Staff Notes Daily Announcements

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion invites everyone at the organization to attend our second Diversity Action Summit on Wednesday, May 9, from 8:30am to 5:00pm in CG1 Auditorium.

The main objective of this summit is to provide feedback on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan initial draft, which will be sent out to everyone in the week prior. This draft plan is responsive to, and reflective of, the findings from the Workplace Culture Survey and the top priorities identified at our first Diversity Action Summit held back in November. It also highlights other strategic and programmatic initiatives.

The full-day event on May 9 will be facilitated by Maria Velasco and Gurudev Khalsa from the Spring Institute. Together, they will guide us through a day of exercies to build understanding and gain consensus on the plan draft. We welcome everyone within our organization to participate and hope that many of you will be able to attend for the full day. It is not necessary to have attended the previous Diversity Action Summit in November to participate.

We will start the day at 8:30am with coffee, tea, and light snacks. The facilitated portion of the day will start at 9:00am. We cannot provide lunch for everyone but there will be an hour-long break during the lunch hour. We will provide afternoon snacks. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP here so we have an accurate number for supplies and refreshments. If you have any questions about the summit, please contact Kristen Luna Aponte (kaponte@ucar.edu; 303-497-1657).

Posted by Kristen Luna Aponte at ext. 1657, kaponte@ucar.edu

Thursday, April 26, 2018 to Friday, May 4, 2018

NCAR Library Update

The NCAR Library is making a change to the technical infrastructure that provides access to e-journals and other online resources through the CU Boulder Libraries. This change should be transparent to Library users, but if you experience any problems please contact us at ncarref@ucar.edu.

Posted by Jennifer Phillips at ext. 1173, jennp@ucar.edu

Thursday, April 26, 2018 to Monday, April 30, 2018

Bolder Boulder 2018: Bolder Business Challenge - Register for NCAR/UCAR Team

We're past the tax deadline, so the next deadlines to think of are May 1st and May 14th.

The Bolder Boulder registration for the 2018 Memorial Day 10k race continues to be open, and once again UCAR/NCAR is participating in the Bolder Business Challenge. If you want your participation to count for UCAR/NCAR, you can do it online via the Bolder Business Challenge version of the registration form where you can select "NCAR" from a drop-down menu. For families, you can register others on this site too where it gives an option to select which are employees, or they can register on the regular site where they can choose a delivery location.

The Business Challenge entries' packets will be delivered together to NCAR for convenient pick-up in May. Business Challenge registration is only open until May 1st. Also registering before May 14th saves you about $10.

The Challenge has a team time competition with three divisions based on company size. The five fastest times contribute to the team time. There is also a participation rate prize, so the more we have the better.

Whether you are running, jogging or walking, you are welcome to sign up for the NCAR team.

Bolder Business Challenge Registration site:

https://bb10k.configio.com/pd/1856/2018-bolderbusiness-challenge?returnc...

Posted by Jimy Dudhia at ext. 8950, dudhia@ucar.edu

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 to Monday, April 30, 2018

CISL Seminar Series - Theory-guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery Combining Physics with Machine Learning

Theory-guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery Combining Physics with Machine Learning
Anuj Karpatne
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

This talk will introduce theory-guided data science, a novel paradigm of scientific discovery that leverages the unique ability of data science methods to automatically extract patterns and models from data, but without ignoring the treasure of knowledge accumulated in scientific theories. Theory-guided data science aims to fully capitalize the power of machine learning and data mining methods in scientific disciplines by deeply coupling them with models based on scientific theories. This talk will describe several ways in which scientific knowledge can be combined with data science methods in various scientific disciplines such as hydrology, climate science, aerospace, and chemistry. To demonstrate the value in combining physics with data science, the talk will also introduce a novel framework for combining deep learning methods with physics-based models, termed as physics-guided neural networks, and present some preliminary results of this framework for an application in lake temperature modeling. The talk will conclude with a discussion of future prospects in exploiting latest advances in deep learning for building the next generation of scientific models for dynamical systems, where theory-based and data science methods are used at an equal footing.

Biography
Anuj Karpatne is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota, where he develops data mining methods for solving scientific and socially relevant problems in Prof. Vipin Kumar's research group. He has published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles at top-tier conferences and journals in computer science (e.g., KDD, ICDM, SDM, TKDE, and ACM Computing Surveys), given multiple invited talks, and served on panels at leading venues (e.g., SDM and SSDBM). His research has resulted in a system to monitor the dynamics of surface water bodies on a global scale, which was featured in an NSF news story. He is also a co-author of the second edition of the textbook, "Introduction to Data Mining." Anuj received his Ph.D. in September 2017 from the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Prof. Kumar. Before joining the University of Minnesota, Anuj received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Anuj will be joining Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in computer science starting Fall 2018.

Refreshments will be served at 9:45am outside of the MSR!
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Mesa Lab, Main Seminar Room

Posted by Kathy Peczkowicz at ext. 2431, kathyp@ucar.edu

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 to Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Center Green Blood Drive -- Monday, May 14

The Bonfils Blood Center mobile bus will visit CG1 on Monday, May 14. The bus will be located on the north side of CG1. Appointments are available between 9:00 am and 2:30 pm. The bus will be closed between 11:00 a.m. and noon.

If you would like to donate, please contact Laurie Carr to make an appointment. Please review the blood donation guidelines below.

Bonfils Blood Center Donation Eligibility Guidelines

Posted by Laurie Carr at ext. 8702, lcarr@ucar.edu

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 to Monday, April 30, 2018

New Hires and Departures

Please view the New Hires and Departures as of Friday, April 20, 2018 at this location:

https://www2.fin.ucar.edu/hr/new-hires-and-departures

Posted by Macy Nedelka at ext. 8723, mnedelka@ucar.edu

Monday, April 23, 2018 to Friday, April 27, 2018

Supervisory Training: Essential People Management

Requirements:

Available to supervisors and managers
Must be able to attend the 1.5 day training sessions
Approval from supervisor to engage in this cohort

Schedule:

April: 25 & 26
25th: Full Day, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
26th: Half Day, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

July: 18 & 19
18th: Full Day, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
19th: Half Day, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

October: 25 & 26
25th: Full Day, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
26th: Half Day, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location for all sessions: CG1-North Auditorium

Register via Connect.

Select "EOD Training Catalog"
25 participants max per 1.5 day training sessions. Registration is based on a first-come-first-serve basis.

More information can be found on the EOD website.

View in the Leadership Development Tab.

Questions: Contact Toni Wallace, 303-497-8716.

Posted by Toni Wallace at ext. 8716, twallace@ucar.edu

Friday, April 20, 2018 to Tuesday, July 31, 2018

NCL+VAPOR Workshop

NCL + VAPOR Workshop

July 9-12, 2018
Corporate Technical Training Center
Center Green campus, 3085 Center Green Drive (CG-2)
Boulder, CO

This 4-day workshop is geared towards new users of NCL and VAPOR. It will include a combination of introductory lectures on NCL and scientific data formats and graphics, and 3D visualization using VAPOR. Students will be encouraged to bring their own data to the workshop. There will be hands-on labs every afternoon, where the instructors will work individually with students to help them analyze their own data using NCL and VAPOR.

Registration is limited and the summer workshop tends to fill up quickly, so register as soon as possible. The deadline is June 15, 2018.

Travel support is available on a first-come, first-served basis for qualified students from EPSCoR states or minority-serving institutions to attend. The deadline for applying for funds is May 14, 2018.

See the link below for full details and a link to the registration form.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Workshops/

Posted by Elizabeth Faircloth at ext. 1253, fair@ucar.edu

Thursday, April 19, 2018 to Thursday, July 12, 2018

ACOM Seminar: Deodorant, Cleaning Products, and the Virtue of Smelling Bad: Investigations into Emerging Sources of Air Pollution from Consumer Chemical Products

ACOM Seminar

Title: Deodorant, Cleaning Products and the Virtue of Smelling Bad: Investigations into Emerging Sources of Air Pollution from Consumer Chemical Products

Presenter: Matthew M. Coggon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Bouler

Abstract: Over the past 50 years, urban air pollution due to vehicle emissions has steadily decreased at a rate of 7.5%/year. In the meantime, other sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have largely remained unchanged. Now that cars are cleaner, it has been estimated that other sources of reactive carbon, such as personal care products, cleaning products, and solvents from paints, may contribute up to half of the VOC burden in urban areas. The VOCs emitted from these sources are highest in indoor environments, but once exhausted to the outdoors, are likely to contribute to the formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosol. Here, we will present work aimed at evaluating VOCs emitted from consumer products. First, we present work from Los Angeles showing that volatile chemical products are a major source of VOCs in urban air. Second, we will explore potential tracers that could be used to detect the presence of VOCs emitted from consumer products, including decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5-siloxane). Finally, we will present recent measurements aimed at assessing emissions of terpenes from fragranced consumer products. We will explore whether an anthropogenic signal can be detected in the urban environment, and distinguishable from biogenic sources.

Monday, 30 April 2018, 3:30 PM
Refreshments 3:15 PM
NCAR-Foothills Laboratory • 3450 Mitchell Lane
Bldg 2 Large Auditorium (Rm1022)
Webcast: https://ucarconnect.ucar.edu/live (Room 2: FL2-1022)

Posted by Bonnie Slagel at ext. 8318, bonnie@ucar.edu

Monday, April 16, 2018 to Monday, April 30, 2018

Kuali Awards Management is now live!

We are pleased to announce that the Kuali Awards Management system is now live. This marks another successful milestone in delivering improved systems as part of the Operational Excellence (OPEX) program. Kuali provides robust data to assist with award management by labs/programs, the NCAR and UCP directorates, and UCAR administration. The platform includes:

A central repository for accessing award documents for all new awards and modifications going forward
Migrated information for all existing awards in Active, Pending, and WRAP status as of March 30, 2018
Integration with Advance Notice and PandA to identify high-level proposal data in Kuali
Integration with IFAS and iVantage
Single sign-on to Kuali and award access based on defined permissions
Enhanced award data for reporting through Cognos

For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

Please be sure to visit the Kuali User Support site where you will find a number of learning resources including how-to videos to help you get started. This site is easily accessible while you are in Kuali by clicking on the GET HELP link in the upper righthand corner.

If you run into any issues or questions, please enter a Help Desk ticket or dial the Contracts line at ext. 8894 for assistance. The help link and instructions can also be found on the user support site.

Learn more about OPEX here.

Posted by Jill Lampe at ext. 8522, jlampe@ucar.edu

Monday, April 9, 2018 to Monday, April 30, 2018

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