About Us
Research
Experiences in Meteorology –Integration of Science, Mathematics, and
Technology (REM-SMT) is a summer program, with academic year follow-up
activities, that focus on teacher and student development through research
projects in Meteorology that integrates science, mathematics, and technology.
This experience will permit teachers and students to develop research activities
that can be transported back to their schools to supplement formal curricula. In
the summer of 2002 eight teams of earth science, biology, chemistry,
physics and mathematics teachers and students, will learn the techniques of
meteorological research for four weeks in a setting where the excitement
of discovery and the discipline of scientific inquiry coalesce. Two students
will join each team to work with the teachers in developing research projects to
take back to their schools. The
students will also have a residential experience during their stay on campus.
During the year participants will devote one afternoon (after school) per month
and on one Saturday every two months. These
meeting are necessary to facilitate the implementation of the project during the
academic year.
The
research will be related to some of SUNY Oswego's current and recent projects
supported by NSF and Cooperative Program Meteorology Education and Training
(COMET). The goal of the recently completed NSF research grant was to improve
the understanding of winter storms in the Great Lakes region. The COMET grant is
a cooperative effort with the National Weather Service to improve lake-effect
snow forecasts by providing output from the Penn State / NCAR Mesoscale Model
(MM5) to forecasters at the NWS offices at Binghamton and Buffalo. Teachers and
students will learn how to analyze and display MM5 output using General
Meteorological Package (GEMPAK) and to verify model forecasts using observed
precipitation, surface and upper-air reports, and satellite and radar imagery.
After returning to their schools, the teachers and their students will be able
to access radar and satellite imagery and other weather data from the SUNY
Oswego World Wide Web site and our ftp site. Real-time forecast products from
MM5 and other weather forecast models will be available through these sites.
Teachers and students will be trained to use climate data and to run an EPA
dispersion model. This training will prepare the teachers to carry out research
in their classrooms with their students; the high school participants will serve
as mentors for their younger peers.
Teachers
will earn three graduate credits by participating in this program.
Students and teachers are recruited from various school districts in New York
State. An important part of meteorological research is measuring current weather
at the schools. Thus, participating schools are expected to purchase an
inexpensive ($600) weather station and provide the data from it to the college
researchers and to other participating schools. This will provide a
mesonetwork of weather data, which can be used in the initialization, and
verification of regional weather forecast models.
Each School is eligible to send a team of
one science teacher, a mathematics teacher and two high school students. Teacher
support: $1200.00 for 4 weeks
in summer; $600 for activities during the year; 3 graduate credits at the end of
the summer.
Student Support: Free room and board for 4 weeks during the summer, 3 undergraduate credits.
Summer
Schedule: Week
days 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM for four
weeks.
For
more information please contact:
Jack
Narayan by
email at narayan@oswego.edu
or
call 315-312-3692.
Al Stamm by email at stamm@oswego.edu or call 315-341-2806
For applications and additional information please contact project coordinator:
Andrea Marsh by email at amarsh@oswego.edu or call 315-312-3692