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COMET Executive Board Meeting

COMET Executive Board Meeting. 5-6 June 2012. Executive Board Agenda – 5 June . Executive Board Agenda – 6 June . Advisory Panel Role. Sponsors and Partners . Award Winning Program. Finalist Recognition International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009.

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COMET Executive Board Meeting

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  1. COMET Executive Board Meeting 5-6 June 2012

  2. Executive Board Agenda – 5 June

  3. Executive Board Agenda – 6 June

  4. Advisory Panel Role

  5. Sponsors and Partners

  6. Award Winning Program Finalist Recognition International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009 For Polar Lows Ungava Bay 01 December 2000 Recognized with the 2010 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Certificate of Merit for “Excellence in Content” 2004 Louis J. Battan Authors Award, K-12 Category for Hurricane Strike!™ 2009 National Weather Association Public Education Award American Geophysical Union Excellence in Geophysical Education Award 2006 2000 Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award for Community Hurricane Preparedness 2008 NSF and the Journal ScienceInternational Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Semi-Finalist 2005 Honorable Mention in the non-interactive media category of the Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Bronze Medal for Boundary Detection & Convection Initiation

  7. Staff Changes New President of UCAR, Tom Bogdan New Interim Director of UCAR Community Programs, Hanne Mauriello New Deputy Director of COMET, Pat Parrish

  8. And, I am retiring… in 2013

  9. Director’s Office Tim Spangler – Director Elizabeth Lessard – Business Manager Lorrie Alberta Michelle Harrison HildyKane COMET Organization June 20, 2011 • Cluster A • Wendy Abshire • Patrick Dills • Lon Goldstein • Matt Kelsch • Dolores Kiessling • Arlene Laing • Amy Stevermer • Marianne Weingroff • Cluster B • Greg Byrd • Alan Bol • Bill Bua • Bryan Guarente • Dave Linder • TsvetRoss-Lazarov • Elizabeth Page • Cluster C • Pat Parrish • Maria Frostic • Vickie Johnson • David Russi • Andrea Smith • IT • Tim Alberta • Robert Bubon • Ken Kim • Mark Mulholland • Malte Winkler • Media Development Group • Bruce Muller • Dan Riter • Carl Whitehurst • 3D Animator • Graphic Designer Operations Project Management 15

  10. COMET Organization May 1, 2012 Director’s Office Tim Spangler – Director Pat Parrish – Deputy Director Elizabeth Lessard – Business Manager Lorrie Alberta Hildy Kane Project Management Operations • Cluster A • Wendy Abshire • Patrick Dills • Maria Frostic • Lon Goldstein • Michelle Harrison • Matt Kelsch • Dolores Kiessling • Andrea Smith • Amy Stevermer • Marianne Weingroff • Cluster B • Greg Byrd • Alan Bol • Bill Bua • Bryan Guarente • Vickie Johnson • Arlene Laing • Dave Linder • Elizabeth Page • TsvetRoss-Lazarov • IT • Tim Alberta • Robert Bubon • Ken Kim • Mark Mulholland • MalteWinkler • Student Assistant: • Victor Taberski • Chris Webber • Media Development Group • Bruce Muller • Steve Deyo • Dave Russi • Dan Riter • Carl Whitehurst

  11. Program Output

  12. Staff Productivity

  13. New MetEd Features 20

  14. Queue, Quiz Score, Share Score 21

  15. My MetEd: Personal, Sharable Training Records 22

  16. Supervisor (Report Accounts) Page My MetEd Individual information Download complete set of records

  17. K-12 Teacher’s Page Student Accounts

  18. FY12 Expected Accomplishments All projected accomplishments are estimates based on project status as of 1 June.

  19. FY12 Accomplishments

  20. FY12 Accomplishments

  21. Particular Successes in FY12 Biggest success was absorbing loss of 9 staff, moving forward strategically, and enhancing productivity

  22. More Successes S-290, Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior Course: 1,888 certificates of completion issued in 2011 SkywarnSpotter Training Course: 2308 course completions since Sept. 2011

  23. Module Updates • Using NWS funding we are completing major updates of: • Wind and Waves DL Course • Space Weather Basics • Anticipating Hazardous Weather • No new NWS module update funding expected in FY13 • Satellite sponsors are funding numerous updates to existing modules 30 30

  24. Bureau of Reclamation

  25. COMET Modules by Topic as of 4 May 2012 Modules may be double counted because they appear in multiple categories

  26. International Activities US funded VCP and DOT projects International funded projects by Canada, Australia, EUMETSAT, and WMO

  27. Safe Skies for Africa Develop and adapt aeronautical meteorology training for African forecasters to meet WMO competencies qualification requirements by November 2013

  28. Africa India

  29. Two relevant natural disasters Iceland Volcano, May 2010 Japan Tsunami , March 2011

  30. COMET Responds Volcanic Ash DL Course, July 2011 Community Tsunami Preparedness, December 2011

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  34. As of 4 June 2012

  35. Module Content By Year

  36. Reached 1 Million hours of Online Education

  37. Interesting things that we ought to know

  38. Interesting things that we ought to know (as of May 2012) Most viewed module description page: Quality Management Systems: Implementation in Meteorological Services (https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=869) Most viewed DL course description page: S-290 DL course page (https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_course.php?id=14)

  39. SKYWARN Spotter Statistics for March 2012 *Course enrollment only. Individual modules receive much higher usage

  40. Total Registrants by Affiliation (with Education/Other) 29 January 2007 - 30 April 2012

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