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Dear Trustees, Member and
Affiliate Representatives, and URC Members,
Welcome to the website for the 2004 October
Meetings. This year’s meeting finds many in the UCAR
community in the midst of even more change and interesting
challenges as the realities of budget decreases set in at
the state and federal levels, as we see changes in the structure
of NOAA and NASA, as the National Academy study of NSF/ATM’s
future support of the atmospheric sciences begins, and here
at UCAR and NCAR as we carry out the reorganization of the
national center and begin to plan for the competition for
the management of NCAR that will occur in a couple of years.
Against this complex backdrop of change, we’ll hold
discussions this year during the Members Meeting on the role
of the national center in the future of the geosciences—a
discussion of just what the contemporary concept of national
center means to our community and to society as a whole.
Along those lines, during the past year we conducted an analysis
of the level of effort we at NCAR and the UCAR Office of Programs
are devoting to the four categories of education and outreach,
community facilities, community support and research and development.
This “roughly right” analysis is published in
the Summer 2004 issue of the UCAR Quarterly (http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/summer04/president.html#analysis)
I found it an interesting exercise and I hope you find it
so as well. It will serve as part of the backdrop of our discussions
in October.
I’d like also to point you to a webcast we held in
August on the NCAR reorganization. We captured it on video
and it can be found at
http://www.ucar.edu/webcasts/2004/ncar_reorg/ if you have
any questions on the NCAR reorganization. It runs about an
hour.
I am forecasting good weather for the meetings, and look
forward--as always--to productive and enjoyable interactions
with you in October.
My best regards,
Rick Anthes
President, UCAR |
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