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UCAR at a Glance |
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Advanced Study Program (ASP)
303-497-1602
Director: William (Al) Cooper
Sponsors recent Ph.D. scientists and students in Ph.D. programs,
bringing them to NCAR to expand their own studies and enrich the
center's research. ASP also offers seminars, workshops, and colloquia on
areas of particular importance to the atmospheric sciences.
Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD)
303-497-1401
Director: Daniel McKenna
Focuses on global- and regional-scale air quality and problems related
to the complex interactions among the oceans, ecosystems, and
atmosphere. Researchers study the cycles of chemicals in the atmosphere,
ways in which the composition of the air evolves, and the impact of
human activities on atmospheric chemistry.
Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD)
303-497-8833
Director: David Carlson
Provides observing facilities and instrumentation, including advanced
radars, research aircraft, flux measurement systems, and integrated
sounding systems, to researchers in the atmospheric and related
sciences. These facilities allow investigators around the globe to
gather raw data required for their research programs.
Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD)
303-497-1320
Director: Maurice Blackmon
Contributes to better prediction of weather and climate through the
development of models that promote understanding of the physical causes
of past, present, and future climates and large-scale atmospheric and
oceanic dynamics.
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG)
303-497-8117
Director: Robert Harriss
Improves understanding of the interactions among the atmosphere,
environmental processes, and society and communicates information
related to atmospheric science to a broad community of researchers and
decision makers through research and workshops. ESIG staff assess how
societies might better understand and cope with severe weather and
climate shifts.
High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
303-497-1527
Director: Michael Knölker
Carries out research into the solar interior, the influence of magnetic
fields on the structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, and the
links between the variable solar output and Earth's magnetosphere and
outer atmosphere. Because some solar changes influence Earth's space
environment and its climate, understanding solar variability is
fundamental to understanding and potentially predicting the variability
of Earth's atmosphere.
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division
(MMM)
303-497-8908
Director: Robert Gall
Investigates the basic physical processes that govern the weather: how
the atmosphere and Earth receive incoming radiation, scatter and absorb
it, and retransmit it; how weather and climate are affected by terrain
and the characteristics of soil and vegetation; how severe storm systems
develop and die; and how precipitation processes occur.
Research Applications Program (RAP)
303-497-8390
Director: Brant Foote
Conducts directed research on disruptive phenomena such as
thunderstorms, icing conditions, snowstorms, and turbulence and
transfers relevant technology to such weather-sensitive activities as
aviation, water resource management, agriculture, and surface and marine
transportation.
Scientific Computing Division (SCD)
303-497-1272
Director: Al Kellie
Provides supercomputing resources, scientific visualization tools and
facilities, high-speed networks, and associated data-processing
capabilities on a variety of computing machines. In close collaboration
with other NCAR divisions, SCD assists in advancing atmospheric research
across a broad front. SCD's data archives included over 250 terabytes as
of mid-2000. Its computing center provides over 70 gigaflops of
sustained supercomputing power for university and NCAR scientists.
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere,
and Climate (COSMIC)
303-497-8647
Director: Ying-Hwa (Bill) Kuo
Operates a collaborative science project between the United States and
Taiwan to launch a constellation of microsatellites. Upon its
deployment, COSMIC will collect atmospheric remote-sensing data for
weather prediction, climate, and ionospheric and gravity research.
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education
and Training (COMET®)
303-497-8470
Director: Timothy Spangler
Improves the weather services of the nation by involving research
scientists and academic scholars in the continuing education of weather
forecasters and the development of new forecast techniques. The
COMET® Program offers courses, symposia, and workshops and produces
interactive, computer-based learning systems.
GPS Science and Technology Program (GST)
303-497-8045
Director: Randolph (Stick) Ware
Investigates ground- and satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS)
data as a tool for observing the atmosphere. The University NAVSTAR
Consortium (UNAVCO) within GST provides technical support and equipment
to investigators using GPS measurements to better understand such
phenomena as earthquakes and volcanoes.
Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications
(IITA)
303-497-8697
Director: Richard Chinman
Increases coherence, as viewed by users, of data services and related
efforts across all of UCAR and does so with methods that can be applied
outside the organization, especially at universities engaged in
producing and managing data. The IITA is a joint UCAR/NCAR/UOP
effort.
Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS)
303-497-8683
Director: Karyn Sawyer
Provides scientific, technical, and administrative support services to
the research community for planning, organizing, and implementing
research programs and associated field projects worldwide. Most JOSS
services and products fall in three broad categories: (1) community
support, including planning advice, meeting management, program office
administration, publications, and visitor programs; (2) field program
support, including program planning and design, site surveys, and field
operation logistics and management; and (3) data management, including
system design and the collection, quality control, formatting, and
customized delivery of scientific project data.
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Program
Center
303-497-8354
Director: Mary Marlino
This community-governed facility is designed to offer educators and
learners easy access to high-quality information, tools, and services
that facilitate learning about Earth at all educational levels. DLESE
will include peer-reviewed collections of instructional materials,
interfaces to data sets, and computer- and human-mediated services for
collaboration and sharing.
Unidata Program Center
303-497-8644
Director: David Fulker
Helps over 160 university departments, working as a community, to
acquire and use atmospheric and other geophysical data for research and
teaching, along with software tailored for visualization and analysis of
these data.
Visiting Scientist Programs (VSP)
303-497-8627
Director: Meg Austin
Operates programs designed to support and broaden education and research
in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences through fellowships to
researchers at graduate, postgraduate, and more advanced levels. VSP
also supports advisory panels and review teams, workshops, and summer
institutes for the university community and federal agency sponsors.
Office of Development and Government Affairs
303-497-2102
Director: Cynthia Schmidt
Monitors the activities of the U.S. Congress and keeps the UCAR
community informed on budgetary, legislative, and policy developments
involving UCAR, NCAR, UOP, NSF, and other agencies of importance to the
atmospheric and related sciences. Promotes the growth and well-being of
UCAR's programs and activities by supporting grant-seeking activities in
the public and private sectors, assisting with educational project
development, and supporting UCAR-affiliated programs that pursue
environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The latter include
the Science Policy Roundtable, supported by the MacArthur Foundation,
and RECOUP: Industrial Ecology Project. Both are projects of the Walter
Orr Roberts Institute.
UCAR Foundation
303-497-8898
President: R.C. Mercure
Acts as UCAR's exclusive agent for commercial endeavors. The nonprofit
UCAR Foundation includes officers and a board of directors drawn from
UCAR, universities, and the private sector. Revenue flows to the
foundation through equity positions, license fees, and royalties on the
sales of resulting commercial products. A substantial portion of the
revenue generated is returned to UCAR for the advancement of its
scientific programs.
Office of the UCAR President
303-497-1650
President: Richard Anthes
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Federal Aviation Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* = founding member
| Kelvin Droegemeier (chair) | University of Oklahoma |
| Robin Bell | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Eric Betterton | University of Arizona |
| Christopher Bretherton | University of Washington |
| Richard Clark | Millersville University of Pennsylvania |
| Jeff Dozier | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Matthew Hitchman | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Kenneth Pickering | University of Maryland |
| Eugene Takle | Iowa State University |
| Mingfang Ting | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Otis Brown (chair) | University of Miami |
| Richard Anthes | President, UCAR |
| Leo Donner | Princeton University |
| Lennard Fisk | University of Michigan |
| David Houghton | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Lyn Hutton (treasurer) | The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
| Charles Kennel | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Conway Leovy | University of Washington |
| Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ronald McPherson (vice chair) | American Meteorological Society |
| Julia Nogues-Paegle | University of Utah |
| Mary Jo Richardson | Texas A&M University |
| David Skaggs | Aspen Institute |
| Ronald Smith (secretary) | Yale University |
| Dennis Thomson | Pennsylvania State University |
| Margaret Tolbert | University of Colorado |
| Gabor Vali | University of Wyoming |
| H. Gregory Austin, Lise Carney (UCAR counsel) | Holland and Hart |
| Henry Houghton | (1959–1961) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Horace Byers | (1962–1964) | University of Chicago |
| A. Richardson Kassander, Jr. | (1965–1968) | University of Arizona |
| John Calhoun, Jr. | (1969–1970) | Texas A&M University |
| Earl Droessler | (1971–1972) | North Carolina State University |
| Thomas Malone | (1973–1974) | Butler University |
| Robert Fleagle | (1975–1976) | University of Washington |
| Ray Chamberlain | (1977–1978) | Colorado State University |
| William Gordon | (1979–1980) | Rice University |
| Donald Veal | (1981–1982) | University of Wyoming |
| Charles Hosler, Jr. | (1983–1984) | Pennsylvania State University |
| John Evans | (1985–1986) | COMSAT Laboratories |
| Robert Street | (1987–1990) | Stanford University |
| James Kimpel | (1991–1992) | University of Oklahoma |
| Richard Somerville | (1993–1994) | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Susan Avery | (1995–1996) | University of Colorado |
| John Snow | (1997–1998) | University of Oklahoma |
| Lennard Fisk | (1999) | University of Michigan |
| Otis Brown | (2000) | University of Miami |
| Walter Orr Roberts | 1960–1973 |
| Francis Bretherton | 1974–1979 |
| Robert White | 1980–1982 |
| Clifford Murino | 1983–1987 |
| Richard Anthes | 1988–present |
| Walter Orr Roberts | 1960–1968 |
| John Firor | 1968–1974 |
| Francis Bretherton | 1974–1980 |
| Wilmot Hess | 1980–1986 |
| Richard Anthes | 1986–1988 |
| Robert Serafin | 1989–2000 |
| Timothy Killeen | 2000–present |
| William Bonner | 1992–1994 |
| William Pennell | 1995–1997 |
| Jack Fellows | 1997–present |
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