National Newsletter for the
Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Hello from Hanne
- ESWN Workshops!
- UCAR D.C. Visit
- Thank You and Congrats!
- Open Enrollment
- Welcome New Co-Workers
- Join Us for Heliophysics Summer School
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- You and AGU
- Program Announcements
- Opportunities: To Teach and Learn
- Your Publications
- Who Is CPAESS?
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November 2019
This is
our
newsletter
so if you have a cool picture, a suggestion, or a question,
please send it!
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Hello Everyone,
As you know I've been on the road quite a bit these past few weeks. It has been wonderful getting to see and spend time with many of you.
The trip to DC was wonderful and I'm so glad we were able to have a little get together where CPAESS employees from various CPAESS and UCP programs could all meet with one another, as well as meet UCAR leadership staff.
My trip to the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey with UCP Director Bill Kuo was wonderful. We have expanded this partnership to now explore internships and look forward to growing this partnership further.
Tuscaloosa was a bit colder than usual, but I always enjoy the opportunity to see so many of you there. While in Alabama I was able to attend the CAC-WP meeting with OWP leadership. I was also able to meet with the Patty Sobeck
y, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Executive Director for the Alabama Water Institute, University of Alabama.
I am looking forward to seeing some of you at AGU this December 9-13th in San Francisco! I hope to connect with as many of you as I can. I will be sporadically at the UCAR|NCAR booth which will be near the National Science Foundation neighborhood. It will be booth 505. On Friday, the UCAR|NCAR booth theme will be Education and Scientific Programs and Services. So I will be there all day on Friday and hope to meet with many of you then. Additionally, I will give a brief talk on CPAESS on Friday at the booth from
11:30-11:50am. I look forward to seeing you very soon!
I hope you enjoy this edition of news from CPAESS and please remember that this is YOUR newsletter. We would love to hear from you! If you have any news you'd like to contribute
please send it here
.
A very Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Please know that I am genuinely thankful for all of your hard work now and throughout the year. Enjoy your time off!
Hanne
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“Women are underrepresented in the geosciences, in part because of systemic attitudes and behaviors.1 Why do we need to close this gap? Diverse teams produce better ideas—they set the bar for scholarly excellence.2 So, what are the best ways to welcome the next generation of women into geoscience careers?”3 Give them the support and skills they need.
This is just what CPAESS’ own Dr. Emily Smith of the NOAA Climate Program Office did when she organized two workshops with Meredith Hastings of the Earth Science Women’s Network. The workshops were called “2019 Professional Development Workshop: Leadership Skills for Success in the Scientific Workforce.” Our own Tammy Kepple managed the events, and Gete Bond took care of everyone’s travel.
The workshops offered a unique opportunity for women across scientific disciplines and career levels to build their leadership and management skills. These were held in Center Green in Boulder, Colorado from November 2-6, 2019. There were two 2½ day workshops intended for people who identify as women and are employed in the sciences, especially those employed in scientific agencies and scientific organizations. Each workshop accommodated 50 women, with each attendee participating in one of the workshops.
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2019 Attendees for ESWN Workshops
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The workshop goals were clear – help fill in the training gaps for women in the Earth system science community. “Science is rarely done in isolation; in almost any position, leadership and management skills are an important contributor to success. Yet, these skills are seldom discussed as part of an academic education, and hardly, if ever, show up in professional trainings for scientists. The foundation to any great leader is the ability for that person to have a solid understanding of who they are and how they impact people.”4
Facilitators and panelists were handpicked to help women gain critical new skills and advance their leadership goals within the Earth system science community. Workshop topics include understanding your own strengths and weaknesses, strategies for effective communication, team building to promote motivation and trust, guidance in giving and receiving feedback, articulating your personal value, and strategies for identifying and overcoming challenges to becoming a more effective leader.
All totaled there were nine women from UCAR|NCAR that took part in the workshops including: Katie Dagon (CGD), Rachel McCrary (CISL), Emily Osborne (CPAESS/ NOAA CPO), May Wong (MMM), Katy Putsavage (UCAR President’s Office), Jennie Zhu (CPAESS/ US CLIVAR), Rebecca Morss (MMM), and Annareli Morales (MMM & RAL).
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Hanne Mauriello and Melanie Russ' CPAESS visit to DC transformed into the first UCAR D.C. Staff Meeting. Special UCAR guests included UCAR Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Lory Wingate; Director of UCAR Community Programs, Bill Kuo; and UCAR Director of Washington Operations, Ari Gertsman who participated at our staff meeting. CPAESS staff will include our employees from NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER), NOAA National Weather Service (SWS) Climate Prediction Center African Desk, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS), NOAA Office of Water Prediction (OWP), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), US CLIVAR, and the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program. We also invited our colleagues from the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) and Cooperative program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (COMET).
The meeting opened with Bill Kuo explaining the UCP Vision and Strategic Direction. Then our D.C. UCAR Director of Washington Operations Ari Gertsman gave an overview of work with our federal contacts on the hill. Our own Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Director of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program spoke next concerning upcoming events. The meeting was wrapped up with a question and answer session with Lory Wingate, Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer concerning UCAR support for non-Boulder staff.
This was followed by a social event at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in D.C. People really appreciated having time where they could get to know UCAR staff from other agencies a bit more along with UCAR leadership, and just having the opportunity to socialize.
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At the recent UCP All-Staff meeting two of our employees were recognized for their many years of service. Hans Vahlenkamp has been a
software engineer/programmer III
with CPAESS at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) for 25 years.
Of his time here, Hans’ says "My career at GFDL through UCAR began in 1994. The initial focus was on graphics and data format programming for the visualization of model outputs to be used locally as well as for external presentation." His work today includes data portals led to my ongoing collaboration with other institutions around the world that are part of the Earth System Grid Federation.
Additionally our own Tammy Kepple has been working for UCAR|NCAR for 15 years. When Tammy first joined UCAR in 2003, when she was hired to help Marion Hammond with Space Planning, and to help oversee the building of FL0, during which she learned a lot about construction. Tammy
is a talented Meeting Planner and a truly nice person. She gives all of her projects 100%, and her smile and laugh can light up a room. We are lucky to have her on our team! When asked about her career, she says, “The best pa
rt of my job is all of the people I get to work with and meet.”
Congratulations to you both and thank you very much!
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Once a year you have the opportunity to evaluate your benefit options and enroll or re-enroll for coverage. Nothing from the previous year automatically rolls over. You have to choose it again.
During this time, you can enroll in benefits, change your current elections, and add or remove dependents. To keep your Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Saving Account (HAS) for the next calendar year, you must re-enroll each year as they do not automatically roll over. (Please know you can only open and contribute to the HAS if you’re enrolled in the Cigna High Deductible Health Plan.)
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This year, Open Enrollment begins on Monday, November 4, 2019 and ends on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 5:00pm Mountain Time.
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We have a lot of new co-workers to formally welcome onboard here at CPAESS. We are delighted to have you be part of the family!
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
Raphael Dussin
Raymond Menzel
Matthew Thomas
NOAA Office of Water Prediction (OWP)
Joseph Copeland
Jason Regina
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows
Haoran Zhou
Ariane Arias-Ortiz
Melissa Breeden
NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellows
William Longley
Terry Liu
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Tharpa Roberts
Xiaquiong Zhou
Naval Research Laboratory
Eric Platt
CPAESS Boulder Office
Katy Lackey
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Join us for Heliophysics Summer School
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CPAESS is accepting applications for the 2020 NASA “Living With a Star” Heliophysics Summer School. The theme for 2020 is “Explosive Space Weather Events and and their Impacts.” The Summer School will take place July 14-21 in Boulder, Colorado. The application deadline is February 21, 2020.
We are seeking advanced graduate students, as well as post-doctoral students, who have completed some research in the area of space physics or related fields. You will learn about the intriguing science of heliophysics as a broad, coherent discipline that reaches in space from the Earth’s troposphere to the depths of the Sun, and in time from the formation of the solar system to the distant future.
The 2020 Summer School will follow a core set of lectures on the heliophysics system including the Sun, solar wind, planetary magnetospheres and the ionosphere/ atmospheres. Lectures will focus on the physics of explosive events such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storms and their potential impacts. Lab activities and professional development opportunities will also be included.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit
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Even though many of you are not in the Boulder area we are delighted to have you join in with the larger UCAR staff whenever possible virtually. A thank you to all who participated in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) Summit this past Thursday. This half-day summit served to update staff on some of the processes, initiatives, and trainings within UCAR on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as provide you an opportunity to weigh in on some of the future directions of ODEI at NCAR|UCAR.
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ODEI is also starting with sessions related to the experiences of women in the workplace. Please watch Staff Notes Daily for information on those sessions. If you have questions or would like more information please email Kristen Aponte (
kaponte@ucar.edu
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Going to AGU? Check out some of the great Town Halls, Oral presentations, and posters fellow CPAESS staff will be presenting.
CPAESS has scientists at 22 different federal agencies and scientific companies in at least as many locations. We work across the breadth of Earth system science fields. AGU is one of few times many of us have the opportunity to be in the same place at the same time. Please check out this year's
presentation list at AGU
and perhaps you'll find something you are curious to learn about from a colleague.
Also we will be part of the UCAR|NCAR booth near the National Science Foundation. It is booth 505. Please come by and see us. Hanne will be giving a presentation about CPAESS at the UCAR|NCAR booth on Friday, December 13th from 11:30-11:50am.
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U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program
US CLIVAR
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Educational Opportunities:
To Teach and Learn
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You may have noticed that NCAR/UCAR provides opportunities to share your research through broadcast lectures. Several of you have taken advantage of this opportunity through currently established seminar series. If you will be traveling to Boulder for any other purpose, please consider giving a talk about your research while you are here.
Please contact us
as soon as you can about your trip and we will set everything up! Spread the word - this is a great opportunity for you to network with other UCAR/NCAR scientists and have them understand your special slice of the science pie. In the meantime here is the
UCAR schedule
for you to see upcoming talks.
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Here is a brief list of upcoming lectures hyperlinked for you-
CGD Seminar Series -
Teleconnection Processes Linking The Intensity Of The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability To The Climate Impacts Over Europe In Boreal Winter,
Christophe Cassou of Cerfacs
HAO Colloquium -
Quantification of gravity waves and turbulence in the mesosphere with atmospheric radars,
Jorge Chau of Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics
CGD Seminar Series -
Fire, Climate And Humans: A Combustive Combination
, Natalie Kehrwald of U.S.G.S.
HAO Colloquium -
Rocket Induced High Altitude Acoustic Waves
, Justin Mabie, CU/NOAA
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Part of your employment expectations is listing your publications in
OpenSky
on the UCAR/NCAR website. The purpose of this digital archive is to provide free and open access to the scientific output and other intellectual resources created at NCAR/UCAR for the advancement of the atmospheric and related sciences.
In the Acknowledgements section scientists note the agency and grant number that supported their research.
Please contact us
and we'll happily send you the language and grant number for any of your publications. Thanks very much!
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Recent Publications
Schroeder, Ronny, Jennifer M. Jacobs, Eunsang Cho, Carrie M. Olheiser, Michael M. DeWeese, Brian A. Connelly, Michael H. Cosh, Xinhua Jia, Carrie M. Vuyovich, Samuel E. Tuttle, 2019:
Comparison of satellite passive microwave with modeled snow water equivalent estimates in the Red River of the North Basin.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
,
OpenSky
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Smith, Emily A., William Sweet, Molly Mitchell, Ricardo Domingues, Christopher P. Weaver, Molly Baringer, Gustavo Goni, John Haines, J. Derek Loftis, John Boon, David Malmquist, 2019:
Treading water: Tools to help US coastal communities plan for sea level rise impacts.
Frontiers in Marine Science
,
OpenSky
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Nishimura, Y., B. Gallardo‐Lacourt, Yufei Zou, E. Mishin, D. J. Knudsen, E. F. Donovan, V. Angelopoulos, R. Raybell, 2019:
Magnetospheric signatures of STEVE: Implications for the magnetospheric energy source and interhemispheric conjugacy.
Geophysical Research Letters
,
OpenSky
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Even people employed by CPAESS ask about the breadth and depth of the programs and opportunities we provide. Here is a super brief primer. CPAESS is a part of the UCAR/NCAR family. Specifically, we are within UCAR’s Community Programs (UCP). CPAESS is the largest of UCAR's Community Programs.
CPAESS’ provides early career opportunities including employment at federal labs across the nation. We also host multi-agency programs and have partnerships with federal agencies –take a peek to get an idea of some of them
listed here
. CPAESS provides postdoctoral and educational programs. Lastly, we convene scientific communities to help promulgate scientific information and foster collaboration across the earth system science community. Here is a list of
our upcoming events
.
CPAESS has approximately 125 employees, over 100 of which are spread across the United States as seen on the map below. If you
go here
you can click on a location and you'll see staff grouped by program work. Many of our co-workers are in federal labs. Our staff's skill sets are impressively diverse. We appreciate you and your talents being a part of the CPAESS family.
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