Precipitation/Land Team

Participants

George Huffman, Rob Simmon, Susan Blunck, Brooke Carter, Betsy Youngman

Workshop session goals and workspace
Precip Team: August 12
Precip Team: August 13

Hi Everyone,
I will be traveling all day on Monday, so wanted to introduce myself today (Sunday). I am a teacher at Phoenix Country Day School. I teach physical science and oceanography to 8th graders. I also teach AP environmental science to 11th and 12th graders. I try to bring current science issues and techniques into my instructional methods. I worked with the GLOBE project for a few years. (with my 5th grade classes) I liked their protocols and learning activities. GLOBE project (more info)

I have been working this summer on a lesson for the EarthLabs project. The lesson I wrote this summer is on drought, so precipitation has been on my mind. I look forward to meeting you all and to learning more about the satellite tracking of precipitation.

I have taken some time to look at Giovanni and the tutorials on the website there. I think the use of hovmoller plots looks really interesting. I am still unsure what our citizen science product is going to look like.

Betsy Youngman

links

http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/midwest_flooding_june_2008.html


http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/extreme_events.html

http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/extreme_events.html

2005 Minnesota Precipitation Gage Density
http://climate.umn.edu/HIDEN/density2005.htm

http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/realtime.3B42RT.2.shtml


http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/precipitation/


http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/

start here
http://www.weather.gov/hic/noaawatch/flood1.shtml

cocorahs june 8, 2008 Linn county
http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=IA