Barbara Brown, gave a seminar on diagnostic verification titled "Practical Applications of Diagnostic Forecast Verification" with Allan H. Murphy in November of 1996. She also gave a talk on "Diagnostic and Comparative Verification of Algorithms for the Detection and Forecasting of In-Flight Icing" at the 7th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Long Beach, California in February of 1997.
Andrew Crook gave presentations on "Utilization of Radar Data in NWP," and "Modelling MCTEX" at a BMRC workshop in Melbourne, Australia. He also gave a talks titled "Sensitivity of Convection Initiation to Boundary Layer Thermodynamics" at the University of Kansas, and "Short-term Forecasting of Summer Precipitation Using Echo Extrapolation, Storm Characteristics and Model Output" at the Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, "Numerical Prediction of Convection" at the Sigma Xi banquet speech at Northeast Louisiana Unversity, and "Sensitivity of Convection Initiation to Boundary Layer Thermodynamics" at an Advanced Study Program seminar.
Kent Goodrich, gave a talk on "Applications of Fuzzy Logic to Windshear and Turbulence Detection Algorithms" at the Colorado School of Mines, Department of Mathematics in December.
Cathy Kessinger, gave a scientific presentation to the COMET COMAP-97 class, entitled "Microbursts and Downbursts."
William Mahoney, gave a seminar in Guangzhou China on "New Technologies in Aviation Meteorology."
Marcia Politovich, presented a paper on "Progress of the FAA Inflight Icing Product Development Team" at the American Meteorological Society Aviation Weather Conference in Long Beach, California last February. She also gave a presentation on icing forecasting at the COMET Manager's Course in Boulder during March, and a presentation on "Capabilities of Inflight Icing Forecasting" at the NASA/CRREL Remote Sensing for Icing Workshop at Cleveland in April. Marcia made a presentation on the "Current Status of InFlight Icing Forecasts" at a Kansas City Icing Certification Workshop in April, and demonstrated modeling capability for inflight icing forecasting at the Air Force Global Weather Center in Omaha during May. In addition she participated in an SAE meeting at Pittsburgh in September which covered "Issues in Forecasting Icing Type."
Rita Roberts, gave presentations at the SCAN meeting held at National Weather Service Headquarters in February, at the National Weather Service WFO office in Sterling Virginia in August, and at the Radar Conference in September. She also gave a seminar at NASA Goddard Space Center in September.
Gregory Thompson, presented a paper at the Aviation Conference as part of the annual American Meteorological Society Conference in Long Beach, California. He also presented icing research at the Air Force Global Weather Center with other RAP staff.
Thomas T. Warner, is a research professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
James Wilson, gave several seminars and presentations last year: two seminars at the Kennedy Space Center - one titled "Forecasting Florida Thunderstorms: CaPE Results," and the other titled "The NCAR Thunderstorm Auto-nowcaster;" an invited presentation on "State-of-the-art of Nowcasting Thunderstorms" at the 7th Aviation Weather Conference; a showcase seminar sponsored by both the Advanced Study Program and Research Applications Program on "Highlights of Thunderstorm Research: Doppler Radar Perspective;" a Trustees Presentation on "S-pol and Polarimetric Radar Estimation of Rainfall;" a 2-day lecture and laboratory course for COMET COMAP on "Non-synoptically Forced Thunderstorm Nowcasting;" a 2-day lecture and laboratory course for COMET Mesoscale Meteorology on "Non-Synoptically Forced Thunderstorm Nowcasting;" seven lectures at the National Weather Service in Sterling, Virginia on "Thunderstorm Forecasting;" and a presentation titled "Hector Initiation: Is it a Breeze?" at the 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology.
Dan Breed, gave a presentation to approximately 100 participants of a workshop at the University of Autonoma de Coahuila in Monclova, Coahuila Mexico in October.
Roelof Bruintjes participated in workshops in Beri, Italy and Pretoria, South Africa.
Andrew Crook attended the Modelling Workshop at BMRC, Melbourne, Australia.
Brant Foote participated in workshops in Beri, Italy and Pretoria, South Africa.
Corinne Morse, participated in the Wind Profiler workshop at NOAA in April.
Marcia Politovich, was co-chairman of the American Meteorological Society Aviation Weather Conference InFlight Icing Workshop, and Facilitator for the NASA/CRREL Remote Sensing for Icing Workshop Meteorology Working Group in Kansas City. She also was a speaker at the Icing Certification Workshop.
Rita Roberts, attended and made a presentation at the TIMEX workshop at Norman, Oklahoma in November.
Jonathan Smith, attended the USENIX LISA 97 conference on System Administration in San Diego.
James Wilson, did a presentation at the MCTEX Workshop in Melbourne, Australia on hector initiation and evolution and the WMO/COMET International Workshop on Very Short Range Prediction (2-day lecture and laboratory) covering Non-synoptically forced Thunderstorm Nowcasting.
Dan Breed, served as NCAR Science Fair judge for the Boulder Valley School District Science Fair which took place at the Crossroads Mall in Boulder, Colorado. He also participated in Lightning Data Center meetings at St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver and gave talks to 3 classes at Mapleton Elementary School and 4 classes at Coal Creek Elementary School in Boulder on weather, lightning, meteorological instruments, clouds and rain.
Barbara Brown, was interviewed by producers of an educational video on careers in statistics.
Jeffrey Cole, gave a talk on "Measuring Weather Parameters" at Crestview Christian Reformed Church VBS in June. He also demonstrated the Atmospheric Sounding System for a Southern Hills 7th Grade Class in May, and presented an instrumentation overview at the Marshall Field Site for Dr. Mark Williams' University of Colorado Snow Hydrology Class. In addition, Jeff worked with two undergraduate students: Donna Scott for the University of Colorado Environmental Studies Internship Program and University of Colorado Independent Studies Program, and Mette Boes for the University of Colorado Environmental Studies Internship Program.
William Mahoney, gave a seminar in Hong Kong titled "Windshear and Turbulence Characteristics at the New Hong Kong Airport."
Rita Roberts, served as Science Fair judge at Sacred Heart of Jesus elementary school in February.
Marcia Politovich, participated in the Project LEARN session on Web Resources for Weather Information for High School Science teachers in Boulder.
Gregory Thompson, did a slide presentation for NCAR's "Super Science Saturday" for K-12 children. He also gave a talk on work activities to the student chapter of the American Meteorological Society at Metropolitan State University in Denver, and participated in NCAR's Project LEARN, tutoring three K-12 teachers, and presented satellite meteorology information.