Teacher's Day
The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will be hosting a Teachers' Day in Montreal on Friday, 1 June 2012 at their joint Congress being held at the Hyatt-Regency hotel, 1255 Jeanne-Mance street, Montreal. High school teachers are welcome at this event.
Teachers' Day is a chance for teachers to experience an engaging and interactive day of educational ideas and activities about meteorology, climatology, oceanography, forecasting, climate change, and so much more! Come and learn directly from professionals and researchers in these fields.
FREE registration for teachers and speakers is now available online through the Congress Registration link found in the Registration Section of this web site (a special section is included and Congress Fees are set to $0). Lunch is also included! NOTE: Registration will close on May 15, 2012.
At coffee and lunch, teachers will have the opportunity to view the CMOS scientific posters, ask questions and exchange ideas with other attendees of the Congress.
The Teacher's Day Program is available online.
Please contact , Teachers Day coordinator, if you need more information.Invited Speakers
PLEASE NOTE : All presentations will be given in French only.
Biosphere - Environment Canada
Environment Canada's Biosphere offers conferences as well as live and interactive videoconferences to high schools across Canada in English and French. All five conferences are free and include talks on environmental issues such as climate change, clean air, water, responsible consumption and biodiversity.
René Brunet
Head, Distance Learning
The Biosphere, Environment Canada
24 hours of science
24 hours of science, Quebec's annual Science and Technology event, is a 24-hour period in which science and technology related activities will be held throughout the province on May 11 and 12. The event is for everyone, school kids and classes included. In 2011, 260 activities were presented in Québec's 17 regions with over 20 000 participants (including 5 000 school kids). The UNESCO even acknowledged this event for which popularity is continuously growing.
By the time the CMOS/AMS Congress is held in Montreal, 24 hours of science will have already passed. But get ready for the 2013 Edition (May 10-11), to enjoy or present science or technology related activities. And don’t forget to include your students!
Jacques Kirouac
Executive Director of Science pour tous
Perrine Poisson
Project Manager of 24 heures de science
Climate Change: a scientific overview
This talk will present the scientific foundations of climate change. Distinctions and commonalities between weather and climate are explained, and starting from an number of common misconceptions we see how, from a scientific point of view, we can answer a number of the most commonly asked questions with regards to climate change.
Dominique Paquin
Specialist in climate simulations at Ouranos consortium on regional climatology and adaptation to climate change.
Environment Canada’s seasonal forecast system
Every first day of the month, the seasonal forecasts issued by Environment Canada are made available, covering the next 3 months, and the subsequent 3 months up to one year. This talk will address how these forecasts are made, the main physical forcings at play and the limitations of long term forecasts. We will then be taken on a tour of Environment Canada's website and take a look at the different products displayed. The latest seasonal forecast for the summer of 2012 will be discussed.
Richard Moffet
Chief for Special Projects, Canadian Meteorological Centre
Renewable energy: the force of the wind
Electricity generated from renewable energy is increasingly in demand across the world. As one of many sources of renewable energy, wind energy is becoming more and more attractive. Unlike many other resources, wind turbines create energy without any harmful emissions or toxic solid waste, consequently reducing the contribution to global climate change. Moreover, it brings the benefits of power production to parts of the world where an electrical grid is not established or fully developed. This talk will give an introduction to the wind industry, will briefly show components and operation of the wind turbine made by ENERCON, Germany’s leading wind energy turbine manufacturer, and will explain how the energy generated by the wind turbine can be forecast.
Ivana Popadic
Météorologist, Enercon Canada
Les Scientifines
Les Scientifines is a non-profit organization, incorporated since 1993. The organization's mission is to promote science and technology among young girls to enable them to develop various life skills and prevent schooldropout and poverty among women. Les Scientifines produces a scientific newspaper, holds an annual science fair, supports primary schools in science education and offers science workshops for summer camps.
Valérie Bilodeau
Director "Les Scientifines"
Nora Hamadou
Animator and Project Manager
Weather Changing Climate
Even if more than one century has passed since Mark Twain said "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get", questions remain about whether a severe weather event is the result of climate change, or whether it influences climate itself. Explaining to the lay public weather forecasts during an active weather situation and its possible link with climate change is a challenge for meteorologists. In this presentation we will show how The Weather Network and MétéoMedia communicate weather forecasts during a high impact weather event and its possible connection to climate change.
Martin Bélanger
Manager, Briefing Services, The Weather Network, Pelmorex Media Inc.
Dorina Surcel-Colan
Meteorological Team Leader, MétéoMédia, Pelmorex Media Inc.
Physical Oceanography
Physical oceanography uses Newtonian physics to understand ocean phenomena such as waves, tides, currents, gyres, and turbulence with spatial scales ranging from a few cm to several 10s of km and time scales of a few seconds to months or longer. The equations governing the motion are similar to those used in dynamic meteorology. They differ from engineering applications of fluid mechanics in that the time scales are often long enough so that the earth's rotation must be taken into account — in this case a Coriolis term appears in the equations of motion. The underlying stratification also leads to additional effects. Methods borrow from applied mathematics and rely heavily on numerical modelling, and sometimes laboratory experiments. Applications include climate research, fisheries, navigation, and search and rescue in coastal areas.
David Straub
Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
McGill University
Projects Atmosphère & Maury
CMOS and its partners run an annual competition to select a Canadian teacher to attend a two-week workshop in July in either meteorology (Project Atmosphere) or oceanography (The Maury Project). These workshops are run by the American Meteorological Society and held in the United States. The workshops are subsidized by CMOS and its partners and so far no teacher has incurred any additional expenses. Kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers from across Canada are invited to apply. The deadlines for application are March 8 for The Maury Project and March 15 for Project Atmosphere. If you need more information please contact education@cmos.ca.
To participate :
http://www.cmos.ca/ProjectMaury.html
Still to come on this page :
- Teacher's Day flyer
- Quebec curriculum connections
- List of door prizes
