CIMMS Outreach and Education
CIMMS carries out outreach and education programs to educate, engage, advise and inform the public, teachers and students; These efforts support NOAA’s cross-cutting priority to promote environmental literacy.
Outreach and educational activities will lead to:
- Public awareness of mesoscale meteorological phenomena and their potential impact on people’s lives
- Enlightened college interns guided by mentors through unique summer research projects
- K-12 teachers in Oklahoma and Kansas equipped with valuable ideas and resources for teaching weather and climate concepts
- Diverse, outstanding graduate students
Supported activities:
| NOAA Weather Partners Educational Outreach | D. Thompson (primary – CIMMS at NSSL) and Tarp |
| Objectives: Provide outreach to the public on the activities of the NOAA Weather Partners in Norman. [more] | |
| Outreach Activities of CIMMS Staff at WDTB | |
| Objectives: Inform college students, emergency personnel, and the general public about warning-related research and training. [more] | |