GSD Outreach Calendar

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Calendar for 2011


Category & Names

Dates/
Location

Sector

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
7993

UK 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
7993

N-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
6401
 

June

      

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