Diverse backgrounds, common concerns emerge at listening session
June 1, 2009 | Roger Wakimoto is a
Japanese-American whose grandparents and parents were all born in the
United States. Yet the EOL director, who moved from his native
California to Boulder in 2004, finds that people sometimes assume he’s
new to...
April 27, 2009 | On April 22,
Unidata staff traded data management for trash collection, scouring the
creek corridor behind FL4. “We thought it would be a nice contribution
for Earth Day,” says Tina Campbell. The volunteers filled ten bags of...
Jim Hansen on Earth's climate: "We're now completely in charge"
April 14, 2009 | NASA scientist
James Hansen made a plea for concern and action on climate change—and
offered his latest prediction on global temperature—in a UCAR-sponsored
talk on April 9. Hansen delivered this year’s Walter Orr Roberts...
Researchers take to the plains to unlock secrets of twister formation
April 7, 2009 | When the movie Twister
became a global blockbuster in 1996, researchers had just completed two
seasons of real-life chasing in the world’s largest ever tornado study.
The Verification of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX) saw...
Researchers head to Arctic, jet around the Pacific
April 7, 2009 | About the same time of year that many people head to warmer climes, a group of researchers is hunkered down in northern Alaska.
An OASIS researcher extracts carbon from snow...
Greg Holland
April 7, 2009 | Greg Holland
(ESSL/MMM) took this photo (below) of the devastating February
wildfires in Australia. This particular fire threatened his son’s farm
near Healesville, about 50 miles northeast of Melbourne.
Iraqi scientists make landmark visit
"I voted last week": Traces of purple ink were still visible on the
index fingers of Ali Sabeeh Dawood, Husam Hanna Habib, and Abdul Kareem Mohammad
(left to right) when they visited Rick Anthes...
NCAR scientists reach out to universities through scientific leaves
February 10, 2009 | Last fall, Morris Weisman
took a leave for three
and a half months, trading his daily routine
in ESSL/MMMM for the University at Albany, State University of New York
(SUNY). There, he taught a graduate-level course in...
NCAR delves into wind-energy prediction and impacts
February 10, 2009 | The concept of harnessing
the wind’s energy is hardly new—Egyptian vases from 3,500 B.C.E. depict ships
under sail. Still, wind is among the most difficult weather variables to forecast.
Topography, ground cover,...
February 10, 2009 | Ever wonder what happens
to those orange rinds, coffee grounds, and napkins you toss in the compost
bin at work? In January, about a half dozen staff found out during a visit
to A1 Organics in Platteville. The
company has...
