Projects

MMM staff have devoted many hours to sharing their expertise in meteorology with the public at large, through presentations and informal teaching arrangements. Outlined below are some of the outreach activities performed.

Daniel Breed: Gave a presentation to the 4th and 5th grade classes at Mapleton Elementary entitled, "Latitude and Longitude" in October 2001. In March 2002, he gave a presentation to the 4th and 5th graders at Douglas Elementary entitled, "Lightning," which included a slideshow and demonstration on storms, lightning production and lightning safety. Dan was also a volunteer judge at the Science Fair at Casey Middle School in January 2002.

Janice Coen: Created an elementary school video on "Demonstration of Greenhouse Effect" in July 2002. Janice gave many presentations on fire modeling, including one at the Steamboat Weather Summit on "Weather Impacts on Fire" at Steamboat Springs, CO in January 2002. In September 2002, another presentation was given at the Colorado Mitigation and Wildfire Conference titled "Tech Tools for the 21st Century: Wildland Fire Modeling".

Image used by Janice Coen to demonstrate what the infrared imager 'sees'. Image shows three firefighters as they walk towards the camera across a grass field. The temperature scale (in color) to the left shows how warm the subjects are, with brighter colors like white and yellow being hotter than colors like red and maroon.

Charlie Knight: Presented "Hail, Supercooled Water, and Phase Changes" to a High School class in Holyoke, CO in May 2002.

John Latham: Presented "Creative Writing & Science" to the Arvon Foundation in Yorkshire, UK in September 2002.

Margaret LeMone: Presented "Earth-Atmosphere Interaction: The Influence of the Earth's surface on wind, temperature and humidity" at NCAR in July 2002.

Rebecca Morss: Gave a presentation at the 1st Annual AMS Student Conference entitled, "In-depth Look at an Organization: NCAR/UCAR" in Orlando, FL in January 2002.