The Mount Washington Observatory Weatherwise Radio Outreach Project

9614340星期四，华盛顿山天文台将制作一个全国性的辛迪加短格式广播系列节目，介绍三年内的天气情况。这项请求是在三年中每年减少数额，在该期间结束时项目开始自给自足。每天两分钟的节目介绍了关于大气各级物理过程的事实和解释，气象系统的性质，天气观测和预报，以及与天气和气候对人类的影响有关的第一手和第二手描述。在为期15个月的试点阶段，已经在115个公共和商业电视台进行了天气预报(标题将改为天气笔记)。国家科学基金会的拨款将为制片人提供所需的资源，以扩大运输，目标是在至少225个车站进行运输，实施形成性和终结性评估，提高产量，加强宣传，并向公众提供辅助材料。辅助材料将包括一本印刷的天气笔记本，作为听众的实地指南，他们可以在其中进行自己的天气观测和得出结论，一张具有教育意义的天气海报，天气笔记本的文字记录和研究建议，以及华盛顿山天文台博物馆的天气观测展览。该项目的PI将是华盛顿山天文台的大卫·瑟洛，他将担任编剧、主持人和项目协调员。制片人将是道格拉斯·梅耶尔，他之前的经验包括在NPR上谈论汽车。评估将由RMC研究公司进行。

9614340 Thurlow The Mount Washington Observatory will produce a nationally syndicated, short-format radio series on the weather over a three year period. The request is for a declining amount in each of the three years with the project becoming self-sustaining at the end of that period. The daily, two-minute programs present facts about and explanations of the physical processes in all levels of the atmosphere, the nature of meteorological systems, weather observation and forecasting, and first- and second-hand accounts relating the effect weather and climate have on people. During a fifteen month pilot stage, Weatherwise (Title to be changed to The Weather Notebook) has been carried on 115 public and commercial stations. The NSF grant will provide the producers with the resources needed to expand carriage with a goal of carriage on at least 225 stations, to implement formative and summative evaluation, to upgrade production, to increase promotion, and to make ancillary material available to the public. The ancillary materials will include a printed weather notebook which serves as a field guide for listeners in which they can make their own weather observations and draw conclusions, an educational weather poster, The Weather Notebook transcripts and study suggestions, and a weather observation exhibit at the Mount Washington Observatory Museum. The PI for the project will be David Thurlow of the Mount Washington Observatory who will serve as writer, host, and program coordinator. The producer will be Douglas Mayer whose previous experience includes with NPR on Car Talk. Evaluation will be conducted by RMC Research Corporation.