SOEST Dean

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SOEST Deans Advance November 16, 2007
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Faculty

• 13 full time instructional faculty
• 5 with joint appointments with IPRC
• 50 support for R3 position
• (also cooperating graduate faculty in
  OCN, HIGP, IPRC)

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Instruction

• B.S. major program (7 courses/year)
• M.S. Ph.D. programs (8 courses/year)
• 4 sections/year of MET101 (6 sections of 101lab)

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Undergrad Program

• Can meet US Federal Government educational
  requirements for professional meteorologists
• American Meteorological Society guidelines
• USAF cadets

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UG Major Enrollment

• As of end of Spring term 07
• GES 39 GG 39 MET 38

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Graduate Enrollment

• As of September 17, 2007
• 31 total
• (25 GRAs 3 GTAs)

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Service to State General Public
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• UH Weather Server
• Experimental high resolution forecasts for NWS
• Experimental forecasts for US Forest Service
• Mauna Kea Weather Center forecasts to support
  Hawaiis observatory operations
• Hawaii State Climate Office
• Pacific ENSO Application Center (with JIMAR)
• Pacific Forecaster Training Desk (with NWS
  JIMAR)

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Service to International Scientific Community

• Editorships
• Service leadership on many important bodies

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Research

• Observational, Diagnostic, Modelling Studies of
  Atmospheric Phenomena on a Wide Range of Space
  and Time Scales
• Funding from NSF, NOAA, NASA, ONR, DOE JAMSTEC
  (through IPRC)

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Key Positive Factors

• Co-location with NWS HWFO
• Strong and developing connections with research
  in Asia (Japan, PR China, Taiwan, Korea)
• Centrally positioned for key
• challenges in global environmental
• change and natural hazards with a
• Hawaiian focus (e.g. references
• in latest IPCC report)

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Issues (I)

• Lots of great stuff going on, but
• Total space for expanding research efforts, we
  are already sacrificing, e.g.
• ?no Chair office
• ?no office for T. Schroeder
• Quality long-term viability of HIG space

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Issues (II)

• Secretarial support
• SOEST funds 1 department secretary
• e.g. compare OCN
• 1 department secretary, 3 division secretaries, 1
  GES secretary

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Opportunities

• Expansion of connections with Asia
• External funding for major computer
  infrastructure
• Can we create UG courses to capitalize on current
  interest in global environmental issues? (GES,
  GEOG..)

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Big Picture

• SOEST perspective on new hires? Are we
  positioned as well as possible for upcoming
  research challenges?
• e.g. atmospheric chemistry
• Increasing SOESTs instructional profile at UHM?
• SEOST as leader for UHM in connections to Asia?