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Outreach 2006 | 2007 | 2008

Calendar for 2007

Category & Names	Dates/ Location	Sector	Purpose	Contact
	January
Contributing editor and columnist for Weatherwise magazine	January (ongoing)	Public Education	Tom Schlatter writes a column called "Weather Queries" for this bimonthly magazine and has contributed to this publication since 1980.	Tom Schlatter 6938 Annie Reiser 6634
Wildlife Experiences Staff visit	January 8	Public Education	SOS Demo	Syliva Hasui 6709
Boulder Country Day School Science Fair Judging	January 23	Education	Joe Golden and ESRL's John Augustine judged elementary and middle school science projects for this annual event.	Joe Golden 6098 Annie Reiser 6634
MESA Elementary School (28)	January 25	Education	SOS Demo	Syliva Hasui 6709
MESA Elementary School (28)	January 26	Education	SOS Demo	Syliva Hasui 6709
SOS Demo	January 31	Foreign and Industry	Beijing Delegation with Vaisala	Sylvia Hasui 6709
	February
Owen Brewer mentoring	February	Education	Paula McCaslin mentoring Owen Brewer of Southern Hills Middle School	Paula McCaslin 3187 Annie Reiser 6634
GSD Supports Arctic Climate Modeling Program (AMCP)	Ongoing	Education	GSD supports the AMCP by providing them with weather data collected through the CWOP. These data are checked by GSD's MADIS and sent to 450 user organizations. AMCP is one of those organizations that incorporates this data in their K-12 curriculum.	Russ Chadwick 6318 Patty Miller 6365
"Chemtrails" a Discovery Channel special with Joe Golden interview	February 8, 9, 22	Public	Joe discusses jet contrails and their possible impacts on surface temperatures, toxicity, etc.	Joe Golden 6098
The Role of GPS Observations in ESRL Climate Studies - Talk by Seth Gutman	February 1	Government	To participate in the GMD Seminar Series	Seth Gutman 7031
SOS Demo	February 2	Education	Douglas Elementary 2nd Grade view SOS demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Hewlett Packard Visitors	February 5	Business	SOS Demo by David Himes	Sylvia Hasui 6709
NGDC Visitors	February 6	Government	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Sue McLean
College View Elementary School (2 groups) 5th Graders	February 8	Education	NOAA tour including SOS demo	Annie Reiser 6634 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Douglas Elementary School 2nd Grade	February 9	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Nancy Chiu
3-Star General visiting SEC	February 13	Military	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Sgt. Jacobson
Brighton Senior Center Visit	February 16	Public	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709
FR College Meteorology Class	February 26	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709
The Wildlife Experience Visitors (4)	February 26	Public	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Centennial MS TAG Class (20)	February 28	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ellen Steiner
	March
Chicago Museum Visit	March 8	Public	SOS demo and discussions regarding the acquisition of SOS for Museum of Science and Industry	Bill Bendel 6708 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Siberian Climate Observatiory Group	March 8	Foreign	Group here for global warming conference and will view SOS.	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Rhonda Lange 6045
Guests of Wouter Peters	March 9	Government	SOS demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Tiksi Observing Group	March 9	Government, Foreign	SOS demo while here for 3-day global warming conf.	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Taneil Uttal 6409
Mr. Ding	March 9	Foreign	SOS demo as part of visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Dr. Pettit	March 9	Government	SOS demo as part of DSRC tour	Sylvia Hasuiq 6709 Carol Knight 6401
Douglas Elementary School 2nd Graders	March 9	Education	SOS Demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Charter Secondary of Longmont	March 12	Education	SOS demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Prof. Spence Havlick with CU ecology students	March 14	Education	SOS demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Prof. Tom Yulsman and CU Sceince and Journalism students	March 14	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Annie Reiser 6634
Steel Elementary School 4th Graders (Group 2)	March 16	Education	SOS demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Steele Elementary 4th Graders	March 16	Education	SOS demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6386
Sky-Skan, Inc.	March 21	Industry	SOS demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Uni Hill 3rd Graders (Group 2)	March 22	Education	SOS demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Uni Hill 3rd Graders	March 22	Education	SOS demo as part of school visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
	April
Boulder Chamber Expo 2007	April 5	Public	GSD participated in representing NOAA at the Expo by manning the booth and providing handout materials.	Barb Deluisi 4233 Julie Singewald 6818
Group from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science	April 5	Public Education	SOS Demo with Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
NOAA Earth Day Open House	April 20	Public education	To commemorate Earth day by offering close-up looks at Earth system research, forecasting operations, and data activities.	Annie Reiser 6634
NOAA Booth at EPA's Earth Day, Denver	April 23	Education	To represent NOAA with booth and educational materials at the EPA Earth Day Event	Annie Reiser 6634
10th grade students	April 24	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Silvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Fireside Elementary annual science fair, Louisville	April 25	Education	Jennifer Mahoney will participate in the fair as a judge and is bringing NOAA handouts and educational materials to the student participants.	Jennifer Mahoney 6514
5th grade students	April 26	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Major Lee Byerle and Col. Patrick "Mike" Condray	April 26	Government	SOS Demo as part of a SEC Space Weather Prediction Center tour/Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
High School student visit	April 26	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
Meteorology Class	April 27	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
Group of 20-25	April 27	Education	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Ann Bradford 6286 Sylvia Hasui 6709
	May
Group of scientists	May 1	Government	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Russ Schnell Sylvia Hasui 6709
College students	May 1	Education	SOS Demo by Dave Fischmman	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Kuei-yu Jade Yeh	May 2	Foreign	SOS Demo by Harry Chen	Harry Chen Sylvia Hasui 6709
5th and 6th graders	May 4	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Ann Bradford 6286 Sylvia Hasui 6709
High School Students	May 4	Education	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Ann Bradford 6286 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Foreign press group	May 9	Foreign	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Weather Forecasters	May 10	Foreign	SOS Demo with Will von Dauster	Debe Fisher 6893 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Len Bloch and a group of children	May 14	Public Education	SOS Demo with Will von Dauster	Syliva Hasui 6709
Anson Franklin – Head of NOAA Communications and Jana Goldman – OAR Public Affairs Officer	May 17	Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Syliva Hasui 6709
A group from Honeywell, Inc.	May 18	Industry	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Syliva Hasui 6709
Jerry Rick – Backup Power Services, Bryant Clark – Chloride Power Protection, and Renee Pasek	May 22	Industry	SOS Demo	Scott Nahman 5349 Sylvia Hasui 6709
4th graders	May 23	Education	SOS Demo by Dave Fischeman	Syliva Hasui 6709
25 students	May 25	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
	June
Mary Glackin – NOAA's Assistant Administrator for Program Planning and Integration/soon-to-be Acting NOAA Assistant Administrator for the National Weather Service	June 4-8	Government	Visiting NOAA DSRC/SOS Demo	John Schneider 4646 Sylvia Hasui 6709
NWS/Space Environment Center and SEC guest	June 4	Public Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Larry Combs Sylvia Hasui 6709
Group visiting NGDC	June 8	Education	SOS Demo by George Sharman	George Sharman 6345 Sylvia Hasui 6709
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service	June 14	Government	SOS Demo by Don Mock	Syliva Hasui 6709
NCAR-based undergrad students	June 19	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Ann Bradford 6286
Boulder Press Club	June 20	Public	Holding their monthly meeting here for a viewing of SOS	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Rhonda Lange 6045
"I Have a Dream" students	June 26	Education	SOS Demo and Wooly Magma project	Annie Reiser 6634 Rhonda Lange 6045
Kevin Lynch	June 26	Foreign	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Rhonda Lange 6045
A group of science/engineering undergraduate students	June 27	Education	SOS Demo by Tom Schlatter for Doug Biesecker – Space Environment Center and a group of science/engineering undergraduate students sponsored by the National Science Foundation/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Program	Sylvia Hasui 6709
18 teachers from an environmental science methods class	June 28	Education	SOS Demo	Barb Deluisi 4233 Sylvia Hasui 6709
College students	June 29	Education	SOS Demo by Dave Fischman	Syliva Hasui 6709
	July
Ms. Shan Sun of NASA	July 2	Government	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709 AEM 6500
Paul Drummond Drew Hodgson	July 3	Industry	Attend a weather briefing and building tour	Annie Reiser 6634 Seth Gutman 7031
Russian Family members of PSD Scientists	July 5	Foreign	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Syliva Hasui 6709
CU Geography Class	July 19	Education	SOS demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709 Barb Deluisi 4233
Glenn Smith, Jack White and small group from Sky-Skan	July 24	Industry	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Dr. Charles Chemel	July 26	Foreign	Presentation on Cloud-resolving modeling of Hector storms using WRF and UM	Stan Benjamin 6387 Holly Palm 6779
Randy Villa	July 31	Education	Tour, Weather Briefing	Tom LeFebvre 6582 Rhonda Lange 6045
Weather Presentation Wild Bear School Nederland	July 31	Education	John McGinley gave a presentation on Weather to children at Wild Bear School.	John McGinley 6161
	August
ISET Students here for meetings and tour	August 13-15	Education	To attend program meetings with science mentors in GSD and take part in a building tour including SOS demo	MarySue Schulz 6499 Annie Reiser 6634
NASA-sponsored Conference members (ca. 58) visiting for SOS Demo by Steve Albers	August 14	Education, Government, Industry	To attend 2 demos by Steve on Planetary Satellites presented on the SOS	Steve Albers 6057 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of astronomy afficianatos	August 14	Public Education	SOS Demo by Steve Albers	Steve Albers 6057 Sylvia Hasui
A group from the Shanghai, China Meteorological Bureau	August 16	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of a visit	Katy Stewart 6005 Sylvia Hasui 6709
U.S. House of Representatives – Select Committee on Interglobal Warming and Climate Changes	August 20	Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of a visit	Katy Stewart 6005 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A representative from Lockheed Martin	August 23	Industry	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre as part of meetings in GSD	Sylvia Hasui 6709
NMFS Retreat attendees	August 28	Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of NMFS Retreat	Katy Stewart 6005 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Lt. Treu Martin – Commander of the second Weather Squadron	August 28	Government	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
Lt. Treu Martin – Commander of the second Weather Squadron	August 28	Government	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
James Paul	August 30	Public Education	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Syliva Hasui 6709
Minister of the British Foreign Office	August 31	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Sylvia Hasui 6709
	September
College students	September 6	Education	SOS Demo as part of their freshmen orientation	Syliva Hasui 6709
Carolee Matsumoto and Mark Smith	September 7	Public Education	SOS Demo	Syliva Hasui 6709
Representatives from Clark Planetarium	September 10	Public Education	SOS Demo by Steve Albers	Syliva Hasui 6709
Director of Communications for the American Geophysical Union	September 12	Public	SOS Demo with Dave Fischman as part of ESRL Visit	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Group of Women aviators	September 12-13	Public	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre as part of program in GSD over 2 days - this tour being part of their annual conference tours.	Annie Reiser 6634 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Participants of Graphic Information Systems in the Rocky Mountains Conference	September 14	Industry	SOS Demo as part of their conference	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui
Group from Korean Broadcast System	September 14	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald and to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for the 2008 SOS installation/support project that they are sponsoring for a new science museum in Seoul.	Syliva Hasui 6709
Attendees to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Conference	September 17	Education	SOS Demo and tour by Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group from the Wildlife Experience	September 17	Pub lic	SOS Demo	Syliva Hasui 6709
ISETCSC Workshop attendees	September 17-18	Education	Attend GSD-sponsored ISETCSC Workshop	Julie Singewald 6818
A group from E Source, Boulder, Colorado	September 26	Industry	SOS Demo as part of their 20th Annual Forum	Sylvia Hasui 6709
	October
A visiting scientist	October 1	Public	SOS Demo as guest of Dave Fischman	Syliva Hasui 6709
UAS Symposium attendees	October 4	Education and Industry	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of the UAS Symposium being hosted at CU	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Visiting scientist from China	October 5	Foreign	SOS Demo as visiting guest of Dave Fischman	Syliva Hasui 6709
Two groups of 40 second graders	October 9-10	Education	SOS Demo with Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
Liebert Corporation Staff	October 10	Industry	Touring NOAA R&D HPCS data center GA405 and SOS demo	Scott Nahman 5349 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of congressional staffers	October 10	Government	SOS Demo as part of ESRL visit	Katy Stewart 6005 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of attendees to a global modeling workshop	October 10	Public and Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of global modeling workshop	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group from Leeds School of Business	October 12	Education	SOS Demo and tour by Don Mock	Don Mock Sylvia Hasui 6709
Wooly Magma Demo at Denver Museum of Nature and Science	October 13	Education	To present the Wooly Magma project (hands on) to the DMNS's Professional Development Workshop "Rocks, Minerals, and You" for teachers K-4th grade	Annie Reiser 6634
Meteorology students from Front Range Community College	October 15	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre as part of NWS tour	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of 20 people from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration	October 16	Government	SOS Demo	Meegan Rogers 720-264-6553 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group attending the Extended Continental Shelf Workshop	October 17	Government	SOS Demo by Dave Fischman as part of workshop	Dave Fischman Sylvia Hasui 6709
Joe Golden visit to Platte Middle School \	October 18	Education	To present talk on severe weather and tornadoes to all of the 7th grade.	Joe Golden 6098
A group of Supreme Court Justices from the Soviet Union	October 21	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group from the National Ocean Survey	October 22	Government	SOS Demo with Dave Fischman	Dave Fischman Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of 30 – 35 junior ROTC students from Westminster High School	October 23	Education	SOS Demo by Dave Fischman	Beth Russell 6759
Ursula Quillmann – University of Colorado Department of Geologic Sciences and INSTAAR and a group of INSTAAR graduate students	October 23	Education	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Syliva Hasui 6709
A group from the Alaska State Museum	October 24	Public Education	SOS Demo and discussions on acquiring an SOS	Bill Bendel 6708 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Thomas Amis and Family	October 25	Education	To tour NOAA with children who are home-schooled. Included several GSD demos and visit to the WFO	Annie Reiser 6634 Greg Pratt 7237
A group from NOAA's Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Team	October 25	Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Rhonda Lange 6045 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group from NOAA/NWS – Space Weather Prediction Center	October 29	Government	SOS Demo by Steve Albers	Steve Albers 6057 Sylvia Hasui 6709
The first Eighth Grade Science Day attendees	October 30	Education	SOS Demo as part of 8th Grade Science Days	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Dr. Brent McInnes, CSIRO/Australia	October 31	Foreign	SOS Demo and discussions on acquiring an SOS	Bill Bendel 6708 Sylvia Hasui 6709
	November
The second Eighth Grade Science Day attendees	November 6	Education	SOS Demos as part of 8th Grade Science Days	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Getting to Know NOAA Through Time, Space, and Diverse Disciplines /200th Event in Boulder	November 9	Public	To open our doors at the DSRC to the public and showcase our science with demos, presentations, and a teacher workshop.	Carol Knight x6401 Annie Reiser x6634
General public, in particular teachers attending an in-service presentation	November 9	Public Education	SOS demos as part of the NOAA Boulder 200th Celebration	Annie Reiser 6634 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Andy Loughe - Weather Presentations for the Valley District of the Denver Area Council Boy Scout Merit Badge College	November 10	Education	To teach boy scouts about weather for the purpose of earning their weather merit badge.	Andy Loughe x6211
A group of 30 high school students	November 13	Education	SOS Demo and tour by Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A reporter and videographer from the National Geographic	November 14	Public	SOS Demo and interview with PSD's Marty Ralph and film SOS with Atmospheric Rivers that was developed at ESRL for the California State Fair.	Anatta Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of high school students	November 19	Education	SOS Demo with Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
A group of high school students	November 19	Education	SOS Demo with Will von Dauster	Beth Russell 6759 Sylvia Hasui 6709
	December
Wooly Magma Demo at North Elementary/Brighton, CO	December 4	Education	To present the Wooly Magma project to a gifted and talented after-school art class.	Ann Reiser 6634
8th graders	December 10	Education	SOS Demo and tour with Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759
5th graders	December 12	Education	SOS demo and tour with Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759
Mr. Myung Seop Kim	December 12	Foreign	To discuss carbon dioxide and Science On a Sphere® with Tom Schlatter. Tom LeFebvre giving SOS demo	Tom Schlatter 6938 Sylvia Hasui 6709
5th graders	December 17	Education	SOS demo and tour with Beth Russell	Beth Russell 6759
Two Groups of 5th Graders	December 19	Education	SOS Demos with Dave Fischman and Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
David Skaggs and family	December 27	Public	SOS demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709

 

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