Unidata workshop on teaching meteorology in the age of the modernized 
weather service UCARÕs Unidata, with help from NCARÕs MMM and 
Advanced Study Program, is organizing a workshop to be held in Boulder, 
Colorado, 13Š17 June 1994.  Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 
and, (through COMET) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration and NWS, the workshop objective is to assess the need for 
and to initiate those changes at universities that will be required if students 
are to learn mesoscale meteorology effectively in the era of the modernized 
weather service.  It is a follow-up to the 1991 NCAR and UCAR workshop on 
Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology Instruction and will emphasize 
innovative instructional methods applicable to the rapidly advancing field of 
mesoscale meteorology.  Scientific foci will include fronts, jets, and cyclones; 
isolated convection, mesoscale convective systems, and precipitation bands; 
and orographic and topographic effects and gravity waves.  This event will 
follow a COMET mesoscale meteorology course offered for faculty of 
undergraduate or graduate meteorology programs (see 14).

The workshop program committee, chaired by Mohan Ramamurthy 
(University of Illinois), comprises the Unidata Users Committee plus Vickie 
Johnson (COMET), Joseph Klemp (MMM), and Ben Domenico (Unidata).  
Experts will provide phenomenological overviews and discuss relevant new 
observing systems and models.  Breakout groups will develop new curricula 
and exchange information about their own techniques.  Feedback will be 
sought on ways that Unidata, COMET, MMM, and other UCAR programs can 
facilitate improved instruction in mesoscale meteorology.

The attendance limit is 100.  University departments are asked to select one 
individual to attend, though multiple participants from a single organization 
may be accepted if space allows.   Breakfast, dinner, and lodging (at the 
University of Colorado) will be provided.  Attendees must pay their travel 
expenses, but small honoraria may be granted if funding permits.  Letters of 
application should include a curriculum vitae plus a description of how the 
applicant addresses, or plans to address, the teaching of mesoscale 
meteorology.  Of particular interest are applicants willing to participate in an 
electronic or conventional poster session for sharing innovative instructional 
methods, especially those that engage students directly in the use of current 
data.  Applications should be sent to Linda Henderson (see at right) and must 
be received by 15 January 1994.