2005 UCAR Office of Program Annual Report

Jack Fellows,UOP Director

• Open House. Not going over the Annual Report -- I’ll be summarizing UOP and its programs as a brief guide for the Open House.

• Updates. Provide brief UOP program updates.

• UOP Awards. Highlight a few recent UOP awards.

UCAR Office of Program

• Creation. Created in 1992 at the request of the UCAR community.

• Mission. Helping the UCAR community meet its collective research and education needs.

• Central Attributes. - Community initiated- Community led and

governed- Community service oriented

• Focus:- Education and Training- Technology Development

and Data Services- Program Support

Annual Written Report on the web -- a summary of what we have

accomplished together over the past year!

UOP @ the UCAR Open House

• Joint Office of Science Support (JOSS)

• Visiting Scientist Program (VSP)

• Unidata

• Cooperative Operational Meteorology Education and Training (COMET)

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

• The GLOBE Program

• National Science Digital Library Central Office (NSDL)

• Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Program Center

Education and Training

• Contribute and find materials via DLESE or NSDL.

• Use DLESE and NSDL tools in the classroom and in research projects.

• Attend DLESE and NSDL community meetings – see NSDL partners.

UCAR MEMBERS THAT ARE NSDL PROJECT PARTNERS:

University of ArizonaUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of Colorado, BoulderColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityDrexel UniversityUniversity of HawaiiUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignJohn Hopkins UniversityUniversity of MarylandUniversity of Michigan, Ann ArborNorth Carolina State UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityUniversity of OklahomaOld Dominion UniversityOregon State UniversityRice UniversityRutgers UniversityScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San DiegoStanford UniversityTexas A & M UniversityUniversity of Texas, AustinUtah State UniversityUniversity of UtahUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Education and Training

• Use COMET graphics and modules. ~11 new ones just in the past year.

• Unidata data and tool training workshops and webcasts.

• VSP supported 80 scientific appointments in 2005! Climate postdoc, fellowships, and a variety of visiting scientist opportunities are available across the nation.

• Engage the GLOBE schools and measurement protocols in your local, regional, and international research and education projects (in 110 countries)

Technology Development and Data Services

• Use Unidata data and tools in the classroom and in field campaigns.

• Learn more about the exciting new COSMIC radio occultation data sets that will become available over the next two years – including user workshops.

• Adopt DLESE search and retrieval webservices.

Program Support

• Travel and workshop support.

• Expertise. Provide scientific, technical and management expertise for national and international programs.

• Report. Preparation and dissemination.

• Financial. Provide effective methods to transfer federal funds between organizations.

CLIVAR Keystone Conference

Program Updates• Instrument Training. With +12 community members, we

submitted a proposal to NSF to hold an instrumentation training workshop, capture as a COMET module, and distributed via DLESE. Despite high panel review marks, it was not funded (8% success rate). UCAR community survey had 23 pages of positive comments on this idea. We will pursue.

• GLOBE Changes. Ed Geary became GLOBE Acting Director after Craig Blurton left. New large-scale science project focus in Next Generation GLOBE proposal.

• JOSS Changes. JOSS/Field Operations and Data Management group moves to NCAR EOL. JOSS Program Support group staying in UOP.

• DLESE Changes. NSF will let DLESE funding expire in 2006. New digital library vision will be in a fall 2005 solicitation.

• Hurricane Katrina. UOP Unidata and DLESE involved in both the pre- and post- disaster help.Looking for opportunities to further serve –

transforming the atmospheric sciences together!

Polar Lows: 2004 Brandon Hall

Excellence in Learning “GOLD” Award

Hurricane Strike!™ : 2004 AMS’

Louis J. Batten Author’s Award

COMET Honors for Outstanding Educational Materials

Rip Currents: Honorable Mention 2005 NSF Science &

Engineering Visualization Challenge

NSF_demo.html