How The Weatherworks

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Weather camps for 2012 are well into the planning stages. Our flagship site, Howard University in Washington, DC, will have one high school residence camp, one middle school commuting camp and, tentatively, one elementary special camp experience day. 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 and future partners and current and proposed new funding sources. 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 lower class college undergraduates. Check the Foot's Forecast site 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 AAAS Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC - February 2012). There, they shared weather activities with hundreds of visitors and also presented an exciting audience-participatory stage show program. Mike and Barbara also presenting at the March 2012 National Science Teacher's Conference in Indianapolis, IN (formal talk on Weather Camps and 3 NESTA Share-A-Thon programs). Mike also presented a keynote talk to the 37th Northeast Snow Conference in Rutland, VT in early March 2012.

Mike will be providing weather support to the 2012 "Balloons Over Paradise" Festival in Immokalee, FL during the weekend of April 14-15, 2012. Mike and Barbara, along with Foot's Forecast, will share a booth at the upcoming USA Science Festival (Washington, DC - April 28-29, 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. We now have a Sky Awareness Facebook Page, so please check it out and contribute sky photography.