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
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Joint Office of Science Support (JOSS)
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Visiting Scientist Program (VSP)
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Unidata
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Cooperative Operational Meteorology
Education and Training (COMET)
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Constellation Observing System for
Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate
(COSMIC)
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The GLOBE Program
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National Science Digital Library Central
Office (NSDL)
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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 Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Colorado, Boulder
Columbia University
Cornell University
Drexel University
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Hopkins University
University of Maryland
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
North Carolina State University
The Ohio State University
University of Oklahoma
Old Dominion University
Oregon State University
Rice University
Rutgers University
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego
Stanford University
Texas A & M University
University of Texas, Austin
Utah State University
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Woods 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.
CLIVAR Keystone Conference
• Financial. Provide effective
methods to transfer
federal funds between
organizations.
Program Updates
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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.
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GLOBE Changes. Ed Geary became GLOBE Acting Director after Craig
Blurton left. New large-scale science project focus in Next Generation
GLOBE proposal.
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JOSS Changes. JOSS/Field Operations and Data Management group
moves to NCAR EOL. JOSS Program Support group staying in UOP.
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DLESE Changes. NSF will let DLESE funding expire in 2006. New
digital library vision will be in a fall 2005 solicitation.
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Hurricane Katrina. UOP Unidata and DLESE involved in both the preand post- disaster help.
Looking for opportunities to further serve – transforming
the atmospheric sciences together!
COMET Honors for Outstanding
Educational Materials
NSF_demo.html
Polar Lows: 2004
Brandon Hall Excellence
in Learning “GOLD”
Award
Hurricane
Strike!™ : 2004
AMS’ Louis J.
Batten Author’s
Award
Rip Currents:
Honorable Mention
2005 NSF Science &
Engineering
Visualization
Challenge