NCAR Realignment

1. NCAR Realignment

2. What is UCAR? • Structure: Non-profit consortium formed in 1959 to focus on scientific problems that are beyond the scale of a few universities. • Membership: • 68 North American universities with atmospheric or related doctorate programs. • 20 universities with non-doctorate programs (Academic Affiliates) and • 38 international universities (International Affiliates). • Governance: 132 Member Representatives (2 from each of the 66) who elect 18 Trustees. • Guidance and Peer Review: community committees oversee nearly every UCAR program, including an overall UCAR/NCAR 3-5 year review process.

3. To extend the capabilities of the university community to understand the behavior of the atmosphere and related systems; and to foster the transfer of knowledge and technology for the betterment of life on earth. Science Research Infrastructure Education & Training Advocacy, Public Policy, and Communications Technology Transfer Research and Operational Partnerships UCAR Mission and Goal Areas “I have a very strong feeling that science exists to serve human welfare. It’s wonderful to have the opportunity given us by society to do basic research, but in return, we have a very important moral responsibility to apply that research to benefiting humanity.” Walter Orr Roberts

4. Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD) Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Climate & Global Dynamics Division (CGD) Daniel McKenna David Carlson Al Cooper Maurice Blackmon Member Institutions Board of Trustees UCAR President Richard Anthes Corporate Affairs Jack Fellows, VP Finance & Administration Katy Schmoll, VP UCAR Programs Jack Fellows, Director Kathryn Strand, Manager, Budget and Administration NCAR Tim Killeen, Director Robert Gall, Acting Assoc. Director Education and Outreach Roberta Johnson Cooperative Program for Optional Meteorology Education and Training (COMET) Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere Climate (COSMIC) Digital Library for Earth System Science (DLESE) Timothy Spangler Bill Kuo Mary Marlino High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Environmental & Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) Scientific Computing Division (SCD) Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorological Division (MMM) GPS Science & Technology Program (GST) Nat’l SMETE Digital Library (NSDL) Research Applications Programs (RAP) Unidata Visiting Scientists Programs (VSP) Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) Ben Dominico, Acting Director Mohan Ramamurthy, Director (Jan 2003) David Fulker Robert Harriss Randolph Ware Meg Austin Robert Gall Michael Knölker Karyn Sawyer Brant Foote Al Kellie Denotes President’s Office 10/01

5. Reasons for Considering Realignment • Last Cooperative Agreement review suggested exploring a realignment: • increase interdisciplinary and cross-cutting content at NCAR • develop new modes of university collaboration • promote an innovative and adaptive center • National Science Board call for a review of how NSF ATM Division supports the field in the 21st Century • UCAR 2008 Cooperative Agreement renewal

6. Realignment Objectives • Organize to address significant current national needs identified in the NCAR Strategic Plan and new ones that arise later • Flexible and responsive organization • Multiple investigator projects • Reduce stove-piping in the organization • Ensure an organizational structure that supports science, applications and facilities • Maintain disciplinary alignments as a critical dimension of the organization

7. Criteria for Decision • Consistent with our Strategic Plan - Excellence, careers • Serve the community and more strategic partnerships • Continuity of and respect for divisional heritage • Make integration more than a buzz word - networked program • Flexible and adaptable • Anengine for innovation • Supports “basic” and “practical” • Clear and simple to external community: (one page) • Continues to evolve: facilitates long term change (cultural) • Encourages alliances with other sponsors and acceptable to other sponsors • Efficient management structure with fewer direct reports • Doable in finite amount of time • Enable identification/tackle of new scientific frontiers • Attracting the best and the brightest

8. Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD) Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Climate & Global Dynamics Division (CGD) Daniel McKenna David Carlson Al Cooper Maurice Blackmon Member Institutions Board of Trustees UCAR President Richard Anthes Corporate Affairs Jack Fellows, VP Finance & Administration Katy Schmoll, VP UCAR Programs Jack Fellows, Director Kathryn Strand, Manager, Budget and Administration NCAR Tim Killeen, Director Robert Gall, Acting Assoc. Director Education and Outreach Roberta Johnson Cooperative Program for Optional Meteorology Education and Training (COMET) Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere Climate (COSMIC) Digital Library for Earth System Science (DLESE) Timothy Spangler Bill Kuo Mary Marlino High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Environmental & Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) Scientific Computing Division (SCD) Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorological Division (MMM) GPS Science & Technology Program (GST) Nat’l SMETE Digital Library (NSDL) Research Applications Programs (RAP) Unidata Visiting Scientists Programs (VSP) Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) Ben Dominico, Acting Director Mohan Ramamurthy, Director (Jan 2003) David Fulker Robert Harriss Randolph Ware Meg Austin Robert Gall Michael Knölker Karyn Sawyer Brant Foote Al Kellie Denotes President’s Office 10/01

10. Next Steps for Realignment • Present to the UCAR Board of Trustees Feb 2004 • Phased-in Approach over next 12-18 months • Begin the phased-in implementation in June, 2004

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