http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#discussion http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2812 We will be using this discussion format throughout the workshop to ask and answer questions on various topics. We encourage everyone to participate freely.

For starters, please jump in to say hi, to introduce yourself and/or just to make a test post and see how it works.

I will go ahead and introduce myself...
I am Karin, the sender of lots of emails! I work for SERC and spend most of my time involved with the Cutting Edge series of workshops. This is my first 'virtual' workshop, however I teach online and I participate in the occasional online forum, so this format is a comfortable one for me.

I teach an introductory course in environmental geology and I use a data-based assignment about hurricane frequency in the North Atlantic. I like the data-driven approach but I am looking for more ideas to strengthen this assignment. I have also noticed that some students go way overboard with the relationship between hurricanes and climate change. Some of them like to blame every recent hurricane and disaster (including earthquakes!) on climate change. So I am looking forward to hearing more about the recent science so that I can get a clearer picture of the relationship.

OK, enough about me. Now it's your turn - click the 'add to the discussion' link below to share your own introduction and thoughts.

thanks!
-Karin]]> Karin Kirk 1224093900 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2812 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2814
I am Brian and I will be participating in the workshop. I am really hoping to develop or adopt hands-on exercises or activities to use in the classroom, especially those exercises that do not require technology to conduct.

I am a medical geographer, with a background in natural hazards and climate change, now transitioning into climate change and public health issues.]]> Brian Bossak 1224266280 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2814 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2816 Ingrid hendy 1224267720 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2816 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2817
I've just added a screencast to the technical information page with an introduction to creating your account, editing your profile and working with activities. Check it out:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/tech.html]]> Sean Fox 1224272340 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2817 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2818 Lisa Doner 1224273240 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2818 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2819 Mel Huff 1224273780 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2819 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2820 Lisa Doner 1224273960 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2820 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2821 Ben Laabs 1224280860 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2821 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2822 Dave Dempsey 1224290040 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2822 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2824 Robert Kuhlman 1224446880 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2824 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2825
On another note, this workshop also interests me because of the online format. I have recently begun some teaching online - and feel like I am fumbling around a bit. Part of the problem is that I have never taken a class online. What types of activities/discussions/assignments will make my courses effective? I'm hoping to get some ideas from this workshop, and get something of the 'student' perspective.]]> Cindy Shellito 1224455520 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2825 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2827 I look forward to working with you in the morning.

]]> Chris Van de Ven 1224468840 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2827 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2828 Serena Poli 1224470040 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2828 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2829
I plan to post a few links on here to some data I've had success with using for my hurricane talks in the past. The specific linkages to climate change are something I'm hoping to develop this week.]]> Todd Ellis 1224507300 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2829 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2830 I'm Ned Gardiner, currently with NOAA's Climate Program Office producing visualizations. My background is in remote sensing, GIS, and ecology. Rather than pursue a faculty or research position after graduate school, I worked at New York's American Museum of Natural History building visualizations aimed at the public (read: middle school level of science knowledge) in HDTV. Low resolution versions of many of these are available at sciencebulletins.amnh.org
My production model is to work directly with primary researchers to convey authentic science messages and to that end, I am working with today's lecturer, Tom Knutson, on a project describing tropical cyclone science. Our product will be distibuted on the Science on a Sphere platform (sos.noaa.gov).

I helped organize this workshop because visualization is best used to aid other forms of communication and teaching. Working with this group is one of the most effective ways I can imagine of ensuring the highest possible impact of visualizations that I help produce because you each directly work with a presumably attentive audience of people who will enter all walks of life. I look forward to learning from each of you about the teaching process and perhaps being able to lend some resources for your own efforts.]]> Ned Gardiner 1224515580 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2830 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2831 I'm John and I generate geoscience web content for SERC sites and projects. I'm a geophysicist by training but have been accumulating some expertise in the realm of geohazards through putting together collections of visualizations on many topics as well as doing curriculum development on hurricanes for the EarthLabs project which I'll be talking about on Tuesday morning.]]> John McDaris 1224516300 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2831 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2832
I'm Tom Knutson and I'll be presenting on hurricanes and
climate change later today. Just checking to make sure
everything works here...]]> Tom Knutson 1224516780 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2832 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2835
I'm Jenni Evans and I'll also be presenting on hurricanes and climate change - shortly :)

Talk to you all soon.]]> Jenni Evans 1224517740 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2835 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2840 E. Christa Farmer 1224522060 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2840 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2843
And by the way, I do have the best last name for a meteorology professor:)]]> Julie Snow 1224522300 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2843 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2858
What I do is develop lab exercises for many of our introductory level GEO courses. I am a big fan of using visualization in activities as well as creating "guided inquiry" labs. Having the students be the scientist themselves is a much more rewarding experience for them (as well as for us). My goal for this week is to develop an inquiry based activity on the formation of tropical cyclones, including a section on the connection to climate change. Ideally real data will be used. While there is a lot of data available on the internet it is sometimes overwhelming... what to do, where to start...? This is true for many topics...

I'm looking forward to working with you all!]]> Danielle Schmitt 1224537720 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2858 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2859 I am Beth Christensen and I am in the Environmental Studies program at Adelphi University. We are located on Long Island, so there is a lot of student interest in the oceans. I will be teaching a capstone course on Climate Change next spring, and am working with Christa Farmer trying to reconstruct hurricane strikes on Long Island.

]]> Beth Christensen 1224539340 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2859 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2900
I am Julie Masura and I am a member of the Environmental Science faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma. I teach a variety of course which all include some aspect of climate change. This morning, I gave a lecture on atmospheric movement in my oceanography course. I did talk about hurricanes and climate change in relation to what we just learned yesterday during the two talks. Great stuff!

I was hoping to explore the vertical change in temperature due to climate change and the affect on hurricane development.

Looking forward to catching up with today's talks!]]> Julie Masura 1224631800 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2900 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2911
I teach Historical Geology and Integrated Science: Life/Earth Science, and I would really like to delve more into hurricanes and climate change.

I am trying to get caught up.

Does anyone know anything about hurricanes in relation to sunspots? From what I see on this page http://virtualsciencefair.org/2005/pete5o0/public_html/Pages/Results.html in Figure 15, sunspot maxima and minima are both associated with larger numbers of hurricanes. We know sunspots relate to climate, but they may relate to hurricanes too.

Well, I need to go and see the presentations I missed while I was in class. Enjoy the workshop everyone.

]]> Pamela Gore 1224688140 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2911 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2916
For the latest on this, try http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080928/full/news.2008.1136.html]]> Dave Dempsey 1224698160 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2916 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2979 Cheers,
--Christa]]> E. Christa Farmer 1224878700 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post2979 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post14022 Bertha Aguirre 1301448000 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post14022 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post14023 Bertha Aguirre 1301448000 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hurricanes08/discuss/welcome_please_say_hi.html#post14023