SPARC Office Staff

• Victoria De Luca (Office manager)

• Diane Pendlebury (Staff Scientist)

• Elham Farahani (IPY coordination Scientist)

• Norman McFarlane (Director)

SPARC Office Funding• Funding for SPARC Office Operations

– CFCAS funding support committed through March 31, 2011,

extension through December 31, 2011 expected.

– CSA funding support provided on a yearly basis and currently committed through March 31, 2010, extension through March 31, 2011 expected

– Environment Canada in-kind support (office/computing equipment, ongoing support for N. McFarlane) – committed through March 31, 2011

– University of Toronto in-kind support (office space , internet connections, computing and IT support on a cost-recovery basis)

• IPY Coordination support

- CFCAS funding for SPARC-IPY support and coordination (Elham Farahani) through September 30, 2009

SPARC Activities since the Since 2008 SSG Meeting

• Publications:

- 2 newsletters (# 32 and #33); hard copy and on line

• Workshops / Meetings:

- Local organization assistance for the WAVAS-2 and CCMVal workshops

- Coordinating travel funding for SPARC workshops ( WAVAS-2, CCMVal, Volcano, ExT UTLS, Limb) and for the SPARC SSG meeting

WCRP and SPARC contributions toward SPARC workshops, 2009

Theme of Workshop Date Site ContactWCRP

Support (Swiss Fr).

SPARC Support ($CAN)

WAVAS-2 17-19 March 2009

Toronto, Canada

T. Peter; K. Rosenlof 8,515 8,314.25

CCMVal workshop1-3 June 2009

Toronto, Canada

V. Eyring; T. Shepherd 3,499 7239.41

SPARC Volcano meeting 8-9 July 2009

Zurich, Switzerland T. Peter; 2,618 1304.53

Worskhop on ExT UTLS 19-22 Oct. 2009

NCAR; Boulder, USA

W. Randel; A. Gettelman 5,275  

LIMB 16-19 Nov. 2009

Helsinki, Finland J. Burrows 5,000  

CCMVal Authors ' meeting 9-11 Nov. 2009 Toledo, Spain

V. Eyring; T. Shepherd 20,160.00 12,563.78

SPARC SSG / IGAC SSC Meeting 26-30 Oct.

2009 Kyoto, Japan

N. McFarlane; S. Doherty;M. Shiotani 26,100 6600

Ravi--Gothenburg October     3117            36,021.97

TOTAL in CHF:       74,284 34,390.00

SPARC Newsletter No. 34 (January 2010)

• Summary of SPARC SSG meeting – N. McFarlane, T. Peter, T. Shepherd

• Summary of CCMVal report key findings—V. Eyring, T. Shepherd and D. Waugh

• Summary of the WCC3—V. Ryabinin• Reports on

– Volcano Workshop—T. Peter et al– DA workshop at the MOCA09 meeting—S. Polavarapu et al

• Articles on– START08—L. Pan et al– ACE Satellite? –K. Walker– SHIVA—K. Pfeilsticker

Activities for the next year

• SPARC session at CMOS 2010 (Ottawa)

The SPARC Office Beyond 2011

The largest portion of the cash support for the SPARC IPO is provided by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). The CFCAS mandate has recently been extended through 2011 with no additional funding. A proposal for extension of CFCAS support for the SPARC IPO will be considered by the CFCAS Board of Trustees in December, 2009. There is no indication that there will be a further extension of the CFCAS mandate beyond 2011. There are no prospective Canadian funding sources to replace the CFCAS support. In the absence of this support it will not be possible to maintan the SPARC IPO in its current location. Alternative locations are being considered.