The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a US nonprofit consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities providing research and training in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and provides additional services to strengthen and support research and education through its community programs. Its headquarters,in Boulder,Colorado,include NCAR's Mesa Laboratory,designed by I.M. Pei.
The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) is a coupled general circulation model (GCM) developed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF),the Department of Energy (DoE),and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The coupled components include an atmospheric model,a land-surface model,an ocean model,and a sea ice model. CCSM is maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NCAR has multiple facilities,including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder,Colorado. Studies include meteorology,climate science,atmospheric chemistry,solar-terrestrial interactions,environmental and societal impacts.
Walter Orr Roberts was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist,as well as an educator,philanthropist,and builder. He founded the National Center for Atmospheric Research and took a personal research interest for many years in the study of influences of the Sun on weather and climate.
The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) is a laboratory of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). HAO operates the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory on Hawaii and a research institute in Boulder,Colorado.
The Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is a research center located in Boulder,Colorado. The building complex was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei in 1961 as his first project outside of city building design. It has been noted for its Anasazi-inspired architecture and use of bush-hammered concrete to blend into the surrounding area. The laboratory was named the 1967 Industrial Research Magazine's Laboratory of the Year.
Eric James Barron is an American academic administrator who was the 18th president of Pennsylvania State University from 2014 until 2022. He previously was the 14th president of Florida State University and director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,Colorado.
Warren Morton Washington was an American atmospheric scientist,a chair of the National Science Board,and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,Colorado. His research was part of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. In 2019,he was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
Antonio Busalacchi Jr. is the eighth president of the Boulder,Colorado-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. He began serving as UCAR president in August 2016.
Roger M. Wakimoto is an atmospheric scientist specializing in research on mesoscale meteorology,particularly severe convective storms and radar meteorology. A former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),Wakimoto in November 2012 was appointed as assistant director of the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) is a high-performance computing (HPC) and data archival facility located in Cheyenne,Wyoming,that provides advanced computing services to researchers in the Earth system sciences.
Robert Moffat MacQueen is an American physicist. He received his B.S. from Rhodes College in physics in 1960 where he was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa,and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1968 in atmospheric sciences. In 1967,he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as a staff scientist and attained senior scientist status in 1973. He was principal investigator for the White Light Coronagraph operated by the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) aboard the crewed Skylab satellite from 1970 to 1977. In 1974,he received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his Skylab work as principal investigator of the white light coronagraph experiment that took nearly 36,000 photographs during the Apollo flight.
Francis Patton Bretherton was an applied mathematician and a professor emeritus of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin,Madison.
Richard A. Anthes was a long time president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. The Anthes Building in Boulder,Colorado,is the first UCAR-owned building to be named for an eminent scientist –and a living one at that.”His area of study at the University of Wisconsin,Madison,focused on hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Dr. Anthes taught as a professor for ten years at Pennsylvania State University before accepting a position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as director of the Atmospheric and Prediction Division in 1981,a position he kept until 1986 when he became director of NCAR. In 1988,he started working as president of UCAR,and retired from that position in 2012. During his presidency at UCAR,he participated or chaired over forty different national committees for agencies such as NASA,NSF,and NOAA. He also established a program aimed at increasing participation in the atmospheric sciences called SOARS.
Rebecca Suzanne Hornbrook is an atmospheric chemist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She currently holds the position of Project Scientist II while also belonging to a variety of groups based out of NCAR,UCAR,and NASA. She is notable for her work as one of the leading experts in Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) while possessing an interest in air quality,biosphere-atmosphere interactions,chemical kinetics,and photochemistry.
Maura E. Hagan is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and a former Dean of the College of Science at Utah State University. She is a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union,and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Everette Joseph is an American atmospheric scientist who serves as the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,Colorado.
Annick Gabrielle Pouquet is a computational plasma physicist specializing in plasma turbulence. She was awarded the 2020 Hannes Alfvén Prize for "fundamental contributions to quantifying energy transfer in magneto-fluid turbulence". She currently holds positions in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Makenzie Lystrup is an American planetary scientist and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SPIE,best known as a prominent voice in civil space projects and science policy. Lystrup is the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. She has previously served as the vice president and general manager for civil space at Ball Aerospace.
Carolyn S. Brinkworth is a British-born LGBTQ community activist and advocate of diversity and inclusion in STEM educational institutions and in the field itself,based in the United States. She holds a PhD in astrophysics and a master's degree in education. As chief diversity,equity,and inclusion officer (CDO) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder,Colorado,Brinkworth has led DE&I initiatives,revamping hiring practices and changing the culture of the organization through training and professional development programs. Her master's thesis included recommendations on how to create inclusive environments for LGBTQ individuals studying STEM. She has also co-published research on the effectiveness of career development seminars in encouraging students from minority communities to pursue STEM professions.
