Course Outline for Meteorology 497
Senior Seminar
Spring 2012

Location: Hewitt Union, Room 212
Class Hours: MWF: 3:00 - 3:55 PM

Instructor: Dr. Skubis                                 Office: Hewitt Union 210                             Phone: 312-2799

Course Description: Provides the Capstone experience for all meteorology students. An original research topic is chosen with several oral progress and draft written reports given during the semester. A component of the study will also include the result of hands-on research of meteorological data. The final written reports and oral presentations culminate the Capstone experience at the end of the semester. The talk will have an audience of faculty and students.

Prerequisites: Senior standing in the Meteorology Program.

Course Material:

a.) Selection of a broad topic.
b.) Using library and scientific organization's online resources to retrieve, search, and read journals and textbooks.
c.) Narrowing of the topic.
d.) Reading and discussion of technical papers.
e.) The creation of an annotated bibliography.
f.)  Development of an outline.
g.) American Meteorological Society (AMS) referencing and paper format.
h.) Writing the draft paper.
i.)  Oral progress reports.
j.)  Evaluation of the draft paper by professors and fellow students.
k.) Writing the final paper.
l.)   Putting together a presentation for a timed final talk with questions.
m.) Participate in the asking of questions during the presentations.

Grading:

Written Draft: 10%
Oral progress reports: 5%
Final written paper: 55%
Final Talk: 30%

Office Hours: MWF: 4:00pm - 4:30pm, TTh: 2:30pm - 3:00pm and by appointment.

Calendar:    Link to schedule

References:

Barrass, Robert, 1978: Scientists Must Write, Halsted Press, 175 pp. 
Katz, Michael, J., 1985: Elements of the Scientific Paper: A step-by-step Guide for Students and Professionals, Yale Univ. Press, 130 pp.
Rodrigues, Dawn and Myron C. Truman, 1999: Writing Essentials with Quick-Reference Coverage of Writing Online, 2nd Ed., Norton & Co., 204 pp.
Seitter, Keith L. and Arlyn S. Powell, Jr., 1992: "Authors' Guide' Bulletin American Meteorological Society, Vol 73, No. 8, p 51-532.

http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/journals/index.html AMS Authors' Resource Center (ARC)

http://www.ametsoc.org/PUBS/Authorsguide/pdf_vs/authguide.pdf   AMS Author's Guide

http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/Authorsguide/pdf_vs/briefauthguide.pdf   AMS Author's Brief Guide

http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/journals/author_reference_guide.pdf     AMS Guidelines for Preparing References

The AMS has an official word Manuscript Template for AMS Journal Authors       Downolad AMSWordTemplate.doc

Place this file into your documents directory.  To create your new document with this template either left button double click or right click and choose New.  Now inside the document named document1 notice that clicking on the task bar Format and then Style... shows the proper styles.  Start typing in text and creating your paper and save the file under File → Save As....  The template will stay with this document so simply edit the document.

AMS glossary on-line http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/preface2

Trying to find an synonymous word or definition of a word use Microsoft's Word Thesaurus or connect to http://www.webster.com/

In search for a journal article on the web

Oswego College Penfield Library
http://www.oswego.edu/library/

Instructions to access the journals 

American Meteorological Society (AMS)
http://www.ametsoc.org/

AMS journals, 5 years or older, are available in pdf format from
 http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=index-html

Advance search of AMS journals
http://journals.ametsoc.org/search/advanced

Royal Meteorological Society (RMS)
http://www.rmets.org/
Penfield Library Journal Collection, 2nd Floor / v.54 (1928) - v.124 (1998)

Left panel: Publications

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
http://www.agu.org/

Left panel: Publications