Lis Cohen

"I created Weather Outreach to teach our community
about weather and climate", founder Lis Cohen.

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Click here for Lis' Resume
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Lis Cohen is currently teaching the Climate Change course at the University of Utah.  She has co-taught both the Climate Change and
the Severe and Unusual Weather courses at the University of Utah.
Lis was also a teaching assistant for the Climate Change course at the University of Utah and a lab instructor for the Introduction to Meteorology course at Cornell University.

Lis was a National Science Foundation GK-12 WEST Fellow for two
years. She taught in the Salt Lake City School District as a
visiting scientist.

Lis worked in the Meteorology Education and Training Center at the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) during the summer of 2005 working on both a community hurricane preparedness
and hurricane strike module.

At the Museum of Science in Boston and the Franklin Institute Science Museum Lis worked as a weather and science educator, presenter, and exhibit planner.  She worked as an educator and meteorologist at the
Blue Hill Weather Observatory for two years.   Lis shares her passion for science and the outdoors and did so while working as a naturalist ranger
in Yellowstone National Park for two summers.

Currently, Lis is the columnist for the monthly Satellite Educator's Newsletter.  She writes about current topics in science and education. 

Lis recently starred in a mastercard priceless ad. In the ad she is the scientist describing the science behind the priceless snow in Utah.

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Education and related experience:

Lis now works at the Utah Governor's Office on energy and climate
change policy.  Lis has a master's degree in meteorology from the University of Utah.  Her research focus was clouds' effects on climate. 

You can you hear Lis speak about weather and climate on KCPW, Salt Lake City's NPR affiliate.  Lis writes a monthly column for the Satellite Educator's Newsletter.  She participated in the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud  Experiment (TWP-ICE)  in Darwin, Australia.   Lis' bachelor's degree was earned at Cornell University where she double majored in Atmospheric Science and the Science of Earth Systems
with a Climate Dynamics concentration. While at Cornell, Lis worked
on the  Mars Exploration Rovers and taught about the mission.

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 Presentations:

 1. Seventh Annual Conference on School and Popular Meteorology    
 and Oceanographic Education, "Weather Forecasting", Boulder, CO.

 2. Satellites and Education Conference at California State College, "Weather Forecasting", Los Angeles, CA.

 3. City Library Science Movie Night Series. "Fact or Fiction, The Day
 After Tomorrow" Salt Lake City, UT.

4. KSL radio, "Thunderstorm Safety", Salt Lake City, Utah.

5. NPR radio, "NSF GK-12 program", Salt Lake City, Utah.

6. New England Cable News, "Mars Exploration Program", Boston, MA.

7. Television Meteorologist, "Ithaca College Television", Ithaca, NY.

8. Presented in schools in Darwin, Australia, Philadelphia, PA, Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA and Salt Lake City, UT.

9. University of Utah Distinguished Lecture Series, "Climate Change Policy", Salt Lake City, UT.

10. University of Utah, "How Can You Impact Policy?", Salt Lake City, UT.

11. City Library Science Movie Night Series. "An Inconvenient Truth, Climate and Movie Discussion" Salt Lake City, UT.

12. Graduate Student Climate Change Conference, "Observations of Cirrus Evolution during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment." Seattle, WA.

13. ARM Science Team Meeting, "Observations of Cirrus Evolution during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment." Monterey, CA.

14.  Graduate Student Panel, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting Student Conference, San Antonio, TX. 

15.  American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, "Observations of       Cirrus Evolution during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment." San Fransisco, CA.

16. National Science Foundation GK-12 Conference, "WEST (Water, the Environment, Science and Teaching: Implementing Inquiry-Based Learing in K-12 Classrooms)." Washington, D.C.