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2004 UCAR Members Meeting
Summary
Introduction. Below you will find a brief summary
of 2004 UCAR Members Meeting. The meeting included the normal
UCAR business items (e.g., elections, reports, etc.) and a
forum focused on the "Role of the National Center in the Future
of the Geosciences". We hope this summary enables the UCAR
Member Representatives who attended the meeting to easily
brief their department colleagues and to inform those Member
Representatives who were not able to make the meeting. In
addition, we feel this information will be quite useful for
those of you who may attend the Committee on Strategic
Guidance for NSF's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences'
town meetings being planned for the AGU and AMS annual meetings
(mentioned below).
The Role of the National Center in the Future of the
Geosciences Forum. This year’s forum was developed
by the University Relations Committee. You are encouraged
to provide a URC
or Board member to
provide feedback on the Forum. The Forum consisted of:
- Kelvin Droegemeir. Chairman of the UCAR Board of
Trustees Kelvin Droegmeier provided an overview of NSF’s
plan to compete the cooperative agreement for the management
of NCAR, including the reasons for the competition, what
was being competed, and the opportunities and threats associated
with the competition. His presentation also provided a brief
history of UCAR and NCAR, how it has evolved on the past
few years, and UCAR and NCAR allocation of community service
time. Link: Preparing
for the Competition to Manage NCAR
- Cliff Jacobs. Cliff Jacobs (Head of UCAR and Lower
Atmosphere Section, ATM/NSF) discussed the NSF policies,
schedule, and procedures related to the competition. His
presentation also included a funding history for ATM/NSF,
NCAR, and the community and outlined the National Academy
of Sciences study being undertaken at the behest of the
National Science Board to examine how ATM/NSF can best accomplish
its mission of supporting the atmospheric sciences into
the future. Links: Cliff’s
presentation and Strategic
Guidance for NSF's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences.
- Panels. Panel discussions followed the presentations
from Rick, Kelvin, and Cliff. Each panel member made 5-10
minute comments and that was followed by an open-mike discussion
period. These panels conveyed the sense that the national
center must support the national priorities in a unique
and relevant way. The value of the center is its ability
to be a catalyst, an integrator and an enabler -- a locus
of energy for the atmospheric sciences community to carry
out its work.
- Panel I. The role of NCAR as a national center
in the future of the geosciences was comprised of
the following people: Tim Killeen, Director, NCAR; Neal
Lane, Rice University and UCAR Trustee; Kaye Howe, Director,
NSDL; and Sepi Yalda, Millersville University and URC Member.
- Panel II. The Young scientists’ view of the
UCAR-university partnership and future and was comprised
of the following early career scientists: Jim Hanson (MIT)
and Natalie Mahowald (NCAR), co-chairs; with panel members
John Cassano (University of Colorado), Greg Hakim (U. of
Washington), Rebecca Morss (NCAR), and Dan Marsh (NCAR).
Trustee Elections. We are honored to have such distinguished
colleagues serving on our Board! Members elected to three
year terms:
- Rana Fine, University of Miami - New Member
- Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma) - reelected for
second term
- Neal Lane, Rice University - reelected for second term
- Orlando Taylor, Howard University - reelected for second
term
- Frank Cushing, Cornerstone Government Affairs - Trustee
at Large
- Shirley Malcom, Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Programs of the AAAS - Trustee at Large
Member Committee Elections. The slates of the committees
were approved and the members of the following committees
were elected. The continuing members are included for completeness.
We are grateful to all of you for agreeing to serve on these
committees!
- Membership Committee (three-year term)
- James Miller – Rutgers University
- David Smith – U.S. Naval Academy
- Continuing members of the Membership Committee
are:
- Rong Fu – Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
- Charles Lin – McGill University (2005)
- Gudrun Magnusdottir - University of California-Irvine
(2005)
- Terry Nathan - University of California-Davis
(2005)
- Roger Pielke, Sr. – Colorado State University
(2006)
- Robert Talbot, Chairman - University of New Hampshire
(2006)
- Chuck Wash – Naval Postgraduate School (2006)
- Don Wuebbles – University of Illinois (2006)
- University Relations Committee (three-year term)
- Dick Orville – Texas A&M University
- Lisa White – San Francisco State
- S.T. Wu – University of Alabama-Huntsville
- John Merrill, Chairman - University of Rhode Island
(reelected for second term)
- Michael Morgan - University of Wisconsin-Madison (reelected
for second term)
- Mary Barth – NCAR/MMM (One-year term)
- Ginger Caldwell – NCAR/SCD (One-year term)
- Joanne Graham – UOP/Unidata (One-year term)
- Continuing members of the University Relations
Committee are:
- Kerry Cook - Cornell University (2006)
- Efi Foufoula-Georgiou - University of Minnesota
(2006)
- Jim Hansen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(2005)
- Everette Joseph - Howard University (2006)
- David Karoly – University of Oklahoma (2006)
- Ken Pickering - University of Maryland (2005)
- Gene Takle - Iowa State University (2005)
- Sepi Yalda - Millersville University of Pennsylvania
(2005)
- Members' Nominating Committee (one-year term)
- Fred Carr, Chairman - University of Oklahoma
- Kerry Cook - Cornell University
- Bob Ellingson – Florida State University
- Neal Lane – Rice University
- Ron McPherson – American Meteorological Society
- Mary Jo Richardson - Texas A&M University
Advocacy, Legislation, and Appropriations Update. April
Burke and Joel Widder of Lewis-Burke Associates and UCAR's
Cindy Schmidt updated the Members on the budget, legislative,
policy, and advocacy activities from the last year and highlighted
issues for the coming year. They explained that we have tough
budget years ahead and need the community's involvement in
these broad community advocacy efforts, including letter writing,
testifying, providing briefings, and other events. They asked
the members to regularly use the UCAR Government
Affairs website for advocacy and budget information and
honored the following outstanding UCAR member advocates from
the past year:
- Ernie Agee
- Rich Clark
- Kerry Cook
- Kelvin Droegemeier
- Richard Grotjahn
- Bill Gutowski
- Jim Hansen
- Eugenia Kalnay
- Eric Maloney
- Gary Ostrander
- Alan Robock
- Fred Stafford
- Gene Takle
- Don Wuebbles
- Joe Zehnder
University Relations Committee
Report. John Merrill reported on the work of that
committee over the past year, including the development of
the Forum mentioned above. His report highlighted the proposal
review function of the committee and noted that NCAR and UOP
proposals have met the criteria set forth by the URC to ensure
no unfair competition with the community. He noted that the
process is firmly ingrained at UCAR and NCAR and that the
URC sees few issues in their biannual review.
Membership Committee
Report. Chair of the Membership Committee Bob Talbort
provided the membership report.
- 2004 UCAR Members renewals:
- University of Denver
- University of Hawaii
- University of Minnesota
- University of Oklahoma
- Old Dominion University
- York University
- 2004 Academic Affiliates renewals:
- University of Kansas
- The State University of New York (SUNY) College at
Brockport
- Lyndon State College
- United States Naval Academy
- Proposed Renewals for 2005:
- Members: University of Maryland at College
Park, University of Miami, University of Missouri, Princeton
University, Texas Tech University
- Affiliates: University of Louisana at Monroe,
Plymouth State University, San Francisco State University,
and Saint Cloud State University
Academic Affiliates Meeting. The Affiliates met and
discussed the following issues:
- access to journals through the NCAR Library
- the value of webcasts and multi-media repository
- Early Career Faculty Fellowship Program (and it’s possible
inclusion of undergraduates)
- workshop for an
instrumentation initiative to assess feasibility of
UCAR creating a short course and/or on-line materials
- John Helsdon’s idea of creating a cloud physics chamber
in the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory.
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