D. Hillger participated in a “Writing for the Web” workshop on 14 November.  The workshop was sponsored by the Writing Center of Colorado State University (CSU)’s English Department.  Writing for the web involves understanding the complex array of influences and expectations of users of web-based materials. (D. Hillger)

D. Hillger attended some of the sessions of an Information Technology (IT) Future Visions IT Symposium held at CSU on 14 September.  The opening session was a presentation on Google Earth and Google 3D presented by a representative from the Boulder CO offices of Google Inc.  Other sessions included the Future of IT, of the Internet, and of Computer Security.  The Symposium is sponsored by CSU’s Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC) which has hosted similar presentations in the past.  (D. Hillger)

 J. Knaff and D. Lindsey attended a web based training “webinar” entitled “Communicating Across Cultural Differences” by Judy Tso.  (J. Knaff, D. Lindsey)

M. DeMaria completed the mandatory NOAA labor training through the e-learning web site. The course had a recorded version and took about ½ hour to complete. The main topic was how NOAA managers should interact with the NOAA union. There was a short quiz at the end that was not graded. (M. DeMaria)

Several scientists from CIRA in Boulder gave a presentation on possible meteorological applications of Google Earth. They showed several examples of how model output can be overlaid on the high resolution backgrounds provided by the software. M. DeMaria stayed after the presentation to get some guidance on how to get started on incorporating hurricane products into the system. (M. DeMaria)

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