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| 1999: | First year - few activities planned Global warming debate held on the Shippensburg University campus |
| 2000: | Speaker - Mr. Paul Knight, PA State Climatologist,"Pennsylvania
Climatology: Something for Everyone" Global warming debate on SU campus |
| 2001: | Speaker - Dr. Dan Leathers, Delaware State
Climatologist, "Pennsylvania's Precipitation: Never Enough,
Always Too Much" Activities: Shippensburg students prepared lessons to present to local elementary school children about PA climate. These lessons involved using weather instruments, decorating grocery store bags with climate symbols, planting seeds with students, and playing games with atmospheric themes. Shippensburg students in the Applied Climatology and Meteorology class displayed solar ovens and climate efficient houses in the Cumberland Union Building on the Shippensburg University campus. |
| 2002: |
Speaker - Dr. Randall Cerveny, Professor, Geography Department,
Arizona State University, "The Many Ways that Weather
Can Kill You" |
| 2003: | Schedule and speakers below: |
Pennsylvania Climate Day Activities
Monday, April 21, 2003
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9:00 - 3:00 PM Display of solar ovens, house models, and Climate Day projects in CUB near information desk - come join us!
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10:00 - 2:00 PM Testing of solar ovens in front of CUB
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attempt to cook eggs/chocolate chip cookies
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4:30 PM - Presentation by Mr. John Topping, President of the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C. - Renewable resources and island nations; internship possibilities in the Caribbean - Shearer 109
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5:30 PM - Presentation by - "The Next Green Revolution - The Power of Positive Citizen Action!" Mr. David Hess, former Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection - Grove Hall Forum
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refreshments will be served
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7:00 - Watch Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in the movie Twister and learn more about the exciting life of storm chasers and their encounter with tornadoes! - Shippen 224
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9:00 PM - Watch George Clooney combat three gigantic storm events from a small fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean in The Perfect Storm - Shippen 224
For more information, review the PA Climate Day website.
Additional info about the 2000 and 2001 PA Climate Day…
Pennsylvania Climate Day
April 20, 2000
Good evening! Thank you for joining us to celebrate the 2nd annual Pennsylvania Climate Day. This day was established last year to improve the public's awareness of, and interest in, how Pennsylvania's climate impacts its resources, including our water, forests, and agriculture. I always say that weather and climate influences every aspect of our lives! Tonight, we have an expert with us to help us understand more about Pennsylvania's climate.
Mr. Paul Knight is our Pennsylvania State Climatologist. He is an instructor of synoptic meteorology at Penn State University. Paul is the manager of the Penn State Weather Communications Group and has been the senior forecaster for The New York Times since 1986. He, along with four other colleagues, produces the weather page for the Times each day. Paul is also producer, co-host and on-camera meteorologist for WPSX-TV's Weather World, a fifteen minute, weeknight weather magazine show seen on three Pennsylvania PBS stations and I'd encourage you, if you're not watching it already, to tune in each weekday night at 5:30 or at 5:45.
Paul was a team forecaster for Wyoming Centennial Expedition to Mount Everest. Paul holds the American Meteorological Society's Television Seal of Approval and is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, receiving his bachelor and master degrees in meteorology from Penn State. He received the Wilson Award in 1994, the highest teaching award for the College of Earth & Mineral Sciences at Penn State. He serves on the American Meteorological Society's Board of Consulting Meteorologists. He has been quoted in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic and has appeared on the national TV programs, The Today Show, ABC Nightly News, "HOW DO THEY DO THAT", Fox News and Good Morning America Sunday edition.
It is my distinct pleasure to welcome Mr. Paul Knight who will present "Pennsylvania Climatology - Something for Everyone!"
Pennsylvania Climate Day
April 20, 2001
On April 20, 2001, Pennsylvania will be celebrating its third annual Pennsylvania Climate Day. This day was created to increase the public's awareness of the climate and understanding of the ways that climate affects our world and quality of life.
Pennsylvania Climate Day was declared an official day on April 14, 1999 under House Resolution No. 133.
Many activities and events have been organized for this day. A display will be presented near the information desk on the lower floor of the Cumberland Union Building (CUB), displaying projects and information on climate applications, such as solar ovens and climate efficient houses. These were designed by students in the Geography-Earth Science Department's Applied Climatology and Meteorology course.
Shippensburg students have also prepared lessons to present to local elementary school children about Pennsylvania climate. These lessons involve using weather instruments, decorating grocery store bags with climate symbols, planting seeds with students, and playing games with atmospheric themes. This will help raise awareness in children about the interactions between people and climate.
Dr. Daniel Leathers, Delaware State Climatologist and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware, will present a talk entitled, "Pennsylvania's Precipitation: Never Enough, Always Too Much," focusing on Pennsylvania's precipitation, moisture shortages and flooding events over the past century. Dr. Leathers will describe how precipitation has affected agriculture, restrictions of use, and the destruction of landscape. The presentation will take place on Friday, April 20, at 3:00 PM in the Orndorff Theater in the CUB.
Questions may be directed to:
Dr. Diane Stanitski
dmstan@ship.edu
Impacts of Climate Change in PA (PDF)
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