UCAR

Thomas Bogdan, UCAR President October 8, 2013

Annual Meeting of UCAR Members

Science in Service to Society

Coming up:

Oct 30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nov 1

University of Michigan Nov 18

University of Washington Nov 19

Oregon State University

Engaging With University Partners

Campus visits this year:

University of Texas at Arlington University of Arizona Arizona State Jackson State University Texas Tech Rice University University of Texas at Austin Purdue University University of North Dakota Rutgers Princeton

UVISIT Program Oct. 18: Deadline for new applications

Engaging With University Partners

Mike Mills (ACD) University of New Hampshire

Scott Ellis (EOL) University of Washington

Dan Marsh (ACD) Columbia University

Steve Massie (ACD) Florida State University

Mausumi Dikpati (HAO) Lyndon State College

James Done (MMM) Georgetown University

Wen-Chau Lee (EOL) University of Hawaii

Engaging With University Partners

Inside the IPCC Climate Science Assessments, 1999-2013 (Jerry Meehl, NCAR) Communicating Climate Change in the U.S. (Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University) http://president.ucar.edu/university-relations/uforum

UFORUM – First webinars timed with IPCC WGI release

Community Outreach: Translating Science

More than 40 reporters joined panelists:

Linda Mearns (NCAR) Jerry Meehl (NCAR) Tad Pfeffer (University of Colorado) Brian Soden (University of Miami)

UCAR–UN Foundation partnership

Goal: Establish a university network of climate scientists to communicate IPCC AR5 findings. Project will continue through IPCC WG2 and WG3 rollout (March/April 2014)

To join: Contact Cindy Schmidt (cschmidt@ucar.edu)

UCAR IPCC teleconference for journalists (Sept. 27)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon June 7, 2013

Expanding Outreach: Industry Summit July 2013: 140 attendees from business and government

Connected our science and community collaborations with potential partners

Our new office is running full speed! Opened on 1 April Staffed by Mike Henry, Ari Gerstman

The D.C. landscape

•  Post-shutdown, expect a series of short-term continuing resolutions in FY14, with sequester still in place

•  More details to come from Joel Widder and Mike Henry

Budget outlook

•  Boulder rainfall records smashed!(9.08” in 24 hours, 17.15” for the week)

•  Many employees affected—homes damaged, commuting routes blocked, other impacts

•  UCAR is supporting our staff through online help exchange, leave donation program, Employee Assistance Program

•  Direct impact on our facilities:

relatively limited •  Many of our staff now involved in

documenting record rains, modeling the meteorology and hydrology, analyzing the causes, translating for media

Colorado Front Range Floods, Sept. 2013

•  NSF has extended the term of the agreement for five years—from October 2013 through September 2018.

•  New annual proposal audit process for NCAR (UCP is now exempt)

•  Some agreement language still

being finalized. On hold during the government shutdown.

Cooperative Agreement with NSF for Management of NCAR

Jim Hurrell, NCAR Director

New Leadership

Emily CoBabe-Ammann, UCP Director