NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

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NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop
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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

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What NCAR Does

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

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NCAR Funding

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

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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.

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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

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Presenters Cont.

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

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Presenters Cont.

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

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Presenters Cont.

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

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Presenters Cont.

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

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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,