- Thermal Infrared Radiative Effects of Various Urban Materials Upon Vegetation
- Lake-Effect Precipitation in Michigan
- Global Warming: An Introduction
- The 1988 Forest Fires of Yellowstone National Park
- Time Series Analysis Of 20 Years of Hourly Precipitation in Southwest Michigan
- A Lesson on the Arbitrary Nature of Thermometer Scales Using the Historical Case of the Creation of the Fahrenheit Temperature Scale
- Geoscience Conceptual Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers: Results from the Geoscience Concept Inventory
- An Overview of Conceptual Change Research
- Analyzing the Effects of Inquiry-Based Instruction on the Learning of Atmospheric Science Among Pre-Service Teacher Education Students
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Last updated: August 28, 2008
About This Site
THE WEBMASTER: I graduated in December of 2006 with a Ph.D. in Science Education from the Mallinson Institute for Science Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. My dissertation, which is an analysis of the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction on the learning of basic concepts in atmospheric science among education students, is available for download by clicking here. After graduating with my Ph.D., I taught physical geography courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College for awhile before taking my current job as a field researcher in project evaluation at the center for Science and Mathematics Program Improvement (SAMPI) at Western Michigan University.
"The sun doesn't rise or fall; it just sits there, and we rotate in front of it. The sun never 'goes away' from the sky. It's still there sharing the same sky with us; it's simply that there's a chunck of opaque earth between us and the sun which prevents us from seeing it. No longer do I drive down a highway and wish the blinding sun would set; instead I wish we could speed up our rotation a bit and swing around into the shadows more quickly." ---(Michael Collins)
LINKS TO PHOTO GALLERIES:
PAGE ONE: This page contains my various photo galleries highlighting God's natural geographic wonders (and some of man's artifical creations) in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Idaho, Michigan, Indiana, New Hampshire, Hawaii, British Columbia, Washington State, Arizona, and more!
PAGE TWO: This page contains photo galleries containing pictures I took during Western Michigan University's May 2001 Regional Geography Field Course to Yellowstone National Park. (Note: I went along as an assistant.)
PAGE THREE: This page contains various photo galleries of natural geographic wonders in California, New York City, Indiana, South Dakota, Pittsburgh, Boston, Niagara Falls, and Michigan. (The pictures in these galleries were not taken by me but rather by people that I know.)
PAGE FOUR: This page contains my photo galleries highlighting weather related events in Michigan, Wyoming, and Nebraska (thunderstorms, winter, rainbows, etc.).
LINKS TO CLIMATE DATA:
DAILY CLIMATE DATA: This page contains daily temperature normals and high/low records for various locations in Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota.
RECENT TEMPERATURE RECORDS: This page contains record high and low temperaturres that have been set recently at various locations in Michigan, Illinios, and Minnesota.
MONTHLY DATA - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN: This page contains mean monthly temperatures and precipitation & snowfall data for Grand Rapids, Michigan (from October 1948 through the current month).
SNOWFALL - KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN: This page contains snowfall data for Kalamazoo, Michigan (1998 through 2008).
LINKS TO WEATHER PAGES:
WEATHER HUMOR: This page contains weather jokes and humor. It includes "Diary of a Snow shoveler," "The Top 10 Signs that You might be a Weather Nut," and more!)
A WEATHER JOURNAL: "The Weather: On the Road from Michigan to Boston"
MORE WEATHER JOURNALS: This page contains creative Weather Journals from students in classes I have taught. The journals include poems, photos, and creative stories.
WEATHER LINKS: This page contains links to meteorology related sites
LINKS TO ACADEMIC PAPERS AND RESEARCH:
Academic papers on meteorology-related subjects
OTHER:
Other web sites that I have created
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