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Subject: MetLink Contact Message 1
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:43:53 -0000
To all MetLink Schools
The fun will soon begin! It's all going to start happening next week!
Next Monday, the long-awaited 'active' period of MetLinkInternational
begins, the period when we exchange weather observations. I am very
much looking forward to this phase of the project and will try to
make it as interesting and exciting as I can.
In the next day or two, you should receive from me four or five
e-mails which contain information that should prove helpful to you.
This is the first of these e-mails and it has a rather general
nature.
First, I ask you to remember that some professional meteorologists
are willing to answer technical queries. Steve Dorling of the
University of East Anglia (S.Dorling@uea.ac.uk) and Ross Reynolds of
the University of Reading (R.Reynolds@reading.ac.uk) have agreed to
answer questions on most aspects of meteorology. I am a professional
meteorologist, too, so don't hesitate to contact me if you have a
query (and I can also answer questions about oceanography). Questions
about weather forecasting may be addressed to Dave Shaw of the UK 's
Meteorological Office (he is Head of the Office's International
Relations Section). Please copy all of your questions to me, as it
would be helpful in my role as the Royal Meteorological Society's
Education Officer to know what questions are being asked.
Feel free to e-mail schools on an individual basis. If one of the
outcomes of MetLinkInternational is that e-mail pen friends are made,
I shall be delighted.
I shall also be delighted to receive comments from teachers and
students about MetLinkInternational and I shall be pleased to receive
images (pictures of your school, the students making observations,
etc.). I shall try to have some of these pictures placed on a MetLink
Web page for all to see.
Finally, I should like you to tell ME (i.e. NOT all participants,
unless you want everyone to know) what benefits you expect your
students to gain from MetLinkInternational, why you are keen to take
part in the project, how MetLink will be integrated into the wider
curriculum, etc.
That's all for now.
Best regards Malcolm Walker