Welcome meteorology students! My name is Mrs. Iufer and it is my great pleasure to be your teacher for this online course. Today, you will respond to this blog with a brief introduction about yourself (see my video as an example) and also answer the following question:
When were you ever amazed, terrified or otherwise awed by the weather?
Remember to also respond to three other student's posts.
Hello Mrs. Iufer,
ReplyDeleteYour introductory video is very good, and will engage to your other students quite well.
I am also a graduate student in the DML program at USF, with this summer semester being my last. Also, I have a BFA from CalArts. I have taught at several colleges and universities in the Bay Area, with classes ranging from animation and visual effects production, to character sculpting for animation production, and also including overviews of special topics in commercial film production. I'll be teaching introductory digital media and digital video production to high-school students in the Fall.
I live in West Marin, which still retains some of its natural wildness. Right next to our house is one of the largest valley oaks remaining in Marin, with a circumference at its base similar to that of a Volkswagen beetle! Wind storms in Marin can get quite dramatic, due to the East-West valley layout of the geography, as well as the elevation in our area (500-feet). We've had several occasions when the rainy, windy weather would take down a large branch on this old valley oak. Nothing serious has ever damaged our house. However, we have had branches land hard onto our roof during wild weather, which can be quite startling on its own, but also dramatically so when you are anxiously waiting out the passage of the storm!
Thank you, and best to all.
I'm Danielle, a graduate student in the DML Program at the University of San Francisco. In addition to being a student, I am also a first grade teacher.
ReplyDeleteOriginally, I am from Indiana. One benefit of growing up there, is the ability to witness all four seasons change. I've been through blizzards, hailstorms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and even experienced my very first earthquake there. I remember experiencing a tornado warning that was somewhat scary. Someone saw a tornado touching down, so a watch was issued for our county. No one was home, but me, so I had to go down in the dark basement by myself until it cleared. It was scary down there all alone.
I am a grad student in the DML program at USF. I teach biology at Convent of the Sacred Heart. I you don't think this is the coolest weather event ever you must not be alive. Check this out: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-image-face-20130105. In January 2012, in this high-resolution false color (red shades) satellite image from the northwest Great Lakes region, the cloud pattern formed an eerie face, with the mouth being a mesoscale vortex (small spinning feature) over Lake Superior. Above (to the north of) that are a nose, eyes, and even cat-like ears and whiskers!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that some of the best stories about the weather don't happen in California.
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