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MyNCAR.org“Nuestra Casa es su Casa”

Early Career Faculty Forum

Tim KilleenNCAR Director

June 2004

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Augmented program in development

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Women comprise 12.5% of geoscience faculty in U.S. Colleges and Universities and only 10% in Ph.D.-granting universities (de Wet et al., GSA Today, 2002)

11% 20%

Scientists (ladder track) at NCAR

African-American, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans earn 5% of doctoral degrees in the geosciences (NSF/GEO Strategy for Diversity Program, 2001)

14%

NCAR Internal Diversity Program

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NCAR Supercomputing CapacityPeak TFLOPs at NCAR

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blackforestWH-I

ARCS Phase 1blackforest upgrade

ARCS Phase 2bluesky

Cray C90/16

HP SPP2000

SGI Origin2000

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Bluesky has tripled NCAR’s computing capacity and is the 10th largest system in the world.

BlackForest

BlueSky

ATD Facilities: Remote Sensing ATD Facilities: Remote Sensing InstrumentsInstruments

Multichannel Cloud

Radiometer

GPS Dropsonde

Airborne Imaging Microwave Radiometer

Scanning Aerosol Backscatter

LIDAR

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HIAPER

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Simulation of Recent Climate

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Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Community Model

Accelerate the transfer of research advancements into operations

Develop an advanced mesoscale forecast and assimilation system

Significant Milestones: Agreement signed by principal partners

– NCAR, NOAA, FAA, AFWA, Navy Early version of WRF in validation

– >1000 registered community users– Download source code

Operational implementation at NCEP and AFWA in FY04

36 h Precip Forecast

Analyzed Precip

12 May 2002

WRF Model Numerics:Goal: Improve forecast accuracy using high-order numerics

Strategic Initiative Funding (Cont.)

* SCD Impact Assess. Computing excl. $500K DOE matching funds.

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Biogeosciences

Water Cycle

Data Assimilation

SCD Impact Assess. Computing*

Impact Assessment

Wildland Fire

Education and Outreach

Cyber-infrastructure

Other Initiatives

Coronal Magnetic Field

Geographic Information Systems

Software Framework

$ in thousands

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Graduate Students at NCAR

In 2002, ASP hosts 5graduate fellows and 43 graduate students

3 HAO Newkirk Fellows

SOARS hosts 9 graduate students

2002 ASP Summer Colloquium “Interactions among Aerosols, Climate and the Hydrological Cycle” July 8-19

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Undergraduates at NCARFirst annual NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Conference

16 students from 15 institutions

In 2002, NCAR hosted 100 undergraduate students

52 Student Assistants

23 Student Visitors

15 SOARS Protégés

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SOARS Program:Creates a direct pipeline to

bring ethnically diverse undergraduate students into careers in the atmospheric and related sciences.

Sponsors Include:

NSFDOE Environmental Sciences DivisionNOAA Office of Global Programs and

CU/Boulder CIRESNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterUCAR

Summer Protégés (2001)Summer Protégés (2001)21 participants21 participants

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K-12 Master Teachers at NCAR

• First Annual NCAR Geoscience Educators Workshop

• 170 applicants• 20 nationally

recognized teachers for 2 weeks

• Extensive participationby NCAR scientists

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NCAR Junior Faculty Fellowship and Exchange Program

To involve early-career faculty in research with NCAR scientists and in new initiatives

Begin in FY 2005 ($150k/year budgeted)

Support early-career faculty visits to NCAR, with students (typically for a few days to a few weeks) to:

Sample NCAR’s intellectual environment Learn about & utilize NCAR resources Develop collaborations with NCAR staff Contribute to models & strategic initiatives

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