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NCAR Undergraduate
Leadership Workshop
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
What NCAR Does
 Conduct
research on many topics
 Atmospheric
Chemistry
Climate
 Cloud physics and storms
 Weather hazards to aviation
 Interactions between sun and earth.

NCAR Funding
 Get
funding from
 National
Science Foundation (NSF)
 NOAA
 NASA
 U.S.
 FAA
Departments of Defense and Energy
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.

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
Presenters Cont.
 Tim
Killeen,
 Director
of NCAR
 Discussed NCAR research
 Richard Anthens
 President
on UCAR
 Discussed leadership and collaboration in the university
community
Presenters Cont.
 Gerry
Meehl
in Climate and Global Dynamics Division
 Climate change, and current research
 Scientist
 Scientists
from Atmospheric Chemistry Division
Presenters Cont.
 Al
Cooper
 Scientist
 Tim
and Director, Advanced Studies Program
Spangler
 Director,
Cooperative Program for Operational
Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET),
Presenters Cont.
 Bob

Lead Scientist, US Weather Research Program,
Division Director, Microscale and Mesoscale
Meteorology,
 Bob

Gall
Harris
Division Director, Environmental and Societal
Impacts Group,
Presenters Cont.
 Roberta

Johnson
Director, UCAR Office of Education and Outreach
and
Scientist, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR
 Scientist
 David
from High Altitude Observatory
Carlson
 Division
Director, Atmospheric Technology,