Ocean Platforms Workshop

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Ocean Platforms Workshop Richard A. Anthes UCAR
27-28 October 2008
Welcome!
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UCAR at a Glance

• Founded in 1960 by the university community to
  create, operate, and manage NCAR on behalf of NSF
  and the universities
• A consortium of 73 North American
• universities and a national laboratory (NCAR)
• 48 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

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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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Member Institutions
Board of Trustees
UCAR Richard Anthes, President
Finance Administration Katy Schmoll, VP
Corporate Affairs Jack Fellows, VP
Education Outreach Roberta Johnson, Director
NCAR Eric Barron, Director Maura Hagan, Deputy
Director
UCAR Office of Programs (UOP) Jack Fellows,
Director Hanne Mauriello, BA
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) Kay Howe
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