December 2000

Tech transfer: When's our next home run?


Base hits


STARS: The journey from brainstorm to market


UCAR's patented lineup for 2000


Science Briefing


Quick as a flash?


HAO scientist honored for astrophysics thesis


The PaleoCSM produces a realistic El Niño


New ESIG/UNEP report: Time to get ready for next El Niño


Delphi Question: Family and sick leave, body odor


New Hires

November 2000

Pollution at its roots: ATD probes the stable air behind smog


Two nights to remember: HAO's 60^th, UCAR and NCAR's 40^th


A tip of the hat to Food Services


Science Briefing


Random Profile: Chi-Fan Shih


Walt Dabberdt returns to his entepreneurial roots


The new associate director: Steve Dickson


Delphi Question: Traffic on Mitchell Lane, Boy Scouts policy


New Hires

October 2000

Web EXTRA!

21st annual Up-the-Hill Races

Planning a new paradigm: the future of high-end modeling at NCAR


Strategizing on the Web
WRF: A model to follow?


It Happened Here: A century of meteorology—reflections from Horace Byers
The archaeologist of HAO: Tom Bogdan digs into the early days


From Our Mr. Sun to Sun Dog Man
Howard Hughes and the corona


Delphi Questions: Smoking on the trails, exhibit noise
New Hires

September 2000

The EAC is serious about fun
Don't go out of your tree! The plaza's almost done


Rewiring, reroofing, and other renovations


Random Profile: Rich Wagoner
UCAR Foundation's pleasant dilemma: how to manage a windfall
RAP's Auto-nowcaster goes to the Olympics down under


What to expect in Sydney (weatherwise)


Up the hill and down memory lane
Delphi Questions: Food service at Jeffco, EAC funds, family leave
New Hires

August 2000

Tim Killeen: First impressions
Burning clues: Wildfire research team lights up Washington
ACD's new director: Danny McKenna
Portrait of a SOARS summer
Delphi Questions: Nude artwork


Members of the NCAR Art Jury


New Hires

July 2000

NCAR and UCAR celebrate their 40th
Pokemon trivia scrambles egg-droppers' brains


The winners


What makes SOARS a standout?


Community leadership 101
Compare and contrast


It Happened Here: Under scrutiny: The JEC years
Boulder's commuter of the year is Karl Hanzel
Drought puts no damper on STEPS
Random Profile: Jeff Boote
Delphi Questions: Auto-flush technology, flag flying
SCD seminar series: New frameworks for computer models
Science Briefing
New Hires

June 2000

Web EXTRA!

Here's to Bob: A toast to the departing director Nature flings flakes at Fling, but the sync goes on

Great moments in Delphi history
Strictly confidential

The Delphi lineage

Delphi Question: FL smoking follow-up
UCAR launches food service on Pearl East Circle
Special functions are a welcome challenge

NCAR Science Store debuts in the ML lobby
Changes in store for the EAC

What's for sale?

UCAR and NCAR celebrate their 40^th this month
New Hires

May 2000

Web EXTRA!

Here's to Bob: A toast to the departing director

Assessing the climate: How it gets done
A sneak preview

Circle the date: Bubbles and balloons on 18 June
Ribbon-cutting, too

Sync your teeth into spring at 40th anniversary Fling
How can we keep from syncing?

Random Profile: Elaine Kingston
Forrest Cook: NCAR's loss is Linux's gain
Science Briefing
Delphi Questions: Speeding at FL, cafeteria hygiene, lunch crowds
From the Delphi archives

A familiar library face heads out: J.K. Emery
New Hires

April 2000

Plane talk: A Jeffco sampler
Delphi Question: Retirement account access, road deicing
An all-staff toast to Bob Serafin
The atmosphere inside: Surveying the climate for women at UCAR.
It Happened Here: The making of a national center
Atmosphere takes center stage at World Affairs Conference
Winners and sinners in recycling: They're all in the bin
The top three villains in deskside recycling

What can you put in the deskside bins?

Results of the TAP survey

New Hires

March 2000

A visit with NCAR's new director
Another UM scientist heading to Boulder: Roberta Johnson

Nelson vs. Nelson: Middle-school forecaster wins out
Could busted forecast be a boon for weather research?
Second USWRP symposium is popular

Science Briefing
Delphi Question: Smoking at FL
New Hires

February 2000

MOPITT, launched at last, needs one more nudge
Whew!
Science Briefing
AMS awards: Trenberth, Washington, SCD, Meehl
Extremes: Are better models changing the picture?

Scenes from the AMS meeting
A reconciliation on global warming
Random Profile: Tina Bogott
Delphi Questions: EAC status, worker's compensation
UCAR sets up shop on Pearl Street
En garde, forecasters: Award-winning Web site for kids launches contest
A new Web warehouse: Sam's goes online
Salvage vs. scrap: a quick guide to the lingo

New Hires

December 1999-January 2000

Updated Performance Awards unveiled at holiday party
A Staff Notes Monthly family album
An NCAR/UCAR mosaic
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The way we were
Instruments from beyond
Photographer's picks

New Hires

Other issues of Staff Notes Monthly
Other UCAR publications