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NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop. What is NCAR?. National Center for Atmospheric Research Located in Boulder Colorado Managed by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) 63 Universities, Iowa State one of them. What NCAR Does. Conduct research on many topics

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NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

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  1. NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

  2. What is NCAR? • National Center for Atmospheric Research • Located in Boulder Colorado • Managed by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) • 63 Universities, Iowa State one of them

  3. What NCAR Does • Conduct research on many topics • Atmospheric Chemistry • Climate • Cloud physics and storms • Weather hazards to aviation • Interactions between sun and earth.

  4. NCAR Funding • Get funding from • National Science Foundation (NSF) • NOAA • NASA • U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy • FAA

  5. ULW Purpose • Informing students about the potential for exciting research and career opportunities in the atmospheric and related sciences. • The five-day program establishes informal dialogue between students and research scientists as they explore laboratories, instrumentation, and computing facilities that support studies on weather, climate change, solar dynamics, the Sun-Earth system, and the impacts of severe weather and climate change on societies around the world.

  6. Model of Leadership • Kevin Droegemeier • Director of Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at University of Oklahoma • Distinguished between leader and manager: • Manager controls • Leader motivates

  7. Presenters Cont. • Tim Killeen, • Director of NCAR • Discussed NCAR research • Richard Anthens • President on UCAR • Discussed leadership and collaboration in the university community

  8. Presenters Cont. • Gerry Meehl • Scientist in Climate and Global Dynamics Division • Climate change, and current research • Scientists from Atmospheric Chemistry Division

  9. Presenters Cont. • Al Cooper • Scientist and Director, Advanced Studies Program • Tim Spangler • Director, Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET),

  10. Presenters Cont. • Bob Gall • Lead Scientist, US Weather Research Program, Division Director, Microscale and Mesoscale Meteorology, • Bob Harris • Division Director, Environmental and SocietalImpacts Group,

  11. Presenters Cont. • Roberta Johnson • Director, UCAR Office of Education and Outreach andScientist, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR • Scientist from High Altitude Observatory • David Carlson • Division Director, Atmospheric Technology,

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