GSD Outreach Calendar
Outreach 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008
Calendar for 2011
Category & NamesDates/
LocationSector
Purpose
Contact
January
Director General of S. Korea's Radio Research Agency
January 11
International
See demo of SOS and get information about installing an SOS system on Jeju Island
Byunghwan Lim
6633
General Services Administration Visitors
January 12
Government
SOS demo
Elisabeth Felder
5010
National Security Space Institute
January 13
Government
SOS demo as part of classes they are having here at SWPC
Annette Parsons
5694
Fraiser Meadows Retirement Community
January 13
Public
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Finnish Students visit DSRC and SOS
7/13/11
SOS
Don Mock toured Finnish exchange students around building and finished with an SOS demo.
Don Mock
6643
February
50 5th Graders from New Vision Charter School/Loveland, CO
February 4
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Seniors from United Methodist Church, Evergreen, CO
February 10
Public
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Joe Wakefield visited Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette
February 22
Education
Joe gave two presentations about weather to 2nd-grade classes at the school.
Joe Wakefield
6053
National Ocean Sciences Bowl group
February 25
Education
Here for SOS demo
George Sharman
x6345
Members of Flat Iron Mineral Club
February 25
Public
Here for tour and SOS demo
Don Mock
6643
Dan Birkenheuer judging for Roche Colorado Regional Science Fair
February 28
Education
In conjunction with his participation as a volunteer judge for this science fair, Dan gave a talk to participants on the regional judges award and reviewed numerous essays.
Dan Birkenheuer
5584
Group from Global Monitoring Division visiting
February 28
Government
SOS demo
Ann Thorne
4600
March
New Vista High School Students
March 3
Education
SOS demo
Beth Russell
6759
CU Dept of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences graduate recruit
March 4
Education
SOS demo
Rhonda Lange
6045
Groups from Lockheed Martin visiting
March 9
Business
SOS demo
Bob Rutledge
3029
Sixth Graders from Monument Academy, Monument, CO (four groups)
March 10
Education
SOS demos
Carol Knight
6401
CU graduate students of Chemistry (10)
March 10
Education
SOS demo
Rainer Bleck
7394
Ryan Elementary School, Lafayette, CO
March 15
Education
Two groups here for DSRC and SOS demo
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Ryan Elementary School, Lafayette, CO
March 17
Education
One group of 2nd graders here for tour of DSRC and SOS demo
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Dakota Ridge High School, Littleton, CO
March 17
Education
Two groups of 9th graders here for DSRC tour and SOS demo.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
USGS Survey Planning Group
March 17
Education
Group here for meetings and SOS demo
Beth Russell
6759
Two groups of 5th graders from Meiklejohn Elementary School, Arvada, CO
March 22
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Two groups from Lincoln Academy, Arvada, CO
March 23
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Group from Beacon Country Day School, Greenwood Village, CO
March 24
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
DC Oakes High School of Castle Rock, CO (2 groups)
March 29
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Beth Russell
Hilary Peddicord
7993UK Visitors to SWPC
March 29
International
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Bob Rutledge
3029
Group from Agape Family Schools of Loveland, Colorado
March 30
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Group of senior citizens from Junior League
March 30
Public
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Group from National Security Space Institute (NSSI)
March 31
Federal
SOS demo during visit to GSD
Annette Parsons
5694
Exploring Minds Academy
March 31
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
April
Carl Bullock mentoring Eagle Scout on Weather Merit Badge
April 3-June 15
Education
To help this scout successfully complete his weather merit badge and qualify for an environmental award.
Carl Bullock
3954
A group of 20 third grade students from Sacret Heart of Jesus School, Boulder, Colorado
April 5
Education
Science On a Sphere® demonstration as part of a DSRC tour.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
A group from the Environmental Protection Agency is visiting GSD Wednesday
April 6
Government
Science On a Sphere® demonstration as a part of meetings at the DSRC
Katy Stewart
6005
A student from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation is visiting GSD Wednesday
April 6
Education
Science On a Sphere® demonstration as part of a DSRC tour
George Sharman
6345
First Robotics Competition Judging
April 7-9
Education
To serve as a judge for this event
Dan Birkenheuer
5584
A group of graduate students from Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, Minnesota
April 7-9
Education
Science On a Sphere® demonstration as part of a DSRC tour
Eric Williams
3226
Two groups of home-schooled students
April 7
Education
Science On a Sphere® demonstrations as part of a DSRC tour
Pam Grothe
6120
A group of students from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
April 8
Education
Science On a Sphere® demonstration as part of a DSRC tour
Brian Vassel
6655
Family of late David Himes
April 8
Public
SOS demo for renaming of Planet Theater to "The David Himes Planet Theater"
Katy Stewart
6005
CU Library Board
April 19
Education
SOS demo
Russ Schnell
6733
Students from Sierra Elementary School, Arvada, CO
April 21
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour.
George Sharman
6345
Students from Long View High School, Lakewood, CO
April 21
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Earth Day Open House
April 22
Public
SOS demos as part of DSRC Open House sponsored by the BOCC
Carol Knight
6401
Park County Middle Schools - three groups of 6th graders
April 25
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program Staff
April 27
Education
SOS demo
George Sharman
6345
Two groups attending Space Weather workshop
April 27 -28
Government
SOS demo
Hilary Peddicord
7993
75 kids and sponsor from National Security Space Institute (NSSI)
April 28
Education
SOS demos as part of DSRC tours
Hilary Peddicord
7993
May
International guests from US State Department
May 4
Government
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Russ Schnell
6733
Las Cruces Middle School, NM
May 10
Education
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour for school
Carol Knight
6401
Hilary Peddicord
7993N-Wave Stakeholders Users Conference
May 10
Industry
SOS demo as part of conference at DSRC
Tamara Fearno
6225
4th graders from Academy Elementary
May 11
Education
SOS demo as part of a school tour of DSRC
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Gifted & Talented 5th Graders from Texas
May 20
Education
SOS demo as part of school tour of DSRC
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Carol Knight
6401June
Boulder Rotary Club
June 3
Public
SOS demo as part of a public tour of DSRC
Hilary Peddicord
7993
US Forest Service Research Station Employees
June 8
Government
SOS demo
Beth Russell
6759
NCAR's NSF-funded Undergraduate Leadership Program
6/15/11
SOS
Tour of building and SOS along with research opportunities in ESRL
Hilary Peddicord
7993
National Space Security Institute (NSSI)
6/16/11
SOS
SOS as part of DSRC visit with NWS
Annette Parsons
5694
European Union Science Counsellors
6/16/11
SOS
Science Ambassadors from EU embassies in DC came to DSRC to get a feel for ESRL research and NOAA-Boulder. SOS reception
Carol Knight
6401
Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
6/17/11
SOS
A tour of DSRC and NGDC will included SOS for the remote sensing group
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Mark Chapin of Austin, TX
6/17/11
SOS
SOS demo by Sandy MacDonald as part of visit to DSRC.
Rhonda Lange
6045
CU Environmental Engineering Class
6/17/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of tour of DSRC
Hilary Peddicord
7993
University of Colorado Geography class
6/20/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of a tour of DSRC
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Kathy Sullivan, Asst Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction
6/27/11
GSD - Director's Office
John Schneider briefed the Asst Secretary on NOAA's modeling/computing advances
Carol Knight
6401
Excel Academy of Arvada, CO
06/29/11
SOS
A small group of children, ages 7-12 and six adults toured the building as well as SOS.
Beth Russell
6709
Maureen Wiley - NOAA Budget Director and family
6/30/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Beth Russell
6709
David Skaggs (former CO congressman, for whom building is named), family and friends Tour
6/30/11
SOS
Don Mock gave a tour of the building with an SOS demo
Beth Russell
6709
July
Globe Program
7/6/11
SOS
SOS demo was given to heads of Globe program office in Boulder pointed directly towards the datasets which have been prepared for GLOBE education activities
Hilary Peddicord
7993
National Association for Interpretation (NAI)
7/7/11
SOS
consulted with SOS on planning strategies.
Beth Russell
6759
Colorado Teachers as part of RETI, a course for climate literacy specifically for teachers put on by NCAR/UNC visited DSRC.
7/14/11
SOS
Teachers were shown how SOS can assist them in the classroom with GLOBE and other datasets.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Kindercare of Arvada, CO brought 28 5-12 yr olds to DSRC and SOS
7/14/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
National Weather Center undergraduates saw SOS as part of DSRC tour for careers
7/15/11
SOS
Undergrads are brought to NOAA to explore scientific research ideas and were able to view SOS
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a renewable energy think tank sent their interns to DSRC
7/19/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of tour for graduate students at RMI.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Colfax Community Network
7/20/11
SOS
35 children and adults visited from Colfax Community Network for an SOS demonstration.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
NSSI - National Security Space Institute
7/21/11
SOS
NSSI viewed SOS as part of the classes they took in the building.
Annette Parsons
5694
LCDP - Leadership Competencies Development Program
7/25/11
SOS
22 attendees viewed SOS as part of DSRC tour
Tamara Fearno
6225
Supercomputing '11 planning meeting attendees
7/28/11
SOS
Reviewed datasets on SOS for conference
Tamara Fearno
6225
August
GRASP - Geoscience Research at Storm Peak of Steamboat, CO
8/1/11
SOS
SOS as part of DSRC tour for undergrad internship program.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
Shades of Blue Program
8/2/11
SOS
30 children and adults from Denver Metro area are part of program for bringing up service men and women
Hilary Peddicord
7993
NIST Office of Public Affairs from International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)
8/3/11
SOS
SOS demo
Jim Burrus
4789
International Space Weather Summer School, Los Alamos, NM
8/4/11
SOS
SOS as part of SWPC tour
Robert Steenburgh
5153
Seniors group of early stage Alzheimer's
8/9/11
SOS
SOS as part of short DSRC tour
Hilary Peddicord
7993
NWS
8/10/11
GSD - Director's Office
Meetings on rapid prototyping for AWIPSII and overcoming project management challenges between organizations.
John Schneider
4646
NSSI National Security Space Institute
8/11/11
SOS
SOS as break from classes at DSRC.
Annette Parsons
5694
Cameron Kerry - DOC General Counsel - visited Dr. MacDonald at DSRC.
8/19/11
SOS
SOS demo as part of tour of DSRC
Don Mock
6643
Presbyterians for Earth Care visited DSRC for SOS
8/31/11
SOS
A group from Presbyterians for Earth Care visited DSRC for an SOS demo.
Hilary Peddicord
7993
September
October
November
December