Session 3 |
| | Special Session on Increasing Awareness of Meteorology and Oceanography through Popular and Informal Educational Activities |
| | Organizers: Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; Jon M. Nese, The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | Stories my meteorologist told me: how journalists craft popular understanding of weather, oceans, and the sciences
Jeffrey O. Rosenfeld, Weatherwise Magazine, El Cerrito, CA |
| 9:00 AM | 3.2 | Balloons, Raindrops and Streaming Media: Meteorological Fun and Fact for All Ages
Cynthia Schmidt, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Foster |
| 9:15 AM | 3.3 | Increasing the Level of Scientific Outreach Through Television Weathercasts
Dave Jones, NBC4 WRC-TV, Washington, DC |
| 9:30 AM | 3.4 | Why the Public Should Care about the Mud at the Bottom of the Sea: Ocean
Shelly M. Lauzon, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA |
| 9:45 AM | 3.5 | Museum Education in Atmospheric and Oceanic Hazards
Jon M. Nese, The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA |