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| SOARS Recognition Celebration Reminder | Thu, 12 Aug |
| 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium Schedule for Wednesday, August 11 | Wed, 11 Aug |
| Paul Swarztrauber's Retirement Party | Tue, 10 Aug |
| 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium Schedule for Tuesday, August 10 | Mon, 9 Aug |
| 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium Schedule for Monday, August 9 | Mon, 9 Aug |
| Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) | Mon, 9 Aug |
| Interested in Reading the Wall Street Journal Online? | Fri, 6 Aug |
| Rick Anthes' Annual Town Meetings - August 12, 2004 | Fri, 6 Aug |
| Last call for Walk and BikeWeek T-shirt $s | Fri, 6 Aug |
| HIRE Training | Thu, 5 Aug |
| Use FirstSearch on the NCAR Library Website | Wed, 4 Aug |
| Paul Swarztrauber's Retirement Party | Tue, 3 Aug |
| New Hires, Departures, and Retirees | Tue, 3 Aug |
| NCL Manuals Available | Tue, 3 Aug |
| Web Advisory Group Web Browser Recommendation | Mon, 2 Aug |
| Join the fun with the NCAR Mixed Bowling League | Mon, 2 Aug |
| Colorado Colors Art Show in ML Cafeteria | Mon, 2 Aug |
SOARS cordially invites you to attend our Recognition Celebration to be held on August 12, 2004 at 4:00 pm in the Center Green 1 Auditorium. We will be recognizing former director, Thomas L. Windham, and the work of the SOARS proteges. We hope you are able to join us and look forward to seeing you there.
For more information, contact Tamara Singleton at 1544,
tamaras@ucar.edu.
(Posted Thu 12 Aug to Thu 12 Aug)
The SOARS Program cordially invites you to attend the 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium. The schedule for Wednesday, August 11 is as follows: ML Main Seminar Room 10:00 am Atzel Drevon Carbon in the mountains: Using wavelet analysis to understand carbon interactions 10:30 am Damian Mattis Measurement of atmospheric nanoparticle size distribution using the Radial Differential Mobility Analyzer (RDMA) 11:00 am Shanna-Shaye Forbes Developing a procedure for software testing using synthetic data 11:30 am Tanya Craft Monitoring and reliability system 1:00 pm Andro Rios MODIS observations of desert dust, forest fire smoke, and anthropogenic aerosols 1:30 pm Garymar De Rivera Rivera Analysis of the anthropogenic contribution to mineral aerosols 2:00 pm Cherelle Blazer Oxidation mechanisms for toluene under atmospheric conditions 2:30 pm Rebecca Chan Synoptic Analysis of Mt. Kilimanjaro Precipitation Events during the "Long Rains" Season in 2001-2004 3:00 pm Dione Rossiter and Erick Adame Atmospheric remote sensing using the Global Positioning System (GPS): A colloquium and field trip to Japan and Taiwan
For more information, contact Jocelyn White at 8622, jwhite@ucar.edu.
(Posted Wed 11 Aug to Wed 11 Aug)
Please join us for Paul Swarztrauber's retirement party today at 3:30 in the Damon Room at the Mesa Lab.
For more information, contact Marcia Killingsworth at 1272,
marciak@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 10 Aug to Tue 10 Aug)
The SOARS Program Cordially invites you to attend the 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium. The Schedule for Tuesday, August 10 is as follows: FL Main Seminar Room 10:00 am Amber Reynolds Mesoanalysis of bow echo environments during BAMEX 10:30 am Nancy I. Rivera Rivera Height corrections of lower tropospheric wind profiles 11:00 am Anthony Didlake, Jr. Evaluating various wind measurement and retrieval schemes used for the Pentagon Shield Project 11:30 am Braxton Edwards Evaluating the convective atmospheric boundary layer by using surface station data 1:00 pm Roberto Cancel, III Characterization of diurnal variation of the boundary layer structure in complex terrain 1:30 pm Erick Adame Monitoring temperature trends in Antarctica using GPS radio occultation 2:00 pm Tamara Singleton Investigating the temperature variability of the middle and upper atmosphere over the equator using SABER and NCAR TIME-GCM 2:30 pm Carlos Medina Improving an automated aerosol optical depth algorithm
For more information, contact Jocelyn White at 8622, jwhite@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 9 Aug to Tue 10 Aug)
The SOARS Program cordially invites you to attend the 2004 SOARS Protege Colloquium. The schedule for Monday, August 9 is as follows: FL Main Seminar Room 10:00 am Melanie Zauscher Improving the quality of d18O-CO2 data from the NOAA/CMDL network 10:30 am Clarence Mann The use of climate information in air quality management in the Denver metropolitan area 11:00 am Erik Noble An improved technique for understanding damage from floods 11:30 am D. Matthew Coleman Reducing financial impacts on the reinsurance industry: Economic valuation of seasonal hurricane forecasts 1:00 pm Deanna Hence Wind structure and its impact on hail production: A VORTEX 95 case study using airborne Doppler radar 1:30 pm Melissa Burt Investigating the thermodynamic environment of a mesoscale convective system 2:00 pm Bret Harper Using the TIEGCM for estimation of the equatorial vertical ExB drift velocity with ground magnetic perturbation 2:30 pm Dione Rossiter Climatology of superrefraction observed by GPS radio occultation
For more information, contact Jocelyn White at 8622, jwhite@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 9 Aug to Mon 9 Aug)
SOARS cordially invites you to attend our Recognition Celebration to be held on August 12, 2004 at 4:00 pm in the Center Green 1 Auditorium. We will be recognizing former director, Thomas L. Windham, and the work of the SOARS proteges. We hope you are able to join us and look forward to seeing you there.
For more information, contact Tamara Singleton at 1544,
tamaras@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 9 Aug to Thu 12 Aug)
Would you like to read the current day edition of the Wall Street Journal from your desktop? The Library is considering a subscription plan that allows 25 individuals with their own login and password to access the current day plus a 30-day full text archive (85% of print edition). You would also be able to search for citations in the archives from 1979 to the present. Because stories are continually updated, the online article may not be the same as the print. If you would like to participate in this subscription plan, please contact Leslie Forehand, x8505, forehand@ucar.edu.
For more information, contact Leslie Forehand at 8505,
forehand@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 6 Aug to Thu 12 Aug)
Don't forget - Rick Anthes will be holding the annual UCAR/NCAR/UOP Town Meetings next Thursday, August 12th. The Foothills' meeting will be in the Auditorium (Room 1022) from 10:00 to 11:30 am. The Mesa Lab's meeting will be in the Main Seminar Room from 1:30 to 3:00 pm. A partial list of topics to be discussed include the following: 1. UCAR Budget Summary 2. Salary Actions June 1, 2004 and UCAR Demographics 3. Flat Budgets - Tough Choices. The national outlook for science funding and impacts on UCAR 4. Space Planning and Implementation 5. UCAR and NCAR Today and Tomorrow - Preparing for the Future 6. A Few Program Highlights 7. Questions and Discussion This is an excellent opportunity for you to hear about what's happening in the organization and to pose any questions you may have. Please note the appropriate Town Meeting on your calendars, and we hope to see you there!
For more information, contact Rick Anthes at 1652, anthes@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 6 Aug to Thu 12 Aug)
Hey folks... checks for T-shirts continue to dribble in. I'd like to submit them to F&A by say Friday, the 13th. If you owe anything for your T-shirt, please get me your check made out to "UCAR (TAP)" ASAP. Thanks! Again, the shirts are $5, minus a buck-a-day for every day you used alt-modes during Walk & BikeWeek.
For more information, contact Karl Hanzel at 8479, karl@ucar.edu.
(Posted Fri 6 Aug to Thu 12 Aug)
If you will be hiring a new employee or will be serving on an interview panel, please plan to attend UCAR's mandatory Hiring Information, Resources and Enlightenment (HIRE) training to be held: Tuesday, August 10th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. ML - Chapman Room Topics to be covered include: * Employment Laws affecting hiring decisions * Interviewing questions and skills * UCAR's hiring process, step-by-step Registration is required.
For more information, contact Nancy Wade at 8717, nwade@ucar.edu.
(Posted Thu 5 Aug to Wed 11 Aug)
One of the information utilities made available to staff on the NCAR Library Website is FirstSearch, a collection of databases covering science, humanities and more. NCAR/UCAR users have found the following useful: GEOBASE (covers geography and the atmospheric and environmental sciences) WORLDCAT (includes title, author, publisher and other descriptive information about almost any book) DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS (contains descriptive information on dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe) BOOKS IN PRINT (consists of publisher information, price, page numbers, ISBN, author and title for in print books) For access go to the Info Resources page of the Library Website: http://www.ucar.edu/library/resources.html. Select FirstSearch and click on the button "List All Databases" to choose the database you want.
For more information, contact Leslie Forehand at 8505,
forehand@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Library's Info Resources Web Page.
(Posted Wed 4 Aug to Tue 10 Aug)
Please join us for Paul Swarztrauber's retirement party, August 10, 2004 at 3:30pm, in the Damon Room at the Mesa.
For more information, contact Marcia Killingsworth at 1272,
marciak@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 3 Aug to Tue 10 Aug)
New Hires Aida Cavalier, casual - weekend receptionist with Occupancy Pool. ML lobby James Humphrey, student assistant with SCD. ML room 42J, ext. 1293 Gabriele Pfister, post doctorate with ACD. ML room 392B, ext. 2915 Sean Potter, web specialist with JOSS. OOS Paul Savage, student assistant with ATD. FL1 room 2103, ext. 8825 Jianglong Zhang, visitor with Visiting Scientists Program. OOS Ping Zhu, post doctorate with CGD. ML room 320, ext. 1316 Departures Jarmei Chen, July 30 Jennifer Delaurant, July 23 Christopher Franks, July 16 Darren Gallant, July 31 Aditi Kapoor, July 30 Michael Levy, July 16 Jesus Lopez-Cruz, July 23 Sharon Shearer, July 21 Retirees Dolores Boyd, July 30
For more information, contact Kristen Alipit at 8706,
kalipit@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 3 Aug to Mon 9 Aug)
Black and white copies of the NCL Mini-Graphics and Mini-Language reference manuals are available. If you are at the Mesa, drop by room 261, B-tower. If you are off site, send me your name and contact info and I will pop them in the interoffice mail for you.
For more information, contact sylvia murphy at 1720, murphys@ucar.edu.
(Posted Tue 3 Aug to Mon 9 Aug)
The Web Advisory Group (WAG) recommends that all employees upgrade their web browser to a recent standards-compliant version. Some popular examples include recent versions of Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.7, IE 6 for Windows, and Safari 1.2. Please contact a member of your computer support staff if you are running an older browser such as Netscape 4.x so you can be upgraded. If you continue to use an older browser, you will see worse bugs and display problems in the months and years to come since many web developers are taking advantage of enhancements in current browsers that do not display well or at all in older browsers. Additionally, older browsers pose certain security risks for users and for the organization. These risks not only include mechanisms for installing & retaining spyware easily, but may also include exploits that have a potential of running code locally on your machine. For these reasons, Netscape 4.x is no longer an officially supported web browser at UCAR. The WAG has heard from numerous employees who use Netscape Messenger 4.x as their email client and prefer it over the Netscape 7 email client. That choice is yours. The WAG simply recommends that you do your web browsing with a current web browser.
For more information, contact Markus Stobbs at 1238, mstobbs@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Web Advisory Group.
(Posted Mon 2 Aug to Sun 8 Aug)
Come out and have some fun with the NCAR Mixed Bowling League. We accept teams or individuals. Employees, friends, and family (18 and over) are welcome. It's a split season, so you have more than one chance to make it into the final playoffs. Join us for an organizational meeting at the Broomfield Fun Center on Tuesday August 31 at 7:00 pm. If you can't be there, please be sure to call and sign up. League play begins Tuesday, September 7, at 6:30 pm. For more information, contact Julie Harris at 1849 jus@ucar.edu or Teresa Shibao at 8510, shibao@ucar.edu.
For more information, contact Julie Harris at 1849, jus@ucar.edu.
(Posted Mon 2 Aug to Sun 8 Aug)
Mixed media artwork by the Colorado Colors group is on display in the ML Cafeteria August 2-28. The colorful artwork captures scenery and subjects from the state of Colorado at their finest. Oil Paintings of animals by Catherine Cleary are still on display in the cafeteria through August 28.
For more information, contact Laura Einig at 2408, leinig@ucar.edu.
Or see the web page at
Art Calendar.
(Posted Mon 2 Aug to Sun 8 Aug)
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: