Courses

In partnership with the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education & Training (COMET), Earth Gauge provides a series of free, online courses and training materials that address the connections between weather and environment. These courses count for continuing education credit through the AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) program.

Visit COMET’s MetEd Broadcast Meteorologist page for additional training modules and resources.


New! Climate Change: Fitting the Pieces Together

(Free Registration Required.) This two-hour course provides a basic overview of climate change science and answers to questions about climate change commonly asked by television viewers, including: What changes climate? Is climate change real? How do we know? Why should we care? How sure are scientists? and What next?

Download the Climate Change PowerPoint Presentation (6.1 MB), which can be used for community outreach. Notes are included and the presentation can be customized.

 

Weather and Health
(Free Registration Required.) This two-hour course provides an understanding of the impacts of weather and climate on public health. It also introduces learners to the public health communication system, informing them about reliable public health support services, tools, and resources available. Broadcast meteorologists will gain ideas for partnering with their local public health agencies to incorporate health messages into their weathercast.


  

Weather and the Built Environment
(Free Registration Required.) This one-hour course provides broadcast meteorologists, educators, and the public with an overview of the evolution of our modern urban environment, with a focus on impacts on the watershed, air quality, climate, and local and severe weather events. Each unit in the course includes information on ways to reduce our impact on our water and air with ideas ranging from simple changes in our commuting and housekeeping habits to changes in how we build houses and roads. This course complements Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment.

Download the Built Environment PowerPoint presentation (14.4 MB), which can be used for community outreach. Notes are included and the presentation can be customized.


 Wx & Built Environment

Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment
(Free Registration Required.) This two-hour course provides an understanding of a watershed as the local environment in which people’s actions and decisions play against the background of daily and seasonal weather to affect the quality and health of the local watershed in which they live, as well as the larger system of watersheds of which their watershed is one part.

Download the Watersheds PowerPoint presentation (6.7 MB), which can be used for community outreach. Notes are included and the presentation can be customized.

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