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] | |
| ADVANCE-PAID: Promoting Institutional Change at the University of Oklahoma and within the Big XII Conference | |
| Objectives: Initiate awareness and institutional change for gender and other diversity at the faculty level at OU in the sciences and engineering, in the Big XII Conference, and outreach to the community. [more] | |
| ADVANCE Leadership Award: FORWARD to Professorship | |
| Objectives: Continue to develop and deliver the FORWARD to Professorship workshop for women assistant professors in science and engineering. [more] | |
| Radar Data Assimilation Training for the Indian Meteorological Bureau | |
| Objectives: Provide training to Indian scientists as the Indian Meteorological Department begins its use of Doppler weather radar. [more] | |
| ARM Program Outreach Activities | |
| Objectives: Provide outreach support for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program to K-12 teachers and students throughout Oklahoma, Kansas, and the U.S. [more] | |