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The Ocean's Role in Weather and Climate
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Presenters:
Dr. Michael J. McPhaden
Dr. Michael J. McPhaden is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Tropical
Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array Project Office at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. His research focuses on large-scale tropical
ocean dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, and the ocean's role in climate.
For the past 20 years he has been involved in the development of ocean observing
systems to support climate studies in all three tropical oceans and in particular
is responsible for coordinating a multi-national network of deep ocean moored buoys
across the Pacific basin for the study of El Niño and La Niña.
Dr. McPhaden received his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in
Physical Oceanography and has B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York
at Buffalo. He serves on several national and international scientific advisory
committees, is a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society, and is past-president of the Ocean Sciences Section of the American Geophysical
Union. He has received numerous awards and citations, including a Presidential Award
for Meritorious Federal Service in 2004.
Scott Kiser
Scott Kiser is a meteorologist who has been with the National Weather Service (NWS)
for over 30 years. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and the University of
North Texas. He has held various positions in the NWS at offices in Albuquerque,
NM; Boise, ID; and Houston, TX. He is currently located at NWS Headquarters in Silver
Spring, MD, where he is the tropical cyclone program leader. In this position he
is responsible for the all policies and practices governing the tropical cyclone
program for the Atlantic and north Pacific basins. He works closely with NOAA offices,
numerous federal agencies and Congress.
Sarah Schoedinger
Sarah Schoedinger is an Education Policy Analyst for NOAA’s Office of Education
where she serves as program officer of the Environmental Literacy Grants program,
oversees a professional development program for NOAA’s educators, assists with the
implementation of the education-related recommendations of the U.S. Ocean Action
Plan, and serves as a liaison to organizations with missions and programs complementary
to NOAA’s. Sarah is the past president of the National Marine Educators Association
(NMEA). Since 2004 Sarah has been one of the leaders of campaign to increase ocean
literacy, beginning with the workshop to define ocean literacy and identify the
essential principles and fundamental concepts for grades K-12 to the promotion of
these concepts at the national level.
Prior to coming to NOAA, Sarah was the Education Director of the Consortium for
Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE). During her eight-year tenure at CORE,
she coordinated and managed CORE’s educational programs and activities. These programs
and activities included the Central Coordinating Office for COSEE (Centers for Ocean
Sciences Education Excellence); the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB®); workshops
on marine education; data analysis and collection on education and research programs
in the ocean sciences and related fields; policy papers on education topics; presentations
at regional and national conferences; dissemination of information on marine careers
and marine education programs; and serving as a liaison between the U.S. ocean sciences
and science education communities.
Ms. Schoedinger is a 1992 graduate of St. John’s College and holds a Master of Science
degree in marine studies from the University of Delaware.
Frank Niepold
Frank Niepold is currently a Climate Education Fellow at NOAA's Climate Program
Office in Silver Spring Maryland and a GLOBE Program Master Trainer. At NOAA, he
develops and implements NOAA's Climate goal education and outreach efforts that
specifically relate to NOAA's Environmental Literacy cross cutting priority. As
a GLOBE Trainer, he trains teachers in intensive field and laboratory settings throughout
the United States and Internationally, most recently in Phuket Thailand. Mr. Niepold
has spent seven years developing remote sensing educational materials for the Landsat
Educational Outreach team. He has spent 10 years working as a Middle/High School
Earth Systems Science Teacher. As a teacher, he developed an international school
collaboration series of projects using the scientist/teacher/student partnership
model to monitor climate change. Projects include: Coral reef monitoring in the
Caribbean, Red, and Arabian Seas; Global monitoring and validation of Aerosols;
Glacial retreat among others.
His collaboration on a paper about International GLOBE Program collaborations, Scientist-Teacher-Student
Partnerships For Aerosol Optical Thickness Measurements In Support Of Ground Validation
Programs For Remote Sensing Spacecraft, was selected by International Astronautical
Federation for their 53th International Astronautical Congress. Mr. Niepold and
four of his student's paper, Assessing Satellite-Based Aerosol Retrievals And Ground
Truth Validation For Terra's MODIS Sensor Over Urban Areas Using The Globe Program's
Handheld Sun Photometers, was one of the ten projects selected to be presented at
the 2003 Global Learning Exhibition, by the GLOBE program in Sibenck, Croatia. This
work was highlighted in several articles, one was featured on a NASA news web site,
The Globe Program: Science in the Sunshine.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_Globe_Program_Sunshine.html
Mr. Niepold is happily married with three boys and resides in Olney, MD, USA. He
received his MSEd in Earth Space Science Education (2006) from John's Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD with areas of concentration in Earth Observing Systems, Scientist/Teacher/Student
Collaboration and Earth Systems science education focused on climate. He earned
a BA in Human Ecology (1994) from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME
and B.F.A. in Photography and Video (1989) from Tyler School of Art, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA. An interview of Frank Niepold is available at the NASA Laboratory
for Terrestrial Physics Education and Outreach Web Site:
http://ltp-education.gsfc.nasa.gov/niepold1.html
Judy Reeves
Judy Reeves earned her B.S. in Medical Technology at Georgia State University and
worked in Chemistry and Blood Banking until her children's schedules made teaching
look very attractive. She received her Master's from University of South Alabama.
She has taught many different sciences (and World Geography!) including Marine Science,
Aquascience, and Forensics.
Judy has been recognized with the Presidential Award in 2000, the Radio Shack's
National Teaching Award, USA Today's All-Star Teacher Team, and as a finalist for
Alabama's Teacher of the Year. Judy spends her summers adventuring and traveling,
part of her "campaign to make life-long learners out of my students by exposing
them to all sorts of cool places and professions!" She has been a Teacher at Sea
twice; she has traveled to Costa Rica with Woodrow Wilson Foundation and to Japan
with Toyota, gone to Space Academy and traveled the Colorado River, and is presently
participating in the ARMADA Project for Teachers. Judy has been involved with the
American Meteorological Society (AMS) for the past nine years; since attending Project
Atmosphere and Maury Project, she has been a mentor for AMS' online courses for
teachers in meteorology and oceanography. She is currently working with NOAA as
an Einstein Fellow.
Joseph Shewmaker
Joseph Shewmaker has taught science in Palm Beach County Schools for over twelve
years. He attended the University of Cincinnati and graduated with a Bachelor of
Science in Science Education in 1991. After graduating he relocated to West Palm
Beach, Florida and began his teaching career at Palm Beach Lakes High School. During
this time he developed a Marine Science curriculum for the Marine Technology Program
at Palm Beach Lakes. He served as chairperson of the Strategic Planning Committee,
a group of educators dedicated to increasing academic performance through school-wide
initiatives. He and a team of other devoted teachers sponsor an underwater robotics
team that designs Remotely Operated Vehicles. They have competed at the International
ROV Competition for High School and College Students sponsored by the Marine Advanced
Technology Education Center. He enrolled in classes at Nova Southeastern University
in 2003 and earned his Master of Science in Education in 2004. He earned National
Board Certification in the winter of 2004. Mr. Shewmaker has been recognized as
an outstanding educator on a number of occasions.
Mr. Shewmaker seeks to instill a love of science in his students. He uses a variety
of creative and hands-on approaches to engage students in meaningful and insightful
lessons. He works at a Title I school and enjoys the challenge of reaching students
who are traditionally under-represented in the science profession.
Dr. Thomas Delworth
Dr. Thomas Delworth is leader of the Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group at the
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he
has been a research scientist since 1984. GFDL is part of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, and is one of the world's leading climate modeling centers.
Dr. Delworth's research focuses on climate variability and change on time scales
of decades to centuries, with particular emphasis on decadal variability of the
Atlantic ocean and its impact on climate. Dr. Delworth has served on numerous national
and international scientific research committees, has been a contributing author
for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has authored over 50 papers
for scientific journals and books.
Dr. Don Perovich
Don Perovich received a Ph.D. degree in Geophysics from the University of Washington
in 1983. He is a Research Geophysicist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory in Hanover NH. His primary research interest is understanding the role
of sea ice in the global climate system, with an emphasis on the heat budget of
sea ice and the ice albedo feedback. He has participated in numerous field experiments
including serving as the Chief Scientist of SHEBA, a large international program
studying the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean. The centerpiece of this program
was a year-long ice drift experiment. In 2005 he conducted sea ice studies during
a 2005 Trans Arctic icebreaker expedition to the North Pole.
For more information contact symposia@nsta.org
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