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| Finance and Administration Staff Unavailable Friday | Fri, 14 Dec |
| Retrospective and Prospective Views of Unidata | Wed, 12 Dec |
| New Hires and Departures | Wed, 12 Dec |
| Place Your Own Interlibrary Loan Order for Books | Tue, 11 Dec |
| Additional Career Planning Workshop for Employees | Tue, 11 Dec |
| Book and Gift Fair (FL) | Tue, 11 Dec |
| Ergonomic Evaluations Continue | Mon, 10 Dec |
| Construction at FL2 Entrance | Mon, 10 Dec |
| Two Weeks Left for NCAR Satellite Stores! NEW ITEMS LISTED! | Mon, 10 Dec |
| Call for mentors for the SOARS summer 2002 program | Mon, 10 Dec |
| Subscribe to New E-Mail List for Library Announcements | Fri, 7 Dec |
| ATD Seminar presented by Tianyou Yu on Tuesday, 18 December | Fri, 7 Dec |
| UCAR Outstanding Accomplishment Awards | Thu, 6 Dec |
| Microsoft XP purchasing considerations | Thu, 6 Dec |
The Finance and Administration staff will be celebrating the Holiday Season the afternoon of Friday, December 14. Please make all arrangements for travel authorizations, vouchers, and check requests by 12:30 that day. Thanks and Happy Holidays!
For more information, contact Kathryn Schmoll at 497-8570,
kschmoll@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 14 Dec to Fri 14 Dec)
Seminar Monday, December 17th 1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. FL2-Room 1022 Facilitator: Dave Fulker, Director of Unidata and NSDL Programs This seminar will trace back to the origins, and will highlight aspects of Unidata that have shaped its unique character, especially the emphases on computer and human networking. Looking forward, Dave will describe the current context of opportunity, including the growing national interest in digital libraries, and summarize the program strategy Unidata is planning to pursue.
For more information, contact Emily Doremire at 303-497-8643,
doremire@ucar.edu.
(Posted Wed 12 Dec to Mon 17 Dec)
New Hires Peter Backlund, director, research relations with Office of the Director of NCAR. ML room 520D, ext. 1103. Alain Caya, postdoctoral fellow with RAP. FL3 room 2054, ext. 8984. Linda Dettling, casual with Science Store, Office of the President of UCAR. ML lobby, ext. 8670. Jennifer Hand, postdoctoral fellow with ASP. ML room 279, ext. 1649. Courtney Hils, administrative assistant with Office of the Director of UOP. FL4 room 1130A, ext. 8647. Susan Jesuroga, technical project liaison with National SMETE Digital Library. FL4 room 3108, ext. 2942. John Kaitschuck, software engineer/programmer with SCD. ML room 17, ext. 1293. Vincent Kennel, student visitor with ACD. ML room 569, ext. 1481. Tashi Lama, technician with ATD. FL1 room 1049, ext. 2063. Katharine Moore, postdoctoral fellow with ASP. ML room 279, ext. 1634. Bruno Nardi, scientific visitor with ACD. FL4 room 2342, ext. 2906. J. Francis Pratte, engineer with ATD. FL1 room 1052, ext. 2033. Robert Wiley, health/environment/safety technician with F&A Safety and Site Services. PS room 1009, ext. 8554. Cory Wolff, casual with RAP. FL1 room 2167, ext. 2845. Departures Craig Epifanio, 30 November Bethany Hobson, 29 November Karen Juenemann, 26 November Resa Kelly, 24 November Dana Knoetgen, 26 November Kevin Petty, 8 December Julia Verville, 7 December
For more information, contact Kristen Alipit at 8706,
kalipit@ucar.edu.
(Posted Wed 12 Dec to Tue 18 Dec)
When you can't find a book or report in the NCAR Library online catalog, you can go to a database called WorldCat, search for the item you want and directly order it via interlibrary loan. The NCAR Library will forward it to you when it arrives. Instructions: From the Library website (http://www.ucar.edu/library) click on the Info Resources button at the top of the screen. Click on FirstSearch, then click on the WorldCat database. After you have found the record for the book or report you need, click on the ILL button. The only information you need to enter in the interlibrary loan form is your name, building, e-mail address and phone number. After completing the form click on the submit button to send your request.
For more information, contact Leslie Forehand at 8505,
forehand@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Library Website.
(Posted Tue 11 Dec to Mon 17 Dec)
Career Planning/Development for Employees Wednesday, 12 December 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. FL2-Auditorium Facilitator: Paul Unks, Zoe Training & Consulting Resources This workshop is designed for employees seeking career planning and development assistance. Key areas addressed: Understanding the processes, skills and strategies needed to facilitate personalized, sustainable career goals; targeting individual career values and interests; and establishing realistic career goals. Seating is limited. Registration is required. To register please contact Cheryl Cristanelli, ext. 8708, or e-mail cherylc@ucar.edu.
For more information, contact Cheryl Cristanelli at 8708,
cherylc@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 11 Dec to Wed 12 Dec)
Hey last minute holiday shoppers! The EAC is sponsoring a book and gift fair Thursday, December 13 from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in the FL2-Cafeteria Atrium.
For more information, contact Cheryl Cristanelli at 8708,
cherylc@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 11 Dec to Thu 13 Dec)
The Ergonomic Evaluation Program continues in full swing. Bob Wiley comes to us with 11 years of experience in assessing body mechanics in the health care field and is ready to continue in our program. His personal interests include fly fishing and family. Bob can be reached at x8554 or rwiley@ucar.edu or Pearl Street room 1009. Call for an ergo eval or to go fly fishing.
For more information, contact Milenda Powers at 8625,
mpowers@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 10 Dec to Sun 16 Dec)
December 17, 18, 19, 2001 Scaffolding to take over FL2!!!!!!! The skylight over the FL2 front atrium has been fixed so there are no more leaks and it's time to repair the previous damage. The repair requires scaffolds to be erected on the 2nd and 3rd floor walkways on the south side of the building - and the main staircase will be closed. Signage will direct employees and visitors around the work area. The front door and desk will remain open during this time. Please be prepared for a short detour around the area.
For more information, contact Milenda Powers at 8625,
mpowers@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 10 Dec to Sun 16 Dec)
THANKS to all employees for visiting and supporting our satellite stores at: FL2, Pearl & Jeffco!! We're glad that it helps with your holiday planning. Jeffco sales hit a surprising $350 for the few hours we were there (thanks for giving us space in your rec room). If you would like some help with gift ideas and wrapping,we can provide a personal shopping service (no charge, just e-mail Heidi Lewis or Mary Ramunno-Akey with your request). Note: Limited supplies on all items at the stores. *************** NEW ITEMS *************** POLAR FLEECE ZIP JACKETS (Black & Forrest) - UNISEX SIZES MICRO-FLEECE WOMEN'S SHIRT/JACKET (Black & Lt.Blue) 100% COTTON LONG-SLEEVE WHITE T-SHIRTS w/New NCAR Logo AUSTRIAN CRYSTAL ORNAMENTS(ICICLES, SNOWFLAKES, STARS, MOONS) ******************************************
For more information, contact Heidi Lewis at 1181, hlewis@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
NCAR Science Store.
(Posted Mon 10 Dec to Sun 16 Dec)
FROM: Tom Windham SUBJECT: Call for mentors for SOARS summer 2002 Program "As many of you know, SOARS has been recognized through the awarding of one of the 2001 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring! A great deal of the credit for SOARS success goes to the participation of the NCAR, UOP and UCAR scientists and staff who have contributed their time and energy to the mentoring of the proteges. I thank all of you who have participated as mentors and encourage all UCAR staff to consider participating in SOARS as a mentor. From discussions with many of you and the proteges themselves, I know this has been an enriching experience for all." - Rick Anthes I share Rick's gratitude and invite all UCAR, NCAR and UOP staff to volunteer as a science/technical research, scientific writing, or community mentor for the summer 2002 SOARS program, 31 May - 9 August. Here is a brief overview of the mentor types and their roles. Science or Technical Research Mentor: Provides a protege with the opportunity to work with the mentor on a current research project and provides instruction and coaching to the protege during the research project; collaborates with other mentors and SOARS staff to promote the success of the protege and the SOARS program. Scientific Writing and Communication Mentor: Provides a protege with coaching in the written and oral communication of her/his research project and collaborates with other mentors and SOARS staff to promote the success of the protege and the SOARS program. Community Mentor: Provides a protege with helpful information about our organization and helps the protege transition into the UCAR/NCAR/UOP and Boulder communities; collaborates with a protege and protege's mentors to facilitate the protege's ability to communicate her/his research to the general public; collaborates with other mentors and SOARS staff to promote the success of the protege and the SOARS program. Mentors will be offered an orientation and training session. There will be two identical sessions offered. They are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, 30 April, 10:00 - 11:30 am, ML/Damon Room, and Wednesday, 1 May, 10:00 - 11:30 am, FL2/1001. If you're interested in being a SOARS mentor, please contact Wendy Pagel (Ext. 8622). Thank you for your support.
For more information, contact Wendy Pagel at 8622, wpagel@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
SOARS Home page.
(Posted Mon 10 Dec to Sun 16 Dec)
Now you can receive the announcements the Library has been publishing in THIS WEEK AT UCAR via e-mail. Once or twice a week we describe new information tools we've acquired, review services we provide and generally keep users up to date on Library developments in THIS WEEK. We will continue to do so, but will now offer the same information at your e-mail location. To assure you're personally alerted to all the ways we make information available, please provide Leslie Forehand (forehand@ucar.edu), ext 8505, with your e-mail address.
For more information, contact Leslie Forehand at 8505,
forehand@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 7 Dec to Thu 13 Dec)
You are invited to attend a seminar presented by Tianyou Yu on Tuesday, 18 December 2001, at 3:30pm in the Foothills Laboratory, Building 2, Auditorium, Room 1022. Title: High-Resolution Radar Observations Using Multiple-Frequency Range Imaging
For more information, contact Mary Landahl at 2002,
landahl@atd.ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 7 Dec to Tue 18 Dec)
A total of 15 nominations were received for this year's Outstanding Accomplishment Awards (formerly the Outstanding Performance Awards). Below are the nominees. Winners will be announced at the annual holiday party, tomorrow, 7 December, at 3:30 p.m. in the Mesa Lab lobby. A fuller description of each nomination will appear in the January issue of Staff Notes Monthly. More background on the nomination and award process can be found at http://www.fin.ucar.edu/hr/polpro/manual/sec2/sec252.html. Administrative Achievement --Gene Arnn (HAO) for extraordinary efforts in support of short- and long-term planning, as well as for integrating a new science team into HAO while maintaining his regular division duties. --Susan Jeffries (GST) for her development and implementation of the UNAVCO Project and Operational Database System (which provides such functions as operational support information about UNAVCO projects). --Dan Wilson (F&A) for his contributions to the financial well-being of UCAR, which have resulted in general fund increases and debt decreases. Outstanding Publication --Yuhong Fan (HAO), "Nonlinear growth of the three-dimensional undular instability of a horizontal magnetic layer and the formation of arching flux tubes," The Astrophysical Journal 546, 509-527. --Juanzhen "Jenny" Sun and N. Andrew Crook (both joint MMM/RAP), "Dynamical and microphysical retrieval from Doppler radar observations using a cloud model and its adjoint. Part I: Model development and simulated data experiments," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 54, 1642-1661; "Part II: Retrieval experiments of an observed Florida convective storm," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 55, 835-852, and "Real-time low-level wind and temperature analysis using single WSR-88D data," Weather and Forecasting 16, 117-132. --William D. Collins, Phillip J. Rasch, and Brian E. Eaton (CGD), Boris V. Khattatov and Jean-Francois Lamarque (ACD), and Charles S. Zender (University of California at Irvine), "Simulating aerosols using a chemical transport model with assimilation of satellite aerosol retrievals: Methodology for INDOEX," Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 7313-7336. --Jothiram Vivekanandan (RAP), Scott Ellis and Richard Oye (ATD), D.S. Zrnic and A.V. Ryzhkov (National Severe Storms Laboratory), and J. Straka (University of Oklahoma), "Cloud microphysics retrieval using S-band dual polarization radar measurements," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 80, 381-388. Education and Outreach --Paul Charbonneau (HAO) for development of several color slide sets and support materials on the sun and of an HAO public education Web site useful to students from kindergarten through university levels as well as the general public. --Morris Weisman (MMM), a volunteer in COMET, for key science contributions to the development of four different learning modules and for teaching COMET courses, as well as for teaching university classes on severe convective weather. --Stephen Cohn and William Brown (ATD) for advancing undergraduate and graduate education in instrumentation and observational analysis, increasing student participation in all phases of NCAR field studies. --Marcia Politovich and Ben Bernstein (RAP) for their years of work with forecasters, pilots, and dispatchers in the area of inflight icing, which has included listening to the needs of the user community, demonstrating new products and capabilities, and educating users about relevant meteorological principles. Scientific and Technical Advancement --Steve Chiswell, Robb Kambic, Linda Miller, Russ Rew, Jeff Weber, Anne Wilson, and Tom Yoksas (Unidata) for their accomplishments in making data from near-real-time Doppler weather radar freely available to researchers and educators, which has allowed more than 60 university sites since January to make use of this formerly expensive data. --Hal Cole, Junhong Wang, Erik Miller, and Katy Beierle (ATD), and Ari Paukkunen (Vaisala) for identifying the cause and extent of dry bias in Vaisala sonde products and for developing physically based correction algorithms that can substantially improve radiosonde data from field experiments and historical datasets. (More than 50% of radiosonde stations worldwide use sondes and other equipment manufactured by Vaisala.) --John Gille, Charles Cavanaugh, Merritt Deeter, David Edwards, Gene Francis, Juying Warner, and Daniel Ziskin (ACD) for their expert work over many years to retrieve and provide to the scientific community the first global sets of tropospheric carbon monoxide profiles and column amounts using the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument. --Scott Swerdlin, Tom Warner, Cindy Mueller, Laurie Carson, Yubao Liu, Doug Lindholm, Rebecca Ruttenberg, Tom Saxen, Hank Fisher, Daran Rife, Troy Sandblom, Julien Chastang, David Hahn, Hsiao-Ming Hsu, Rong-Shyang Sheu, Steve Webb, David Leberknight, Fei Chen, Niles Oien, Jaimi Yee, Terri Betancourt, and Carter Borst (RAP), Chris Davis (MMM/RAP), and Simon Low-Nam, Al Bourgeois, and Kevin Manning (MMM) for their work in designing, developing, and implementing a Four-Dimensional Weather (4DWX) system for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, which is the command's primary source of weather data, forecasts, and analyses.
For more information, contact Lucy Warner at 8602, lwarner@ucar.edu.
(Posted Thu 6 Dec to Wed 12 Dec)
The Desktop Systems Advisory Group (DSAC) strongly recommends against the purchase of the HOME edition of Microsoft XP. The Windows XP HOME edition cannot network with UCAR's Windows network, while the Windows XP PROFESSIONAL edition can. Check with your System Administrators before making a purchase to determine your division's support policy on the Windows XP Operating System. Please email questions to Desktop Systems Advisiory Committee, dsac@ucar.edu.
For more information, contact Carol Nicolaidis at X8405,
nicolaid@ucar.edu.
(Posted Thu 6 Dec to Wed 12 Dec)
This is a sampling of the new books available at the NCAR Library. These books and others will be on display at the Foothills Library for the upcoming week, followed by a display period of one week at the Mesa Library. For a complete list of new titles on display at both the Foothills and Mesa locations please access this Web address below and then select Information Desk: