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Professional Development

The COMET Program has been providing high-quality training and education materials to meteorololgy professionals and students since 1989. Now, we're enhancing our level of support to the broadcast met community by offering:

• » A custom list of featured training materials especially useful to broadcast meteorolgists
• » Certification information for weathercasters and broadcast meteorologists
• » Free, confidential tracking of your MetEd professional development progress via our registration and assessment system

Beyond the
Forecast:

Reporting on Science and the Environment

Weathercasters and broadcast meteorologists have a unique opportunity to raise public awareness of critical health, environment, and science issues. This is one reason the AMS and other organizations are supporting broadcast industry efforts to expand their weather reporting beyond the forecast. A new role as Station Scientist is emerging for many broadcast mets, and it's a trend that appears to be gaining momentum.

If you're interested in making the switch to become your organization's station scientist, the following list of resources will help:

• The station scientist role
• Story ideas & factoids
• Demo clips by your peers

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Weather and the Environment
Initiative

The COMET Program is pleased
to be partnering with the AMS, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF),
and the EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds to support the NEEF Weather and the Environment initiative.

Together, we're developing a series of on-line modules, especially tailored for broadcast meteorologists, which will count for continuing education credit under the AMS CBM certification program.
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