Climate: Building a sustainable weather network by incorporating science teachers into current research activities in meteorology   Ricardo J. Morales De Jesús, Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, Millennium Hotel, Century Room Workshops Session 5 Hands-on Workshops
Chairperson: Faye W. McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA
10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.1 AMS Weatherfest: Activities in Oceanography and Meteorology   Faye W. McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA; and S. M. Carlson 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.2 Cartesian diver: A fun way to explore the properties of air and water.   Hector Ibarra, II, AMS/AERA, Iowa City, IA 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.3 How to Create a Weather Page   Frankie C. Vann, Lakewood High School, Salemburg, NC 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.4 EWOCFest: Hands-On Meteorology   John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and R. P. Wanton and W. R. Huskin 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.5 Science beyond the textbook   Lawrence Greenleaf, AMS/AERA, Belfast, ME 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.6 Gravity Rules!   Barbara K. Walton-Faria, Thompson Middle School, Newport, RI 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.7 Boiling Water, with Ice?  (Discover the answer at the EWOCFest Workshop!)   Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA, Windom Area Schools, Windom, MN 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.8 Catching the Invisible Giant: Our Earth's Atmosphere   Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.9 Eggciting Atmosphere   Randy Furman, AMS Education Resource Agent, Milaca, MN 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.10 Cloud's in a Bottle   Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.11 Cotton clouds   Ann Kelly, AMS/AERA, St. Louis, MO 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.12 The Sea and Sky Connection   Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO; and A. Kelly 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.13 PAPER WITHDRAWN   10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.14 PAPER WITHDRAWN   10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.15 The Role of Government in Meteorological and Oceanographic Education   Faye W. McCollum, AMS/Atmospheric Resource Agent, Columbus, GA 10:30 AM-12:30 PM W5.16 Simple activities to teach weather concepts to students   Sharon M. Stroud, LIT leader for Datastreme Atmosphere, Colorado Springs, CO
	12:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions End for the Day
	12:30 PM, Tuesday Barbeque Luncheon-Millennium Hotel Pavilion
Wednesday, 5 July 2006
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 6 The role of learned societies in educational outreach
Chairperson: Ross Reynolds, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
8:30 AM 6.1 The educational strategy of the Royal Meteorological Society   Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom 9:00 AM 6.2 A Multi–Agency Approach to Teacher Secondment   G. Meldrum, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom; and V. Aldridge and O. Bray 9:15 AM 6.3 A Variety of Methods for Educating Audiences about Climate and Earth System   Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Henderson, L. Carbone, L. Gardiner, D. Ward, R. Russell, J. Bergman, and S. Foster
	9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 7 Promoting diversity and enhancing the involvement of under-represented groups in meteorology and oceanography
Chairperson: Ross Reynolds, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
9:30 AM 7.1 Nationwide dissemination of Online Weather Studies and Online Ocean Studies courses at minority serving institutions   Ira W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and E. W. Mills, J. M. Moran, W. R. Foniri, R. S. Weinbeck, W. A. Porter, J. L. Harris, and J. A. Brey 9:45 AM 7.2 Broadening Participation in the Geosciences: How does one scale a successful and small-scale approach?   Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 8A Teacher training
Chairpersons: John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Agueda Benito-Capa, Universidad Europea/CEES, Madrid, Spain
10:30 AM 8A.1 AMS education program - a collegial success story   I. W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, D. R. Smith, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, and B. A. Blair 11:00 AM 8A.2 AMS programs to enhance education in the ocean sciences: The Maury Project and DataStreme Ocean   David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, and E. W. Mills 11:15 AM 8A.3 Using oceanography examples to teach chemical principles   Bruce G. Smith, Appleton North High School, Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, WI 11:30 AM 8A.4 NOAA Teacher-at-Sea Program; how experiencing real research makes teaching and student learning fun.   Brian D. Emond, University of Massachusetts (NOAA Teacher-at-Sea Program), Amherst, MA 11:45 AM 8A.5 An application of beach measurement techniques from Project Maury to the evolution of a meso-tidal system at Sandy Hook, New Jersey   William Blanchard, AMS/Maury, Neptune, NJ 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 8A.6 Earth2Class: Connecting Teachers and Researchers   Michael J. Passow, Lamont-Doherty and Teachers College, Columbia Univ., New York, NY and White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY; and G. J. Iturrino, C. M. Assumpcao, and F. D. Baggio 1:45 PM 8A.7 The Weather Outside our Window: Teacher Education Through Inquiry-Based Case Studies on Rocky Mountain Front Range Weather   Linnea M. Avallone, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Laursen, J. Hacker, W. Abshire, and B. Hendrickson 2:00 PM 8A.8 Professional Development for Middle School and High School Educators on Climate and Global Change and Modeling in the Geosciences at NCAR   Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Henderson, D. L. Ward, S. Q. Foster, L. Gardiner, R. Russell, S. Gallagher, and K. Meymaris 2:15 PM 8A.9 Building bridges between researchers and educators at CIRES   Susan M. Buhr, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2:30 PM 8A.10A ANALYSING THE PRESENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES IN SPANISH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TEXT BOOKS-   Adelaida Portela Lozano, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and R. M. Rodríguez Jiménez and Á. B. Capa 2:45 PM Coffee Break
	3:00 PM, Wednesday Sessions End for the Day
	3:30 PM, Wednesday NOAA/NICL/NREL/FISKE Tours
Thursday, 6 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:45 AM, Thursday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 8B Teacher Training (cont)
Chairperson: Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic
8:30 AM 8B.1 Learning to teach about vorticity with a tornado vortex model   James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI 8:45 AM 8B.2 STEM en tu CASA! What's on your radar? And how did it get there?   Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK   8B.3 PAPER WITHDRAWN   9:00 AM 8B.3A Student teachers as researchers in science education: Some results on pupils' interests and understanding of weather and climate.   Pål J. Kirkeby Hansen, Oslo University College, N-0130 Oslo, Norway 9:15 AM 8B.4 Coastal upwelling, sea level change, and more: Teaching Boxes for your classroom   Shelley E. Olds, UCAR, Boulder, CO 9:30 AM 8B.5 Project Atmosphere in South Africa   Charlotte May McBride, South African Weather Service, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa 9:45 AM 8B.6 The Pakistani Teachers Institute   Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-1:45 PM, Thursday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 9 International education programs and collaborations.
Chairperson: Tsuneya Takahashi, Hokkaido University of Education, Sapporo, Japan
10:30 AM 9.1 The online weather projects of the Royal Meteorological Society   Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom 10:45 AM 9.2 Global warming with a global perspective – integrating climate change topics into meteorology and statistics curricula   Eric A. Walters, Marymount School of New York, New York, NY; and I. Arkan 11:00 AM 9.3 Education, Outreach and Communications Efforts for the International Polar Year, 2007-2009   Mark S. McCaffrey, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Buhr and S. Lynds   9.4 PAPER WITHDRAWN   11:15 AM 9.4A ESIP and CIMSS: Increasing the Use and Usability of Satellite Data in Science Classrooms   Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman 11:30 AM 9.5 International Partnerships with NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program   Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA 11:45 AM 9.6 European Catalogue of Training Oportunities in Meteorology - ECTOM II   Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda 12:00 PM Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Workshops Session 10 Hands-on Workshop #2
Chairperson: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.1 Inquiring about the Earth system through elementary student investigations (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 3131)   Becca Hatheway, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Gardiner, S. Henderson, M. LeMone, and K. Zarlengo 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.2 Climate and global change: a toolkit for teaching about our ever-changing world (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 3131)   Lisa Gardiner, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Henderson, R. Johnson, and R. Russell 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.3 Make your own personal forecast! (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 2503)   Elisabeth A. Cohen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.4 Interactive numerical modeling in the classroom: challenges and rewards (Centre Greene Building 2, CTTC)   John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Johnson, D. Ward, and M.-J. Broussaud 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.5 The “www” of waves, weather and water: digital libraries help bring atmospheric and ocean sciences to life (Centre Greene Building 12, CTTC)   Holly Devaul, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Olds and R. Low 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.6 Development and evaluation of an elementary school teacher workshop on weather directly linked with classes (Centre Greene Building 1, Room 2126)   Tsuneya Takahashi, Hokkaido University of Education, Sapporo, Japan; and Y. Tsubota 1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.7 PAPER WITHDRAWN   1:30 PM-3:30 PM W10.8 Inquiring into inquiry: what does It offer? what does it looks like? what role do questions and questioning play? (Centre Greene Building 1, South)   Teresa Eastburn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Barnes
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Thursday Coffee Break
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 11 Student-centered educational programs
Chairperson: Pal Kirkeby-Hansen, Oslo Univ., Oslo, Norway
4:00 PM 11.1 Using wind and storm surge data to make damage predictions in the high school classroom   Linda Wygoda, Sam Houston High School, Lake Charles, LA, Lake Charles, LA 4:15 PM 11.2 Teaching High School Meteorology through Live Event Learning!   Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA, Windom Area Schools, Windom, MN   11.3 PAPER WITHDRAWN   4:30 PM 11.5 Snow camp for high school students: Field and laboratory studies of snow crystals   Yukimasa Tsubota, Obirin University, Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Takahashi
	5:00 PM, Thursday Sessions end for the day
Friday, 7 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Friday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 12 Science, society and schools
Chairperson: Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom
8:30 AM 12.1 Weather science short courses for 'talented and gifted' school students in England   Ross Reynolds, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom 8:45 AM 12.2 Weather and Climate in European School Curricula   Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and A. Spekat and J. Wieringa 9:00 AM 12.3 Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellows in NOAA's Office of Education   Beth Jewell, NOAA Office of Education, Washington, DC; and R. Carson 9:15 AM 12.4 Comparing knowledge about greenhouse effect and ozone layer among Norwegian pupils finishing compulsory education in 1989, 1993 and 2005   Pål J. Kirkeby Hansen, Oslo University College, N-0130 Oslo, Norway 9:30 AM 12.5 Climate education – Empowering today's youth to meet tomorrow's challenges   Camilla Schreiner, University of Oslo, N-0317 Oslo, Norway; and E. K. Henriksen and P. J. K. Hansen 9:45 AM 12.6 Bringing Megacity Environmental Impacts to a Global Community of Learners and Educators on the World Wide Web through Windows to the Universe   Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Q. Foster, J. Bergman, T. Eastburn, L. Gardiner, J. Genyuk, N. Gordon, M. LaGrave, R. Russell, D. Ward, D. Salcedo, J. Weinstein-Lloyd, and B. C. Gonzalez 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Friday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 13 Enhancing public awareness of meteorology and oceanography through the media
Chairperson: Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
10:30 AM 13.1 Tsunami detection & ocean drifters   John L. Kermond, UCAR, Silver Spring, MD   13.2 PAPER WITHDRAWN   10:45 AM 13.2A Ocean Literacy through US Science Standards-   Beth Jewell, NOAA Office of Education, Washington, DC; and S. E. Schoedinger and C. McDougall 11:00 AM 13.3 Watersheds and weather: short course for broadcast meteorologists   Joseph Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Owens and M. Kelsch
	11:15 AM-11:30 AM, Friday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 14 Indigenous perspectives of weather, climate and oceans
11:15 AM 14.1 Place-based Earth Science. A new way of teaching a college earth systems science course at the University of Oklahoma   Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Elmore, M. Palmer, and V. O'Brien
	11:30 AM-12:45 PM, Friday Lunch Break
	12:45 PM-2:15 PM, Friday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 15 GLOBE activities
Chairperson: Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado
12:45 PM 15.1 The Next Generation GLOBE Program: Promoting Collaborations between Cutting-edge Earth System Science Research Projects and Student Investigations of the Environment   Edward E. Geary, UCAR Office of Programs, Boulder, CO 1:00 PM 15.2 GLOBE education: supporting student research in the classroom   Sandra Henderson, UCAR/GLOBE, Boulder, CO; and S. Gallagher, S. Sikora, and K. Meymaris 1:15 PM 15.3 GLOBE clouds online teaching module   Susan M. Gallagher, The GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO, CO; and M. A. LeMone, K. Meymaris, S. Sikora, and B. Hatheway 1:30 PM 15.4 Determining Light Pollution of the Global Sky: GLOBE at Night   Kirsten Meymaris, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Henderson, S. Gallagher, D. L. Ward, R. Russell, and D. Salisbury 1:45 PM 15.5 The GLOBE malaria project: a unique student/teacher/scientist partnership   Rebecca A. Boger, GLOBE, Boulder, CO; and D. Brooks and A. Rafalimanana 2:00 PM Coffee Break
	2:15 PM-4:00 PM, Friday, Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium Session 16 Cyberinfrastructure and computer-based learning for meteorology and oceanography
Chairperson: Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO
2:15 PM 16.1 Promoting Earth System Science through Geospatial Technologies   John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ 2:30 PM 16.2 Climateprediction.net as a weather and climate learning resource for schools and the general public   Sylvia H.E. Knight, Open University, Manchester, United Kingdom; and D. Frame, E. Highwood, B. Spicer, D. Stainforth, M. Walker, and M. R. Allen 2:45 PM 16.3 Cyberinfrastructure for discovering Earth science educational resources   John Weatherley, UCAR, Boulder, CO 3:00 PM 16.4 Cyberinfrastructure and data services for Earth System Science Education A vision for the future   Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO 3:15 PM 16.5 Data Democratization - Promoting Real-Time Data Sharing and Use throughout the Americas   Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO 3:30 PM Concluding Remarks
	4:00 PM, Friday Conference Ends

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