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The Latest News from How The Weatherworks
Weather
camps for 2012 are already in the planning
stages. Our flagship site, Howard University
in Washington, DC, will have one high school
residence camp, one middle school commuting camp
and one or more elementary special camp experience
days. Camps (either middle and/or high school)
will also be held in Mayaguez (PR), New York City
(NY), El Paso (TX), Greensboro (NC), Jackson (MS),
Lincoln
(NE), Norman (OK), Miami (FL), Houston (TX)
and Phoenix (AZ). Work has begun on expanding the
weather camp program to more than a dozen sites by
the summer of 2013. This will be done in
conjunction with existing partners and requested
funding. Look for additional details during the
next few months.
Thanks to our weather camper
connectivities, we are now heavily involved in
fostering the nationwide growth of Foot's
Forecast, an innovative weather forecasting
program showcasing the talents of interested high
school and underclass college undergraduates.
Check in to see what future meteorologists are
capable of delivering in the way of weather
services.
The series entitled “Weather and
Climate of the States,” is now appearing in Weatherwise
Magazine. In November 2008, the initial
article about Florida appeared. Articles about
Alaska, Maryland-DC-Delaware, South Dakota,
California, Southern New England, West Virginia
and Oregon have followed. Additional articles will
appear during the next several years until all
states (or groups of states) and Puerto Rico have
been published. The well-liked articles are being
written by state experts including climatologists,
private sector and TV meteorologists, university
faculty and others. H. Michael Mogil conceived the
idea for the series, is co-authoring the articles
and is serving as its organizational editor.
H. Michael Mogil now writes for
three examiner.com titles: Weather
in Fort Myers-Naples area, Weather
nationally and Education
nationally.
Barbara Levine and H. Michael
Mogil participated at the USA
Science Festival (Washington, DC - Oct
2010), and at various regional and national
NSTA/NESTA conferences (fall 2010 - fall 2011);
they have also taught a programs for librarians on
"science fairs" and they co-taught (via Skype) a
program for Hillsborough County (Tampa area)
teachers in October 2011. They will also offer
activities and a stage show program about weather
at the AAAS
Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC - February
2012).
We have also just re-introduced
our "geoscience
in the news" web page. This page will
feature links to key geoscience news stories.
Finally, Sky
Awareness Week is coming in April 22-28,
2012. But, anytime is a good time to look up and
enjoy the sky show above. Recently, here in
Florida, we saw single and double rainbows several
times a week!
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