National Newsletter for the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science

IN THIS ISSUE  Hello from Hanne CPAESS' Oceans Work CPAESS' Virtual Meeting Capabilities Working from Home Welcome to CPAESS CPAESS Updates Open Sky and Your Publications Congratulations! Who Is CPAESS?

June 2020 This is our newsletter so if you have a cool picture, a suggestion, or a question, please send it! PLEASE SEND US YOUR NEWS! We want to hear about your work and any interesting developments!

Hello from Hanne Hello Everyone! I wish you all well in this midst of this unusual time. I am hopeful we will all emerge the better for it. Just so you are all aware, I am back in the office part time now. UCAR in general is still working from home full-time. On June 11th, UCAR President and our Board of Trustees issued a statement regarding the Black Lives Matter movement and wide spread protests. In part it says " As we reflect on these deeply troubling issues, we invite our fellow leaders and colleagues in the Earth system sciences to remember that institutionalized racism pervades our own community as well. This problem is not new. We have known for decades that Black people and other people of color, along with women and other historically marginalized groups, are not represented proportionally in our fields." Please see this statement in its entirety here. I want you to know that we understand that diversity is our strength and in all of our processes we continue to work to remove bias and promote equity and inclusion. Some of the actions UCAR is taking include an organization wide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan. UCAR offers i n-depth equity and inclusion training ( UNEION ) to educate staff about identity, power, privilege, gendered and racial dynamics, and bystander intervention techniques. UCAR is continuing to expand  the SOARS program , which has provided intensive mentorship and support for more than two decades to students from underrepresented groups. There are ongoing efforts to overhaul our  hiring  practices to better recruit diverse candidates. This includes mandatory training in implicit bias for all hiring committee members. This is something CPAESS has particularly worked on these past several years in regards to our postdoctoral student selection. UCAR is developing a strategic plan to strengthen our relationships with historically Black colleges and universities and other Minority Serving Institutions in a meaningful and mutually beneficial way, including co-created research partnerships. CPAESS will work with UCP to participate in these visits to work to make our postdoctoral student pool more inclusive. If you have other ideas p lease send your ideas and suggestions for further action to UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi at  tonyb@ucar.edu  or UCAR Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Carolyn Brinkworth at  carolyn@ucar.edu or myself . Regarding our Performance Evaluations, know that the 2020 process is well underway and we thank you for your participation and support. Please take a minute to look in your Workday Inbox to see if there are any requests for Network Feedback. There will be a series of  Consistency Reviews , beginning within CPAESS, then within UCP, and finally by the UCAR President. If you have any questions reach out to the CAPESS PE team at CPAESSPE@ucar.edu . One bit of housekeeping. When you submit your timecards in WorkDay please remember you have to hit "Submit" twice as this is the way the program is set up. Thank you for your help on this.

I would just add that I am so impressed with the work that is being done across our CPAESS program. This newsletter is a true testimony to how greatly your work and research contributes to society. In celebration of World Oceans Day, we have highlighted some of the amazing work that is done by our staff in the realm of ocean research. I truly appreciate all of your hard work. Please stay safe, and I hope you all have a very happy July 4 th !

CPAESS' Ocean Work

Our world oceans play a critical role in climate change and weather modeling. So it is no surprise that we have brilliant staff all over the globe whose work focuses of this 71% of our earth's surface. CPAESS employs scientists who work in these ocean-centered agencies: NASA Ocean Observations, NOAA Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NOAA National Hurricane Center, NOAA National Ocean Service, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observation (GOMO), NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS), NOAA National Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER), and US CLIVAR. In addition to that we have NOAA Climate and Global Change fellows whose research specializes in the ocean sciences. A great many of our other staff critically consider ocean impacts in their work. In honor of World Oceans Day from earlier this month we asked some of our ocean staff to share a peek into their work. Here's a sampling of their great work. One of our current NOAA Climate and Global Change fellows Danielle Claar explained "I am studying fish parasites as bioindicators of El Niño impacts on ecosystems. Specifically, I am studying coral reef fish in the Central Pacific both before and after the major 2015/2016 El Niño event. The goal of this project is to investigate how climate oscillations influence parasitism, and how we can use this to understand the impacts of heatwaves on marine communities. Due to the lockdown, I have been continuing this work by dissecting fish in my garage (along with working on my computer for writing and data analysis)." Way to adapt to change Danielle and thanks for sharing.

Above top: Danielle Claar (NOAA postdoc fellow) performing underwater field work last season. Above second: During the pandemic she has transformed her garage into a lab where she dissects fish for her research. Below: Rachel Gulbraa of NOAA OER onboard the Okeanos Explorer last year.

At NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) we have Rachel Gulbraa who works in communications helping to promote and document, among other things, the NOAA Okeanos Explorer-In-Training program . NOAA's Okeanos Explorer is the only federal vessel whose sole purpose is dedicated to exploring our deep ocean, closing the prominent gap in our basic understanding of U.S. deep waters and seafloor, and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of our nation. While onboard the Okeanos Explorer Rachel helped provide online coverage to scientists, resource managers, students, members of the general public, and others enabling them to actively experience ocean exploration. In support of federal guidance to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Okeanos Explorer expeditions have been put on hold this summer. However, you can check out these ocean exploration webinars  that Rachel organized, wrote, and moderated. OER also worked with Ocean Exploration Trust and they created a  coloring book  (scroll down) for kids in honor of World Ocean Day. Just published are new videos featuring the beautiful macrophotography and the hydrothermal vent of sea life from Okeanos expeditions which she helped put together and edit. Thanks Rachel! CPAESS also has six staff members in the Storm Surge Unit of NOAA's National Hurricane Center. This team is pivotal in determining when and where watches and warnings need to be issued to protect people in the event of a tropical storm making landfall. The storm surge that accompanies these extreme weather events accounts for the majority of deaths with these storms. This team works very hard to reduce these fatalities with predictive modeling, communication, and cooperation with emergency personnel. CPAESS officially has six staff members on the Storm Surge Unit: Taylor Trogdon, Laura Alaka, Tarah Sharon, William Booth, Ethan Gibney, and Andrew Penny. We are so proud of the important work of this team. Check out this interview with Taylor Trogdon, one of our Storm Surge Unit employees, talking about the fascinating, important work done at the National Hurricane Center.

One of the programs CPAESS supports in US CLIVAR whose work centers around our oceans. Mike Patterson is the director and Jennie Zhu is the program specialist for U.S. CLIVAR. Of the program they said, " For 22 years US CLIVAR has played a vital role in coordinating U.S. science community efforts to accelerate our understanding of the ocean’s influence on climate variability and change across timescales from weeks to decades and beyond. This CPAESS hosted community program brings together experts across disciplines, promoting diversity in participation, to address pressing societally-important questions, such as 'Will the current regional drought, marine heat wave, or wildfires persist through the next season? What are the prospects of hurricanes impacting the US coasts this summer and fall? Can we expect an El Niño next year and how will it impact regional US precipitation and flooding? How will all of these phenomena change with a warming ocean over the next decades?' These questions and many others drive the research agenda of US CLIVAR, which helps define the requirements for a sustained global ocean observing system, the mounting of numerous ocean-based field campaigns to understand fundamental processes, and the ongoing improvement of ocean models used for predicting and projecting the future state of the ocean and the response of the climate system." Thanks Jennie and Mike for the critical work that US CLIVAR provides the ocean community and us all. Dr. Kathy Tedesco says of her ocean work, "One of the programs that I support as a CPAESS Program Manager in the NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (GOMO) is the U.S. Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program, or U.S. GO-SHIP. The U.S. GO-SHIP program, funded by NOAA GOMO and the NSF, contributes to the  International GO-SHIP   network of 55 globally sustained hydrographic sections to monitor changes in inventories of heat, freshwater, carbon, oxygen, nutrients and transient tracers, covering the ocean basins from coast to coast and full depth of the water column, with global measurements of the highest required accuracy to detect these changes." "Prior to serving as Program Manager for U.S. GO-SHIP, I was a seagoing oceanographer and was lucky enough to have sailed on 7 hydrographic cruises collecting and analyzing chlorofluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride in seawater via gas chromatography." Thank you, Kathy for your ongoing work to help us better understand our world's oceans.

Above: Collecting seawater samples from Niskin bottles on the CTD rosette. Below: Kathy Tedesco crossing the Antarctic Circle onboard the R/V Knorr.

CPAESS' Virtual Meeting Capabilities

As the Meeting Planners are pivoting to virtual meetings and expanding their skillsets and toolkits, we are exploring a partnership between CPAESS and COMET where we can enhance our technical capabilities for virtual meetings while sharing lessons learned and best practices across both programs. A formal UCP Business Development proposal will be written so that we can request specific funding to be used for this exciting opportunity. In the meantime we have been putting into practice the virtual meeting skills and best practices our meeting planners have already acquired by helping to facilitate 3 virtual meetings in the short-term (CEDAR, SIMA and Heliophysics Summer School). In addition, we'll be working on some marketing materials that we can use for showcasing our virtual meeting expertise. CPAESS staff (Tammy Kepple, Heidi Allen, and Jennie Zhu) have taken an 8-week training class entitled  Create a Successful Virtual Event in 2 Months. Last week Michelle McCambridge started her Virtual Event and Meeting Management Certification class which will run for 6 weeks.

Above: Tammy Kepple managing a week long virtual meeting, the CEDAR Workshop. Upcoming Meetings The CEDAR Workshop, 22-26 June 2020, Virtual meeting System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere (SIMA) Community Workshop 2020, 29 June - 1 July 2020, Virtual meeting 2020 Heliophysics Summer School, 6-17 July, Virtual meeting Air Quality Pilot Study Design in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Hoping for in-person meeting either 17-19, September 2020 or 12-14 November 2020, College Park, MD NIDIS Fall Executive Council Meeting, 1 October 2020, Washington, DC. Hoping for an in-person meeting, but they have not yet confirmed their plans. United States-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR), 5-9 October 2020, Auburn, AL Hoping for an in-person meeting, but they have not yet confirmed their plans. MesoAmerican-Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission (MACHC) Meeting, 30 November - 4 December 2020, New Orleans, LA, *They are currently exploring what it might look like to move to a virtual meeting, but they haven't decided yet. NIDIS Flash Drought Workshop, 1-2 December 2020, Boulder, CO. Hoping for an in-person meeting, but they have not yet confirmed their plans. 2021 Confirmed CPAESS Meetings Space Weather Workshop (19-23 April 2021; Boulder, CO) 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium (6-11 June 2021; Vail, CO) Heliophysics Summer School (14-22 June 2021; Boulder, CO) CEDAR 2021 (13-18 June 2021; Colorado Springs, CO) Ocean Salinity Conference (22-25 June 2021; New York, NY) 2021 NOAA Summer Institute (11-16 July 2021; Steamboat Springs, CO)  2021 U.S. CLIVAR Meetings Societally-Relevant Multi-Year Climate Predictions Workshop, June 2, 2021 - June 4, 2021, Boulder, CO Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop, July 12, 2021 - July 15, 2021, Seattle, WA

Working from Home

Working from home is provides a unique set of difficulties and advantages. We asked folks to share their work from home spaces and here are two. Emily Smith of NOAA's Climate Program Office says " I'm maintaining sanity by having a schedule everyday including a mid-day walk and baking on the weekends. Thank goodness this did not happen in winter!!" While Jennie Zhu's pupster is finding the hidden benefits of more frequent mail deliveries as Jennie guides US CLIVAR colleagues on running webinars.

Above: Jennie Zhu said that while helping others online "it’s important to know where the mute button is when the UPS delivery treat guy drives by." Below: Emily Smith sent us a pic of "what you would see if you video chatted with me :D."

Welcome to CPAESS

CPAESS is pleased to welcome these new employees. We are delighted to have you on board. Murong Qin, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow Xiaomeng Jin, NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow Panagiotis Velissariou, National Ocean Service (NOS) Zachary Burnett, National Ocean Service (NOS) Jack Barker, NOAA OAR William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program Julianna Christopoulos, NOAA OAR William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program Donald Long, NOAA OAR William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program Margaret Orr, NOAA OAR William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program Eric Roy, NOAA OAR William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program Brady Clarke, CPAESS visitor from the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Ocean Acidification Program (OAP)

CPAESS Updates

U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Update On May 29, 2020, Dr. Gyami Shrestha (Director, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Director completed the year-long Senior Executive Service Development Program (SES DP) led by the Asian American Government Executives Network (AAGEN). AAGEN has been sponsoring the SES DP with participation by the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Dr. Bill Kuo (UCP Director) is also a graduate of this prestigious national leadership development program. Also please see the Anti-Racism Statement Issued by North American Carbon Program Science Community U.S. CLIVAR Update Mike and Jennie from the Project Office are helping the three US CLIVAR Panels organize their annual summer meetings to be held virtually online for the first time. Due to COVID-19, three 2020 workshops and science meetings have been pushed back to 2021 with expanded virtual access to enable remote participation. US Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Science Team Meeting: Now rescheduled for April 12-15, 2021, in Woods Hole, MA  Societally-Relevant Multi-Year Climate Predictions Workshop: Now rescheduled for June 2-4, 2021, in Boulder, CO Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop: Now rescheduled for July 12-15, 2021, in Seattle, WA Engagement of the community continues this year through seven webinar series organized by the US CLIVAR Panels, Science Team, and Working Groups. AMOC Webinars: Held every third Thursday of the month Data Science Webinars: Bi-weekly on Mondays Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Webinars: First Thursday of the month Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface Webinars: Third Wednesdays Other US CLIVAR webinar series The Office is also publishing a number of reports, including on Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Interactions with the Atmosphere ; Forecasting ENSO Impacts on Marine Ecosystems of the US West Coast ; and Fostering Usage of Large Initial-Condition Ensembles with Earth System Models to Advance Understanding of Natural Climate Variability, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and their Impacts General Update 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 Diouf, Ibrahima, Belén Rodriguez Fonseca, Cyril Caminade, Wassila M. Thiaw, Abdoulaye Deme, Andrew P. Morse, Jacques-André Ndione, Amadou Thierno Gaye, Anta Diaw, Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, 2020:  Climate variability and malaria over West Africa .  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ,  10.4269/ajtmh.19-0062  . Stern, Daniel P., Jeffrey D. Kepert, George H. Bryan, James D. Doyle, 2020: Understanding atypical midlevel wind speed maxima in hurricane eyewalls .  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ,  OpenSky  . Longley, William J., Meers M. Oppenheim, Nicholas M. Pedatella, Yakov S. Dimant, 2020:  The photoelectron‐driven upper hybrid instability as the cause of 150‐km echoes .  Geophysical Research Letters ,  OpenSky  . Zhang, Gan, Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas R. Knutson, Ryo Mizuta, Kohei Yoshida, 2020:  Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate .  Science Advances ,  OpenSky  . Dong, W. H., Y. L. Lin, M. H. Zhang, X. M. Huang, 2020:  Footprint of tropical mesoscale convective system variability on stratospheric water vapor .  Geophysical Research Letters ,  OpenSky  . Bai, Shi‐Chen, Quanqi Shi, Terry Z. Liu, Hui Zhang, Chao Yue, Wei‐Jie Sun, Anmin Tian, Alexander W. Degeling, Jacob Bortnik, I. Jonathan Rae, Mengmeng Wang, 2020:  Ion‐scale flux rope observed inside a hot flow anomaly .  Geophysical Research Letters ,  OpenSky  . Johnson, Nathaniel C., Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Baoqiang Xiang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Sarah B. Kapnick, Salvatore Pascale, 2020:  The impact of sea surface temperature biases on north american precipitation in a high-resolution climate model .  Journal of Climate ,  OpenSky  . Delworth, Thomas L., William F. Cooke, Alistair Adcroft, Mitchell Bushuk, Jan‐Huey Chen, Krista A. Dunne, Paul Ginoux, Richard Gudgel, Robert W. Hallberg, Lucas Harris, Matthew J. Harrison, Nathaniel Johnson, Sarah B. Kapnick, Shian‐Jian Lin, Feiyu Lu, Sergey Malyshev, Paul C. Milly, Hiroyuki Murakami, Vaishali Naik, Salvatore Pascale, David Paynter, Anthony Rosati, M.D. Schwarzkopf, Elena Shevliakova, Seth Underwood, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Baoqiang Xiang, Xiaosong Yang, Fanrong Zeng, Honghai Zhang, Liping Zhang, Ming Zhao, 2020:  SPEAR: The next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection .  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ,  OpenSky  . Stern, Daniel P., James D. Doyle, Neil P. Barton, Peter M. Finocchio, William A. Komaromi, E. Joseph Metzger, 2020:  The impact of an intense cyclone on short‐term sea ice loss in a fully coupled atmosphere‐ocean‐ice model .  Geophysical Research Letters ,  OpenSky  . Osborne, Emily B., Natalie E. Umling, Michael Bizimis, Wayne Buckley, Aleksey Sadekov, Eric Tappa, Brittney Marshall, Leslie R. Sautter, Robert C. Thunell, 2020:  A sediment trap evaluation of B/Ca as a carbonate system proxy in asymbiotic and nondinoflagellate hosting planktonic foraminifera .  Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ,  OpenSky  . da Silva Santos, J. M., J. de la Cruz Rodríguez, J. Leenaarts, Georgios Chintzoglou, B. De Pontieu, S. Wedemeyer, M. Szydlarski, 2020:  The multi-thermal chromosphere .  Astronomy & Astrophysics ,  OpenSky  . Fleishman, Gregory D., Dale E. Gary, Bin Chen, Natsuha Kuroda, Sijie Yu, Gelu M. Nita, 2020:  Decay of the coronal magnetic field can release sufficient energy to power a solar flare .  Science ,  OpenSky  .

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Wenhao Dong who is a CPAESS scientist at GFDL! Wenhao and Yuanyu Xie welcomed Leonard Dong on May 31, 2020. We understand that the family is doing great and we wish you all our very best at this happy time with your beautiful new son!

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.

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