Steven Tomczyk Steve Tomczyk is the Assistant Director of the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NCAR). As HAO Assistant Director, Dr. Tomczyk oversees the HAO Instrumentation Program, where an engineering group consisting of seven engineers and three interns collaborates with HAO scientists to develop state-ofthe-art instruments for the observation of the Sun and the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Scott received his bachelors degree in Astronomy from Villanova University in 1979 and went on to graduate study at UCLA where he received his Ph.D. in 1988 working with Roger Ulrich on using solar oscillations to measure solar internal rotation. Immediately following his graduate work, Scott came to NCAR where he has worked on developing instrumentation for the observation of waves and magnetic fields throughout the Sun. His current research focuses on measuring magnetic fields in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, in order to understand and eventually predict ejections of material which influence the Earth and its environment. Scott has written or co-authored more than 70 papers with over 2000 citations. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and American CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY Any use of this material without specific permission of UCAR-NCAR is strictly prohibited Geophysical Union (AGU). Scott McIntosh Scott McIntosh is a Scientist III and Section Head in the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1998 from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Scott’s first work with HAO began in 1997 as a graduate student. His primary focus of research is chromospheric dynamics and understanding the physical connectivity between the Sun's cool surface and its considerably hotter corona. The resulting mass transport to and from the corona produces the radiation in the solar atmosphere that is most variable over a solar cycle. In recent times Scott has expanded this effort to study longer periods to assess if (and why) the underlying energetics of the star are changing. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY Any use of this material without specific permission of UCAR-NCAR is strictly prohibited