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2006 Unidata Users Workshop Agenda


Sunday, July 9

There will be a welcome reception starting at 6:00pm in the Crown Rock Room at The Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites.

Monday, July 10

7:15 am and 7:45 am Boulder Outlook Buses depart hotel for Center Green 1  
8:00 - 8:30am atrium Check in  
8:30 - 9:00 am north auditorium Introduction and Welcome Mohan Ramamurthy
9:00 - 10:00 am north auditorium Transforming the Sensing and Numerical Prediction of High Impact Local Weather Through Dynamic Adaptation: People and Technologies Interacting with the Atmosphere Kelvin Droegemeier
10:00 - 10:15 am atrium Break  
10:15 - 10:30 am center auditorium IDV demonstration Don Murray, Ricardo Nogueira
10:30 am - 12:00 pm center auditorium Using Interactive Applets in Your Teaching Tom Whittaker
12:00 - 1:00 pm atrium Lunch  
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm north auditorium STELLA Models in the Classroom: From Static Images to Dynamic, Interactive Models
John Snow
2:15 - 3:15 pm north auditorium EdGCM: Global Climate Modeling Research in Educational Environments talk Mark Chandler
3:15 - 3:45 pm atrium Break  
3:45 - 5:00 pm center auditorium Regional Climate Modeling L. Ruby Leung
5:00 - 5:30 pm north auditorium Brainstorming session  
5:30 & 6:00  pm CG1 Lot Buses depart for Boulder Outlook  

 

Tuesday, July 11

7:15 & 7:45 am Boulder Outlook Buses depart hotel for Center Green 1  
8:00 - 9:30 am center auditorium Using Numerical Models to Illustrate Basic and Advanced Physical and Thermodynamical Concepts Rob Fovell
9:30 - 10:30 am center auditorium Models as Teaching Tools: Simple Experiments, Tropical Cyclones, and the Rossby Radius of Deformation Gary Lackmann
10:30 - 10:45 am atrium Break  
10:45 - 11:45 am center auditorium Thunderstorm Initiation in the Rocky Mountains: A Case Study Donna Tucker
11:45 am - 1:00 pm atrium Lunch  
1:00 - 2:45 pm center auditorium EdGCM: Global Climate Modeling Research in Educational Environments lab Mark Chandler
2:45 - 3:15 pm atrium Break  
3:15 - 5:00 pm center auditorium Downslope Windstorm Lab Louisa Nance
5:00 - 5:30 pm north auditorium Brainstorming session  
5:30 & 6:00 pm CG1 lot Buses depart for Boulder Outlook  

 

Wednesday,  July 12

7:15 & 7:45 am Boulder Outlook Buses depart for Center Green 1  
8:00 - 9:00 am north auditorium CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems David Maidment
9:00 - 10:15 am center auditorium Spectral Modeling Techniques Michael Morgan
10:15 - 10:30 am atrium Break  
10:30 - 11:45 am center auditorium Empirical Models and Data Assimilation John Horel
11:45 am - 1:00 pm atrium Lunch  
1:00 - 3:00 pm center auditorium The Betts-Miller-Janjic Convective Parameterization talk Mike Baldwin
3:00 - 3:15 pm atrium Break  
3:15 - 5:00 pm center auditorium The Kain-Fritsch Convective Parameterization talk
Mike Baldwin/Jack Kain lab
Jack Kain
Mike Baldwin
5:00 - 5:30 pm north auditorium Brainstorming session  
5:30 & 6:00 pm CG1 lot Buses depart for Boulder Outlook  

 

Thursday, July 13

Please note: Labs for this day will be broken out into two groups, the blue group and the green group. You will be assigned to a group at the workshop check-in on Monday.

7:15 & 7:45 am Boulder Outlook Buses depart for Center Green 1  
8:00 - 9:00 am auditorium north LEAD Kelvin Droegemeier
9:00 - 10:00 am center auditorium LEAD lab part 1 (blue group) Tom Baltzer
9:00 - 10:00 am south auditorium Vis5D lab (green group) Leigh Orf
10:00 - 11:00 am center auditorium Science is as Science does: Bringing LEAD capabilities to undergraduate geoscience education (blue group) Rich Clark
10:00 - 11:00 am south auditorium A virtual tornadic storm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dynamics through data collection and analysis (green group) Bill Gallus
11:00 am - 12:00 pm center auditorium Vis5D lab (blue group) Leigh Orf
11:00 am - 12:00 pm south auditorium LEAD lab part 1 (green group) Tom Baltzer
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm atrium Lunch  
1:15 - 2:15 pm center auditorium A virtual tornadic storm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dynamics through data collection and analysis (blue group) Bill Gallus
1:15 - 2:15 pm south auditorium Science is as Science does: Bringing LEAD capabilities to undergraduate geoscience education (green group) Rich Clark
2:15 - 2:30 pm atrium Break  
2:30 - 3:45 pm center auditorium LEAD lab part 2 (green and blue groups together) Tom Baltzer
3:45 - 5:00 pm north auditorium Use of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model in Polar Modeling Jordan Powers
5:00 & 6:00 pm CG1 lot Buses depart for Boulder Outlook and Mesa Lab for barbecue  
6:30 pm Boulder Outlook Last bus departs Boulder Outlook for Mesa Lab barbecue  
6:30 pm Mesa Lab Tree Plaza Barbecue dinner  
8:30 & 9:00 pm Mesa Lab Buses depart for Boulder Outlook  

 

Friday, July 14

7:30 & 8:00 am Boulder Outlook Buses depart for Foothills Lab 2  
8:30 am - 11:30 am FL2, rm 1022 Panel discussion and open forum Mohan Ramamurthy
Gary Lackmann
Kelvin Droegemeier
Greg Byrd
Leigh Orf
12:15 & 12:45 pm FL2 lot Buses depart for Boulder Outlook  

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