RAMM/CIRA Quarterly Report

J. Weaver met with the new Fort Collins Emergency Manager and part-time staff (firefighters from the Poudre Fire Authority) to provide information on utilizing data that appears on EMWIN, the Emergency Manager's Weather Information Network.

The Kids in College program of the Colorado State University is an annual event in which children entering the 4th to 8th grades attend a weeklong series of presentations and hands on training in one of the offered subject areas. J. Dostalek and M. DeMaria gave talks on hurricanes and J. Weaver gave two presentations on response to natural disasters to the attendees of the Weather Research course.

M. DeMaria gave two presentations on Weather and Tropical Cyclones to 8th grade "gifted" science students and one presentation to "special needs" science students at Lesher Jr. High School in Fort Collins, CO. All three classes asked interesting questions, and one student described her experience in Hurricane Andrew when she lived in South Florida in 1992.