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Volume 34, Number 12 / Volume 35, Number 1December 1999-January 2000

In this issueUpdated Performance Awards unveiled at holiday party A Staff Notes Monthly family album

An NCAR/UCAR mosaic The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The way we were Instruments from beyond Photographer's picks

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this photo, taken at a recognition luncheon on 12November. From left: Andrew Mai (CGD), DonnaMelle (F&A), David Elmore (HAO), John Veresh(F&A), Vicki Holzhauer and Mickey Glantz (both ofESIG), Jim Walega (ACD), Jim Hack (CGD), DanWilson (F&A), Ben Foster (HAO), Al Cooper (ASP),Celia Darnell (ATD), and Al Schanot (ATD). Beginningin 2000, the annual lunch will recognize 35-yearveterans as well as the 15- and 25-year stalwarts.

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UpdatedPerformance Awardsunveiled atholiday party

A UCAR/NCAR tradition was upheld--but with some new twists--at the all-staff holiday party, sponsored by theEmployee Activities Committee, on 10 December at the Mesa Lab. After almost a year of review, the annualOutstanding Performance Awards have been streamlined into four main categories, with a top-level DistinguishedAchievement Award added. Not all awards will be given every year, and nominations are no longer publicized. (Seesidebar below for more on these changes.)

NOTE (November 2002): Beginning in 2000, nominations were again publicized. We have since added apage with the full list of 1999 awards and nominations.

This year, awards were given in three categories:

B. C. Low (third from left) accepts his Outstanding Publication prize from (left) NCAR

director Bob Serafin, UCAR president Rick Anthes, and UOP director Jack Fellows.

(Photos by Carlye Calvin.) Outstanding Publication

Hans De Sterck and Boon Chye Low (HAO) and Stefaan Poedts (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium),"Complex magnetohydrodynamic bow shock topology in field-aligned low-beta flow around a perfectly conducting cylinder," Physics of Plasmas 5(11), 4015-4027. This paper significantly improves our understanding of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shock structures that form due to high-speed gas and magnetic field outflows from the sun impacting the interplanetary medium and the magnetospheres of the Earth and other planets. The phenomenon of high-speed MHD flow impinging on an obstacle has previously been poorly understood. Through an elegant combination of numerical simulations and ensuing analysis, the authors have brought new and surprising insight into this phenomenon, which occurs in many places in our solar system and, indeed, throughout the universe.

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Science and Technical Accomplishment

Greg Thompson, Paddy McCarthy, Frank Hage, and Shelly Knight (RAP) for the development of the AviationDigital Data Service (ADDS). ADDS is a Web-based information service (http://adds.awc-kc.noaa.gov) that makessophisticated aviation weather products and associated flight-planning tools available to any on-line user. Throughseveral modest grants, the system grew out of an ad-hoc Web site devoted to aviation weather. ADDS is now beingused by major airlines, corporations, the armed services, and private aviators. The manager of meteorology for UnitedAirlines said he could "not recall a more significant advance in the production and delivery of essential aviationproducts than ADDS."

Education and Outreach

Bev Lynds.

Bev Lynds (formerly with Unidata) forher outstanding contributions to scienceeducation, culminating in the creation ofthe Skymath teaching modules. Bev was acornerstone of education and outreachwithin UCAR for nearly a decade.Skymath takes advantage of a student'snatural interest in scientific discovery anduses this as a vehicle for fosteringenthusiasm in mathematics. As a result ofBev's creativity, tremendous drive, andhard work, Skymath has been adopted inmany classrooms nationally andinternationally. Much of Bev's work wascontributed on a volunteer basis while atUCAR, from her retirement as anastronomer through this year.

A list of all Oustanding Performance Awards given since the program's inception can be found at the Performance

Flanked by Bob Serafin (left) and Rick Anthesand Jack Fellows (right) are four award-winning RAP staff: Paddy McCarthy, GregThompson, Shelly Knight, and Frank Hage.

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Awards Web page. --BH

Why the changes?

The Outstanding Performance Awards were founded in the 1960s to recognize the highest achievements of NCARstaff (later extended to all UCAR employees). The program began with the Outstanding Publication Award in 1967;four other honors were added through the years. In 1999, a committee organized by Dale Kellogg (executive assistantto NCAR director Bob Serafin) gave the awards program a thorough review and instituted the first major overhaulsince its inception. As noted in a memo to staff from Rick Anthes on 9 December, this year brings "a rededication ofour intent to recognize the most significant and noteworthy accomplishments of UCAR."

In making these changes, Rick notes, "We have enlisted the help of people throughout UCAR: the divisions andprograms that nominate staff and their accomplishments; the advice and counsel of the Human Resources AdvisoryCommittee (HRAC), which recommended changes to the policies and procedures involved in the awards process; theUCAR Management Committee, which reviewed and adopted the final policy; and the UCAR-wide jury thatdeliberates and makes the final selection of the recipients."

Key changes include the following:

Expansion of the time frame of each award category to include multiyear achievements. The OutstandingPublication Award has long allowed for nominations of papers written as long as five years ago but whoseimportance has become more evident through time. This principle has now been extended to allow achievementsspanning as long as five years to be eligible in other award categories.A relaxation of the rule that each award be given every year. There may now be categories in which no award ismade in a given year.Clarification of eligibility rules so that members of a nominated team can be recognized in a more equitablemanner.Confidentiality of nominations, which are no longer announced in advance or at the ceremony. According toRick, "This is in keeping with many award processes in our community, including the NOAA medals,[American Meteorological Society] awards and fellowships, and [American Geophysical Union] fellowships."Creation of a top-level Distinguished Achievement Award. This new honor carries a monetary prize of $10,000and can be given for a publication, development of new technologies, education and outreach, or otherleadership and support activities consistent with UCAR missions. A Distinguished Achievement Awardrepresents "the very best of UCAR's accomplishmentsìone that significantly enhances UCAR's reputation." Aswith the other awards, there may be years in which no Distinguished Achievement honor is given.Streamlining of the former five award categories into the four listed below:

Outstanding Publication--given for published results of original research, review papers, pedagogicallyoriented books, or other contributions to atmospheric science, broadly defined, or for works that connectatmospheric science with other disciplines or with matters of public policy.Science and Technical Accomplishment--given for efforts leading to substantial improvements inscientific and/or technical capabilities, including advances in hardware or software engineering, computerscience, and applied science. Accomplishments in this category might, but do not necessarily, result in ascientific or technical publication.Administration--given for eforts that substantially improve UCAR's ability to manage its affairs.Activities in this category might include efficiencies in managing information, improved processes withinor interactions among UCAR entities or with funding agencies, or enhanced services or support to UCARemployees.Education and Outreach--given for efforts having a significant impact on, and leading to improvementsin, scientific, mathematical, or technical education, or for other efforts that significantly enhance thepublic†s understanding of scientific or technical issues. These activities may involve postgraduate,graduate, undergraduate, K-12, or general-public education.

The committee behind these changes, led by ATD director Dave Carlson, will complete its work in 2000. If you have

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comments or suggestions, please pass them on to the HRAC. --BH

A different kind of millennium was recognized at this year'sholiday party, as UCAR honored a group of staff who have put ina collective 1,130 years of service. Each of these employees hasbeen at UCAR continuously for at least 30 years (term lengths areindicated in parentheses below). Some have been here for evenlonger, with breaks separating earlier stints of service.Bottom row: Warren Washington (36), Chester Newton (33), VicTisone (31), Andy Skumanich (38).Second row: Kathy Strand (30), Harriet Barker (34), BernieO†Lear (35), Marcel Verstraete (32).Third row: Norm Zrubek (31), Ray Roble (30), Akira Kasahara(33), Peter Gilman (30), Chuck Frush (33), Toni Biter (33).Fourth row: Paul Swarztrauber (36), Fred Clare (30), Dick Oye(31), Dennis Joseph (33).Fifth row: Dave Williamson (31), Will Kellogg (32), Dave Fulker(33), Dick Friesen (34), Rol Madden (32).Back row: Rich Lueb (36), John Firor (35), Don Lenschow (34),Bill Mankin (30), David Waltman (33), Roy Jenne (34).Not pictured: Dave Baumhefner (33), Ben Domenico (30),Charlie Knight (37), Hayden Mathews (31), Harry van Loon (33).

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Outstanding Accomplishment Awards -- 1999 nominations

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Here are the winners and nominees for each of the 1999 Outstanding Performance Awards. For photos and morecoverage of the ceremony, please see the accompanying article.

Outstanding Publication

Hans De Sterck and Boon Chye Low (HAO) and Stefaan Poedts (Catholic University of Leuven,Belgium), "Complex magnetohydrodynamic bow shock topology in field-aligned low-beta flow around aperfectly conducting cylinder," Physics of Plasmas 5(11), 4015-4027. This paper significantly improvesour understanding of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shock structures that form due to high-speed gasand magnetic field outflows from the sun impacting the interplanetary medium and the magnetospheres ofthe Earth and other planets. The phenomenon of high-speed MHD flow impinging on an obstacle haspreviously been poorly understood. Through an elegant combination of numerical simulations and ensuinganalysis, the authors have brought new and surprising insight into this phenomenon, which occurs in manyplaces in our solar system and, indeed, throughout the universe.

Also nominated:

William Collins, "A global signature of enhanced shortwave absorption by clouds," Journal ofGeophysical Research-Atmospheres 103, 31,669-31,679. By employing all three elements of scientificresearc--observations, theory, and modeling--this paper addresses a fundamental uncertainty: the amountof solar radiation absorbed and reflected throughout the atmosphere. Satellite data do not provide enoughresolution to answer the question. With the help of previously unused spectral data on reflected solarradiation collected in the early 1980s from the Nimbus 7 satellite, this study showed that clouds across theglobe absorb more radiation than expected. Simulations using the NCAR Community Climate Model anddata from an Oklahoma field study both confirmed that the cloud absorption is more than previouslythought. Although the mechanism for this effect remains unknown, this paper presents sound argumentsfor its presence and its global extent.

Michael Glantz, Currents of Change: El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society (Cambridge UniversityPress, 1996). This overview of the El Niño¥Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major landmark in the effortto build bridges among fundamental atmospheric science, public policy, and the socioeconomics ofweather and climate impacts. It is one of the first attempts to describe ENSO in a lucid, accurate mannerfor an interdisciplinary audience. A synthesis of two decades of research, it was produced with extensiveguidance from physical and social scientists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translated into fourlanguages, with a second edition in progress, Currents of Change is a blend of original thought,outstanding scholarship, and writing talent.

Wojciech Grabowski, Xiaoqing Wu, and Mitchell Moncrieff, "Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Tropical




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Cloud Systems during Phase III of GATE [the Global Atmospheric Research ProgramÐs Atlantic TropicalExperiment], Part I: Two-dimensional Experiments," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (JAS) 53, 3684-3709; "Part II: Effects of Resolution and the Third Spatial Dimension" (with William Hall, MMM), JAS55, 3264-82; and "Part III: Effects of Cloud Microphysics," JAS 56, 2384-2402. This three-part paper is amajor step in quantifying interactions among physical processes, convection, and the environment usingfield experiments to evaluate the results. Showers and thunderstorms affect many scales of motion in thetropics. These papers show for the first time that fine-scale, cloud-resolving numerical models can now bean integral part of observing and analysis on a larger scale. The cloud systems that result--dynamicallyconsistent, high in resolution, and spanning an unprecedented range of scales--are being used at NCARand elsewhere to develop physically based schemes for parameterizing convection within models.

William Randel and Fei Wu (NCAR), James Russell (Hampton University), and Joe Water (JetPropulsion Laboratory), "Space-time patterns of trends in stratospheric constituents derived from UARS[Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite] measurements," Journal of Geophysical Research¥Atmospheres104, 3711-3727. This paper outlines several trends in stratopheric constituents measured by UARSinstruments between 1991 and 1998. Each of the constituents showed significant linear trends over at leastsome region of the stratosphere, and spatial patterns indicated coupling among the species. Contrary todecadal-scale ozone trends of the last 20 years, ozone decreased in the tropical middle stratosphere duringthe imd-1990s and increased in the tropics near 25 kilometers (15 miles). Most surprising is the discoverythat water vapor increased by 1 to 2% a year in most of the stratosphere above 25 km. As the first paper tooutline many of these trends, this paper will have a major impact on stratospheric research.

James Wilson and Daniel Megenhardt, "Thunderstorm Initiation, Organization, and Lifetime Associatedwith Florida Boundary Layer Convergence Lines," Monthly Weather Review 125, 1508-25. Using 32 daysof data from the Convection and Precipitaton/Electrification (CaPE) field project in Florida, this papershows how the areaÐs longer-lived multicellular storms¦those more likely to cause serious damage¦aresustained. Analysis shows that the formation and duration of these storms is related to the vertical windshear and storm motion relative to two recurring boundaries, the East Coast Sea Breeze Front and theWest Coast Front. By calculating the boundary-relative cell motion, forecasters can use these findings toimprove storm forecasts, including those issued by automated systems. This represents a fundamentaladvance in short-term storm forecasting, with the findings already being applied in New Mexico,Alabama, Virginia, and Australia.

Education and Outreach

Bev Lynds, for her outstanding contributions to science education, culminating in the creation of theSkymath teaching modules. Bev was a cornerstone of education and outreach within UCAR for nearly adecade. Skymath takes advantage of a student's natural interest in scientific discovery and uses this as avehicle for fostering enthusiasm in mathematics. As a result of Bev's creativity, tremendous drive, andhard work, Skymath has been adopted in many classrooms nationally and internationally. Much of Bev'swork was contributed on a volunteer basis while at UCAR, from her retirement as an astronomer throughthis year.

Also nominated:

Jimy Dudhia, Dave Gill, Yong-Run Guo, Kevin Manning, Wei Wang, and Sue Chen, for organizingand teaching the semiannual MM5 Model Tutorial Class. This class allows attendees with diversebackgrounds in atmospheric science to learn the basics of mesoscale modeling and gain hands-onexperience directly applicable to their own research. Since 1992, over 400 participants have attended theMM5 tutorials, which have played a major role in the growth and success of the model. The tutorial teamprepares a comprehensive set of lecture notes, available on the Web, and an extensive set of visualdisplays used during the tutorials. The nominees have expended a tremendous effort over and above theirnormal job responsibilities in designing and building test cases for each class, updating the Web interface,



and addressing user questions during and after the tutorial.

Mickey Glantz for more than 20 years of work to bring a greater understanding of the El Niño¥SouthernOscillation (ENSO) process to the general public and potential users of ENSO information. In the 1970s,Mickey recognized a lack of public information on ENSO. A world leader in addressing this gap, he haswritten numerous articles for lay magazines as well as the 1996 book Currents of Change: El NiñoÐsImpact of Climate and Society. Mickey has discussed ENSO in newspapers across the nation and hasappeared on television in South America, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States. A long-timeadvocate for building bridges across disciplines, Mickey launched the popular Network Newsletter in 1995and chaired a colloquium on ENSO for NCAR's Advanced Study Program in 1997. He has also organizedmore than 20 other workshops designed to bring together physical scientists with users of ENSOinformation. Deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of ENSO researchers, Mickey has servedon numerous dissertation committees.

Tom Windham, for his work in chairing the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research andScience program. In an effort to address the longstanding dearth of underrepresented groups in theatmospheric and related sciences, NSF and UCAR teamed in the mid-1990s to explore a new strategy.The SOARS program would bring promising undergraduates to UCAR each summer for severalconsecutive years, with a network of multiple mentors helping to orient each protégé to the world ofgraduate-level research. Tom's contributions have molded SOARS into a program that now enjoysnational recognition. His efforts to build multi-institutional ties nearly doubled the funding for protégés inless than four years. The SOARS retention rate of 86% attests to the attractiveness of the program, thehigh quality of its protégés, and Tom's superb leadership.

Scientific and Technical Advancement

Greg Thompson, Paddy McCarthy, Frank Hage, and Shelly Knight (RAP) for the development of theAviation Digital Data Service (ADDS). ADDS is a Web-based information service (http://adds.awc-kc.noaa.gov) that makes sophisticated aviation weather products and associated flight-planning toolsavailable to any on-line user. Through several modest grants, the system grew out of an ad-hoc Web sitedevoted to aviation weather. ADDS is now being used by major airlines, corporations, the armed services,and private aviators. The manager of meteorology for United Airlines said he could "not recall a moresignificant advance in the production and delivery of essential aviation products than ADDS."

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We started out as a good idea, we became an experiment, and now we're an institution. UCAR and NCAR embark on afifth decade of achievement at this, the dawn of a new millennium. Staff Notes Monthly couldn't resist this opportunityto look back at where we've been and who we've been. We knew it was impossible to provide a truly comprehensivewrap-up of the past 40 years. In the next eight pages, you will find something else: an admittedly subjective buthopefully intriguing snapshot of some of the people and places that have helped give life to UCAR, NCAR, and UOPsince 1960.

Inserted in this issue, you'll also find a copy of the commemorative poster prepared by the 40th anniversary committee.Extra copies of the poster can be obtained from Susan Foster, ext. 2108, [email protected].

Special thanks go to the Imaging and Design Center, to the top-notch photographers who have recorded our historythrough the years--particularly Bob Bumpas, Carlye Calvin, Ginger Hein, and Charlie Semmer--and to NCARarchivist Diane Rabson. Diane will delve into each of our four decades of history in more depth during the fourquarters of 2000. Watch for the return of her column "It Happened Here" in our March issue.

The guided tour

To follow UCAR/NCAR story, use the handy links. The icon shown at left appears at the top ofevery page (click "SN" to go to the table of contents for this issue), and text links appear at the bottom.

Share your stories, test your memory

How much do you really know about our history? What's your favorite memory or anecdote? On the "Memories" pageof the 40th anniversary Web site, you can read contributions by UCAR/NCAR staff and friends and share your ownstories. Also try our multiple-choice trivia quiz, first published in the April 1995 Staff Notes Monthly and updated forthe 40th anniversary site.

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An NCAR/UCAR mosaic

As global temperatures increased inthe 1980s and 1990s, so did theconcerns of the public and ofresearchers like veteran climatemodeler Warren Washington. Muchof NCAR's modeling effort in the1990s went into CGD'scomprehensive climate systemmodel, now available to universitiesand other users.



















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An NCAR/UCAR mosaic

After two decades in HAO, Walt Roberts became the firstdirector of NCAR in 1961 and the first president of UCAR in1968. He set the tone for many institutional values andtraditions that persist to this day.



















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An NCAR/UCAR mosaic

Construction scaffolding surrounds the soon-to-be Mesa Labin 1965.



















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An NCAR/UCAR mosaic

Butch Thompson (Facilities SupportServices) lays groundwork for a fiber-optic cable on the mesa in 1991. TheInternet was a moving target in the1990s, keeping engineers andmaintenance staff busy upgradingconnections at UCAR's key sites.



















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Dick Valent (SCD) meets with undergraduateMichael Martinez (right) in 1991. Michael was oneof more than 100 students from underrepresentedgroups who came to UCAR through the SummerEmployment Program, which ran from 1980 to1995. SEP was replaced in 1996 by the morecomprehensive SOARS program (see page 5).



















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In the early days of NCAR,researchers decided thattheir top priority for a facilitywas a place for scientificballooning, ranking aboveeven an aircraft facility.Balloons have been used forstudies of everything fromweather to the origin of theuniverse.



















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A new ML lightning exhibit fascinated thesekids in the fall of 1995. The mid-1990s sawmajor additions to the public exhibit lineup.



















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In the few minutes of a solar eclipse, pricelesscoronal data can emerge. HAO has venturedworldwide to catch eclipses since its firstexpedition to Khartoum, Sudan, in February 1952.Alice Lecinski (HAO) was part of the eclipse teamthat took new instruments to the Caribbean inFebruary 1997.



















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The 1960s

The Mesa Lab was largely the brainchildof these two men: director Walt Roberts(left) and architect I.M. Pei.



















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The 1960s

Before NCAR and UCAR, there was the High AltitudeObservatory. HAO was founded in 1940 as the FremontPass Station of the Harvard College Observatory. Thisobserving post near the town of Climax, Colorado, housedthe first coronagraph in the Western Hemisphere. The stationwas incorporated as HAO in 1946 and kept offices on theCU-Boulder campus for many years. HAO merged withNCAR upon its formation, and the corporation that governedHAO evolved into the present-day UCAR.



















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The 1960s

From groundbreaking on 9 June 1964 todedication on 10 May 1967, it tooknearly three years for workers to realizeI. M. Pei's landmark design. Budgetsforced the cancellation of a south toweroriginally planned by Pei. Theconstruction cost roughly $5 million in1960s dollars.



















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The 1960s

Workers heave and push during completion of the ML treeplaza.



















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The 1960s

NCAR's first large field programs were intimatelytied to the Global Atmospheric Research Program(GARP), whose various phases spanned the late1960s into the 1970s. The field work began withthe Line Islands Experiment, managed by NCAR inearly 1967. Surface, airborne, and satellite datawere collected from the central equatorial Pacific, aperennial hotbed of research interest. Amphibiousaircraft of World War II vintage were used to shuttleequipment and scientists to Christmas, Fanning,and Palmyra atolls.



















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The 1960s

NCAR's full-service cafeteria debuted with theopening of the Mesa Lab, although pioneervegetarians lacked the array of options they nowenjoy.



















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The 1960s

Gordon Newkirk, whosucceeded Walt Roberts andJohn Firor as director of HAO,went to Bolivia in 1966 for thefirst deployment of his white lightcoronal camera to record a solareclipse. The camera had anamazing 28-year life span as aworking instrument. Newkirk wasalso known for developingballoon- and space-bornecoronagraphs from the 1950sthrough the 1970s.



















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NCAR's Control Data 6600 arrived in 1965. Lesspowerful than a Pentium II of today, with only six millionwords of memory, the CDC 6600 was still a boon to early








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climate modelers such as Akira Kasahara (left). A modeldeveloped by Warren Washington and Akira (now asenior scientist and senior research associate,respectively, in CGD) ran on the 6600 for many years.













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The 1960s

The National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas,conducted hundreds of research flights under NCAR managementfrom 1960 until the 1980s, when the operation was transferred toNASA.



















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The 1960s

The Mesa Lab held its first open house on 7 January1967. As always, kids and parachutes made for asuccessful mix.



















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The 1960s

Today, the town of Superior is bursting at the seamsjust east of NCAR's Marshall Field Site, but in 1965 theprairie around Marshall was near-empty. This swasNCAR's main site for building and testing researchradars for years. Much of the activity moved to theFoothills Lab in the 1990s, although Marshall is stillused by RAP and ATD for instrument building andtesting.



















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The 1970s

Some 350 graduates of the AdvancedStudy Program are now scatteredacross the globe. ASP was launched inthe 1960s to support postdocs andgraduate students through on-sitefellowships at NCAR. In 1973, ASP setup its Atlanta Fellowship program,bringing six college seniors from fivepredominately black colleges in Atlantato NCAR, where they worked alongsidescientists and took courses inFORTRAN and introductoryatmospheric science. Above, Atlantafellow Judith Stokes examines data onpressure waves with Rol Madden(CGD). At the end of the 1970s,NCAR's Personnel department (nowHuman Resources) developed andcoordinated the Summer EmploymentProgram for undergraduates, which byits second year had 136 applicants forseven positions.



















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The 1970s

Do-it-yourself graphics, sans computer,reached NCAR offices in 1975 with thedistribution of visual aids kits preparedby Betty Bloom, administrative assistantfor the Communications ServicesDepartment. These kits were intendedfor times when deadlines prohibited useof the NCAR Graphics department (nowIDC). The kits included color pens, aFrench curve pattern, blue-line formatpaper for transparencies, and a templatefor hand lettering.



















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The 1970s

A milestone in preparations for theNational Hail Research Experimentoccurred on 1 February 1972, when the8.5-meter (28-foot) antenna for the dual-wavelength radar was dropped intoplace. A week later, the inflatableradome was in place, concealing theradar's inner workings over the next fewyears. NHRE was the first field project tosuccessfully use multiple Dopplerradars. This one, dubbed CP-2 (NCAR'ssecond cloud physics radar), was rebuiltin 1980 for a Montana field project andlater helped to identify microbursts.Decommissioned in the 1990s, CP-2now sits at the Marshall Field Site.



















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Woody Allen makes his break from theMesa Lab in a scene from his futurist farceSleeper. Allen, Diane Keaton, and otherHollywood types spiced up life on themesa for a week in May 1973 filmingscenes for the film. Several staff tookvacation days to serve as extras. Theyeach earned $20 per day, minus a $3agent's commission.



















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From its earliest years, NCAR's MesaLab was too small to accommodate theburgeoning center. Until the acquisitionof the Foothills Lab in 1990, manyadministrative staff were shuttled amonga variety of external locations. Here, in1972, three employees then inPersonnel (Lynda Verplank, Sandi Hoff,and Dorothy Kokesh) prepare for theirmove from ML to the Colorado Buildingat 14th and Walnut, now the VectraBank building. After a decade of relieffollowing the FL acquisition, we are oncemore crunched for room. At the end of1999, UCAR signed a lease to providemore off-campus office space and wasconsidering options for adding space onthe FL campus.



















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The societal side ofatmospheric researchtook on a higherprofile at NCAR inthe mid-1970s whenthen-newcomerMickey Glantz(shown here in thearid High Plains in1977) became thefirst director of thenewly formedEnvironmental andSocietal ImpactsGroup. For over 20years, Mickeyheaded the group,whose work hasranged from studiesof desertification andclimate-changeimpacts on thebiosphere toanalyses of forecastskill and usability.

















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Peggy LeMone (left) pushed theenvelope in 1975 at the 55th annualmeeting of the AmericanMeteorological Society in Denver asshe organized the first-ever AMSsession on the role of women inatmospheric sciences. In 1992, Peggybecame NCAR's first female seniorscientist. Over the past year, there hasbeen intensified interest amongmanagement in examining the statusof women scientists at NCAR.



















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A new era for NCARcomputing began in1977 with the deliveryof the first productionCRAY-1. The five-tonmachine arrived justafter the present-daycomputing room wascarved out of the MLbasement. A secondCRAY-1 was added in1983



















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The 1970s

NCAR staff have traveled to both poles, but ACD's TonyDelany and then-ASP graduate research assistant RussellDickerson (now at the University of Maryland) built their iglooright outside the Mesa Lab one lunchtime in 1977.



















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Years before the formation of RAP, NCAR was assessingturbulence in the skies. In the spring of 1975, Pat Kennedy (left)and Mel Shapiro used the former NSF/NCAR Sabreliner jet toanalyze ozone variations and turbulence in and near the jetstream above the central United States. Pat, a tireless volunteerfor K-12 education, died in 1995. Now with NOAA, Mel iscurrently an MMM visitor. He collaborated with Howard Crosslen(NCAR Graphics) to design the stylized mural on the north sideof the ML lobby in 1975.



















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Many NCAR and UCAR staff haveascended the career ladder from withinthe institution. Toni Chapman Biter(shown here in 1974) joined NCAR'sResearch Aviation Facility as a secretaryin 1966. Through the 1970s, Toniworked for NHRE (see elsewhere on thispage). She completed her bachelor'sand master's degrees through NCAR'sEducational Assistance Program, and in1987 she became the senioradministrator for the newly formedMMM.



















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It's an NCAR tradition to give a discardedcomputer a proper farewell. Dave Fulker (nowthe director of Unidata) blew "Taps" forNCAR's Control Data 6600 (see the 1960ssection). "The six" was retired at 11:59 p.m.on 31 March 1977. In its day, the computerwas "the fastest and fanciest ever built,"eulogized Paul Rotar (SCD). GloriaWilliamson placed a batch of daisies on theconsole as the 6600 spun down for the lasttime.



















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Participants in the National HailResearch Experiment of the mid-1970swatch a radiosonde ascend over farnortheast Colorado. One of NCAR'slargest field programs, NHRE seededclouds with silver iodide to try to reducehail size. No conclusive effects wereshown, but much was learned. (In thelate 1990s, RAP tested new techniquesfor rainfall enhancement usinghygroscopic flares in northern Mexico.)



















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At left, Jack Hinkelman (long-time RAFmanager) greets Ron Ruth (still at RAF),pilot Bill Zinser, and engineer Bill Braggat Jeffco as they stride from theNSF/NCAR Electra on their return fromthe tropical Atlantic in September 1974.Some 40 NCAR staff were part of the1974 field campaign in GARP's AtlanticTropical Experiment (GATE), a massiveproject involving more than 70 nations.



















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The 1980s

Morris Weisman chased storms wellbefore the film Twister made it hip. TheMMM scientist participated in fieldprograms through the 1980s and 1990sto document tornadoes and severethunderstorms. He also joined withMMM's Joe Klemp and Rich Rotunno inusing numerical cloud models tounderstand the relationship betweenenvironmental conditions such as windshear and the development ofconvective features such as supercellstorms, squall lines, and bow echoes.



















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Countless numbers of NCAR instruments have beencrafted in house through the ingenuity of the MachineShop staff. At work in this 1984 photo are Gil Granger,Hayden Mathews, Paul Geisert, and John Beebe.



















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Paul Crutzen (a Nobel Prize winner in 1995) joinedNCAR in 1974 to head up the chemistry researchprogram, which shifted from a meteorological orientationto a broader emphasis on basic research, including gas-phase chemistry and modeling. The reinvigoratedprogram grew to international prominence, and a highprofile in the news, in the 1980s as NCAR and fellowinstitutions clarified the unsettling discovery ofstratospheric ozone depletion.



















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One of NCAR's most beloved (andcompetitive) traditions, the up-the-hillraces, began in 1980. DarrelBaumgardner competed as theNSF/NCAR King Air in 1983. Overall,Andrew Crook holds the record for themost wins in the men's foot race, with ninetriumphs; Betty Valent is tops for women,with six wins. Top bike-race winners areAlan Hills (nine wins) and Deirdre Garvey(six).



















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The 1980s

In the 1980s, reference librarian Gayl Gray was spendingless time with books and more with electronic informationsources. The NCAR Library now holds about 35,000volumes and almost 700 print journals, as well as offeringWeb-based access to journals and other publicaions.



















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The 1980s

If they can't make the measurement they wantwith an existing instrument, many NCARscientists build their own. In the early 1980s, TimBrown developed the Fourier tachometer to makegroundbreaking measurements of Doppler shiftsin sunlight, which provide information on solaroscillations. Tim recently built, in his garage, theoptics for a telescope with which he and acolleague made pioneering observations of thetransit of an extrasolar planet across the face ofits star.



















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NCAR kept up with the Crays with the arrival of the X-MP in1986 (shown here), followed by two Y-MPs in 1990. Later inthe 1990s, SCD's computing environment grew morediversified with major systems from Hewlett-Packard, SGI,and IBM.



















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The 1980s

Even with thegrowth of remotesensing in the1980s, there was nosubstitute for in-place sensors. Manyprojects continue torely on the expertiseof tower-mountedinstrumentsdeveloped by ACDand ATD. Here,ACD's Art Wartburgadjusts atemperature sensoratop ameteorologicaltower in easternColorado.



















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The 1980s

Research on turbulence--one of thekeystone topics since the inception ofNCAR--runs the gamut fromtheoretical to applied. Chin-HohMoeng, now a senior scientist,arrived at NCAR in 1982 as modelingefforts increased in what was tobecome MMM. Her work has includedapplying the large-eddy simulationtechnique to better understandturbulence and boundary layerclouds.



















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The 1980s

Don Lenschow with the gust probe on the nose of theElectra. The probe, created in house, flew for about adecade to far-flung locations, such as the China Sea forGATE.



















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The 1980s

Bill Hess (center, looking over the shoulder of TomSeliga), NCAR director from 1980 to 1986, visitedthe CP-2 radar, then located east of Lafayette, in1983. On hand were some long-time NCAR staff:left to right, Rit Carbone, Harold Baynton, V.Bringi, Bill, Tom, and Paul Herzegh.



















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The 1990s

Since 1965, NCAR's highest-altitudeworkers could be found at the MaunaLoa Solar Observatory on the island ofHawaii. The thinner air at 11,400 feetgives the coronameter and otherinstruments a clearer view of the sun.MLSO's new precision solarphotometric telescope (front dome)allows full-disk views of the sun's facialfeatures.



















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In March 1990, to help alleviateovercrowding, UCAR acquired thevacant NBI building--roughly thesame size as ML--in northeastBoulder. Harriet Barker, thenUCAR vice president for corporateaffairs, helped plant acommemorative piñon pine at theformal dedication on 30 July 1992.



















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UOP's Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology,Education and Training (now celebrating its 10thanniversary) is supported by the nation's weather services.With residence courses and distance-learning products,COMET helps train forecasters and other personnel in newtechnologies and new research relevant to forecastproblems. Here, instructor Matt Kelsch leads a hydrologyclass.



















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The 1990s

Global change remained an area of intenseresearch interest in the 1990s, andscientists used the once-pristineenvironment of the poles to hunt for humaninfluence. Brian Ridley (ACD) spent severalweeks at the Northern Hemisphere'snorthernmost permanent settlement (aCanadian military base named Alert) in thespring of 1998 to study a puzzling seasonaldisappearance of low-level ozone, whichBrian called "one of the most interestingtropospheric discoveries of the decade."



















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The 1990s

Begun in 1987, the NCAR-Bixby Schoolegg drop gathered steam in the 1990s.The competition was organized by ReneMunoz (Education and Tour Program)and Paulette Gerardy (now of the BridgeSchool) to help get kids excited aboutscience and engineering. One of themost colossal entries ever was theStarship Eggsurprise, created by SCD'sMaintenance Group in 1993.



















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The 1990s

The LEARN (Laboratory Experience inAtmospheric Research at NCAR) projectbegan with a grant from NSF in 1992 toenhance middle and high schoolteachers' ability to teach atmosphericand earth science; a third proposal isnow in preparation. Here, teacherPatrick Farrell (Pueblo) tracks a hands-on experiment during the first LEARNsummer institute.



















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The 1990s

One of the first traditions totake root at the Foothills Labwas the Spring Fling, whichbrought the annual springparty to FL in 1992. This andmany other staff perks haveresulted from the hard workof the long-standing, all-volunteer EmployeeActivities Committee. TheEAC's Santiago Newberyand Larry Miloshevichunveiled UCAR/NCAR T-shirts at the 1993 SpringFling.



















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The 1990s

The University NAVSTAR Consortium joined UCAR in 1991.The merger brought UNAVCO's Global Positioning Systemtechnology--used to measure tectonic motions with highaccuracy--into the UCAR research realm. GPS signals havesince been put to promising use in detecting water vapor,electron density, and other variables. The GPS Science andTechnology Program (GST), including UNAVCO, is part ofthe UCAR Office of Programs (UOP), formed in 1992 toconsolidate a growing number of non-NCAR activities led byUCAR. Here, GST/UNAVCO's Barb Perin (left) measuresdeformation on New Zealand's North Island with N.Z.colleagues Peter Otway (center) and Graeme Blick.



















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The 1990s

In 1996, with NSF support, the Significant Opportunities inAtmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program waslaunched. About 100 employees volunteered as mentors for20 protégés this past summer. Above, SOARS protégéCherelle Blazer works in the Frost Phytotron on one of twoprojects she pursued in 1998 with guidance from ACD's AlexGuenther. The greenhouse-like phytrotron, built largely withdonations from the Frost Foundation, was added to the frontof the Mesa Lab in 1993 for research on biosphere-atmosphere interactions.



















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The 1990s

Climate modeling becamemore complex in the 1990s, asmodels grew in size andbreadth and the need forpolicy-relevant resultsincreased. Mary Barth (center,MMM/ACD) has modeledsulfates--a topic of keeninterest--on scales rangingfrom a single cloud to the entireglobe. CGD's Tom Wigley (left)and Jeff Kiehl (right) workedwith Mary to design the sulfatecomponent of the climatesystem model. Built in the mid-1990s, the CSM is NCAR'sflagship tool for universityscientists simulating globalclimate.



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In the midst of the century's longest El Niño,dozens of staff went to the warm pool of thewestern tropical Pacific--for the decade'slargest field project. Centered on late 1992and early 1993, TOGA COARE (the CoupledOcean-Atmosphere Response Experiment ofthe Tropical Ocean and Global AtmosphereProgram) included the debut of NCAR'sairborne Electra Doppler radar (ELDORA).The photo shows equipment for NCAR'sintegrated sounding system being deliveredto Kapingamarangi atoll. TOGA COARE andother large-scale field projects in the 1990sbenefited from the expertise of UOP's JointOffice for Science Support.



















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The 1990s

RAP scientist Rita Roberts tracks stormsfor a 1992 field campaign. The divisionhas grown by leaps and bounds in the1990s, advancing knowledge of aircrafticing and helping to create software todetect wind shear, turbulence, and otherweather hazards. An increasing focus ison automated nowcasting ofthunderstorms and other threats up to ahalf hour in advance.



















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The way we were

UCAR president Rick Anthes--then an assistant professor atPennsylvania StateUniversity--visited the MesaLab for an April 1975workshop on the brand-newportable automated mesonetsystem and its applications tomesoscale meteorology. "Wewere all treated very well byNCAR, and we loved to visit,"he recalls.



















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This photo was taken as Bob Serafin wasbeginning his NCAR career (along with DavidBargen, former Research Systems Facilitymanager) in November 1973. Bob joined NCAR'sFacilities Laboratory (now ATD) as manager ofthe Field Observing Facility. He plans to conclude11 years as NCAR director early in 2000.



















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The way we were

For the early 1970s, Warren Washington'sAfro hairstyle was rather modest.



















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The way we were

UCAR's third officialemployee was HarrietBarker, shown here in theearly 1960s. Harriet washired as a secretary by WaltRoberts and ended upbecoming vice president forcorporate affairs (and nowvice president emerita).



















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The way we were

In this 1984 photo, Steve Dickson (nowwith the UCAR President's Office) hadjust rejoined the staff as director ofNCAR Budget and Planning afterseveral earlier stints at UCAR andNCAR.



















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The way we were

Tom Holzer (HAO) had justreceived the James Macelwaneaward of the AmericanGeophysical Union in 1978,when this photo was taken.



















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Will Kellogg joined NCAR in 1964 as director of theLaboratory of Atmospheric Sciences, a post heheld for ten years. Will is now a senior researchassociate in CGD.



















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Teresa DiMarco -- now Teresa Rivas,ACD administrator -- was a two-yearveteran of the Atmospheric QualityDivision, which preceded ACD, at thetime of this 1978 photo.



















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The way we were

In 1970, John Firor (right, then thedirector of NCAR) presented theOutstanding Publication Award toCharlie and Nancy Knight for threearticles in the Journal of theAtmospheric Sciences on the structure,growth, and behavior of hailstones.



















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The IDC staff just had to add thisphoto of then-newly appointed SNeditor Bob Henson. (Surprise, Bob!)He took charge in 1989, joining alineage of Staff Notes Monthly editorsthat includes Carol Rasmussen andLucy Warner (UCARCommunications) and Sally Bates(Unidata).



















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Staff Notes Monthly designer Mike Shibao (right,now with IDC) was at the drawing board in 1976with two colleagues from what was then NCARGraphics: long-time group head Justin Kitsutaka(left) and Bill Hemphill.



















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Instruments from beyond

Sally Bates, then the editor ofStaff Notes Monthly, alwaysthought that these IBM machines,used as front-end devices forNCAR's first CRAY-1 computer,resembled washing machines.She proved her case in 1979.



















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This imposing console was part of NCAR's electronparamagnetic resonance spectrometer, operated here in1968 by Ellen Leisman, a visitor from Beloit College. Thespectrometer was part of a photochemistry program runby Dick Cadle, division director of the Laboratory forAtmospheric Science. The program evolved into theUpper Air Project, Atmospheric Chemistry and AeronomyDivision, and finally the Atmospheric Chemistry Division.



















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A full metal bagpipe? No, it's a visible skylightphotometer, in the hands of Judy Steinacherfor this 1967 photo. This portable versionfollowed an earlier design from HAO veteranJack Evans that was used in the 1940s tohelp identify appropriate sites to conductcoronal research, including the SacramentoPeak Observatory at Sunspot, New Mexico.



















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When dust was blowin' in the wind of theHigh Plains, this instrument was meant tocapture some of it. The "portable windmill"was designed by NCAR's Dale Gillette, IrvBlifford, and Jerry Dolan in 1973 to take soilsamples from dust storms in the TexasPanhandle. It was part of a collaborativestudy with the University of Wisconsin'sMarion Jackson on worldwide sources andsinks of airborne dust.



















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"In spite of its lethal appearance," notedStaff Notes Monthly in February 1968, "thisdevice is not a death ray invented by BaronFrankenstein and fabricated by RubeGoldberg." It's a particle camera, designedby Ted Cannon for taking pictures of waterand ice particles with diameters as small as10 micrometers. The device featured strobelights and the body of a 35-millimetercamera.



















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Photographer's picks

The following are some favorite images from four of the veteran photographers integral to Staff Notes Monthly overthe years: Bob Bumpas, Carlye Calvin, Ginger Hein, and Charlie Semmer.

Carlye Calvin, the current StaffNotes Monthly photographer,photographed GST director StickWare playing his saxophone for aMarch 1993 feature on staff withmusical interests. "What a greatsport he was to meet me on the[ML] tree plaza just beforesunrise, so that I could shoot asilhouette of him against the suncoming up. I got more than Ibargained for," Carlye adds."Listening to Stick playing crystal-clear notes while looking out overthe city as the sun came up wasdefinitely a spiritual experience!"


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"This picture is very special to me," saysGinger Hein of her portrait of WaltRoberts taken only a few months beforehis death in 1990. "I was so fond of him,and the fact that he posed so informallyshowed me he trusted me." Ginger wasan NCAR photographer for 26 years.



















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Bob Bumpas, who took photos for NCAR from the 1960s intothe 1990s, was on hand when British prime ministerMargaret Thatcher visited the Mesa Lab in 1990. This shotof Thatcher flanked at left by Rick Anthes and right by BobSerafin is one of Bob B.'s favorites. At far right is then-Colorado governor Roy Romer.



















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"Trying to come up with a special photo isextremely difficult," says Charlie Semmer, anNCAR photographer for over two decades."Every photo job I did at NCAR was special."This image of light from a helium-neon laser--part of an ACD tunable laser absorptionspectrometer--appeared on the cover of the1984 NCAR Annual Report.


















New Hires

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December 1999January 2000 New Hires

Front row, left to right:Hector Socas-Navarro, associate scientist with HAO.Norma Beasant, HR representative.

Back row, left to right:Thomas Carey, systems administrator with RAP.Patrick Ryan, maintenance worker with F&A.

Front row, left to right:Estelle Haag, student visitor with ACD.Maxime Claire, student visitor with ACD.Pierre-Louis Prevost, student visitor with ACD.

Back row, left to right:Audrey Specht, student visitor with ACD.Sandra Petrie, administrative assistant with NCAR Director'sOffice.Yubao Liu, associate scientist with RAP.Gailon Greene, computer operator with SCD.






New Hires


Front row, left to right:Shu-hua Chen, postdoctoral fellow with VSP.Olga Wilhelmi, postdoctoral fellow with VSP.Craig Epifanio, postdoctoral fellow with VSP.

Back row, left to right:Jennifer Stebbins, administrative assistant with JOSS.Tim Alberta, systems administrator with COMET.

Other New Hires

Carolyn Cottingham, casual with SCD.Zbigniew Sorbjan, scientific visitor with RAP.

Departures

Kathleen Barney, 10 NovemberElaine Bentz, 1 NovemberVeronica Collin, 28 OctoberJason Daughenbaugh, 31 MayHalina Dziewit, 12 NovemberTimothy Ederer, 22 OctoberThierry Emonet, 5 NovemberWei Gao, 31 OctoberKristen Johnson, 12 NovemberJeff McCollum, 31 OctoberSarah Miller, 29 OctoberJoel Norris, 26 OctoberLeilani Pena, 25 AugustPeter Sauer, 2 NovemberAdam Sobel, 23 OctoberDavid Torrence, 26 OctoberToua Vue, 1 OctoberPaul White, 5 November

New Hires


Scott Woodward, 1 OctoberMariya Yevskukova, 27 August

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