19th Annual CIMSS High School Workshop held in Madison
Ten high school students from as far away as Connecticut participated in the 2011 CIMSS High School Workshop on Atmospheric, Earth, and Space Sciences, held 26-30 June 2011 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) campus.
The workshop included field trips to WKOW-TV 27, Weather Central, LP, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office in Sullivan, WI, the UW Geology Museum, Washburn Observatory, the UW Planetarium, the “Satellites See Wisconsin” exhibit at the Madison airport, Devil’s Lake State Park and the surrounding area for a tour of geologic features, and Madison’s Lake Mendota for a limnology dredging expedition.
CIMSS scientists Matt Sitkowski and Derrick Herndon work with students during the
hurricane forecasting session of the CIMSS High School Workshop, on 28 June 2011.
Numerous presentations were given at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) including Earth System Science, the 3D Globe, daily weather briefings, basic and satellite meteorology, tropical weather and forecasting (a crowd favorite), GIS (geographical information system) and remote sensing, weather at Antarctica, climate change, and aviation weather.
Mentor-guided training and student demonstrations were done in the traditional half day session with the SSEC Man-computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS).
