Unidata Users Workshop

“Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Geoscience Education”

June 8-12 2009

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	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Time	Topic/Speakers	Topic	Topic	Topic	Topic
	*Remote Sensing*	*Data Assimilation*	*Field Experiments/Instrumentation*	Climate and air quality	EmergingTechnologies Unidata at 25
8:30	Intro/Keynote	Presentations/Labs	Intro/Keynote	Intro/Keynote	Panel Discussions (3)
8:30 9:15	Welcome: Mohan Ramamurthy, Director, Unidata; Gary Lackmann, UserComm Chair & Workshop Chairs Rick Anthes-President, UCAR-Unidata 25th Anniversary and COSMIC	Brian Etherton, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Renaissance "Data Assimilation theory and simple methods-Barnes and/or Cressman Analyses"	Greg McFarquhar, Univ of IL (engaging students in field projects) Sean Arms, Univ of OK - "Students and observationally based research: start small, think big, and everyone wins."	8:30-Wayne Powell, CUNY, "Authentic community-based projects with student-collected data - an urban prospective" 9:15-Rich Clark, Millersville - Clark A Clark B Clark C "Science is as science does: Authentic learning by engaging students in research"	Emerging Tech Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald, NOAA Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Bill Schreiner, COSMIC Steve Ackerman, Univ of Wisc-(Hyperspectral) Randolph "Stick" Ware, Radiometrics-theromodynamic and humidity profilers
10:00	Break
	Remote Sensing (current & emerging)	Data Assimilation	Field Exp & in-situ instruments	Climate Obs, IPCC data & tools-use of model output	Lessons Learned, and Unidata
10:20	Continue Plenary
10:20 10:40 11:10	Phil Chilson, OU, Curriculum Materials for an Interdisciplinary Program on Multi-Function Radar Pat Kennedy, CSU-CHILL	John Horel, Univ of Utah	Bart Geerts, UW, CuPIDO (hands on exercises) Mike Daniels, EOL - Virtual Operations Center and Field Catalog (Don Murray, Unidata)	Eugene Cordero, SJSU Thomas Philllips, CU "Modeling the en-glacial hydrology impact using in situ field data and ex situ satellite imagery"	Lessons Learned:Chairs 1-2 Users Committee members 1 UPC staff member 3 from audience including a student Unidata - after 25 years-How is Unidata doing? Mohan Ramamurthy, Chair or Users Committee member(s), audience representatives
11:45-1:00	Lunch	Lunch-(Optional) Dave Fulker, Unidata Director Emeritus, round table discussion-"CROUNE" (Community-Relevant Observation & Understanding of the Near Environment).	Lunch	Lunch	*12:00 - Adjourn* 12:30 - Bus to hotel
1:00	Labs	Labs	Labs	Labs
1:00 1:40 2:10	Tony Mostek, NOAA/NWS-OCWWS Training Div, FDTB-Satellite data products Bryan Guarente, COMET, Instructional Designer, Greg Byrd, Sr Project Manager- COMET modules Jeff McWhirter, RAMADDA	Josh Hacker, NCAR/RAL	Junhong (June)Wang, NCAR/EOL, Overview on atmospheric soundings Bill Brown, NCAR/EOL-presentation followed by launch of GAUS system (balloon launch) The Mobile Integrated Sounding System from EOL/ISS Bill Brown-will demo the system	Jeff Weber, Unidata, Arctic Lab using RAMADDA 2:00 - Brian Tang, Weather in a Tank, MIT-Dept of Earth, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences
2:40	Break
3:00 3:50	Steve Ackerman/Tom Whittaker, Univ of Wisc.	Jeff Anderson, NCAR/IMAGE, Ensemble Data Assimilation-the Lorenz in Matlab	Randolph “Stick” Ware, Radiometrics Chief Scientist and NCAR MMM Visiting Scientist will introduce microwave remote sensing of air temperature, humidity and liquid structures that define local weather. A first hand look at this technology follows with a tour of Radiometrics (2 blocks south of NCAR Center Green and one block east of Boulder Beer).	Perry Samson, Univ of Mich.. LectureTools, which is being used by a number so classes at a number of universities and represents what a "clicker" system for meteorology might look like. 2. XamPREP, which is an online textbook that forces students to read the text before lecture and contains many active learning modules. 3. New research on how the introduction of laptops has affected student attentiveness, engagement and learning.
4:30-6:30	Ice Breaker & Posters Bus pickup - 6:30		4:30 - Adjourn-bus to hotel from Center Green 5:30 - Bus from hotel to Mesa

5:00 5:45		*Adjourn-bus to hotel*		*Adjourn-bus to hotel*
6:15-8:00			BBQ at Mesa
8:00			Bus to hotel

Each morning, coffee will be served upon arrival. The hotel serves a breakfast, so we will only plan for refreshments at the morning break. Lunch will be served each day, including an afternoon break.