ATD supported graduate student participation in all field projects and hosted four ASP Post-Docs and two Graduate Research Assistants whose activities contributed to many of the research and instrument development efforts described in previous sections. ATD staff conducted numerous public tours of ATD systems in the field. ATD maintained and enhanced its observing system information web site, used by teaching faculty who need technical information about specific instrument systems.

Field project student participation: Two ATD staff, B. Brown and S. Cohn, delivered lectures, conducted demonstrations, and guided student project and reports for graduate and undergraduate students involved in the PROPHET project (see project write-up in Activities section). These staff also supported student participation in an ad hoc summer instrumentation intercomparison involving ATD and John Hopkins Univ. S. Cohn joined with J. Hallett (DRI) in planning a second Reno Basin educational program. ATD nominated the activities of Cohn and Brown for a UCAR annual education award. J. Stith proposed an instrument testing and education program using the C-130.

Undergraduate engineering students: ATD sponsored three engineering students for summer work. These students came from three different schools and three different backgrounds. All three students were employed in various jobs including some fieldwork. They participated in real life engineering deadlines, projects, reports, and design to get a genuine sense of work in an engineering research and development environment. ATD benefitted from their help during a time of critical deadlines, and expects to invite these three students back next summer and add two additional new students.

In his post-summer evaluation of the time spent at ATD, one student said: "The summer has been an excellent opportunity for me to gain hands-on experience in all aspects of engineering....I was given the chance to help with the production, testing and troubleshooting of the sondes. One of the things that I have enjoyed the most about this experience is that I had to come up with solutions to problems on my own."

Student Visits: Six graduate students from the Univ. of Arizona visited NCAR for two days, August 15-16, 2001. They received a description of ATD by B. Rilling, S. Oncley, and B. Brown and toured ATD/RAF. The students greatly appreciated the attention.

Other student opportunities: Michael Bell (Metro-State College, Denver) worked on the analysis of Hurricane Danny using KMOB and KLIX WSR-88D data. Bell helped compare mean tangential winds and reflectivity patterns from the two radars between as a function of radii and time.