ncar undergraduate leadership workshop
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NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop
June 16th – 20th, 2008 Boulder, Colorado
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NCAR and UCAR
• UCAR: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
– Consortium of universities (71 in NA; ISU is one of them) and committeesone of them) and committees
– Not-for-profit
– Funded largely by the National Science Foundation
– Manages NCAR
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NCAR and UCAR
• NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research
– Collection of laboratories in Boulder
– Atmospheric AND environmental research– Atmospheric AND environmental research
– Acronyms GALORE!• CISL, EOL, ESSL, RAL, SERE, IMAGe, ACD, CGD, HAO, MMM,
TIIMES, ASP, CCB, ISSE; Including UCAR Office of Programs: COSMIC, COMET, DLESE, GLOBE, JOSS, NSDL, Unidata Program Center, VSP
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NCAR ULW
• Application required• Program designed for seniors-to-be in
atmospheric sciences (grad school? Yes/No)• Introduction to the many various areas of
research that occur at NCARresearch that occur at NCAR• Leadership component (heavily weighted on
communicating climate change)• 2008 edition was eighth annual• 21 attendees from all across the country• Most were meteorology majors, but there were
oceanography and engineering majors represented, too
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NCAR ULW Representation
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Monday: Mesa Lab
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Monday: Mesa Lab
• Building designed by I.M. Pei (MVNP)
• Introductions: NCAR, UCAR, etc.
• IPCC lead author – Jerry Meehl
• Leadership seminar – Climate change• Leadership seminar – Climate change
• Paleoclimate
• Viz Lab
• Tours – megaubercool supercomputers!
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Monday: Mesa LabSystems Activity
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Tuesday: Foothills Lab #4
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Tuesday: Foothills Lab #4
• Research meteorology
• Space weather - HAO
• Unidata
• DOWs!• DOWs!
• Machine shop
• Earth System Research Laboratory –NOAA, space weather, atmospheric chemistry, Science on a Sphere!
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Tuesday: Foothills Lab #4Doppler on Wheels
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Tuesday: Rocky Mountain NP
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Wednesday
• Technology and transfer – RAL/RAP, Roger Wakimoto
• Biocomplexity & chemistry, atmospheric chemistry and plantschemistry and plants
• Societal impacts – WAS*IS
• Clouds in climate models
• Boulder Reservoir
• Aviation technology!!!
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Wednesday: RAF
• Gulfstream-5: ~$80 million research aircraft
– Departed for research flight over northern plains the day we were at RAFplains the day we were at RAF
– Got to watch live data stream while discussing mission with scientists who put instruments on the flight
• C-130 & P-3 research aircraft
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Wednesday: Cool Planes
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Thursday: Education and Outreach
• Career panel – SORS
• Libraries – NSDL & DLESE
• Journalism
• Education and outreach – experiments, • Education and outreach – experiments, partnerships (SORS)
• COMET
• Lab for Atmospheric and Space Physics
• 29th St. Mall and “Green” house
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The “Green” House Complete with its own $50,000/ct. solar energy panels!
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NCAR ULW Wrap-Up:Included student presentations (gasp!) – no big deal
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Colorado!
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Thank you for listening!Questions? Curious?
E-mail me at [email protected] or ask me after the meeting