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| Early Cafeteria Closure | Fri, 5 Dec |
| Annual NCAR Awards and Holiday Party TODAY | Fri, 5 Dec |
| Its Time to Think about Flexible Spending | Wed, 3 Dec |
| 2004 Outstanding Accomplishment Nominations | Wed, 3 Dec |
| The NCAR Science Store is coming to Foothills | Tue, 2 Dec |
| Tiaa-Cref Counseling Session | Tue, 2 Dec |
| Advanced Technology & Observing System Seminar | Tue, 2 Dec |
| Retirement Reception for Beth Stansberry, Director of Contracts and | Tue, 2 Dec |
| ASP Seminar - Dan Marsh | Tue, 2 Dec |
| Outstanding Accomplishment Award nominees | Mon, 1 Dec |
| Final Day for UCARFlex 2004 Open Enrollment | Mon, 1 Dec |
| New Photography Exhibit at ML Cafeteria | Mon, 1 Dec |
| Annual Awards Ceremony | Mon, 1 Dec |
| NCAR Holiday Party is Friday, December 5th | Fri, 21 Nov |
| Retirement Reception for Beth Stansberry, Director of Contracts & | Tue, 18 Nov |
| Begin learning a Martial Art over the Holidays! | Mon, 17 Nov |
All UCAR cafeterias will be closing today at 1:00 to prepare for the EAC Holiday party at Center Green. Hope to see you there!
For more information, contact Velma Ryan at 1193, vryan@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 5 Dec to Sat 6 Dec)
When: December 5, 2003 Where: Center Green 1 Auditorium Time: 3:00pm to 7:30pm 3:00 The intro music will be provided by Becky Ruttenberg and friends 3:30 The Awards Ceremony 4:35 The quilt raffle 4:30 The Big Swing Trio" with Mary Ann Moore. Then eat, drink and be merry! Don't forget your dancing shoes! Bonus!The Marriot Hotel (next door to Center Green) is offering rooms at a discountedrate of $59 per night You can still reserve a room by going to the web site designed for UCAR. Carpooling is encouraged as parking is limited! See you all there!
For more information, contact Kathleen barney at 1434,
leeney@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
The Marriot Residence Inn.
(Posted Fri 5 Dec to Sat 6 Dec)
We have reached the final month of 2003 and its time to think about your Health Care or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account. You can access updated information about your account with the link below. Remember you have until March 31, 2004 to submit your claims but you must incur all of the expenses in the year 2003. You can find the Flexible Spending Claim form in the Human Resources Forms Library on line at: http://www.fin.ucar.edu/forms/HR/cigna_forms/reim_claim_form.shtml
For more information, contact Kristen Alipit at 8706,
kalipit@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Denver Reserve.
(Posted Wed 3 Dec to Tue 9 Dec)
Here is a list of the nominees for the 2004 Outstanding Accomplishment Awards. The winners will be announced at 3:30 p.m. at the UCAR Holiday Party in the Center Green 1 auditorium. Distinguished Achievement Award 1. Kevin Trenberth (CGD) for his publication record, which is highly influential and widely cited, as well as for his participation on a large number of professional committees and panels and his substantial contribution to public outreach and education. 2. Gregory Byrd, Dolores Kiessling, Tim Alberta, Karl Hanzel, Ken Kim, Lorrie Fyffe, Seth Lamos, and Matthew Kelsch (COMET Residence Program Classroom Team) for providing outstanding learning experiences to the National Weather Service and other sponsoring agencies and to the university community in the area of mesoscale meteorology. Administrative Achievement Award 1. Jeff Custard and Teresa Shibao (SCD) for their work in designing, planning, implementing, documenting, and training users on an entirely new network-based telephone and voicemail system. The new system, Voice of IP (VoIP), is replacing UCARs PBX system. 2. Peggy Taylor (ATD) for her professional excellence associated with field deployment logistics for four ATD field programs, all of which proved exceptionally challenging. The four programs are the 1999 LBA/TRMM Project in Ji Parana, Brazil; the Mesoscale Alpine Project in Virgiate, Italy, and Innsbruck, Austria; the IMPROVE I Project in Westport, Washington, and the IMPROVE II Project near Sweethome, Oregon. 3. Terry Woods and Cheryl Cristanelli (HR) for their extraordinary contributions to UCAR through the establishment of the UCAR Leadership Academy. Outstanding Education and Outreach Nominations 1. ESIGs John Firor for The Crowded Greenhouse: Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World (with his wife and coauthor, Judith Jacobsen), and for Johns tireless efforts as an informal educator and ambassador for NCAR, raising environmental awareness through lectures and talks to scientists, students, and the general public during the past five years. 2. Peter Burkholder, Lynne Davis, Ryan Deardorff, Holly Devaul, Katy Ginger, Eileen McIlvain, John Weatherley, and Marianne Wiengroff (Digital Library for Earth System Education development team) for major new functionality and enhancement to DLESE that enables the library to better support the geosciences education community. 3. Ned Chamberlain and Brigitte Baeuerle (ATD) for successfully engaging the majority of ATDs lead engineers to serve as mentors for 15 engineering students from 10 U.S. universities. 4. Patrick Parrish, Dwight Owens, Victoria Johnson, Steve Deyo, Heidi Godsil, Carl D. Whitehurst, Jr., and Seth Lamos (COMET) for developing Hurricane Strike!, a multimedia Web-based module that helps middle school students, their families, and teachers understand the science and hazards of landfalling hurricanes. Scientific and Technical Advancement Award 1. Steven Chiswell, Steven Emmerson, Michael Schmidt, and Thomas Yoksas (Unidata) for improvements to the Internet Data Distribution System, by significantly improving the way near real-time data is delivered to researchers, educators, and operational organizations. 2. David Allen, Jeff Bobka, and Clarke Chambellan (HAO), and Jerry Dryer, James Ellis, Ken Harris, Walt Hodshon, Ed Mores, Steve Palmer, Steve Rauenbuehler, Jose Rivas, Karl Schwenz, and Bart Woodiel (ATDs Design and Fabrication Services staff) for executing three separate, exceptionally complex and urgent projects during the last three years(PELTI and DULTI, IHOP 2002, and Mobile Rapid Scan Radar). 3. James Smith (ACD) for his contributions to the advancement of experimental research through the development of new instrumentation and measurement techniques and the subsequent use of these techniques to address scientific questions that were previously inaccessible to experimental study. Outstanding Publication Award 1. Mark Rast (HAO) for the article, "The Thermal Starting Plume as an Acoustic Source" (published in 1999 in The Astrophysical Journal, 524, 462). 2. David Parsons (ATD) for his work on three papers with various coauthors (Franoise Guichard of the Centre National Recherches Mtorologiques, Mto-France, and CNRS; Jean-Luc Redelsperger of the Centre National Recherches Mtorologiques; and Kunio Yoneyama of the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center): Yoneyama, K., and D. B. Parsons, 1999, "A Proposed Mechanism for the Intrusion of Dry Air into the Tropical Western Pacific Region," J. Atmos. Sci. 56, 15241546. Parsons, D., K. Yoneyama, and J.-L. Redelsperger, 2000, "The Evolution of the Tropical Western Pacific Atmosphere-Ocean System Following the Arrival of a Dry Instrusion," Q. J. Roy. Meteor Soc., 126, 517548. J.-L. Redelsperger, D. B. Parsons, and F. Guichard, 2002, "Recovery Processes and Factors Limiting Cloud-Top Height Following the Arrival of a Dry Intrusion Observed During TOGA COARE," J. of the Atmos. Sci., 59, 24382457. 3. Guifu Zhang, Ed Brandes, and J. Vivekanandan (RAP) for two papers: Zhang, G., J. Vivekaandan, and E. Brandes, 2001, "A Method for Estimating Rain Rate and Drop Size Distribution from Polarimetric Radar Measurements," IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39:4, 830841. Brandes, E., G. Zhang, and J. Vivekanandan, 2003, "An Evaluation of a Drop Distribution-Based Polarimetric Radar Rainfall Estimator," J. Applied Met., 42, 652660. 4. Christopher Davis and Jordan Powers (MMM) for their work with Lance Bosart (State University of New York at Albany) on three papers referred to as the "Diana Papers": Davis, C.A., and L.F. Bosart, 2001, "Numerical Simulations of the Genesis of Hurricane Diana. Part I: Control Simulation," Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 18591881. Davis, C.A., and L.F. Bosart, 2002, "Numerical Simulations of the Genesis of Hurricane Diana, Part II: Sensitivity of Track and Intensity Prediction," Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 11001124. Powers, J.G., and C.A. Davis, 2002 "A Cloud-resolving, Regional Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Formation," Atmos. Sci. Lett., 3, 1524. 5. David Edwards, Jean Francois Lamarque, Louisa Emmons, John Gille, Gene Francis, Merritt Deeter, Juying Warner, Daniel Ziskin, and Lawrence Lyjak (ADC) for their work with Jean-Luc Atie and Jean-Pierre Cammas (Observatoire Mide Pyrnees, Toulouse, France), James R. Drummond (University of Toronto), and John P. Burrows and Andreas Richter (University of Bremen, Germany) for "Tropospheric Ozone Over the Tropical Atlantic: A Satellite Perspective" (published in 2003 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 4237). For more information, click on link below.
For more information, contact Susan Montgomery Hodge at 1653,
montgoms@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Outstanding Accomplishment nominations.
(Posted Wed 3 Dec to Tue 9 Dec)
DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT WORK!!!! The NCAR SCIENCE STORE will be at FL2 on TUESDAYS beginning December 2nd. *10 am-3 pm* You can shop every Tuesday through December 23rd. The store will be set up next to the auditorium so stop by and see all the cool new stuff!
For more information, contact Eileen Carpenter at 303-497-2401,
ecarpent@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 2 Dec to Mon 8 Dec)
The next TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Session is scheduled for Tuesday, December 9, 2003. This session will be held at the Mesa Lab Facility in the Directors Conference Room. You may either register for the Individual Counseling Sessions on-line at the web site below or contact TIAA-CREF, at 303-861-8801.
For more information, contact Kristen Alipit at 8706,
kalipit@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Tiaa-Cref Counseling Session.
(Posted Tue 2 Dec to Mon 8 Dec)
Dr. Olga Wilhelmi from NCAR-ESIG presents "Exploration of GIS Interoperability Technologies" as part of ATD's Advanced Technology & Observing Systems Seminar. Dr. Wilhelmi's discussion will cover implementation process of both OpenGIS and ESRI approaches to interoperability, as well as development of the IHOP data model. She will show examples of integration of IHOP data in a common GIS framework, and will address ussues of spatial data interoperability from the perspectives of different user communities. When: December 2, 2003, 10:30 am Where: FL2, Room 1022 Coffee, Tea and Cookies at 10:15 am.
For more information, contact Dirk Richter at 303-497-8748,
dr@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
ATOS Home Page.
(Posted Tue 2 Dec to Wed 3 Dec)
Please join the staff from Business Services to help Beth celebrate 12 successful years at UCAR and to help Beth kickoff her retirement. The reception will be hosted in the CG-1 Auditorium on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 from 3:30 5:30.
For more information, contact Amy Smith at 8872, asmith@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 2 Dec to Mon 8 Dec)
Toward a consistent view of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere You are invited to attend an ASP Seminar presented by Dan Marsh from ACD on Wednesday, December 3rd at 11:00 am at Foothills Lab 2, Room 1001
For more information, contact Scott Briggs at 1607, sbriggs@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Abstract of Dan Marsh's ASP Seminar talk.
(Posted Tue 2 Dec to Wed 3 Dec)
The names of the 2003 Outstanding Accomplishment Award nominees are now posted on the Web. Nominations have been made in five categories: Distinguished Achievement, Administrative Achievement, Outstanding Education and Outreach, Outstanding Publication, and Scientific and Technical Advancement. The winners will be announced at the holiday season party this Friday at Center Green 1 auditorium. The awards ceremony begins at 3:30.
For more information, contact Susan Montgomery-Hodge at 1653,
montgoms@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Outstanding Accomplishment nominations.
(Posted Mon 1 Dec to Sun 7 Dec)
Today is the final day for UCARFlex 2004 Open Enrollment. Employees have until 5:00 p.m. to access the web site to make health insurance changes, enroll in flexible spending account selections, and change your Leave Plan option. The link to the web site is below. Please use your timecard login and password to access the site. http://www.fin.ucar.edu/ucarflex.
For more information, contact Cyd Perrone at 8710, cperrone@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 1 Dec to Sun 7 Dec)
J. Dale Swenarton's black and white photography is on display in Gallery I of the ML Cafeteria December 1 through 27. The artist's infrared images touch upon metaphysical questions, environmental issues, and mysteries of our universe and of our home, the earth. Kyme Vincent's acrylic/mixed media collection is still on display in Gallery II through December.
For more information, contact Laura Einig at 2408, leinig@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Art Calendar.
(Posted Mon 1 Dec to Sun 7 Dec)
Please make plans now to attend the Annual UCAR Awards Ceremony, which will be held at the Holiday party on Friday, December 5, in the Center Green auditorium, starting at 3:30pm. We especially want to encourage those who have the honor of being nominated for these awards to attend.
For more information, contact Susan Montgomery-Hodge at 1653,
montgoms@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 1 Dec to Sun 7 Dec)
The Annual Awards Ceremony and EAC sponsored Holiday Season Party When: December 5, 2003 Where: Center Green 1 Auditorium Time: 3:00pm to 7:30pm The music will again be provided by Becky Ruttenberg and friends with a Mozart program to include the Divertimento in D, Quintet for horn and strings, and Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, beginning by 3:00 in the CG1 atrium. Along with Becky(RAP) on violin and viola will be Maggie Sleziak (GST) on violin, Dennis Riggin (CoRA) on viola, Yoriko Mota (CU - ECE) on cello, and Carolyn Ford (NIST) on horn. Then at 3:30 is the Annual Awards Ceremony, directly followed by the quilt raffle. Those who purchased tickets need not be present to win, but being there when they call off your number is half the fun of winning! At 4:30 the merry making will begin with food, drink and music to lift your spirits high! Featuring the band -"The Big Swing Trio" with Mary Ann Moore. They will play some traditional holiday songs, in addition to all your favorite swing dance tunes that will surely get you moving! Bonus!The Marriot Hotel (next door) is offering rooms at a discounted rate of $59 per night for those of you who would like to spend the night to continue the festivities on your own. (BYOB) You can reserve a room by going to the web site designed for UCAR: http://www.stayatresidenceinn.com/ucarholidayparty/ See you all there!
For more information, contact Kathleen Barney at 1434,
leeney@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 21 Nov to Sat 6 Dec)
Please join the staff from Business Services to help Beth celebrate 12 successful years at UCAR and to help Beth kickoff her retirement. The reception will be hosted in the CG-1 Auditorium on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 from 3:30 5:30.
For more information, contact Amy Smith at 8872, asmith@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 18 Nov to Wed 3 Dec)
Fight the holiday "bulge" by training in a martial art. Learn coordination, flexibility, strength, endurance, discipline, and self-protection and self-defense strategies. 4-week holiday session starts Monday November 17th and runs through December 18th. Mondays and Thursdays -- 4:30-5:45pm Wednesdays -- 10:45-11:45am in the Mesa Lab Fitness room. No classes for Thanksgiving week, November, 24th, 26th or 27th. Tae Kwon Do Chung Do Kwan is a traditional martial art with an emphasis on powerful kicking and self-defense strategy. Your first three lessons are FREE!
For more information, contact Erik Kluzek at 1326, erik@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
More information on Mesa Lab Tae Kwon Do Classes.
(Posted Mon 17 Nov to Fri 5 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: