Education and Outreach

ATD values its role in reaching out to and guiding the next generation of scientists. In FY04, ATD scientists acted as thesis committe members to Ph.D. candidates, adjunct faculty for atmospheric research programs, and opened their doors and gave of thier time to undergrads and high school students to enlighten and inspire.

APOL

APOL's Biocomplexity Project was created by two highschool teachers (Brenton Burnett and Randy Albrandt) and two high school students (Ning Liang and Jason Christiansen) and was designed to serve the secondary education community in developing public understanding of climate change science and associated technologies. Visit APOL's site to see their work in describing the context of carbon's role in climate change, how APOL's laser spectrometer addresses important questions, and how this new laser system functions.

Expanding Your Horizons Conference

A group of Girl Scouts learns about Radiosondes and Dropsondes. The Expanding Your Horizons Conference is an annual event organized by the Boulder Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Its aim is to encourage pre-teen and teenaged girls to study math and science, to increase awareness of the options available in non-traditional careers, and to meet women whose careers depend on math, science, engineering and technology.

The conference was held on April 3rd in the CU engineering center, and was attended by close to 200 girls from schools along the Front Range. Thirty presenters were each asked to lead three fifty-minute workshops to groups of 12 girls each. ATD's Kate Young presented a workshop focused on atmospheric profiling with radiosondes and dropsondes (specifically temperature, dewpoint, and relative humidity measurements) and skew-t diagrams. Young created a hands-on portion in which the girls examined and plotted data from a shortened sounding file. They created a simplified skewt diagram by plotting temperature and dewpoint versus pressure. She then explained to them how these diagrams can be used to detect moist (cloud) and dry layers. As always, this enjoyable workshop was a great experience for these young women to learn more about the opportunities available to them.

Postdoc Fellowships

Weibring, Petter - Lund University, Sweden

Graduate Research Assistants

Roller, Chad, Rice Univeristy - Biocomplexity

Novella, Nick, Creighton University - Field Project Deployment

Pettigrew, Brian University of Missouri - Field Project Deployment

Kleefish, Stacy University of Illinois - Field Project Deployment

Husted, Linsay University of North Carolina - Field Project Deployment

Franks, Cristopher Creighton University - Field Project Deployment

Castro, Christopher Colorado State Univeristy - Field Project Deployment

Rogers, Peter Colorado State Univeristy - Field Project Deployment

Undergraduate Students, non-Science

Agee, Brad - Ball State University - Field Project Deployment

Cavanaugh, Liam - University of Colorado, Boulder - Field Project Deployment

Derner, Katie - Augustana - Field Project Deployment

Gallup, Mark - University of Arizona - Field Project Deployment

Lutz, Isaac none - Field Project Deployment

McIntyre, Heather - Metro State - Field Project Deployment

Peterson, Max - University of British Columbia - Field Project Deployment

Roesch, Conrad - University of Colorado - Field Project Deployment

Schellinger, Jennifer - California State University - Field Project Deployment

Spowart, Kirk - University of Colorado - Field Project Deployment

Torres, Rebeca - San Jose State University - Field Project Deployment

Formal Teaching Arrangements

Brown, William, Thesis Committee Member, Amanda Cox, University of Colorado.
Brown, William, Thesis Committee Member, Simon Alexander, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Campos, Teresa, Thesis Committee Member, Gannet Hallar, University of Colorado.

Hubbert, John, Adjunct Faculty, blank, Colorado State University.
Hubbert, John, Thesis Committee Member, Nitin Bharadwaj, Colorado State University.

Lee, Wen-Chau, Thesis Committee Member, Yang Yang, University of Hawaii.
Lee, Wen-Chau, Thesis Committee Member, Ren-Feng Liu, National Taiwan University.
Lee, Wen-Chau, Thesis Committee Member, blank, National Central University, Taiwan.
Lee, Wen-Chau, Adjunct Faculty, University of Hawaii.
Lee, Wen-Chau, Thesis Committee Member, Shirley Murillo, University of Hawaii.

Poulos, Gregory, Adjunct Faculty, Colorado University, Boulder.
Poulos, Gregory, Thesis Committee Member, Justin Cox, PhD, University of Utah.
Poulos, Gregory, Adjunct Faculty, University of Utah.

Stith, Jeff, Thesis Committee Member, Nick Anderson, University of North Dakota.