Fellowship in Boulder

Well, I finally had my dream come true! I am going to NCAR to study everything that has to do with weather, the atmosphere, computer modelling of weather forecasting and the air we breathe. No, I spelled it correctly. It is not NASCAR.


NCAR Journalism Fellowship Agenda
14-18 June 2010

2010 NCAR Journalism Fellows
Leonard David (space.com, Space News), Victoria Jaggard (National Geographic), Eli Kintisch (Science), David Levin (NOVA), Shar Levine (children’s book author), Margot Roosevelt (LA Times), Kyoko Takita (The Yomiuri Shimbun), Jeremy Van Loon (Bloomberg News), Alexandra Witze (Science News), Jeffrey Young (Chronicle of Higher Education)


13 June (Sunday)
NCAR Journalism Fellows arrive in Boulder

14 June (Monday) – NCAR Mesa Lab (ML), Tower B, Penthouse Conference Room
8:30-9:15 a.m. (Breakfast) – Meet in ISP meeting room to discuss program expectations
9:15-9:35 a.m. – Introduction to/Overview of NCAR (Peter Backlund)
9:35-9:55 a.m. – Introduction to/Overview of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR – NCAR’s managing body) (Rick Anthes, UCAR President)
10:00-10:45 a.m. – CCSM Overview (Jim Hurrell)
10:45 – 11:30 a.m. – (Kevin Trenberth)

11:30-1:00 p.m. – Lunch in ML cafeteria

1:00-1:45 p.m. – NESL Overview and cool research highlights (Greg Holland)
1:45-2:30 pm. – Hurricane forecasting (James Done)
2:30-3:15 p.m. – Policy talk (Peter Backlund)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. – Break
3:30-4:15 pm. – Climate – Four Dimensional Data Assimilation (Francois Vanderberghe)
4:15-5:00 p.m. – A look at the effects of climate on health in Africa (Mary Hayden)

5:00-7:00 p.m. Reception for NJFs – Damon Room – All Speakers Invited

15 June (Tuesday) – National Renewable Energy Laboratory Visit (Golden, Colorado)
8:30 a.m. to noon
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

Afternoon at Foothills Laboratory (FL1) Room 2037
1:30-2:15 p.m. – Providing advanced weather technologies to support aviation operations (Bruce Carmichael)
2:15-3:00 p.m. – Colorado Headwaters Project (Roy Rasmussen)
3:00-3:15 – Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 – Impacts of California’s wildfires on air quality (Gabriele Pfister)
4:00 – 5:00 – Hurricane forecast improvement program (Joint Numerical Testbed) (Barb Brown)

16 June (Wednesday) – ML – Visualization Lab and Computer Machine Room (Computational & Information Systems Laboratory Overview)
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) experience (Roger Wakimoto, NCAR Director and a principal investigator on VORTEX)
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Digitizing the Planet: The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Understanding how our World Works (Rich Loft)
10:00-10:45 – Tour of NCAR/NSF Supercomputers (Rich Loft)
10:45 – 11:00 – Break
11:00 – 11:45 – Sea ice talk (Marika Holland)

Noon to 1 pm – lunch in Mesa Lab cafeteria

1ish – 5ish pm – Round Table discussion

17 June (Thursday) – FL1, Room 2037
8:00-9:00 a.m. – VORTEX (Bill Brown, Kate Young)
9:00-10:00 a.m. – Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) – overview of the upcoming field campaign to study hurricane formation (Meitin?)
10:00-10:20 – Break
10:20-11:20 a.m. – Global Hawk Development (Bradley?)
11:20-12:20 – TBD (a space-based talk, with luck)

12:20-1:20 – lunch in FL cafeteria

1:30 – 2:30 Design & Fabrication Shop tour (TBD)
2:30 – 3:00 – drive to Research Aviation Facility
3:00-4:00 pm – tour of Research Aviation Facility and C-130 (Al Schanot, Jeff Stith)

18 June (Friday) – FL1, Room 2037
8:15 – 9:00 a.m. – NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Project (Krista Laursen)
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. – Wind Energy (Bill Mahoney, David Johnson)
9:45 – 10:30 – A new perspective on solar coronal heating (Scott McIntosh)
10:30 – 11:15 – Geoengineering: Marine cloud whitening (John Latham)
11:15 – noon – Flood forecasting in India (Tom Hopson)

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