National Newsletter for the
Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Hello from Hanne
- NASA Heliophysics Summer School
- Ocean Exploration
- 2021 CEDAR Workshop
- Saeed's Seminar
- 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
- New Arrival!
- Welcome to CPAESS
- Open Sky and Your Publications
- Who Is CPAESS?
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July 2021
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,
I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful summer and enjoying the warm weather. I want you to know that at CPAESS things are moving forward nicely. Our reputation for ground-breaking science and excellent service in a breadth of fields has enabled us to be recommended for funding for the NOAA’s Science Collaboration Program (SCP) and the NOAA’s Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP). We are simply delighted by this news. This is the second time CPAESS has secured these cooperative agreements. Your hard work is at the heart of our reputation, which enables us to move forward with these agreements. Thank you.
Lately, you have been getting multiple requests for surveys including the Culture Survey, a Benefits Survey, and a second Pulse Survey. I know these can be fatiguing, but thank you to all who responded. I do pay close attention to the results of these surveys and do whatever I can to adjust CPAESS’ course to continually improve our program.
As you know we are in the throes of the Performance Evaluation review process. For those of you in non-UCAR locations, we are getting input from your federal co-workers and supervisors to complete this process. If for some reason you haven’t completed your Self-Evaluation, please do so now. If you have any questions at all, please done hesitate to reach out.
This coming Sunday is the 4th of July. We will all get Monday off as a vacation day. I hope you have a relaxing, extended weekend and are able to enjoy it in good company.
My sincere appreciation for all you do.
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NASA Heliophysics Summer School |
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CPAESS was delighted to manage the NASA Living With A Star Heliophysics Summer School which occurred virtually again from June 14-25, 2021. Designed for advanced graduate students and first- or second-year postdoctoral fellows, the NASA Heliophysics Summer School is an interdisciplinary exploration of the physical processes connecting the Sun, solar system planets, and interplanetary space. Over eight days, students examine topics ranging from the solar dynamo to the heliosphere’s interaction with the interstellar medium. Space weather impacts and observational technologies are also studied.
Each year the summer school has a unique theme, and this year it was “Long-Term Solar Activity: Earth and Space Climate.” The Summer School program consists of lectures, interactive labs, professional development opportunities, and social activities. This year kicked off with 3 pre-sessions with instructor Nick Gross to help the students with community building. The students also developed 1-minute elevator speeches and were able to ask questions of a panel of NASA Jack Eddy Fellows.
Faculty for this year’s summer school included: Amitava Bhattacharjee of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Nicholas Gross of Boston University, Dana Longcope of Montana State University, and Madhulika Guhathakurta of NASA’s Living With a Star program. NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory always lends a hand to explain to students the science coming out of their laboratory, as well as provide some history of HAO and their work in connection to heliophysics.
This year the students worked on Slack and well as MURAL digital workspaces for collaboration and laboratory exercises. Online poster sessions were held utilizing virtualpostersession.org. Students also participated in an online brainstorming session to develop White Paper concepts for the upcoming Decadal Survey. This year’s class had 33 students, from 10 time zones, who represented 11 countries. Class details for this year’s summer school can be found here.
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Below: Screenshots of HSS Instructor Nick Gross chatting with students, and under that an example of a Slack discussion where students introduced themselves. |
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The Heliophysics Summer School is the brainchild of Madhulika Guhathakurta, lead program scientist of NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) program. In 2005, a key LWS goal was the integration of solar, heliospheric and space physics as one connected science. Guhathakurta realized that a solution lay in educating early-career scientists; but heliophysics students needed heliophysics textbooks, and none existed.
No one had the range of expertise to write such books, Guhathakurta thought. But one could synthesize them out of lectures given by experts in each subdiscipline. The idea of a seminar-style summer school set in Boulder, Colorado, where she had spent her postdoctoral years, was born.
A partnership was created between NASA LWS and UCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) to establish a school. The first Summer School was held in 2007; the first textbook was published in 2009. Since then, the Summer School has produced five textbooks, which serve as the framework for today’s Summer School learning experience. In 2019, these textbooks were condensed into a single online volume, Principles of Heliophysics.
The summer school lectures provide students with a broader perspective, so they can understand exactly how heliophysics encompasses their own research and that of their fellow classmates. Learn more about the Heliphysics Summer School here.
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CPAESS has several staff members who work at NOAA’s Ocean Exploration and Research. They include new staff member Jennifer Le, who is an associate scientist; and two writer/editors, Christa Rabenold and Rachel Gulbraa. Recently Rachel updated us on her voyage aboard NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer whose purpose was testing new ocean exploration technologies. For this voyage, Rachel hosted the live event, and was the web coordinator onboard for web updates, social media postings, and the creation of short videos interviewing scientists. Christa did a great deal of engagement planning for the tech demonstrations and moderated incoming questions during a live-streamed event in anticipation of the cruise.
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Picture of NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer. Okeanos is Greek for the Latin Oceanus, a Titan god. Photo courtesy of Rachel Gulbraa.
This expedition took place from May 14-27, 2021 on the Okeanos Explorer which is the “only federal vessel dedicated to exploring our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge about the deep ocean (Source).” The voyage was from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia.
The reason for this trip was to conduct field trials for new technologies to see if they could help advance ocean exploration. Scientists from NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory were on the expedition to test autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) among other things. Typically, Okeanos Explorer fieldwork has utilized remoted operated vehicles (ROV) which are tethered and controlled from the ship. So being able to utilize AUVs could enhance exploration opportunities greatly. The AUVs tested were called Orpheous and Uridisee.
AUVs were not the only thing scientists trialed on this journey. Software, which could be useful both in space and sea exploration was also tested. Deep-sea and space missions have some important commonalities, so this testing was useful on both frontiers. Additionally, Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling was conducted. eDNA essentially collects water and soil samples and parses out community DNA in a sample. This creates a biological snapshot of the types of life and range of biodiversity in an organic community existing in a particular area and time.
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Picture of Rachel Gulbraa in a small boat filming the launch of autonomous vehicle Orpheus from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Image courtesy of Art Howard, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration.
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CPAESS managed the 2021 CEDAR Workshop, in partnership with NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO) on from 20 - 25 June 2021. The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Program is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division and studies the interaction region of the Earth’s tenuous upper atmosphere. The CEDAR mission is to understand the fundamental properties of the space-atmosphere interaction region; identify the interconnected processes that define the global behavior of the ionosphere- thermosphere region, evolution, and influence on the Sun-Earth system; and to explore the ionosphere-thermosphere predictability.
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CEDAR Chair Delores Kipp with a wordle representing the range of topics to be discussed in the workshop.
The agenda was packed with speakers from everywhere from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Clemson University to our neighborhood University of Colorado in Boulder. Our own current NASA Jack Eddy Fellow Lindsay Goodwin spoke on “Investigating the formation, evolution, and properties of high-latitude irregularities and their relevance in magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling” and also “Joule Heating” on behalf of her postdoctoral school, the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Jack Eddy alumnus, Ryan McGranaghan, now of ASTRA, spoke on “Data Science in CEDAR.” There were incredible speakers representing science across the globe, including some of the NCAR High Altitude Observatory’s (HAO) brilliant minds.
CEDAR had 887 registrants representing 42 countries. 251 of which were undergraduate and graduate students. 162 of the participants were early career (PhD less than 5 years), and 392 attendees registered for the Student Workshop held on Sunday, June 20.
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Additionally, there was an excellent virtual poster session with 134 different posters represented. The diverse poster categories included: Coupling of the Atmosphere with Lower Altitudes, Data Assimilation and Management, Equatorial Ionosphere or Thermosphere, Long-Term Variations of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere, and Polar Aeronomy. Video presentations of CEDAR can be found on the CEDAR YouTube channel.
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CPAESS was delighted to host a seminar with Dr. Saeed Moghimi on his research at NOAA’s National Ocean Service. His talk was called Storm Surge Modelling: Research, Development, and Operational Services and was held on Tuesday, June 22, 2021
2:00pm MST. About 40 people attended and were actively engaged.
His abstract details can be found here and the recorded session can be seen here. If you have a scientific talk that you would like us to host and promote, please contact us. It is important to CPAESS to provide free and open access to the scientific talks and other intellectual resources created at UCAR for the advancement of the atmospheric and related sciences.
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2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium |
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CPAESS hosted the NASA 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium during the second week of June 7-10th. Held in coordination with the NASA Living With a Star Program, it’s goal was to bring together diverse groups from data science, and Earth and space sciences.
Of the symposium’s purpose it was stated, “We live in a rapidly changing social and technological society, one that presents threats to our Earth systems. In turn, humanity faces global threats from Earth’s rapidly changing climate, globally transmitted disease, changing ecosystems and an unprecedented dependence on electrical and electronic infrastructure. New phrases such as ‘climate change,’ ‘severe weather events,’ and ‘space weather’ are now in common use.”
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“Our global vulnerabilities have prompted massive investments in research across the Earth and space sciences in an attempt to understand how to adapt as a society to our complex surroundings. The result has been a deluge of information coming from new instruments in space and on the ground, across laboratories, projects, and individuals, presenting a grand challenge to the scientific community to make sense of diverse, intricately connected and complex datasets. Technological advance has also brought immense capabilities for the investigation and discovery of nature, holding promise across Earth science, astro- and helio-physics alike.”
“We wish to identify and promote novel opportunities for budding scientists, to take advantage of powerful new techniques from computational and data science, including machine learning and AI techniques (Source).”
The symposium represented “a community of scientific facilitators for an uncommon opportunity to advance cross-disciplinary conversations and research into the areas of Sun-Earth relations, weather-climate connections, and novel star-planet interactions” which included: Early career and senior researchers, Data scientists and machine learning practitioners, and Domain and cross-disciplinary scientists.
A poster session, utilizing iPoster, held their presentations on Monday, June 7th but were available for viewing throughout the symposium. The symposium attracted 257 registrants representing 41 countries. This event was particularly important to new and upcoming scientists as 117 attendees were undergraduates, graduate, or postdoctoral students; and 41 identified themselves as early career scientists. The symposium also had 8 tutorial breakout sessions.
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Poster from current NASA Jack Eddy Fellow, Lindsay Goodwin.
The agenda and the presenters represented a breadth of topics and expertise from “AI and Science, a perfect duo & Discussion” from Massimo Mascaro of Google; to “From paleo-climate to high-energy physics: Solar drivers of multi-disciplinary science & Discussion” from Gavin Schmidt, NOAA Climate & Global Change alum, now of Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Senior Climate Advisor to the Biden Administration; to “Open science in the cloud: what will it take to realize this promise?” from Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter. Engagement was so lively that an impromptu Slack channel was opened to facilitate conversations and networking.
A special thank you to the Eddy Symposium Steering Committee consisting of Phil Judge, Committee Chair, NCAR High Altitude Observatory; Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters; Ankush Bhaskar, ISRO, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre; Rajesh Gupta, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego; King-Fi Li, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside; Dan Marsh, NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory; Ryan McGranaghan, ASTRA; and Erika Palmerio, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Ankush and Ryan are Jack Eddy Fellowship alums and Erika is a current fellow.
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CPAESS scientist Ibrahima Diouf welcomed a new son, Mohamed Diene Diouf with his lovely wife, Adji Sarr. Ibrahima works at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Africa Desk. A sincere congratulations to Ibrahimi and his family! |
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CPAESS is pleased to welcome these new employees. We are delighted to have you on board.
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Alexis Fischer, Associate Scientist, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center
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Mukund Rao, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Alex Meyer, Graphic Designer, CPAESS
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Ryan Horns, Communications Lead, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
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Philip Manouglan, Associate Scientist, National Hurricane Center
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Sebastian Milinski, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Open Sky and Your Publications |
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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 go 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!
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Recent Publications
IMPACT OF DIFFERENT HEAT WAVE DEFINITIONS ON DAILY MORTALITY IN BANDAFASSI, SENEGAL Faye, M., Dème, A., Diongue, A. K., & Diouf, I. (2021). Impact of different heat wave definitions on daily mortality in Bandafassi, Senegal. Plos One, 16, 10.1371/journal.pone.0249199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249199 Open Sky
CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19) IN CONAKRY, REPUBLIC OF GUINEA: ANALYSIS AND RELATIONSHIP WITH METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS Kante, I. K., Diouf, I., Millimono, T. N., & Kourouma, J. M. (2021). Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Conakry, Republic of Guinea: Analysis and relationship with meteorological factors. Atmospheric And Climate Sciences, 11, 302-323. doi:10.4236/acs.2021.112018 Open Sky
EVALUATION OF SOME DISTRIBUTIONAL DOWNSCALING METHODS AS APPLIED TO DAILY PRECIPITATION WITH AN EYE TOWARDS EXTREMES Lanzante, J. R., Dixon, K. W., Adams‐Smith, D., Nath, M. J., & Whitlock, C. E. (2021). Evaluation of some distributional downscaling methods as applied to daily precipitation with an eye towards extremes. International Journal Of Climatology, 41, 3186-3202. doi:10.1002/joc.7013 Open Sky
GLOBAL MODELING OF HYDROGEN USING GFDL-AM4.1: SENSITIVITY OF SOIL REMOVAL AND RADIATIVE FORCING Paulot, F., Paynter, D., Naik, V., Malyshev, S., Menzel, R., & Horowitz, L. W. (2021). Global modeling of hydrogen using GFDL-AM4.1: Sensitivity of soil removal and radiative forcing. International Journal Of Hydrogen Energy, 46, 13446-13460. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.01.088 Open Sky
CME MAGNETIC STRUCTURE AND IMF PRECONDITIONING AFFECTING SEP TRANSPORT Palmerio, E., Kilpua, E. K. J., Witasse, O., Barnes, D., Sánchez‐Cano, B., Weiss, A. J., … Holmström, M. (2021). CME magnetic structure and IMF preconditioning affecting SEP transport. Space Weather, 19, e2020SW002654. doi:10.1029/2020SW002654 Open Sky
RADIATION BELT RESPONSE TO FAST REVERSE SHOCK AT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT Bhaskar, A., Sibeck, D., Kanekal, S. G., Singer, H. J., Reeves, G., Oliveira, D. M., … Komar, C. (2021). Radiation belt response to fast reverse shock at geosynchronous orbit. The Astrophysical Journal, 910, 154. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abd702 Open Sky
DIRECT MULTIPOINT OBSERVATIONS CAPTURING THE REFORMATION OF A SUPERCRITICAL FAST MAGNETOSONIC SHOCK Turner, D. L., Wilson, L. B., Goodrich, K. A., Madanian, H., Schwartz, S. J., Liu, T. Z., … Burch, J. L. (2021). Direct multipoint observations capturing the reformation of a supercritical fast magnetosonic shock. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 911, L31. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abec78 Open Sky
THE RECORD-BREAKING 1933 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON Klotzbach, P. J., Schreck, C. J., Compo, G. P., Bowen, S. G., Gibney, E. J., Oliver, E. C. J., & Bell, M. M. (2021). The record-breaking 1933 Atlantic hurricane season. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 102, E446-E463. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0330.1 Open Sky
LONG‐TERM VARIABILITY AND TENDENCIES IN NON‐MIGRATING DIURNAL TIDE FROM WACCM6 SIMULATIONS DURING 1850-2014 Karanam, R., & Smith, A. K. (2021). Long‐term variability and tendencies in non‐migrating diurnal tide from WACCM6 simulations during 1850-2014. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028904. doi:10.1029/2020JA028904 Open Sky
DYNAMICAL SEASONAL PREDICTIONS OF TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY: ROLES OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ERRORS AND ATMOSPHERE-LAND INITIALIZATION Zhang, G., Murakami, H., Yang, X., Findell, K. L., Wittenberg, A. T., & Jia, L. (2021). Dynamical seasonal predictions of tropical cyclone activity: Roles of sea surface temperature errors and atmosphere-land initialization. Journal Of Climate, 34, 1743-1766. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0215.1 Open Sky
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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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