NCAR Staff Notes

NCAR Staff NotesVol. 10, No. 31 August 1, 1975

SUMMER MINORITY STUDENT PROGRAMS IN PROGRESS

ASP summer fellow Marcus Aguilar reads a weather map to hisclass at NCAR. Pictured are (left to right) Mike Wallace,the instructor; students Shelia Smith, Lizzie Guerra,Marcus, Dudley Moseley; and William Shackelford Jr., aninstructor in the Physics Department at Clark College.

This summer is the third season of the Advanced Study Program's (ASP),Fellowships for Minority Students and Faculty and it is the second seasonComputing Facility's minority student program. The programs are designedthe number of ethnic minority students who will enter graduate studies inspheric and computing sciences, respectively.

Summerfor theto increasethe atmo-

This summer four minority students--two Black and two Chicano--are participatingin the seven-week ASP program. Each has been working on a specific project

This Week in Staff Notes. . .

Summer Minority Student Programs In Progress Short AnnouncementsRichard Scorer Discusses "Limits To Meteorology" DeparturesGARP Subgroup Convenes At NCAR New Staff MembersESIG Advisory Panel Meets VisitorsClimate Project Advisory Committee Meets Job OpeningsThe 12 Most Wanted List Calendar Notes

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with an NCAR scientist and has taken twocourses: an intensive course in program-ming offered by the Computing Facilityand an introduction to the atmosphericsciences through a series of lectures,seminars, and discussions led by JohnWallace of the University of Washington,who is a visitor to ASP this summer.

The students, their home institu-tions, their NCAR advisers, and theirsummer research projects are:

* Marcus Aguilar, Rice University,Houston, Texas. Marcus is working withWilliam Mankin (Upper Atmosphere Project)on laboratory spectroscopy.

* Elizabeth Guerra, Del Mar College,Corpus Christi, Texas. Lizzie is work-ing with Roland Madden (EmpiricalStudies Project) on problems of climato-logical data analysis.

Students from Prairie View A&M University* Dudley Moseley, Prairie View A&M Uni- learn about computer progrcnmingfromversity. Dudley is working with learn about computer programing fromversity. Dudley is working with Jeanne Adams. Shown are (left to right)Margaret LeMone (GATE Project) on analy- Wllie Watrs, Dudley Moseley, Anniesis of data from the GARP Atlantic Trop- Johnson (seated), ad Jeane.

Johnson (seated), and Jeanne.ical Experiment (GATE).

* Shelia Smith, Spelman College. Shelia is working with Robert Grossman (GATE Pro-ject) on analysis of tropical wind data from GATE.

Before this summer's ASP program ends two weeks from now, each fellow will give ajoint presentation with his or her NCAR adviser; the advisers will describe the con-text of the atmospheric science problems they have been studying with the students,and the students will talk about what they contributed to the research. The staff isinvited to attend the seminars, which will be held on August 5, 8, 12, and 14 at3:30 p.m. in the Fleischmann Building, Walter Orr Roberts Seminar Room. The seminarsare being announced in Calendar Notes this week and next.

Last year, through ASP, the Computing Facility awarded summer programming intern-ships to three Black students. This year, two Black students from Prairie View A&MUniversity are spending the summer term at NCAR. Annie Johnson and Willie Watershave studied FORTRAN and the NCAR job control language in a beginning programmingcourse taught by Bonnie Gacnik of the Computing Facility. (The ASP summer minorityfellows also took the class.) The course included a few lectures by ClydeChristopher, director of Computer Science Education at Prairie View, who was a sci-entific visitor to NCAR during the first two weeks of the program.

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Willie and Annie also took a course in computer organization from Jeanne Adams,manager of the facility's University Liaison and Information Services. In addition,each student is taking an internship with NCAR programmers experienced in numericalmethods; Annie is studying data structures with Celia Chen and Robert Lackman, andWillie is studying numerical calculus with Jo Walsh.

Jeanne Adams notes that the program will resume for the spring semester, whenanother student from Prairie View will study at NCAR.

To increase the number of minority students doing graduate work in the atmosphericsciences, ASP is also helping to develop undergraduate teaching and research programsfor minority students. For the past three years, NCAR scientists have visited schoolswith predominantly minority enrollments to give lectures and talk with administrators,faculty, and students. This year, Peter Gilman (chairman of ASP), Jeanne Adams, andWarren Washington (GCM Coordination and Operations Group) visited Prairie View A&MUniversity; Peter also visited the Atlanta University Center (AUC), Georgia, withC. S. Kiang, an AUC professor who is on a two-year visiting appointment with NCAR'sAtmospheric Aerosols Project. C. S. was instrumental in initiating the minority pro-gram and guiding its development in Atlanta. Accompanying him and Peter were fourNCAR scientists, who gave lectures on topics dealing with the atmospheric sciences;they were Richard Cadle, Upper Atmosphere Project (UAP); Gerald Grams, UAP; JamesHollweg, High Altitude Observatory; and Warren Washington.

Another aspect of the program is designed for faculty members at colleges withsignificant ethnic minority enrollments, so that they can spend time at NCAR learning

(Left photo) Bill Mankin (right) of the Upper Atmosphere Project instructs MarcusAguilar in operating the computer that controls the interferometer spectrometer.(Right photo) Shelia Smith discusses tropical wind data from GATE with Bob Grossman(GATE Project), her adviser at NCAR.

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more about the atmospheric sciences and can develop their own research interestshere. It is hoped that the faculty, in turn, will influence more minority studentsto consider careers in the atmospheric sciences. This summer Nagambal Shah ofSpelman College in Atlanta is working at NCAR, concentrating on the application ofmathematical statistics to meteorology. In addition, ASP has awarded two seniorpostdoctoral fellowships to professors at colleges with large minority enrollments:George Trevino of the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Del Mar College willbe studying turbulent theory here for several months, and Fernando Caracena of theDepartment of Physics at Metropolitan State College in Denver will be studyingsevere storms here, beginning in September.

Peter Gilman says, "The number of students is smaller this year because of compe-tition for the best students from other laboratories around the country. We'll becontinuing to try to diversify our sources of students in the coming years to main-tain a strong program."

RICHARD SCORER DISCUSSES "LIMITS TO METEOROLOGY"

A standing-room-only crowd gathered atthe Mesa Lab last Friday, July 25, to hearRichard Scorer's Hollow Square lecture on"Limits to Meteorology." Scorer is profes-sor of theoretical mechanics at London Uni-versity's Imperial College of Science andTechnology, where one of his main areas ofresearch is the field of air pollution.Henry van de Boogaard, who is host of theHollow Square lecture series, welcomed theaudience, and Philip Thompson, leader ofNCAR's Climate Project, introduced Scorer.

"I'm a pessimist about the fate of human-ity," he began, "but I've been called a verycheerful pessimist. I hope I can turn youinto pessimists without making you miser-able." There is a tendency in our techno-logical society to try to get out ofdifficulties caused by technology throughthe use of technology, he said. Scorernoted that the speed of today's changes isunprecedented in history. Today's reformersare not politicians or religious leaders, hesaid, but rather engineers. The changes

Richard Scorer


they have wrought have been so rapid that it has been impossible for correspondingcultural changes to occur.

We feel insulated from climatic change, for example, because our technology"overwhelms" the climate--or seems to; hence we do not appreciate our critical depen-dence on it. Scorer's pessimism, he said, stems from the fact that so many peoplethink that the use of more technology--to control weather and climate, for example--and more resources will enable the planet to sustain a growing world population. Me-teorology in this context differs from most other physical sciences. It's likemedicine, which he called a "technological fix," characteristic of our age--a crude"treatment" of the outdoors, comparable to medicine's crude treatment of the humanbody.

Scorer, who has made a number of public statements minimizing the problem of pos-sible ozone depletion resulting from chlorofluoromethanes and questioning the argu-ments thus far presented by the scientific community, treated the issue briefly inhis talk. He argued that the transport mechanisms for these substances in the atmo-sphere have not been represented accurately yet. Because the computer solution ofthe physical equations is so formidable, he said, in ten years "we'll still be grop-ing." There is an attempt to control and predict too much, he said. In respect toenvironmental questions, we try to get a government or agency to solve the problem--

* and this can lead to "technological tyranny."

In closing, Scorer summarized his viewpoint by saying that the purpose of hisU.S. tour was "to preach a bit of modesty" to technologists, politicians and reli-gious leaders.

In the discussion period that followed, one set of questions concerned Scorer'sopinions about the ozone issue. Stephen Schneider of the Climate Project askedScorer why he believed that the uncertainties in various calculations of ozone deple-tion meant that the calculations must overestimate the effect. Scorer said that hisgreatest objection was to the sloppiness of the postulated connection between de-creases in ozone and biological damage to life. He was especially critical of astudy by physicians linking ozone depletion to increased incidence of skin cancer.His objection to the efforts under way to ban the use of chlorofluoromethanes wasthat it was symptomatic of our technological society's tendency to focus too quicklyon relatively small issues and to overlook the truly important problems, such aspopulation growth. Schneider agreed with Scorer that there are many problems moreimportant than the ozone question, but maintained that we may still have to act onthis problem because its effects may become important long before research is able toanswer all questions definitely.

Other issues discussed included the responsibility of scientists and technologiststo address important questions even if they are not the major problems confrontinghumanity. "We've got to make such changes slowly," Scorer said. "It's not worthbeginning with aerosol cans. We should begin with something like cars."

) David Atlas then asked, "How did you get up the hill, Richard?" Scorer's reply:"NCAR, unfortunately, was built on the assumption that everyone has a car."


GARP SUBGROUP CONVENES AT NCAR

NCAR was the site for a meeting last week of a subgroup of the Working Group onNumerical Experimentation (WGNE), a subcommittee of the Joint Organizing Committee(JOC) of GARP. (GARP is the Global Atmospheric Research Program, and the JOC is thebody that directs the international GARP effort.) Attending the meeting were LennartBengtsson of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Bracknell,England; John Kutzbach of the University of Wisconsin; John Perry of the NationalAcademy of Sciences; and Stephen Schneider of NCAR's Climate Project. Bengtsson andSchneider are members of the WGNE, Kutzbach is a consultant for the JOC on the GARPclimate dynamics subprogram, and Perry is active in the U.S. GARP effort.

The purpose of the meeting was to review observational requirements for imple-menting the second GARP objective, which is to understand the physical basis of cli-mate and the causes of climatic change. The WGNE subgroup discussed the extent towhich the requirements for the second objective need further refinement and the prob-lem of managing the vast quantitites of data that will accumulate if all observation-al requirements are met. John Kutzbach commented, "We made specific recommendationsthis week for data processing during the First GARP Global Experiment and identifiedseveral data sets from experimental satellites that should be archived but not pro-cessed until appropriate algorithms are established for converting raw signals intouseful climatic variables."

ESIG ADVISORY PANEL MEETS

The Environmental and Societal Impacts Group's advisory panel met at NCAR onThursday and and Friday, July 24-25. The panel members are Dean Mann, chairman (Uni-versity of California at Santa Barbara), Stanley Changnon (Illinois State Water Sur-vey), James Crutchfield (University of Washington), Paul Julian (NCAR), and EldonWeeks (U.S. Department of Agriculture). Crutchfield was unable to attend the meeting.Currie Downie, program manager for Weather Modification in NSF, and David Atlas, di-rector of NCAR's National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE), attended various portionsof the meeting as observers. On Thursday, ESIG staff members Stewart Borland andAllan Murphy made presentations to the panel concerning the ESIG/NHRE study, Murphy'swaste heat and climate study at the International Institute for Applied Systems Anal-ysis, and other ongoing ESIG research activities. On Friday, Murphy and Borland leda discussion of possible future ESIG research, including studies related to the valueof weather forecasts and the impacts of inadvertent (urban) weather modification.The panel will submit a report with recommendations for ESIG's program and plans toPeter Gilman, chairman of the Advanced Study Program.

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CLIMATE PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETS

The Climate Project Advisory Committee met at the Mesa LabJuly 21-23 to review the project's recent research and tomake recommendations for future studies. The committeealso heard presentations by members of the Climate Project.Attending the meeting were committee members John Kutzbach,University of Wisconsin; Edward Lorenz, Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology; J. Murray Mitchell, NOAA's EnvironmentalData Service; Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washing-ton; and members of the Climate Project. John Imbrie ofBrown University was unable to attend. Pictured are (leftto right) Philip Thompson (Climate Project), Kutzbach,Untersteiner, Stephen Schneider (Climate Project), andMitchell.

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THE 12 MOST-WANTED LIST

Here are the titles of 12 of the books and technical reports that are missingfrom the NCAR library. These titles have been checked out to individuals, each ofwhom claims that he or she no longer has the item. If you have any of the missinxgbooks or reports, the library staff would greatly appreciate it if you would returnthem or, if you still need them, let the library know their whereabouts.

Each week Staff Notes will publish about a dozen of the known missing titles.

Books

Heald, Mark A.: Plasma Diagnostics With Microwaves

Hey, Max Hutchinson: An Index Of Mineral Species And Varieties Arranged Chemically,with an alphabetical index of accepted mineral names and synonyms

Higman, Bryan: A Comparative Study of Programming LanguagesHildebrand, Francis Begnaud: Introduction To Nwnerical Analysis

Hindawi,. I. J.: National Air Pollution Control Administration: Air Pollution InjuryTo Vegetation

Hirth, John Price: Condensation And Evaporation; Nucleation And Growth Kinetics

Technical Reports

Italy Instituto Nazionale Di Ultracustica 0 M Corobino: Miscellanea VII Contribu-tions Presented at Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Acoustics.Copenhagen, August 21-28. In English.

Junge, C. E.: Studies of the Chemistry of Unpolluted Atmospheres

Jung-Sen, W.: Influence of a Mountain on the Displacement of Barotropic Disturbances

Kutzbach, J. E. (Ed.): Proceedings of the Seminar on Possible Responses of WeatherPhenomena to Variable Extra-Terrestrial Influences

Lamers, K. W.: Do-it-yourself Lock-in Amplifiers Radio and Audio Frequency

Lees, L.: Time Factors in Slowing Down the Rate of Growth of Demand for PrimaryEnergy in the United States, June 1973

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SHORT ANNOUNCEMENTS

DID YOU BORROW "THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE. .

Ed Zipser reports that his copy of "The General Circulation of the TropicalAtmosphere and Interactions with Extratropical Latitudes, Vol. 1" by Newell, Kidson,Vincent, and Boer is missing. If you borrowed the book or know its whereabouts,please call ext. 234 or leave it in ML room 202.

RATTLESNAKE SIGHTED ON MESA

Someone recently reported sighting a rattlesnake while hiking on the mesa. Whilerattlesnakes are rarely seen on the mesa, staff members and others who hike in thisarea should be aware that they exist here.

GRAPHICS: ASSIGNMENTS IN AND OUT

* The Graphics Group's workload information is printed each week in Staff Notes to

assist scientists and other staff in planning ahead for graphic services.

As of July 29:

245 pieces of artwork completed for 35 scientists since the last report173 pieces of artwork requested by 40 scientists since the last report296 pieces of artwork backlogged as of July 29Estimated starting date for new work submitted after July 29: August 14

UNIVERSITY WITHOUT WALLS CONSIDERS BOULDER CAMPUS

A satellite Boulder campus is being considered for the University Without Walls(UWW) alternative degree program at Loretto Heights College (LHC) in Denver. If tenpeople enroll in Boulder, a program can be started here. UWW offers individualsover 15 years of age the opportunity of working toward and completing an undergrad-ate degree while holding down a job, raising a family, etc. UWW students designtheir own curricula with the help of a faculty adviser. Learning programs may in-clude workshops; service projects; independent field work such as internships,employment, or travel; independent research; learning communities; courses; orseminars.

The UWW/LHC has asked for assistance in gathering the names and addresses otthose who would like to apply for enrollment at a Boulder campus. If you are intet

* ested, please call Diane Johnson in the Information Office (ext. 260). Applicationsare due soon.

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DEPARTURES

Diane J. Bernier

George C. Liscum

Charles H. McComas

Jan Paegle

Julia Paegle

Rogelio Salinas

Mary Ann Smith

Ronald B. Smith

James M. Turner

Nancy E. Werner

Jill Williams

August 1

August 3

July 15

July 31

July 31

August 1

August 15

June 30

July 30

August 3

July 31

NEW STAFF MEMBERS

Philip Ehrmann: Computer operator trainee with ATD. ML room 29, ext. 536.

Gretchen Jahn: Data assistant with AQM. ML room 498A, ext. 227.

Gregg A. Peters: Library courier. Ext. 423.

Richard J. Wolski: Support scientist with AQM. ML room 288, ext. 358.

VISITORS

John Boyd, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University. Fields ofinterest: Stratospheric circulation; tornadoes. July 16-September 1. ML carrel 4,ext. 402.-- P. A. Gilman, ASP

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A. J. Dyer, CSIRO, Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia. July 7-9. ML room 424, ext.696.--John Masterson, AAP; Donald H. Lenschow

Alan J. Grobecker, Climatic Impact Assessment Program, Department of Transportation,Washington, D. C. Field of interest: ClAP Program. July 24.--Peter A. Gilman, ASP

James D. Horn, U.S. Army Electronics Command, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.Field of interest: Investigation of satellite and surface observation of propagatinggravity waves in the atmosphere. July 27-August 1. ML library carrel 3, ext. 402.-- Peter A. Gilman, ASP

Masao Kanamitsu, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Field of interest: Tropicalweather prediction. ML room 505, ext. 414.-- P. A. Gilman, ASP

Michael D. King, University of Arizona, Tucson. Field of interest: Determination ofthe Imaginary Term of the Refractive Index of Atmospheric Aerosols. July 30-August 15. ML corridor #19, ext. 534.--Computing Facility

JOB OPENINGSAs of July 20

NCAR is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.Women and minority applicants are encouraged to identifythemselves. A copy of our Affirmative Action Program isavailable for review. M.L. Bean, Director, Equal OpportunityPrograms.

Staff members and those on lay-off who wish to be considered for a positionshould contact the Employment Administrator within two weeks after the job isfirst posted. If qualified, these persons will be given first consideration;if possible, the position will be filled from this group. After the two-weekperiod, if no current or laid-off employee is selected to fill the positionpersons from outside NCAR will be considered. Each salary will be determinedaccording to the individual's qualifications. For more information, pleasecontact the Personnel Office (ext. 569 or 555).


REGULAR (Full-time):

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK: To perform various accounting duties such as checkinginvoices, coding, filing, processing invoices for payment, responsibility forpetty cash fund, answering questions from staff and vendors, and asisstingother accounting sections when needed. Requirements include 1 or more yearsexperience in accounts payable work, preferably in a large volume operation withexposure to EDP; ability to run a 10 key calculator, minimum 40 wpm typing; anddesire to handle a large volume of work and enjoy detail. Non-exempt range 15.Anticipated minimum salary: $510/month. This position may be filled afterAugust 5, 1975.

DISHWASHER: Responsible for washing all dishes, pots and pans, and utensilsnecessary for use in the cafeteria operation; scrubbing and cleaning of kitchenand dishwasher area; cleaning tables in cafeteria twice a day; and assistingwith utility work. Non-exempt range 12. Anticipated minimum salary: $385/month. This position may be filled after August 12, 1975.

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN: To provide the scientific and engineering staff ofthe ResearchSystems Facility with assistance in circuit, hardware and chassisdesign as well as design layout and fabrication of PC boards and strip lines.Applicants should have a good background in various aspects of voice and datatwo-way communication systems using both radio and wire links. Job dutiesmay involve analog, digital, R.F., and TV display circuit breadboarding andtesting using skills in drafting, documentation, selecting electronic components,schematic and blue print reading. Requirements include 6 years of electronictechnician experience with the last two years in the type of work describedabove. Knowledge and use of instruments and equipment such as oscilloscopes,frequency counters, frequency and pulse generators, frequency sweepers, spectrumanalysers, strip recorders, and impedance bridges. Non-exempt range 21.Anticipated minimum salary: $900/month. This position may be filled afterJuly 22, 1975.

SECRETARY: For the Computing Facility to coordinate visitor information,which includes: space and locker allocation, project number and block timeassignments, tours of the Facility, hotel reservations, and visitor listings;additional duties include: Remote Job Entry correspondence and file main-tenance; assisting the Administrative Secretary with correspondence andreports, monthly mailings, preparation of materials for panel meetings,answering telephones and distributing mail. Requirements include minimum 2years previous secretarial experience; 65 wpm and up typing; demonstratedability to work effectively with a large, diverse group of people. Non-exemptrange 18. Anticipated minimum salary: $680/month. This position may befilled after August 12, 1975.


REGULAR (Part-time) :

COMPUTER OPERATOR TRAINEE: Working. under direct supervision, the trainee willbe required to develop the necessary skills to operate two large-scale computersystems, a buffer computer used in a remote job entry environment, all peripheraland associated devices according to well established procedures and policies.This position is for weekend shifts mainly. The hours to be worked are either8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. or 4:15 - 12:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, with the remain-ing four hours arranged during the weekdays for proper staffing of the computeroperations. Preference will be given to candidates with any computer operationexperience; and ability to lift paper and tab card boxes weighing approximately45 pounds. Hearing test is required upon employment. Non-exempt range 16.Anticipated starting salary: $3.23/hour. This position may be filled afterAugust 5, 1975.

SPECIAL PROJECT (Full-time):

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY: For a two year Special Project appointment withthe ATM Workshop Group; responsible for running the Workshop Office; handlingcorrespondence, answering telephones, filing, preparation of documents,

S collecting manuscripts, assembling and supervising mechanics of editing; book-keeping; travel arrangements for participants and assisting in setting upWorkshop Meetings; keeping Workship Director informed when he is absent fromoffice; some technical typing. Selected candidate will report to WorkshopDirector or, in his absence, to the Deputy Director of HAO. Requirementsinclude 4 years previous experience, with experience in scientific areaspreferred; ability for technical typing, with IBM Mag Card experiencepreferred; and demonstrated ability to work independently, as well as witha diverse group of people, and under pressures of deadlines. Non-exempt ranges18-19. Anticipated minimum salary: $680/month. This position may be filledafter August 12, 1975.

CLOUD PHYSICIST: To study the formation of hailstones using the entire rangeof National Hail Research Experiment field data, with the purpose of under-standing those processes that are most important to hail suppression; and toparticipate in the planning and execution of field experiments on hailprocesses and on seeding effects as well as the analysis of the results.Applicants should have a strong background in cloud physics demonstratingseveral years' creative research either in cloud physics or a closely relatedarea; ability to synthesize conclusions from complicated sets of data; andthe flexibility to work with radar, dynamics, numerical models, and othercomponents of the problem as well as aircraft cloud physics data. Thesuccessful candidate will be expected to exercise individual initiative andresponsibility within the goals of the project and to work cooperatively withother researchers. Exempt range 58. Anticipated minimum salary range: $16,000 -

* $20,300/year. This position may be filled after July 30, 1975. The NHREProject is expected to continue through June 30, 1979.

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RESEARCH ASSISTANT: To assist in the reduction of the SKYLAB Apollo TelescopeMount White Light Coronagraph Data. Duties will include editing and copyingfilm on an editor printer designed for this program, digitizing film datawith a high speed microdensitometer which is controlled by a PDP 8 computer,FORTRAN programming for data manipulation on NCAR Control Data 6600/7600computers, interpretation of results of data manipulation, preparation ofscientific data and results for presentations and publications. Must beable to work research problems with the ATM scientific staff by interpretationand analysis of data, and must be able to work independently after consultationwith staff. Requirements include a minimum of 2 years experience in solarscientific data analysis techniques; previous experience with high speed micro-densitometer; FORTRAN programming; small computer experience; general darkroomtechniques; and a background in physics or astronomy at the M.S. degree level(or the equivalent in experience in the above areas). Knowledge of solaraspects of SKYLAB mission is desirable. Non-exempt range 20. Anticipatedminimum salary: $825/month. This position may be filled after August 12, 1975.

TEMPORARY (Part-time):

GDP OPERATORS (5): To operate the Carrier Balloon Ground Data Processor,which involves operating and changing tapes on a mini-computer; input of entryinformation via teletype machine; location of problems and minor maintenanceon equipment; and operation of strip-chart recorders. Applicants should bewilling and able to work any of the shifts. All job functions can be learnedduring a training period; however, applicants with previous experience inabove duties will be'given additional consideration. Since the GDP operatorswill be working independently, initiative and self-motivation is a requirementof the job. Non-exempt range 13. Base rate: $2.75/hour. These positionsmay be filled after July 29, 1975.

Staff Notes information should be sent to Editor Lynne Mesirow (ext. 644) by5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Calendar NotesAugust 4 through August 11, 1975

MONDAY, August 4

* Equipment Demonstration -- Hewlett Packard Mobile Lab

8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noonParking lot south of PSRB-3

* ASP/UAP Summer Colloquium Lecture -- Coupling of Dynamics to Chemistry andRadiation, Conway Leovy, University of Washington

10:00 a.m.Fleischmann Building, Walter Orr Roberts Seminar Room

* ATD/Computing Facility Summer Seminar Series -- Data Archiving at NCAR,Paul Mulder, ATD

1:30 p.m.NCAR Mesa Laboratory, Chapman Room

* TUESDAY, August 5



* ASP/UAP Colloquium Seminar -- Wave Momentum Transports in the UpperAtmosphere, Francis Bretherton, UCAR

1:30 p.m.Fleischmann Building, Walter Orr Roberts Seminar Room

0 ASP Summer Student Fellowship Seminar Series -- Infrared Fourier Spectroscopyfor Trace Gas Detection, Marcus Aguilar, ASP, and William Mankin, AQM


WEDNESDAY, August 6



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WEDNESDAY, August 6 (continued)

* Meeting -- Solar Energy Luncheon

12:00 noonNCAR Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room

* ASP/UAP Summer Colloquium Seminar -- In Situ Measurements CZ and CZO in theStratosphere, Donald Stedman, University of Michigan


0 ATD/Computing Facility Summer Seminar Series -- Climate Modeling andApplications, Steve Schneider, AAP


THURSDAY, August 7



0 HAO Colloquium-- Plasma Instabilities in Solar Flares, William Davis, HAO

11:00 a.m.HAO Classroom 138

0 Turbulence Club Meeting -- A Critical Review of Turbulence Modeling,Micha Wolfshtein, ASP


FRIDAY, August 8

* ASP Summer Student Fellowship Seminar Series -- The Characteristics ofWater Vapor Flux Measured in a Trade Wind Boundary Layer as Revealedby Bivariate Statistical Analysis, Shelia Smith, ASP, and RobertGrossman, AAP


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MONDAY, August 11

0 ASP/UAP Summer Colloquium Lecture -- Coupling of Dynamics to Chemistry andRadiation, Conway Leovy, University of Washington


0 ASP/UAP Summer Colloquium Seminar -- Model for the Annual and SemiannualTemperature Waves, Donna Blake, Florida State University


0 ATD/Computing Facility Summer Seminar Series -- Software Reliability,Russell Rew, ATD


Calendar Notes announcements may be mailed to Vonda Giesey, ML 252. Wednesdayat 12:00 noon is the deadline for items to be included in the Calendar Notes.

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