Education&Outreach

Educational Activities

Teaching Arrangements

Eric Apel, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Miami
John Gille, Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Elisabeth Holland, Guest Lecturer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Elisabeth Holland, Affiliate Professor, Colorado State University
Sasha Madronich, Director and Principal Lecturer, University of Arapaca, Chile
William Mankin, Lecturer, Central Baptist Theological Seminary

Advising on Graduate Research

Frank Flocke (Sandra Lopes), University of Applied Science, Wiesbaden, Germany
John Gille (Odele Hofman), University of Colorado at Boulder
Alex Guenther (Kolby Jardine), State University of New York, Stony Brook
Alyn Lambert (Graham Ewen), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Sasha Madronich (Katja Dzepina), University of Colorado at Boulder
John Orlando (Camilla Bacher), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
William Randel (Mijeong Park), Seoul National University, Korea
James Smith (Matthew Dunn), University of Colorado at Boulder
James Smith (Sara Lance), Georgia Institute of Technology
Xuexi Tie (Guohui Li), Texas A&M University
Xuexi Tie (JiWen Fan), Texas A&M University
Xuexi Tie (Zhuming Yang), York University

Member of Thesis Committee

Rolando Garcia (Natalia Calvo), University of Madrid, Spain
Alex Guenther (John Ortega), University of Colorado at Boulder
Peter Harley (Jennifer Funk), State University of New York, Stony Brook
Sasha Madronich (Sophie Laval), University of Paris, France
William Mankin (Loic Jounot), University of Toronto
James Smith (Matthew Dunn), University of Colorado at Boulder
James Smith (Sara Lance), Georgia Institute of Technology
John Orlando/Geoffrey Tyndall (Camilla Bacher) University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christine Wiedinmyer ( Tanarit Sakulyanontvittaya) University of Colorado at Boulder

Other Educational Programs

The SOARS Program is designed to further science education and provide access to careers in the atmospheric and related sciences for students of minority groups that are historically under-represented in the science community. Each student is teamed with a science mentor, a writing mentor and a community mentor. In FY04, ACD mentored the following students:

ACD participates in a program with the Louis Pasteur Institute in France for students who have completed a degree in instrument design. The program is designed to increase the students’ experience, technical skills and language skills and to give them an opportunity to function independently. The students work half-time at NCAR for an eight-month period with one of the science groups in the division. In FY04, ACD hosted the following students:

Maxime Jager – Mentor: Eric Apel
Vincent Schell – Mentor: Sue Schauffler

William Bradley and Julia Lee-Taylor participated in the UCAR-sponsored Super Science Saturday.

Louise Emmons participated in the Women in Science Program for 4^th grade girls at Nashoba Brooks School, Concord, Massachusetts.

Peter Harley was an invited lecturer at the Climate and Global Change Teachers Workshop, July 2004.

Alan Fried (with Dirk Richter, ATD) gave a presentation at Holy Family High School Career Day, April 2004.

John Gille gave a presentation to the GLOBE workshop for teachers, July, 2004.

William Mankin taught (with Distinguished Professor Richard Olsen) a graduate course in environmental ethics at Central Baptist Theological Seminary.

William Mankin taught a three-session series of study on environmental ethics at the First Baptist Church of Kansas City Missouri.

William Mankin led a workshop on environmental ethics at the annual meeting of the American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains.

Steven Massie participated in an interview with a Chicago-based television meteorologist on the topic of possible effects of forest fires on weather in the Chicago area.

Christine Wiedinmyer gave a lecture and participated in a group tour with visiting 5^th grade class from Montclaire Academy.

Daniel Ziskin gave a guest lecture at Naropa University on the topic of faith-based environmental activism.