Training University Faculty to Teach Future Meteorologists to Incorporate GOES-R Data in the Forecast Process Liz Page Stan Kidder Wendy Abshire Bryan Guarente 26 January 2012 Eighth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

What/Who is COMET?

COMET GOES-R Resources  FREE Web-based Materials  Registration and Assessment System  Summer Faculty Course

Registration & Assessment System  Part of MetEd website  Developed to allow users to take quizzes with each lesson to receive a certificate of completion  Student may give permission so that the quiz results may be shared via with instructor

Simple FREE Registration Required

Education Registrants  Total MetEd Users = 205,570  Total Education Users, 19 Jan = 95,809  Number of Universities Represented = 1367

GOES-R Related Modules

The ESRC: Environmental Satellite esource Center The ESRC: Environmental Satellite Resource Center

The ESRC: COMET’s Role  Maintain the ESRC website  Populate it with our own materials, including smaller, focused learning-objects derived from our larger training modules  Provide the necessary quality assurance and monitoring to ensure that all resources are appropriate and well described before being made available

Community’s Role in the ESRC  Use the site  Populate it with materials that you know and trust using the online submission form

2011 Faculty Course  “Integrating Satellite Data and Products into Geoscience Courses with Emphasis on Advances in Geostationary Satellite Systems” Held 8-12 August 2011 in Boulder, CO 24 faculty participants from across the US and the Caribbean Now prepared to teach future meteorologists about current advanced capabilities as well as next generation satellite data and products

Participants  Institutions Four-year colleges Community colleges High school  Countries US Barbados Costa Rica Honduras

Course Activities  Project Teams of 2-4 participants Each person presented their plans at the end of the course  Labs and class exercises  Field trip to CIRA

Examples of Projects  Adding GOES-R Simulated Products to Image Interpretation Lectures  Applying GOES-R Data to the Analysis of Overshooting Tops  Using Air Quality and Wildfire Products in Central America  Applying Satellite Imagery and Google Earth to Evaluating the Marine Layer  Integrating Satellite Data into Courses in Chemistry, Biology, Zoology, Microbiology, Astronomy, Environmental Science, and Physics

Summary  Resources available from COMET Free online modules Registration and Assessment System ESRC  Faculty Course Participants take classroom-ready resources back with them Projects helped expand the impact of the experience

Questions? Comments? Key URLs:    Liz Page (Project Scientist)  Wendy Abshire (Sr. Project Manager)