Name: Rajul Pandya

Institution: West Chester University

Department: Department of Geology and Astronomy

Dean: David Buchanan

Address: Department of Geology and Astronomy

Address: West Chester University

City: West Chester

State: PA

Zip: 19383

e-mail: rpandya@wcupa.edu

phone: 610.436.2213

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Tell us how you use the Unidata tools in your classroom or reseach: I am still setting up the IDD. Once it is working I plan to use UNIDATA products in Meteorology classes. Use of UNIDATA software will be different in each of the three classes I teach. There will be an introductory general education class where students will use GARP to look at case studies in a closely supervised laboratory- discussion setting. As the instructor I will make use of GEMPAK software to prepare daily weather discussions and real-world examples of lecture topics. In an intermediate class, students will use GARP as a forecasting tool and to analyze CODIAC case-studies. A graduate class aimed at in service teachers will have the teachers use of GARP to develop their own weather maps. The idea is to help teachers understand how forecast maps are constructed and why these maps are useful. Hopefully they will be comfortable enough to incorporate them into their K-12 classrooms. The UNIDATA products will also support research with students. The research will proceed along two fronts - developing pedagogically useful visualizations for middle school students and above, and performing basic research into the relationship of cloud top temperature and maximum radar reflectivity.

General comments: I will only be at school until 7 May or so. I am spending the summer working with PAGE at UCAR, so I will not need any housing. Thank you.

Speaking/Presenting: Yes

Usercomm member: No

Staying for other sessions: Yes

Attending dates: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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