Inside CPAESS - April 2020

National Newsletter for the

Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science

IN THIS ISSUE

Hello from Hanne
Class of 2020: NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellows
AGU's Ocean Sciences Conference
Welcome to CPAESS
UCAR | CPAESS News
Open Sky and Your Publications
Good News
Who Is CPAESS?

April 2020

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Hello from Hanne

Hello Everyone!

We find ourselves in the throes of a rather unusual situation with the pandemic. I am hopeful that you all have your questions answered, know where all of the resources and information is that you need, and are settled into the new routine of telework. Please know that I'm always just an email away if you need anything.

When the logistics of telecommuting during a pandemic are addressed, the difficulties that remain are often emotional. I know many of you are raising children and trying to school them at the same time you are working, or caring for family and friends that need your help. I know it's a lot. Please remember we are all in this together and do take advantage of UCAR's resources for managing stress during this difficult time. UCAR also has an Employee Assistance Program ( EAP ) if that might be of help. I want you all to stay healthy on every level during this stressful time.

As always staff who need support can reach out to the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ( ODEI ). In particular I want to make sure anyone of Asian descent is doing okay in light of the increase in racist attacks. ODEI has scheduled another listening session for our Asian-American and Asian employees on April 17th from 1-3pm. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to support you. You are not alone. Support can also be found through Carolyn Brinkworth who heads ODEI.

Thank you all for your terrific work, particularly in light of these unusual circumstances. Each one of you is the heart of CPAESS. I genuinely appreciate all that you do to improve science and serve our world community.

Class of 2020: NOAA Climate

& Global Change Fellows!

Congratulations to the 2020 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows! This year we are excited to announce eight newly selected NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC) Postdoc fellows. This is an increase of our typical 4 fellows per year, so we are delighted.

"It is an honor for CPAESS to manage this critical program. We are delighted that NOAA has doubled its investment this year in fostering brilliant young scientists on the frontlines of climate and global change science," said Hanne Mauriello, Director of UCAR's Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS).

Over the next two years, the new fellows will be hosted by mentoring scientists at U.S. universities and research institutions and will conduct projects focused on observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability and change. Here are this year’s candidates and the work they will be pursuing:

Rebecca Beadling

Proposal Topic : Mean state representation and the reorganization of subtropical gyre systems under continued warming with implications for regional and global climate

Host : Dr. John Krastling, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

PhD Institution : University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences

Andrea Jenney

Proposal Topic : Understanding the Impacts of the Vertical Distribution of Atmospheric Stable Layers on Convection

Host : Dr. Michael Pritchard, University of California, Irvine

PhD Institution : Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Xiaomeng Jin

Proposal Topic : Reactive nitrogen from wildfires: emissions, chemical evolution and impacts

Host : Dr. Ronald Cohen, University of California, Berkeley

PhD Institution : Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Isabel McCoy

Proposal Topic : Understanding the role of cloud morphologies in low cloud feedbacks

Host : Dr. Paquita Zuidema, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

PhD Institution : University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Sebastian Milinski

Proposal Topic : Constraining the contribution of SST warming patterns to the uncertainty in estimates of climate sensitivity by combining large ensembles and observations

Host : Dr. Clara Deser, NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Division

PhD Institution : Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling

Uday Thapa

Proposal Topic : Investigating Changes in Spring-time Water Availability to Inform Water

Management in the Himalayas

Host : Dr. Samantha Stevenson, University of California, Santa Barbara

PhD Institution : University of Minnesota, Department of Geography

Nina Whitney

Proposal Topic : Assessing Long-Term Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability over the Late Holocene using High-Resolution Water Mass Proxies from the

Western North Atlantic and Numerical Model Simulations

Host : Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

PhD Institution : Iowa State University, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Madeleine Youngs

Proposal Topic : Northern Hemisphere Climatological Storm Tracks Under Climate Change: A Dynamical Systems Perspective

Host : Dr. Edwin Gerber, New York University, The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

PhD Institution : Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program for Oceanography

The NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, founded in 1990 by former NOAA Climate Program Office Director Dr. J. Michael Hall, helps create and train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies. Over the past 30 years, the fellowship has hosted more than 230 C&GC Fellows and has developed an outstanding reputation of attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences relevant to climate and global change.

We are excited to have this new class onboard and look forward to hearing about their wonderful research. For more information on this program go here . Check out NOAA’s write up on this program here .

AGU's Ocean Sciences Conference

AGU held its biennial Ocean Sciences Conference in San Diego in mid-February. CPAESS had a booth there and it was bustling! We were thrilled to be able to communicate the opportunities CPAESS provides for the ocean community such as the NOAA Okeanos Explorer-in-Training internships, the NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral program, and the many workshops through our U.S. CLIVAR program. We also were able to speak on our partnerships with the National Hurricane Center (NHC), NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS), the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER).

We had a small meeting space at the booth and were happy to receive many different employees and sponsors as guests. Our president Tony Busalacchi took the time to stop by to see how we were doing.

Top Photo: Young scientists and students were excited to visit our table. Below: CPAESS Project Scientist Liping Zhang explains her latest research at GFDL to CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello.

CPAESS staff held or participated in nine town halls, gave three presentations and had three posters. Fifteen CPAESS employees attended the conference this year, with a great showing from our staff at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Some of our scientific meetings included the CLIVAR in WCRP Town Hall, The Future of Argo Town Hall, The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Town Hall, The Indian Ocean Observing System 2 Town Hall, as well as the Surface Currents in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System Workshop at the Scripps Research Institute this past weekend.

Our Director, Hanne Mauriello and Manager, Melanie Russ were able to meet with numerous sponsors with some possible positive new developments. NOAA’s OER is considering expanding their staff with us, and the EPA was in touch about a possible internship program.

We also had the chance to share about the great work from other parts of the UCAR Community Programs family such as COMET’s hurricane products, Unidata’s internships, and SciEd’s SOARS program; as well as NCAR’s ASP fellowship. It was a great deal of fun, and folks seemed genuinely happy to hear about all the wonderful work that UCAR does for the Earth system science community.

Top: Mitchell Bushuk, CPAESS Project Scientist at GFDL speaks on Skillful seasonal predictions of Antarctic sea ice. Middle: CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello enjoys a conversation with David Legler, Director of NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program. Bottom: NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory’s Deputy Director Molly Baringer chats with CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello and CPAESS Program Manager Emily Smith of NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program office.

Welcome to CPAESS

CPAESS is pleased to welcome these new employees. We are delighted to have you on board.

Ram Nair at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Murali Nageswararao Rao at the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Prediction Center African Desk
Katharine Egan at the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER)
Adam Gibbons at the NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS)
Michael Mueller at the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)

UCAR | CPAESS News

Just a reminder that we have the Inside CPAESS newsletters and CPAESS Splashes archived here in case there was a particularly useful link or bit of information in one of them that you need. Our CPAESS "For Staff" Information page has lots of useful links for you. Lastly, the UCAR COVID website keeps expanding and contains an abundance of resources that may serve you.

Open Sky and Your Publications

Part of your employment expectations is listing your publications in OpenSky on the UCAR/NCAR website. Please make sure you list all your publications there. If you haven't yet, you can list them now and catch up.

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 g o to our CPAESS "For Staff" Information page and click on the Citing Language and Information tab. Your CIT login is the same as your WorkDay login info. If you have any questions please let us know . Thanks very much!

Recent Publications

The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model description and simulation features by Alistair Adcroft, Whit Anderson, V. Balaji, Chris Blanton, Mitchell Bushuk , et al.

Comparison of satellite passive microwave with modeled snow water equivalent estimates in the Red River of the North Basin by Ronny Schroeder, Jennifer M. Jacobs, Eunsang Cho, Carrie M. Olheiser , Michael M. DeWeese, et al.

Mesoscale convection structures associated with airglow patches characterized using cluster‐imager conjunctions by L. V. Goodwin, Y. Nishimura, Yufei Zou , K. Shiokawa, P. T. Jayachandran

Concurrent effect of Alfvén waves and planar magnetic structure on geomagnetic storms

by Zubair I Shaikh, Anil Raghav, Geeta Vichare, Ankush Bhaskar , Wageesh Mishra, et al.

Moisture sources for wintertime intense precipitation events over the three snowy subregions of the Tibetan Plateau by Tianpei Qiu, Wenyu Huang, Jonathon S. Wright, Yanluan Lin, Ping Lu, et al.

Application of satellite remote sensing in monitoring dissolved oxygen variabilities: A case study for coastal waters in Korea by Yong Hoon Kim , Seunghyun Son, Hae-Cheol Kim, Bora Kim, Young-Gyu Park, et al.

The role of climate niche, geofloristic history, habitat preference, and allometry on wood density within a California plant community by Rebecca A. Nelson, Emily J. Francis, Joseph A. Berry, William K. Cornwell, Leander D. Love-Anderegg

Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem by Emily B. Osborne , Robert C. Thunell, Nicolas Gruber, Richard A. Feely, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson

Good News!

Now for a bit of happy news in the midst of this pandemic. Welcome to the world little ones - may you be resilient, healthy, and happy your entire lives. Congratulations Marcela and Shelby on your new family members!

Below: Shelby Brunner (NOAA's Climate Program Office) had a little boy, Peter William.

Above: Marcela Ulate (Naval Research Laboratory) also had a little boy named Mateo.

Who Is CPAESS?

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.