Welcome to participate in CALMet Online 2016 !

Dear CALMet community members and friends

This year, we are again meeting at "CALMet Online 2016". Beginning  May, 2016, this free online event will offer sessions to meet other colleagues and practitioners and to learn and communicate with experts in education and training for meteorology.

Altogether eight short sessions are organized during the period May-October 2016.

1. WMO Train the Trainers - WMO Train the Trainer course instructors.
2. Gamification - Brad Snyder (EC, Meteorological Service of Canada), Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov (COMET, USA).
3. A Review of the Australian VLab Centre of Excellence National Himawari 8 Training Campaign: Achievements and Challenge - Bodo Zeschke (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia).
4. CALMet Moodle Course - Mustafa Adiguzel (WMO), Patrick Parrish (WMO), Luciane Veeck (VLab), Vesa Nietosvaara (EUMETSAT).
5. Using a new plug-in for Moodle to build a Meteorology Simulation - Brendan Kilshaw (UK Met Office), Jodie Ramsdale (UK Met Office), Ian Mills (EUMETSAT).
6. How to make a competency assessor more competent at assessing - Alexandru Hozoc (Romatsa), Claudia Faccani (ENAV), Paul Bugeac (Romatsa), Phil Merritt (UK Met Office), Tony Tighe (Met Eireann).
7. Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and InternetOfThings - Alexey Umnov, N. I. Lobachevsky (State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia),  Ricardo Costa (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal), Vladimir Chukin and Eduard Podgaiskii (Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St Petersburg, Russia).
8. Education and training response to the future role of meteorologists - Alessandro Chiariello and Lisa Haga (Eumetcal).

You are welcome to sign up in these sessions and participate. Once enrolled in the CALMet Online 2016 website, you can choose which sessions you wish to sign up, and have the access to all the planned sessions, discussions and resources. We hope you will find the sessions useful for your practice and that you will make many new professional connections with old and new colleagues.

The Organising Committee:
Marines Campos
Vesa Nietosvaara (Co-Chair)
Pat Parrish
Edward Podgaiskii
Roro Yuliana Purwanti (Co-Chair)

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