NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop

What is NCAR?

National Center for Atmospheric ResearchLocated in Boulder Colorado

Managed by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)63 Universities, Iowa State one of them

What NCAR Does

Conduct research on many topicsAtmospheric Chemistry ClimateCloud physics and stormsWeather hazards to aviation Interactions between sun and earth.

NCAR Funding

Get funding fromNational Science Foundation (NSF)NOAANASAU.S. Departments of Defense and EnergyFAA

ULW Purpose Informing students about the potential for exciting

research and career opportunities in the atmospheric and related sciences.

The five-day program establishes informal dialogue between students and research scientists as they explore laboratories, instrumentation, and computing facilities that support studies on weather, climate change, solar dynamics, the Sun-Earth system, and the impacts of severe weather and climate change on societies around the world.

Model of Leadership

Kevin DroegemeierDirector of Center for Analysis and Prediction of

Storms at University of Oklahoma  Distinguished between leader and manager:

Manager controlsLeader motivates

Presenters Cont.

Tim Killeen,Director of NCAR Discussed NCAR research

Richard AnthensPresident on UCARDiscussed leadership and collaboration in the university

community

Presenters Cont.

Gerry MeehlScientist in

Climate and Global Dynamics Division Climate change, and current research

Scientists from Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Presenters Cont.

Al CooperScientist and Director, Advanced Studies

Program

Tim SpanglerDirector, Cooperative Program for

Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET),

Presenters Cont.

Bob Gall Lead Scientist, US Weather Research

Program, Division Director, Microscale and Mesoscale Meteorology,

Bob Harris Division Director, Environmental and

SocietalImpacts Group,

Presenters Cont. Roberta Johnson

Director, UCAR Office of Education and Outreach andScientist, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR

Scientist from High Altitude Observatory

David CarlsonDivision Director, Atmospheric Technology,