{"id":3536,"date":"2017-03-21T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2019-04-27T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:55:42","slug":"project-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/project-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3538 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atmosphere-climate-480-320-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Atmosphere-climate-480-320\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atmosphere-climate-480-320-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atmosphere-climate-480-320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Meteorological Society Education Program Summer Workshop<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date-display-start\">Sunday, July 16, 2017 &#8211; 09:00<\/span> to <span class=\"date-display-end\">Friday, July 28, 2017 &#8211; 17:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/ams\/index.cfm\/education-careers\/education-program\/k-12-teachers\/project-atmosphere\/\">Information about the Summer 2017 workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Workshop Details<\/h3>\n<p>July 16-28 2017<br \/>\nNational Weather Service Training Center<br \/>\nKansas City, Missouri<\/p>\n<p>The Project Atmosphere?is a two-week teacher professional development workshop offered by the American Meteorological Society&#8217;s Education Program. This project is specifically designed for K-12 teachers who teach science courses with atmospheric content.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop is intended to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduce teachers to the latest technologies and techniques for sensing, analyzing, and forecasting weather<\/li>\n<li>Explore and suggest ways in which the products of these technologies and techniques can be employed in school studies of the atmospheric environment<\/li>\n<li>Prepare workshop attendees to conduct training sessions on selected atmospheric science topics for teachers in their home regions during the next school year<\/li>\n<li>Encourage participation in DataStreme Atmosphere Local Implementation Teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each participant will be supplied with a variety of instructional resource materials, including those to be used in peer-led teacher training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>After successful completion of workshop activities, participants will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate updated knowledge concerning the sensing, analysis, and prediction of atmospheric conditions<\/li>\n<li>Show evidence of being able to interpret and analyze weather information acquired through direct and remote sensing of the environment<\/li>\n<li>Exhibit understanding of major weather systems and features, especially those that bring on hazardous conditions<\/li>\n<li>Indicate how they intend to promote weather education in their home areas by peer training fellow teachers, especially those who teach students who are members of groups under-represented in the sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Workshop Components<\/h3>\n<p>Project Atmosphere will be held at the U.S. National Weather Service Training Center in Kansas City, Missouri. ?The intensive workshop includes lectures, tutorials, seminars, hands-on laboratory exercises, and field trips. ?National Weather Service and other NOAA personnel will present a variety of topics dealing with the sensing, analyzing, and forecasting of weather. ?Presentations will be articulated with science content and weather education presentations led by workshop faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will include the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surface and upper-air observations and analysis<\/li>\n<li>Radar imagery and interpretation<\/li>\n<li>Satellite magery interpretation<\/li>\n<li>Weather forecasting<\/li>\n<li>Thunderstorms and severe storms<\/li>\n<li>Hurricanes<\/li>\n<li>Global climate change<\/li>\n<li>Teaching and dissemination of weather information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Activities typically extend from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm each day.<\/p>\n<p>More details are on the AMS Summer Workshop <a id=\"anch_24\" class=\"confirmation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/ams\/index.cfm\/education-careers\/education-program\/k-12-teachers\/project-atmosphere\/training-opportunities\/project-atmosphere-summer-workshop\/\">website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Meteorological Society Education Program Summer Workshop Sunday, July 16, 2017 &#8211; 09:00 to Friday, July 28, 2017 &#8211; 17:00 Information about the Summer 2017 workshop Workshop Details July 16-28 2017 National Weather Service Training Center Kansas City, Missouri The Project Atmosphere?is a &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/project-atmosphere\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[686,685],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-meteorology","tag-weather-classes","tag-workshops"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}