Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

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Undergraduate Leadership Workshop Richard A.
Anthes UCAR
15 June 2009
Welcome Class of 2009!
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UCAR

• Founded in 1960 by the university community to
  create, operate, and manage NCAR on behalf of NSF
  and the universities
• Represents one of the most active and broad
  community partnerships anywhere in science
• Universities
• NSF
• NCAR

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UCAR at a Glance

• A consortium of 75 North American
• universities and a national laboratory (NCAR)
• 49 years 1450 Staff 200 Scientists
• Science, computational and observational
• facilities, huge data sets, high-end numerical
  models of the sun, atmosphere, oceans, coupled
  climate system.
• A strong advocate for the community

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The UCAR mission To serve and provide
leadership to the atmospheric science and related
communities through research, computing and
observational facilities, and education programs
that contribute to the betterment of life on
Earth.
UCAR Strategic Plan January 2007
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Support and advance our university
consortium Conduct and enable a broad research
program in the atmospheric and related
sciences Develop and employ increasingly capable
observing systems Provide innovative and
powerful information technologies, services, and
tools Transfer scientific knowledge and new
technologies into societal benefits Create,
catalyze and support world-class science
education programs, resources and
communities Develop and engage a diverse
workforce Cultivate an environment of
organizational excellence where science and
education programs thrive
www.ucar.edu/strat_plan/
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UCARs 75 Member Institutions (2009/1960)
University of Alabama in Huntsville University of
Alaska University at Albany, State U of
NY University of Arizona Arizona State University
Brown University California Institute of
Technology University of California,
Berkeley University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine University of
California, Los Angeles University of Chicago
Colorado State University University of Colorado
at Boulder Columbia University University of
Connecticut Cornell University University of
Delaware University of Denver Drexel
University Florida State University Georgia
Institute of Technology George Mason University
(2009) Harvard University University of Hawaii
University of Houston Howard University University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Iowa State
University University of Iowa The Johns Hopkins
University University of Maryland Massachusetts
Institute of Technology McGill University Universi
ty of Maine (2009) University of Miami University
of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of
Minnesota University of Missouri Naval
Postgraduate School University of Nebraska
Lincoln Nevada System of Higher Education
University of New Hampshire New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology New York
University North Carolina State University The
Ohio State University University of Oklahoma Old
Dominion University Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University Princeton
University Purdue University University of Rhode
Island Rice University Rutgers University Saint
Louis University Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at UCSD Stanford University Texas
A M University University of Texas at
Austin Texas Tech University University of
Toronto Utah State University University of
Utah University of Virginia University of
Washington Washington State University University
of Wisconsin- Madison University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution University
of Wyoming Yale University York University
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UCAR Member Representatives, Academic
Affiliates, University Relations Committee and
friends 10 October 2006
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UCAR as the Management Entity for NCAR

• Provides a streamlined, effective business
  legal framework in which NCAR flourishes.
• Engages the best of the academic community in
  providing advice and high-level strategic
  managerial decision making.
• Conducts managerial practices that develop human
  capital, reward achievement, value diversity.
• Complements and supports NCAR programs with
  excellent companion efforts in
• Education Community service
• Government affairs Technology advancement
• Public-private partnerships

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Map of All NCAR/UCAR/UOP Boulder Locations
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Foothills Campus
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FL Chemistry Building
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Center Green
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Research Aviation Facility
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NCAR Mesa Laboratory
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NCAR Mesa Lab
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3375 Mitchell LaneOur newest building-Closed 11
June 2009
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Center Green 1-4
Foothills 4
3375 Mitchell Lane
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Member Institutions
Board of Trustees
UCAR Richard Anthes, President
Finance Administration Katy Schmoll, VP
Corporate Affairs Jack Fellows, VP
Integrated Science Program (ISP) Peter Backlund
Education Outreach Roberta Johnson, Director
UCAR Office of Programs (UOP) Jack Fellows,
Director Hanne Mauriello, BA
NCAR Eric Barron, Director Maura Hagan, Deputy
Director
Advanced Study Program (ASP) Maura Hagan
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology
Education Training (COMET) Tim Spangler
Global Learning Observations to Benefit the
Environment (GLOBE) Ed Geary
Computational Information Systems Laboratory
(CISL) Al Kellie, Associate Director
Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Roger Wakimoto,
Associate Director
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology
Ionosphere Climate (COSMIC) Bill Kuo
Digital LearningSciences (DLS) Karon Kelly
Earth Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) Guy
Brasseur, Associate Director
Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) Brant
Foote, Associate Director
Unidata Mohan Ramamurthy
Visiting Scientists Program (VSP) Meg Austin
Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) Gene
Martin
National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Kaye
Howe
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National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• National Science Foundation funded Center, gt1,000
  Scientists and engineers, 49 year history
• Earth System Sciences Computational and
  Observational Science and facilities for Weather,
  Climate, Chemistry, Space Weather,
  Society-Environment Interactions

NCAR serves the international community by
providing major observing and modeling
facilities, which have been developed in
collaboration with community members
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Earth Observing System Facilities
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Advanced Community Models CCSM, CAM, NRCM, WRF,
WRFVAR
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2007 Nobel Peace Prize
More than three dozen scientists and support
staff at the NCAR served as authors or reviewers
for U.N. IPCC (and share in the award)
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WRF Users Around the Globe
6,050
Blue dots Operational System at this location
Red dots At least one Research or Commercial
User in this Country
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COMET training operational forecasters via
classroom, webcasts, and distance learning
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• Unidata Enabling over 160 universities to
  acquire and use atmospheric and related data on
  their own computers
• Key Activities
• Software. Providing software to visualize,
  analyze, organize, receive, share, decode data
• Data Access. Facilitating access to a very broad
  spectrum of observations forecasts (most in
  near-real time)
• Service and Community. Supporting university
  Unidata users and building a community that
  shares data, tools, and best practices in
  education research

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COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for
Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate)

• Joint Taiwan and US project
• NSF is U.S. lead agency
• NOAA, NASA, Air Force, Navy
• 6 Satellites launched April 14, 2006
• Three instruments
• GPS receiver, TIP, Tri-band beacon
• Global observations of
• Refractivity
• Pressure, Temperature, Water vapor
• Ionospheric Electron Density
• Demonstrate quasi-operational GPS limb sounding
  with global coverage in near-real time

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Atmospheric Sciences Community the Future

• Observing, understanding and predicting the Earth
  system
• Increasing value of weather/climate information
• Environmental security
• Air and water pollution
• Forecasts and warnings
• Preparing society for climate change
• Supporting agriculture, the economy, defense,
  transportation, insurance, health
• Energy and water resources

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Challenges

• Leadership
• Scientific and technical (often turn out to be
  the easiest!)
• Observations and computational facilities
• Education and Training
• Academia, industry and government partnership
• People
• Demographics
• Immigration
• Many societal problems competing for attention
• International
• Funding-U.S. Priorities

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• Issues
• Apathy
• Ignorance
• Politics
• Fear
• Selfishess
• Long-term nature of problem

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Where do we look for leadership?

• The Administration?
• Congress?
• Industry?
• Academia?
• Religion?
• Other countries?
• You?
• Anybody but me?

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What we do in this generation will determine the
destiny of life on our planet
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Thank you and good luck!