Northern California

Last Meeting:
7 PM, Thursday, November 2, 2006

Location:  KPIX - San Francisco

Speakers: 

John Monteverdi, Professor (picture)
San Francisco State University
"The Science of Tornado Chasing"

Samantha Mohr, Chief Meteorologist (picture)
KPIX-5 San Francisco
Station Tour

 

Discussion:

Community outreach ideas
Food banks
Speak at grade schools – develop list of speakers/schools
Judge science fairs and provide $$ awards if possible
Get involved with Science Olympiad
Act as science advisors to teachers
Develop a teachers resource list
Give experiments to classes to engage students (preview at an AMS meeting)
Have science fair winners come present at an AMS meeting
Advertise AMS resources (grants, training, etc.) to teachers
Do something similar to SF Rocks (K-12 teachers collaborate with university faculty)

 Organizations represented at the meeting
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Custom Weather
Golden Gate Weather Services
KPIX
PG&E
Weather News
San Francisco State University
Sonoma Technology
Weather Underground
 

  • Chapter Contact Info
     
President:
Woody Whitlatch
Senior Meteorologist
Pacific Gas & Electric
925-866-5758
Wfw2@pge.com

 

V-Pres./Program Chair
Dianne S. Miller

Project Manager/ Meteorologist
707-665-9900

dianne@sonomatech.com

Sec./Tres./Web
Jan Null
CCM
Golden Gate Weather 510-657-2246
jnull@ggweather.com