Climate Education & CIMSS EPO
Margaret Mooney
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A CHRONILOGICAL
OVERVIEW OF CIMSS EPO
starting with early “satellite imagery”
This is how we determined cloud cover
when I started at the National Weather
Service in 1985! (WSO MSN)
CIMSS Student Workshop (since 1991!)
Originally teachers & students
•  2002 - Separate Teacher
Workshop
Originally grant supported
•  Fee based (with scholarships)
starting in 2005
Significant pipeline to STEM careers!
STEM Pipeline – survey results
Where are you working and what does your job entail?
CIMSS, Research Assistant, GOES-­‐R Proving Ground (Jordan) Junior at UW-­‐Madison (AOS major) & Air Force ROTC Cadet First Lieutenant (Kathryn) Graduate RA at MIT Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, PhD Student in Environmental Chemistry (Luke) US Forest Service -­‐ Zone Timber Manager (Maggie) Masters-­‐prepared social worker at Akron Children's Hospital (JoAnne) Associate Researcher at CIMSS/UW-­‐Madison, hurricane focus (Chris) Graduate student at the University of Michigan in Applied Climate Science (Victor)
Undergrad at University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign (Mark) Ryan Woods AuUsm FoundaUon (volunteer), Middletown, CT
Tradition
1999
1996
2004
1997
2006
2005
2000
1998
2001
2012
2005
Teacher Workshops
linked to CIMSS Educational resources
Satellite Meteorology 2003
Satellite Meteorology 2004
Original
CD cover
Satellite Meteorology 2005
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satmet/
Resources GALORE!
Applets
(including quiz image)
Satellite Imagery!
VisitVIEW
CIMSS Satellite Blog
Tropical Cyclones site
Colleagues!
2006 proposal Collaborative Research:
Developing a Distance Learning Course for
High School Geoscience Teachers
University of Wisconsin & University of Washington
Ellen Lettvin
Steve Ackerman
Margaret Mooney Norlene Emerson Scott Lindstrom
Oceanographer
UW-Seattle
Meteorologist
UW-Madison
Meteorologist
UW-Madison
Geologist
UW-Richland
VISITview instructor
UW-Madison
Tom Whittaker
VISITview author
UW-Madison
Goals and Objectives
1) The Curriculum Design Summit (CDS)
2) The Distance Learning Course
3) VISITview Sessions & Virtual Classroom Visits by UW Scientists
2007- Satellites Application in Geoscience Education
Remote Sensing Applications in the Geosciences;
Oceanography, Meteorology, Geology
and Global Climate Change
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/sage/
July 2007
Also in 2007 – the IPCC report concludes that “warming is
unequivocal”
2008 - On-line Climate Change Curriculum
•  Based on feedback from
2007 teacher summit
•  Developed collaboratively
by four departments
(CIMSS, AOS, Geology, CCR)
•  Consistent with Climate
Literacy Framework
•  Clarifies IPCC report
•  Beta version debuted 2008
•  NASA 2010 GCCE support
for updates, revisions &
stipends for 200 teachers
•  Credit OR Certificate
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/climatechange/
2009 - Climate Change
Awareness for all Educators
Two workshops for G4-12 Social Studies and
Language Arts teachers, one in Madison and one
in Sliver Springs at the NOAA Science Center
(leveraging relationships!)
An elementary teacher from Madison
(who attended our workshop) leads the
local 350.org mitigation movement!
2010 - Climate Literacy Ambassadors
A multi-year NASA funded project (for middle & high school
science teachers) to raise awareness of climate science and
lay the foundation for the guiding principle of the Climate Literacy:
Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts Our CLIMATE LITERCY
AMBASSADORS project
leveraged ESIP Teacher
Workshops (Earth Science
Information Partners) funded
by NOAA NESDIS following
a Satellite Educators
Conference presentation
Our connection to ESIP
was a result of a NASA
grant to develop Satellite
Observations in Science
Education (SOSE)
New Great Lakes-Centric Water Cycle Diagram
with feedback from hydrologists from NOAA & UW-Madison
Our water cycle diagram
was included in the 2011
report issued by the
Wisconsin Initiative on
Climate Change Impacts
(WICCI)
Weather and Climate Connections
for 3D spherical displays
Collaborations with
•  Hampton University and The National Maritime Center (NOAA EVL grant)
•  Madison Children's Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, EAA & MG&E (Baldwin Grant)
•  Maryland Science Center, CICS, NCDC & CPC (NOAA EVL grant)
•  Aldo Leopold Nature Center
http://sphere.ssec.wisc.edu/
CIMSS Facebook Page – 900+ fans
http://www.facebook.com/CIMSS.UW.Madison
CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site
& CIMSS Satellite Blog are major
resources for the CIMSS FB page
CIMSS iPad Library, SatCam
& ESIP Teacher Workshops
In 2012 CIMSS launched a new initiative to engage teachers and
students in data acquisition and regional climate studies. The CIMSS
iPad Library, managed by the Schwerdtfeger Library, loans iPads to
science teachers for an entire school year! The first units were distributed at the
ESIP Teacher Workshop where educators learned about climate-related Apps, including
SatCam, where users collect observations of cloud and surface conditions coordinated
with an overpass of the Terra, Aqua, or Suomi NPP satellite.
The CIMSS iPad Library
is funded by NASA
ESIP teacher workshops
are funded by NOAA
Ongoing and Future Projects
•  Interpretation of Real‐Time Weather and Climate Data
for Spherical Displays (October 2015)
•  GOES-R Education Proving Ground (December 2013)
Includes the Satellite Meteorology for Grades 7-12 (new GOES-R
content) and working 6 teachers from 3 different states
•  ESIP Teacher Workshop (July 2013, UNC Chapel Hill)
•  Climate Literacy Ambassadors (January 2014)
•  Climate Change Education for Community Colleges
(February 2014) A collaboration with MATC,
involves a 100-level UW Climate and Climate Change course
for undergraduates & summer internships at MG&E
•  2014 Satellite Educators Conference at CIMSS!
Pending Projects
•  Climate Extreme Event Preparedness
and Communication – a proposal to
NOAA Climate Program Office (SARP)
for August 2013 to July 2014.
•  UW-Madison Climate Change
Education Partnerships Alliance Office
– a proposal to NSF for the period
June 2013 to May 2018.
Wait there’s more!
•  Graduate Students (funded on CIMSS projects)
•  Training for Professional Meteorologists
•  NWS collaborations
•  The Weather Guys
•  Wisconsin Weather Stories
•  CIMSS Satellite Blog
•  AMS WeatherFest
•  Soumi Scholarship
And finally, how can CIMSS
EPO assist your project?
•  The very fact that we’re here can
strengthen your proposal! (ex. NIP)
•  The UW has several outreach venues for
speakers or demos – or FB – or …
•  Please utilize the CIMSS education and
public outreach office to share your
research with others and
expand your outreach activities.