The CMMAP Graduate Student Colloquium was an opportunity for CMMAP graduate students across seven institutions to develop contacts and to learn together in a small group setting that is specifically designed to meet student's needs.

Colloquium Photos

• 2008 photos: set 1 | set 2
• 2007 photos

Agendas

• 2008 Agenda

Student Presentations

• Matt Aronson:
  • Learning Science: Understanding K-12 Teachers' and Students' Experiences with "Hands-on" Science
  • "Contextualizing Teachers' Working Lives: Findings from K-12 Teacher Focus Groups in Colorado"
  • LSOP Observation Guide (by exhibit)-DRAFT
  • Pre-Test 2
• Jim Benedict: Tropical Intraseasonal Weather Patterns in the SPCAM: Comparing Models with Observations,
• April Biasiollia: Before the Leaky Pipeline: Gender in Elementary Science Textbook Illustrations
• Pete Bogenschutz: Improving the Representation of SGS Turbulence and Clouds in Coarse-Grid CRMS, Or: What the the heck does this mean???
• Alice DuVivier & Jette Peterson: Automatic Generation of an Accurate Numerical Approximation of the Laplacian Operator
• Greg Elsaesser: Multi-Satellite Observations of Tropical Convection and associated Environmental Regimes
• Alex Gonzalez:
  • An Analytical Study of Filtered Tropical Flows Using an Improvement of the Longwave Model
  • MPG movie
• Walter Hannah: Simulating the MJO in the NCAR-CAM Using a Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Parameterization
• Anna Harper: The Relationship Between Deep Roots and the Hydrologic Cycle in the Amazon Rainforest
• Todd Jones: Stochastic Convective Parameterizations and Deviations from Quasi-Equilibrium
• Kate Musgrave: Tropical Cyclone Structure
• Claudette Ojo: Public-Private Partnerships and Climate Policy: What Impact Does the Private Sector Have on Climate Action Efforts?
• Mike Pritchard: Assessing the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a "superparameterized" prototype GCM
• Tyler Ruggles: Research on a Community Climate Challenge for Fort Collins
• Kate Thayer-Calder: So, what happens next?
• Gabriel Williams: Maximum Potential Intensity (MPI)
• Tak Yamaguchi: Modeling and Physics of Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability

Other Presentations

• Cindy Carrick, Dave Randall & Wayne Schubert: An introduction to research funding
• Scott Denning: CMMAP
• John Helly & Amit Majumdar:
  • Introduction to Supercomputers, Architectures and High Performance Computing
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI) 1
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI) 2
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI) 3

Proposal Assignments

• Alice DuVivier: The Cloud Bus: Generating Atmospheric Science Interest in the 6th Grade
• Greg Elsaesser & Mike Pritchard: Assessing mid-latitude storm simulations in a prototype "multi-scale" climate model using observations from a satellite constellation
• Todd Jones: Stochastic Convective Parameterization Development and Method Validation
• Gabe Kooperman & Pete Bogenschutz: 2D vs. 3D Grid Implementation of SAM in the MMF
• Kate Musgrave & Anna Harper: Analyzing the representation of hurricanes in SuperBUGS
• Kate Thayer-Calder: Investigating the Relationship between the MJO and the Indian Monsoon
• Mike Toy: Cloud System Modeling with a Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinate
• Gabriel Williams: The Effect of Internal Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones to Potential Intensity

• Proposal Evaluation
• Proposal Evaluation Results