-----Missed the Picnic? T-Shirts Are Still Available Despite sweltering heat, the first annual summer picnic for UCAR and NCAR staff and family was a success. An estimated 250 people came to Boulder County's Beech Open Space to play games, enjoy refreshments, and relax. The many children on hand were entertained by a balloonist/artist and a puppeteer (the latter being the mom of the Employee Activities Committee's Chris Pankratz). This year's UCAR/NCAR T-shirt was introduced at the picnic. If you didn't make the scene, don't despair - plenty of shirts are left. Adult T-shirts are $10, youth T-shirts $8, and adult sweatshirts $15. This year's T-shirt colors are slate, sandstone, and berry; sweatshirt colors are ash, royal, and red. Contact your EAC T-shirt representative (Gang Lu, FL, ext. 1554, or Barb Vlasity, ML, ext. 1322) to make a purchase. -----Statistics Colloquium Set for 6Ð19 July NCAR's Statistics Project is sponsoring a colloquium, Applications of Statistics to Modeling the Earth's Climat-----eminar Room from 6 through 19 July. The Statistics Project is sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its goal is to encourage the use of modern statistical techniques in the geophysical sciences. NCAR participants in the program are principal investigators Rick Katz (Environmental and Societal Impacts Group) and Roland Madden (Climate and Global Dynamics Division, or CGD) and co-investigators Linda Mearns, Kevin Trenberth, Joseph Tribbia, and David Williamson, all of CGD. Besides encouraging interactions between scientists and statisticians on site, two important missions of the project and the colloquium are to facilitate an exchange of ideas beyond UCAR and to interest young persons in problems involving statistics, modeling ,and analysis of the climate system. Thirty-two graduate students who have expressed an interest in applying statisitics to the geophysical sciences are attending the Colloquium. Tutorials will focus on climate, objective analysis, scaling, and spatial ARMA (autoregressive moving average) processes. Other, more specialized talks on a wide variety of statistical problems in atmospheric and ocean sciences are scheduled. Along with 10 NCAR scientists, there will be 18 visiting scientists speaking at the colloquium: Arthur Dempster, Harvard University Lev Gandin, National Meteorological Center (NMC) Richard Gunst, Southern Methodist University Peter Guttorp, University of Washington Greg Holloway, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Victoria, British Columbia Richard Jones, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center Paul Julian, NMC Cecil Leith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Robert Livezey, NMC Edward Lorenz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Allan Murphy, Oregon State University Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Richard Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jean Thiebaux, NSF Grace Wahba, University of WisconsinÐMadison Edward Waymire, Oregon State University Rudolf Weber, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland Francis Zwiers, Canadian Climate Centre, Victoria, British Columbia Any interested persons are welcome to attend the colloquium. For a schedule, contact Ronna Terrell Bailey, ext. 1717, e-mail ronna@ncar.ucar.edu. -----In The Galleries: Ju-Hui Liu The work of Boulder artist, Ju-Hui Liu will be shown in the second- floor gallery of Mesa Lab from 2 through 29 July. Ju-Hui Liu has been cultivating the Chinese art of Shui-Mo (water-ink) painting for more than half a century. Hiswork has been exhibited in Taiwan as well as in the United States. For more information about the show please contact the artist at 499-5957. -----What the Dumpster Divers Found Here are complete results from the waste audits conducted on 15 December 1993 at ML and on 16 February at FL. Each audit represents a 48-hour generation period at each site. The figures for each item are the total weight to the nearest pound and the percentage of that component in the site's total audited waste. Items already taken from the waste stream in our current recycling efforts (such as items in the deskside containers) were not included in the audit. Product Mesa Lab Foothills Lab Cardboard 27 9 Compost 183 150 Glass 13 5 Metal 16 6 OfficePak 100 123 Packing Material 6 1 #2 Plastic Bottles 3 2 White Ledger 26 36 Newsprint* 22 Mixed Media** 3 Total Recyclable 396 335 Nonrecyclable Trash 264 98 Plastic 46 30 Total Nonrecyclable 310 128 Total 706 463 *Newsprint was inadvertently collected as part of OfficePak in the FL audit. **Mixed media packaging was not considered recyclable during the ML audit. -----UCAR Fitness Centers/July 1994 Class Schedule This calendar includes all classes endorsed by the Wellness Advisory Committee. Be sure you have signed a release form (available at both fitness centers). There are no classes at FL on Fridays and at either center on official UCAR holidays. For fees and class-content information, contact the instructors below unless otherwise noted. InstructorsÕ initials are listed beside each class. NOTE: Maura HaganÕs FL aerobics classes will not be taught from 30 June through 27 July. Evening FL, noon ML aerobics Cathy Shaver, 530-7702 Intermediate ML aerobics Marla Meehl, ext. 1301, marla@ncar.ucar.edu Noon FL aerobics Maura Hagan, ext. 1537, hagan@ncar.ucar.edu Tai chi Gerry Wiener, ext. 8417, gerry@ncar.ucar.edu Yoga instructor, Laura Allard sign-up, Tres Hofmeister, ext. 8415, tres@ncar.ucar.edu Date/Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 11:00 a.m.Ðnoon Yoga (LA) Yoga (LA)Yoga (LA) noonÐ1:00 p.m. Interval step aerobics (MH)Ð 7/28 only 4:30Ð5:15 p.m. Tai chi (GW) Tai chi (GW) 5:30Ð6:30 p.m. Step Step aerobics (CS) aerobics (CS) 11:00 a.m.-noon Yoga (LA) 12:15Ð1:15 p.m. Low-impact Body toning (CS) Low-impact aerobics (CS) aerobics (CS) 5:15Ð6:15 p.m. Intermediate Intermediate aerobics (MM) aerobics (MM) There will be no Staff Notes next week because of the Fourth of July Holidays. Have a good one! -----New Hires Leonard Cumley, project account manager with UCAR. FL1 room 2026, ext. 2134. William Golesorkhi, student assistant III with HAO. ML room 100, ext. 1230. Raymond Lord, software engineer/programmer with MMM. FL3 room 3003, ext. 8145. Cindy Worster, administrative secretary with HAO. FL2 room 3130, ext. 1552. -----Departures Gerardo Decanio 15 June Susan Henry 8 June Darrell Holley 19 May Laney Mills 14 June Kathryn Poling 16 June Sigvard Stenlund 10 June Robert Upthegrove 3 June William Wachs 9 June -----What 's Cooking in the Cateteria MONDAY, 4 July HOLIDAY TUESDAY, 5 July Posole Soup (vegetarian) Meatball Sandwich with Mini Raviolis Turkey Salad on Kaiser Bun with Mixed Fresh Fruit Cup Smothered Burrito with Green Chile (pork or vegetarian) WEDNESDAY, 6 July Beef Noodle Soup Teriyaki Steak with Grilled Onions and Curly Fries Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich Lemon Chicken Breast with New Potatoes and SautŽed Spinach THURSDAY, 7 July Summer Vegetable Soup Submarine (regular or low fat) Seafood Louie Salad Meat Loaf or Vegetarian Loaf, Scalloped Potatoes and Fresh Vegetable FRIDAY, 8 July Vegetarian Chowder Guacamole Bacon Burger and Fries Grilled Tuna Steak Sandwich Lasagna (beef or vegetarian) with Garlic or French Bread Luncheon Winners : FL - Mary Ann Pykkonen ML - Karl Hanzel ************************************************ VISITORS Carlos Byers, Houston (Texas) Chronicle. Interest: Ozone depletion. 7Ð8 July. UN suite 330, ext. 8607. --Joan Frisch, UCAR Media Relations Arthur Fisher, Popular Science magazine, New York City. Interest: Ozone depletion. 7-8 July. UN suite 330, ext. 8607. --Joan Frisch, UCAR Media Relations Jeff Rosenfeld, Weatherwise magazine, Washington, D.C. Interest: Weather and climate. 7Ð8 July. UN suite 330, ext. 8605. --Bob Henson, UCAR Outreach Nick Hewitt, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Interest: Atmospheric chemistry. 7ÊAugust 1994Ð 31 January 1995. ML room 580, ext. 1414. --Pat Zimmerman, ACD Justin Jay Hnilo, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Interest: Climate and global dynamics. 27ÊJuneÐ29 July. ML library carrel 9, ext. 1351. --James Hurrell, CGD Andrew Hsu, University of Colorado at Boulder. Interest: User- friendly scripts. 1 JuneÐ2ÊSeptember. FL3 room 2068, ext. 8191. --Terry Clark, MMM Egidio Landi, University of Firenze, Italy. Interest: ASP analysis. 1 AugustÐ15 September. FL2 room 3070, ext. 1564. --Andy Skumanich, HAO Eliza Manzini, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. Interest: General circulation modeling of the troposphere- stratosphere. 8Ð13 July. ML room 202A, ext. 1706. --Warren Washington, CGD John McCormack, University of Arizona. Interest: Atmospheric chemistry. 18Ð29 July. ML room 569, ext. 1481. --Claire Granier and William Randel, ACD Charles Piety, Georgia Institute of Technology. Interest: Atmospheric chemistry and measurement techniques and instruction. 24 JuneÐ 8 July. ML library carrel 12, ext. 1461. --Fred Eisele, ACD Jack Williams, USA Today, Washington, D.C. Interest: WISP, NEXRAD, RAP. 7-8 July. UN suite 330, ext. 8607. --Joan Frisch, UCAR Media Relations