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Education

The Society is keen to support education at school and university levels. If you run an educational course or program that may be of interest to AMOS members, please bring it to our attention using the contact details below.

2011 Committee Members:

Convenor

Dr Phil Riley

Bureau of Meteorology
Phone: (03) 9616 8322

p.riley@bom.gov.au

Committee

Mr Rob Willis
Phone: (03) 9561 7246

joannrob@bigpond.net.au

Dr Steve Siems

Monash University
Phone: (03) 9905 4406

Steve.Siems@sci.monash.edu.au

Dan Levin

weatherstation@aanet.com.au

Angela Maharaj

Macquarie University

angela.maharaj@mq.edu.au

Projects:

Current projects are as follows. If you are interested in being involved in any of these projects, or want further information, feel free to contact the Education Subcommittee at any time.

Student Essay Prize
The 2011 student essay competition will close on Monday 5th September.

Art Competition

The 2011 school art competition closed on Friday 4 November.

Study at University
We maintain an web page linking to universities that teach Meteorology and Oceanography, either as part of a undergraduate stream or as a short course. Please send us any corrections or suggestions.

Further Links

Science and Industry

FASTS – Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies: http://www.fasts.org/

Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry: http://www.cim.pt/eimi/

Schools

Science Week : http://www.scienceweek.gov.au/

Scientists in Schools: http://www.scientistsinschools.edu.au/

Scientists in Schools is a national program that seeks to bring volunteer scientists [including applied scientists, engineers and mathematicians] together with teachers into an ongoing professional partnership, with the aim of increasing awareness of contemporary scientific endeavour and knowledge within our school communities. You can find more information on the program at www.scientistsinschools.edu.au. The partnerships are completely flexible - both partners bring their professional expertise and professional requirements into the mix and they decide together how they will proceed, with support from the Scientists in Schools team. Scientists in Schools started in July 2007 and at present there are nearly 1500 partnerships across Australia. However, there are many teachers who are currently registered and waiting for "their" scientist and we expect this number to grow significantly in 2010.