ITPA Newsletter 2001-2003 Archive

Congratulations to Duane Waliser, R. Wilson and M. Reynolds (BNL), who were very recently awarded funding from NOAA Sea Grant to instrument the Bridgeport – Port Jefferson Ferry with weather and marine sampling equipment to provide real-time data to the NWS and to obtain research quality data sets to investigate air-sea forcing/coupling issues in the Long Island Sound.

Craig Allen, who obtained a B.S. in meteorology from Stony Brook in 1979, has been selected for the Distinguished Alumni Award this year. He will be honored in a special ceremony on Oct 19. Read more about Craig Allen.

Would you like a catchy name for the ITPA newsletter? E-mail suggestions and I’ll put them up for a vote.

Hello everybody,

Thank you for your feedback on last weeks newsletter. This week, Duane Waliser announced an undergraduate internship starting next year. Read more about it in our new Opportunities section below.

In the last issue, we announced that Craig Allen has been selected for the SUNY Distinguished Alumni Award. Thanks to efforts of Sultan Hameed, Craig Allen has agreed to visit ITPA and join a special Meteorology Club meeting on Friday afternoon before the award ceremony later that night. Please join us in Endeavour Hall 139.

Taotao Qian is excited to announce her thesis proposal defense which willl be held on Friday.

Would you like a catchy name for the ITPA newsletter? E-mail suggestions and I’ll put them up for a vote.

Please find below this week’s calendar. Don’t forget, I need your input to keep the news current.

Have a good week,

Petra Udelhofen

p.s. Would you like to visit the Seawolf? The boat will be located at Danford’s Inn in Port Jefferson this weekend Oct 13-14 and open for visits between 11am and 5pm. The open house is part of the Port Jefferson Maritime Festival.

Hello everybody,

The deadline for the undergraduate internship is still open. Read more about it in our new Opportunities section below.

Please find below this week’s calendar. Don’t forget, I need your input to keep the news current.

Have a good week,

Petra Udelhofen

Hello everybody,

As you all know, Jialin Lin and Taotao Qian left for Boulder yesterday. I hope you didn’t miss their delicious farewell luncheon on Friday. Jialin Lin starts a postdoc at NOAA very soon. Taotao Qian, who successfully defended her thesis proposal two weeks ago, will be a remote SUNY student. Good luck to both of you.

Petra Udelhofen will be out of town Nov. 1-2 to attend a SPARC Climatology Meeting at NCAR in Boulder. It seems everybody else will be around.

The deadline for the undergraduate internship is still open until Wednesday. Read more about it in our new Opportunities section below.

Please find below this week’s calendar. Don’t forget, I need your input to keep the news current.

Have a good week,

Petra Udelhofen

Hello everybody,

here are the latest updates on ITPA activities.

Two faculty members of ITPA, Brian Colle and Edmund Chang, have been invited to serve as Associate Editors of Monthly Weather Review.

Minghua Zhang attended the joint DOE ARM/GCSS WG4 meeting from October 22 to 24 at NCAR, and made a presentation on a joint initiative of the ARM Modeling, Radiation, and Cloud Working Groups to derive vertical profiles of radiative heating and cooling at the ARM SGP site. Following this meeting, he attended the NASA TRMM Science Team Meeting from October 29 to November 1 in Fort Collins. He made a plenary presentation on behalf of the TRMM Working Group on Validation from Field Observations and had a poster presentation about “Experimental assimilation of vertical heating profiles by adjusting physical parameters in the cumulus convection scheme in the CCM.” The NASA TRMM satellite recently successfully underwent an orbit boost from the altitude of 350 km to 405 km to save fuel, making its projected life time to 2008.

Recent Publications:

A joint paper of many cloud resolving modeling groups in the United States and Europe using observed forcing data from the DOE ARM experiment has been accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (K.M Xu of NASA Langley is the lead author). Minghua Zhang is a co-author of the paper. It can be downloaded from http://www.met.utah.edu/skrueger/gcss/case3-revised-paper_18sep2001.pdf

Please find below this week’s calendar. Don’t forget, I need your input to keep the news current.

Have a good week,

Petra Udelhofen

Archived Newsletters

October 29-November 2, 2001

October 22-26, 2001

October 15-19,2001

October 8-13,2001

Produced by Petra Udelhofen Sunday, December 2, 2001

Hello everybody,

here are the latest updates on ITPA activities. Each entry was provided by one of our members. This weeks contributors are Brian Colle, Bob DeZafra, Sultan Hameed, and Minghua Zhang.

As always, please find below this week’s calendar. Thanks for your input.
Have a good week,

Petra Udelhofen

Undergraduate Program

Brian Colle will talk this Thursday at 5:30 pm at Keller College, a residence hall at Stony Brook populated by science and engineering students. The talk in about issues and opportunities in weather and climate and it is a part of a course LSE 102: Opportunities in Science and Engineering.

Prime Time Event

Brian Colle and Gina Gartin will host the Atmospheric Sciences Prime Time event on Wednesday 12:00-1:30 pm in Geosciences room 171. See http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/ptime01.html for more details.

Graduate Program

There will be a meeting between all ITPA graduate students and ITPA director Minghua Zhang on Tuesday at 12:45 in Room 113. The purpose of the meeting is to communicate thoughts and concerns between students and faculty. Pizza will be served.

Recent Publications

Colle, B.A., C.F. Mass, and David Ovens, 2001: Evaluation of the timing and strength of MM5 and Eta surface trough passages over the eastern Pacific. Wea. Forecasting, 16, 553-572.

Marine Sciences News

There is a full page article, featuring MSRC faculty Mary Scranton, “Born to Explore the Ocean Floor”, in the Long Island section of this Sunday’s Newsday (November 11, 2001, A35). The article is posted in front of the main office EN145.

Alumni News

Drew Shindell, a former PhD student of Bob de Zafra’s, (“Model/Measurement Comparisons of Ozone Depleting Chlorine Chemistry in the Polar Stratosphere”, August, 1995), is currently running as a candidate for Secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s Division of Atmospheric Physics and Climate.

Dr. Iqbal Pittalwala, who graduated from ITPA in 1993 has been appointed as the Senior Public Information Representative for Science and Engineering at University of California, Riverside starting December 1, 2001.

Rumors

According to a reliable source, Bob Cess recently received his latest royalty of $25 from the sale of a book he and Sparrow wrote in 1970 (Radiation Heat Transfer, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 340 pp). This arrived timely and was welcomed since Bob needs to order parts for car work on his third Alfa Romeo during the Thanksgiving break, even though there is the speculation that he has forgotten all what he wrote in the book.

Archived Newsletters

November 5-9, 2001

October 29-November 2, 2001

October 22-26, 2001

October 15-19,2001

October 8-13,2001

Produced by Petra Udelhofen Sunday, December 2, 2001

Hello everybody,

It’s Thanksgiving week and, as you may have noticed, classes are not in session. Nevertheless, we have a few news items thanks to Gina Gartin, David Myers, Larry Swanson, Duane Waliser and Minghua Zhang. Job-seekers, please be aware that new postdoctoral job advertisements have been posted on the ITPA Bulletin Board in front of EN114. The AGU Atmospheric Sciences website also provides up-to-date job listings as advertised in EOS.

Have a nice Thanksgiving,

Petra Udelhofen

Air-Sea Interaction

The PJ Ferry – the PT Barnum will complete its two-week dry dock in Staten Island. During this period, the “holes” were cut in the bottom of the vessel to allow installation of a sea-water intake to measure surface water properties and a sea-chest that will house an acoustic doppler current profiler. It is expected/hoped that these instruments will be functioning during the vessel’s crossings starting in about feb/mar of 2002 (Duane Waliser).

Upcoming Conferences

A tropical waves and convection workshop will be held at NYU on November 30th and December 1st. Several ITPA students will be attending (David Myers).

Alumni News

An NSF-DOE sponsored field experiment INDOEX conducted over the Indian ocean has produced interesting results regarding the coupling of climate, clouds, aerosols, and chemistry. The experiment was co-organized by Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen of Germany and Stony Brook ITPA alumni-Victor Alderson Professor of the University of California at San Diego, V. Ramanathan (Advisor: Bob Cess). A special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres has just appeared reporting some of the scientific findings from INDOEX- (Vol. 106, No. D22, November 27, 2001). To read articles in this issue, you can save a trip to the main library by seeing some of the ITPA faculty members who subscribe to print and electronic copies of the journal (Minghua Zhang).

Marine Sciences News

The Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Fund Committee, the Waste Reduction and Management Institute and MSRC are pleased to announce that Ann Zulkosky is this year’s winner of the Liblit Memorial Scholarship (Larry Swanson).

Archived Newsletters

Last week

Produced by Petra Udelhofen 

UpdatedSun, Dec 2, 2001

Hello everybody,

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving break. Just before the holidays, Brian Colle provided me with an update of the current standings at the National Weather Forecast Contest. You might have heard that several ITPA undergraduate and graduate students as well as one ITPA faculty are participating in the contest. It is just past its midway point and the ITPA’ler are doing great. Here is the update after forecasting 4 locations (Key West, FL, Richmond VA, Denver CO, and Houston TX).:

We just finished 4th out 37 schools for Houston, TX (best of the SUNY schools, Albany was 25th). Chris Balliro is 25th overall (out of 810 forecasters) and 9th best of all 512 junior/seniors in country. Brian Pederson is 25th of all 512 junior/seniors in country. Yong Song is 32nd out of 163 graduate students. Brian Colle is 35th overall and 10th out of 91 faculty/staff. We are now in the top ten in the overall ranking, one behind Albany and it is just our 1^st year in competition. We’ll catch’m!!! Our success has sparked some local interest, a Newsday reporter will be here Tuesday to see the facilities and interview the students.

Aside from the contest, there are more good news: ITPA graduate student Jingbo Wu (advisor: Minghua Zhang) has just received a Global Change scholarship from the American Meteorological Society. Congratulations, Jingbo!

Later this week the NYU workshop on tropical waves and convection will take place in the NYC. Several ITPA students will be attending. Click here for to find out who will take notes.

Later this week, Minghua Zhang will be in Washington DC to attend the DOE ARM Science Team Executive Committee meeting. The meeting will review the ARM program and set up the agenda for the March 2002 ARM Science Team Meeting in Atlanta.

For those of you wo are looking for jobs, check out this link to the AGU Atmospheric Sciences website.

Have a nice week,

Petra Udelhofen

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedSun, Dec 2, 2001

Hello everybody,

This week seems to be a week of travel.

Minghua Zhang will be in NASA Goddard to attend the Cumulus Convection Workshop. He will present a talk on “Integrated measurements from field experiments relevant to the thinking of cumulus convection parameterization in climate models.” After the meeting, he will visit collaborators in the Data Assimilation Office (DAO) of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to discuss ongoing collaborative research.

Duane Waliser will be attending the US CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee Meeting next week (Dec 3-5) at GFDL to present results of his research on predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and its implications for Asian-Australian monsoon and extra-tropical predictability.

Marvin Geller and Petra Udelhofen are participating in the Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate (SPARC) Scientific Steering Group meeting at the University of Hawaii from December 4-7. Marv is the chairman of the Steering group. Petra presents the latest news from the SPARC data center, which is located in her office. She has just installed the Live Access Server, the NOAA/PMEL visualization software, for climate data on the web (http://www.sparc.sunysb.edu/las).

Brian Colle will be away for a field experiment.

Did you know that this past November 2001 was the warmest on record for Central Park in New York City? The average monthly temperature of 52.7^oF broke the previous record of 52.5^oF set in 1979.

For those of you wo are looking for jobs, check out our Job Opportunities this link to the AGU Atmospheric Sciences website.

Have a nice week,

Petra Udelhofen

p.s. If you want to read or listen to a brief interview that one of our ITPA members gave to Earth and Sky a while ago, you can read the transcript or download an audio file at http://www.earthsky.com/2001/es011119.html.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Details can be found on the ITPA bulletin board next to Endeavour 114.

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. (Details can be found on the ITPA bulletin board next to Endeavour 114.)http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedTue, Dec 11, 2001

Hello everybody,

This is the last week of classes, I’m sure everyone looks foreward to the holiday party on Friday 3pm to celebrate the end of the semester.

Sorry for being so late this week, but on the bright side, I got some late information which wouldn’t have made it into the newsletter otherwise. So let’s start with the whereabouts of this week’s travellers.

Minghua Zhang will be away for part of the week in San Francisco to attend a Steering Committee Meeting on a new PCMDI initiative (Program for Climate Model Diagnostics and Intercomparison) of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This new initiative aims to evaluate climate models through a weather forecasting mode. Similar work started in Europe in the last two years. The meeting will discuss strategies of implementing such an approach in the United States.

Marv Geller will be at the AGU meeting for the entire week. He is the president of the of AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section.

Brian Colle is away this week at the IMPROVE field program in the Pacific Northwest (http://improve.atmos.washington.edu/). The objective of this program is to collect radar and microphysical data over the Oregon Cascades in order to improve bulk microphysical parameterizations in atmospheric models. An incriminating photo of Brian was published in the Tacoma, WA News Tribune (on 12/10).

Also, Brian likes to announce a new graduate course for the Spring semester. Read more about it below.

And finally, there is a chance of snow on Dec 25 (somewhere in the US). Here is what David Myers has to say based on the NCEP ensemble forecast. Click here to view the contour plots.

The NCEP ensemble model shows that we are due for the breakup of the blocking high that has been situated between England and Iceland (finally!). While there is a great deal of model uncertainty about the trough that is set to form over the eastern half of N. America around Dec 21-25, there is enough ensemble agreement to indicate a good early season storm for parts of the US, particularly the Great Lakes area. The trough axis really seems to miss the Long Island region, though.

I must confess I don’t mind if it misses.

Have a nice week,

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu Details can be found on the ITPA bulletin board next to Endeavour 114.

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. (Details can be found on the ITPA bulletin board next to Endeavour 114.)http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedTue, Dec 18, 2001

Hello everybody,

It’s final week and everybody seems busy wrapping up projects before the holidays. The only open event I know of is Chengbo Sun’s thesis proposol defense. It will be held on Wednesday 10 am in Javits center Room 223 as one of those video conference events that are always interesting. See below for further details.

Although the ensemble forecast models are less in agreement, it looks like that there is still a chance of snow on Dec 25 (somewhere in the US). Here is the NOAA/CPC’s longrange discussion from Monday December 17, 3pm:

BY DECEMBER 25…MODELS SHOW A RIDGE BUILDING OVER WESTERN NORTH AMERICA AT 500 MB WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE ICELAND-GREENLAND AREA AND TROUGHING EXTENDING SOUTHWARD FROM ARCTIC CANADA TO THE GREAT LAKES REGION. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SHOULD BE GETTING ORGANIZED OVER THE SOUTH-CENTRAL STATES NEAR THE START OF THE FORECAST PERIOD…AND THIS SHOULD BRING A VARIETY OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION TO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN AREAS OF THE NATION.

We’ll follow up on this next week.

Have a nice week,

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedTue, Jan 8, 2002

Hello, 

welcome to the first issue of Volume 2; a Happy New Year to all of you. Classes are still out of session, but we have some exciting news this week. One of our faculty members has made history, because a mountain Ridge in Antarctica will bear his name: Bob de Zafra. Here is how the United States board on Geographic names describes the newly named DeZafra Ridge 79^o17’S, 157^o27’E:

A narrow but prominent rock ridge, 5 miles long, located in the Cook Mountains, Antarctica. The ridge is 2.5 miles West of Fault Bluff and rises 350 m above the ice surface North of the Longhurst Plateau. Named after Robert L. de Zafra, Professor of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, whose research at the South Pole and McMurdo Sound provided breakthrough contributions to understanding the formation of the Antarctic ozone hole.

More information can be found at http://geonames.usgs.gov.

Who would think that Bob DeZafra is retired? He and and his former student/recent postdoc Giovanni Muscari leave on Jan 9th for Thule, Greenland (77.5N, 69.2W) for a field campaign that will last two months; Bob will be back at the end of January. This campaign is organized in collaboration with the italian Lidar group of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” led by Giorgio Fiocco. While the Stony Brook mm-wave spectrometer will measure the mixing ratio of several chemical species, primarily HNO₃, O₃, N₂O, and CO, in the range 18-50 km, the Lidar from the university of Rome will carry out concurrent measurements of the concentration and physical state (liquid vs solid) of stratospheric aerosol and PSC particles. This should provide an exciting data set to study PSC formation and evolution as HNO₃ is removed from the gas-phase and contributes to the growth of PSC particles. Giovanni will be back in mid-March and will give you an update on how the campaign went.

ITPA faculty John Mak has officially started his sabbatical visit to the Laboratoire du Glaciologie et Geophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE), in France. During the visit, he will collaborate with France researchers to determine the isotopic composition of trace gas species trapped in ice cores. A greeting card from him in France to ITPA members is in Gina’s office.

The American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida this month. The opening night reception will take place in the Orange County Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 4 on Saturday, January 12 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ITPA will have a table in the Exhibit Hall displaying undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc opportunities in atmospheric sciences at Stony Brook. ITPA graduate student Jingbo Wu will be available for questions. Several ITPA faculty members will attend the meeting. More information will be posted in the next newsletter.

Have a nice week,

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedTue, Jan 15, 2002

Hello everybody, 

good news for ITPA students, all student phones are up and running. Gina will soon distribute the graduate student phone directory to all members of ITPA. Mr. Xiaosong Yang, a former ITPA graduate student, who transferred one year ago to Cornell University, has decided to return to our program. He will join his old classmates in ITPA starting in January just in time for spring classes 2002.

Spring classes start in about a week. Whilst most of you may be busy preparing for the upcoming classes, a few ITPA members are in Florida this week and attend 82nd meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Here are the ITPA highlights :

On Wednesday at 1:30 pm, Duane Waliser will be presenting Potential Predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Joint Session 7 of the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction. Minghua Zhang will present the invited paper on Cloud Structure Anomalies over the Tropical Pacific during the 1997/98 El Nino:, co-authors, R. D. Cess, M. H. Zhang, P. H. Wang and B. A. Wielicki in the Session 9 of the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations on Tuesday at 4pm. On Thurday at 1:45pm, Edmund Chang will speak on Interdecadal variations in the northern hemisphere storm tracks in the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations. In addition, he is a co-author on the paper entitled Interdecadal storm track variations as seen in NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and radiosonde observations with Nili Harnik, which will be presented in the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, Wednesday at 2pm.

A detailed program may be found at http://ams.confex.com/ams/annual2002/13GlobClim/. The AMS meeting is held between January 13-17 in Orlando, FL.

At the January 2002 meeting of the Council of the American Meteorological Society, Marv Geller was elected by the Council to be a member of the AMS Executive Committee.

We are pleased to hear that Marvin Geller has been recently designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies. Marv received a letter from Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the National Research Council which stated “In recognion of extraordinary service to the National Academies in its role as advisor in matters of science, engineering, and health, by authority of the council of the National Academy of Sciences and the Governing Board of the National Research Council Marvin A. Geller is hereby designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies.” The certificate is dated December 2001. This is the first group to be so designated. Congratulations, Marv.

Enjoy the week,

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedFri, Jan 18, 2002

Hello everybody, 

At the last week’s Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Stony Brook alumni Dr. Ramanathan received the most prestigeous award of the society, the Rossby Award. Congratulations, Ram!

Some of the students and also Minghua attended a workshop on tropical waves at NYU November 30th and December 1st. This group likes to get together with anyone else seeking a “meeting report” about that conference. There will be a VERY INFORMAL brown-bag lunch meeting in Endeavour 113, 12p-1:30p, Tues. Jan 22nd (day before classes resume). Bring your lunch. More information is available from David Myers.

Bob Cess and Petra Udelhofen will be in Brussels this week to attend the CERES Science Team Meeting.

The International Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Open Science Conference will be held 22-26 July 2002 at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. Abstracts are due before February 1, 2002.

Classes start this week. Enjoy!

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Jan 28, 2002

Hello everybody, 

usually our newsletter cover the events from Monday to Friday. This week is an exception, because many of us have volunteered as moderators, science and rules judges, or score and time keepers for the 2002 New York Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl on Saturday 02 February 2002. The event is being held at the Student Activities Center (SAC). Go to http://www.NOSB.org to learn more about the competion, or click here if you want to find out the agenda for this Saturday. Registration of teams begins at 7:45 am and the opening remarks at 8:30 am. If you are a volunteer, please arrive no later than 8:00 am. You can park in the University parking garage by the Administration building. Parking is free in the garage on weekends.

Other than the NOSB event, the semester is now in full swing with both TAOS seminar and MSRC colloqium featuring speakers from ITPA faculty. Hope to see you there.

Enjoy the week,

Petra Udelhofen

Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology (MAR597-4 credits) Spring 2002, lecture and lab: M and W 12:50-3:15

Prerequisite: Theoretical. Met II (dynamics) or permission This course will investigate the structure and evolution of mid-latitude cyclones, fronts, convective systems, coastal, and orographic phenomena. In lab, the relevant dynamics of representative cases will be explored using observations and numerical model output. All students are required to complete a synoptic/mesoscale research project that is hopefully related to his/her thesis or research interest (cyclone structure in GCM’s, synoptic flow predictability, tropical convection influence on mid-latitude flow, gravity waves and convection, landfalling cyclones, orographic precipitation, etc…).

Please let Brian Colle know if you have any questions.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedSun, Feb 3, 2002

Hello everybody,

Welcome to the first issue of the on-line MSRC newsletter Soundings. Soundings will keep you informed about news of MSRC members, features special events and a weekly calendar. With the advent of Soundings the ITPA newsletter departs.

Did you know…..

The MSRC fleet has a spot on our web-page. Go to the links below to find out about schedules and specifications for the R/V Seawolf and the R/V Pritchard. Fair winds and a following sea….

Vessel page: http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/~vessels
Seawolf page: http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/~vessels/Seawolf/seawolf.htm
Pritchard page: http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/~vessels/Pritchard/Pritchard.htm

Read the latest news about our weather forecasters Brian Colle and Joe Olson at http://newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-limete302570125jan30.story

Sandy Lucas will run a very basic Introduction to the Macintosh Computer for all interested MSRC students on Tuesday Feb. 5, 2002 – 5:00 PM in Endeavour 120. This 1 hour short course will cover the most very basic things you should know about how to use your Macintosh. You can find the at http://terra.msrc.sunysb.edu/~slucas for more information. Please e-mail Sandy if you would like to attend.

Come check out the first Virtual Career Fair for MA / MS and PhD Students. This on-line event is open to many members of the academic community, including many of the prestigious institutions affiliated with the American Association of Universities. Drop off your resume or look for jobs from February 1-15 at http://www.career.sunysb.edu/students/jobfair/ GOOD LUCK!!!

Don’t forget to let us know what will be happening the following week. We need your input!

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Feb 11, 2002

Hello everybody,

Marv Geller would like to congratulate and thank all of those whose volunteer efforts helped make the New York Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl such a great success on February 2. Special thanks are expressed to Bill Wise and Paula Rose who put in many long hours preparing for this event. The winners were from Mount Sinai and were coached by an MSRC alumni.

Long Island Geology: The 9th Annual Meeting on “The Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York” is coming up. This student- friendly event is an opportunity to present results and learn about all things geological in our region. While the website lists the submission date for titles Feb. 1, 2002, our sources indicate that titles may still be submitted. The deadline for abstract submissions in March 1. See http://pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu/lig/ andhttp://pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts_02/call_for_papers.htm.

The son, Yang Li, of a former MSRC student, Xiaohua Yang, has just been named as an Intel Finalist. For those of you who don’t know Intel has a science contest for high school students. Nationwide, 300 students were named as semifinalists and only 40 as finalists. Each finalist is given a $5000 prize and is eligible to compete for a $100,000 grand prize. A number of former Intel winners have received Nobel Prizes or other prestigious awards. Yang Li’s research was on a protein related to Lyme’s disease. Ocean Sciences Meeting

WE NEED YOU!
No, it’s not the US Army searching for inductees. Soundings needs YOU to contribute. Send us a little bit about what’s new at your end of The Center. Have you recently returned from a cruise? A scientific meeting? Are there upcoming meetings you might want others to know about? Is there exciting new equipment you might want others at the Center to know about. Professors: are you looking for a graduate student to work on a new project? (Or visa versa?) Are there social events you might want others at the Center to know about? Please send us your material. In principle, atmospheric related material should be to Petra Udelhofen and Marine Sciences related material should be sent to Alex Kolker. In practice, you can make the choice whom to send it to. Thank you.

Ocean Sciences Meeting

A number of MSRC members will present their research results at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii this week. Among them are the Faculties Jackie Collier, Mary Scranton, Gordon Taylor, post-doc Pere Masque, and graduate students Vicki Ferrini, Diane Greenfield, Maria Iabichella, and Melissa Jump. Please find below a list of presentations sorted alphabetically by author. To find out research details click on the respective title.

Astor, Y.M., Muller-Karger, F.E. and M.I. Scranton, Evidence of ventilation events in the Cariaco Basin.

Baker K. M. and J. L. Collier, Development and use of molecular techniques to identify urea-degrading microorganisms.

Ferrini, V.L., and R.D. Flood, 2002. Multibeam imagery and surface sediment distribution of the dynamic inner shelf of the Eel margin, northern California.

Greenfield D I and Londsdale D J, Growth and 14C absorption efficiencies of juvenile hard clams fed diets containing Aureococcus anophagefferens.

Hein, C., G.T. Taylor, M. Iabichella, and M.I. Scranton, Viral Dynamics in the Permanently Anoxic Cariaco Basin.

Iabichella, M., G.T. Taylor, M.I. Scranton, and C. Gomes, Dynamics of Heterotrophic Nanoflagellates (HNAN) in the Anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela.

Jump, M. J. and K. M. Lwiza, Kamazima, Coastal circulation of the southeastern Bering Sea shelf.

Kaseta T. and J. L. Collier, Picocyanobacteria of the Hudson River Estuary, NY.

Masque P., J.K. Cochran, D.J. Hirschberg , A. Winkler, D. Dethleff and D. Hebbeln, Sea ice as a transport agent of radionuclides to the Fram Strait.

Scranton, M.I., G.T. Taylor, Y.M. Astor and F.E. Muller-Karger, Comparison of controls on the structure of the oxic/anoxic interface in the Cariaco Basin and the Black Sea.

Taylor, G.T., M. Iabichella, M.I. Scranton, A. Chistoserdov, Y. Astor, and F. Muller-Karger, Prodigious production by chemoautotrophs in the Cariaco’s suboxic zone: fact or artifact?

Thunell, R., F. Muller-Karger, R. Varela, Y. Astor, M. Scranton, G. Taylor, M. Goni, and E. Tappa, The Cariaco time series study: climate forcing, particle fluxes, and sediment accumulation.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Feb 18, 2002

Hello everybody,

Ocean Sciences participants, how was the conference? We hope you let us know for next week’s issue.

While you were away, several MSRC members were recognized for long service to Stony Brook University. This includes the faculties Bob Cess with 40 years our most senior member and Malcolm Bowman as a close follow-up with 30 years of service. Our most senior staff member is Mae Johnson with 20 years. Congratulations.

It happened some time ago, but we just found out that Malcom Bowman testified at a public hearing before the Pew Oceans Commission last November. On November 29, the Pew Oceans Commission held at public hearing at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Ocean Life. In all, commissioners heard over three hours of public testimony on such issues as polluted runoff, sustainable fishing, and coastal development. Museum president Dr. Ellen Futter welcomed the commission to famous hall, well known for the 96-long replica of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling. Theodore Roosevelt IV began the hearing with a call to extend America’s conservation ethic to the sea. Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense followed with a request for new approaches to protect America’s fisheries, coral reefs, and estuaries. Malcom’s testimony follows that of Gov. George Pataki and Theodore Roosevelt IV. See http://www.pewoceans.org/articles/2001/12/13/pr_22601.asp for more details.

Students, did you know….
that all Stony Brook graduate students qualify for up to $250 per year to attend conferences. If you are presenting your material at a professional conference, then you are eligible for up to $250 from the GSO sponsored Research Access Program. All the paperwork you need to get reimbursed can be found at: http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/gso/RAP/travel.html Be mindful that: 1) you are entitled to $250 per academic year, and not per conference. 2) you must be presenting your work, and not simply attending the conference. (Though you need not be sole or first author). 3) Only grad students who pay fees are eligible, those obtaining fee waivers are not.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Feb 25, 2002

Hello everybody,

Following a suggestion by Anne McElroy we would like to make monthly announcements of new research projects within MSRC. You have the opportunity promote yourself in Soundings if you provide a brief description of the project, the funder, the duration, and whether or not there would be any field measurements. This may give your colleagues possibilities of collaborating or piggy backing on field efforts. We hope you will jump on this opportunity, so please let us know if you just started a new project. We will advertise it in next week’s issue. Thanks.

Minghua Zhang will give a lecture in Keller College on Thursday Feb. 28 about the scientific debate on global warming. The lecture will start at 5:30 pm.

Graduate student application files will be available for review by faculty in Room 120 on Monday and Tuesday. Breakfast is set up in Room 120 for faculty who would like to review admissions files.

Students are you looking for an alternative career in science? Then don’t miss this week’s MSRC colloquium. Richard Kerr from Science will talk about an alternative career in oceanography: science writing.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Mar 4, 2002

Hello everybody,

We have added a section to the MSRC newsletter that will announce new research projects on a monthly basis. Malcolm Bowman and Steven Goodbred have taken the lead and listed their recent endeavors. We are waiting for information on yours…

Undergraduates, are you interested in a career in weather forecasting? Then visit this week’s Meteorology Club meeting and question guest speaker Ken Widelski, former graduate and forecaster at the National Weather Service office in San Antonio/Austin, TX.

Report from the Ocean Sciences Meeting:

“The meeting was well organized, with good equipment for diverse option of presentation that made talks more enjoyable. ..”

Ocean Sciences presentations by graduate students Dianne Greenfield (5th from left) and Vicki Ferrini (6th from left).

Last but not least, congratulations to Mandy and Lee Ferguson on the birth of Thomas Lee.Born Saturday, February 23 at 5:22 a.m. and is 22 inches long (9 lb. 6 oz. sister of beautiful Kelsey).

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

Purpose: To evaluate and select a suitable, existing, community storm surge model. To run a series of storm (hurricane and nor’easter) scenarios over the New York Bight to evaluate the potential effectiveness of protecting the metropolitan region from storm surge damage in an era of rising sea level by constructing storm surge barriers. Three barriers are proposed in principle: Verrazano Narrows, Upper East River, and the entrance to Arthur Kill behind Staten Island. The model(s) will be run both with and without storm surge barriers in hindcast and nowcast modes against a background of slowly rising, but accelerating sea level rise (presently 1 foot/century) to see what amelioration can be expected from coastal flooding with barrier emplacement and smart management.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Mar 11, 2002

Hello everybody,

If you want to know what’s going on with the boats, read the latest message from Mark Wiggins.

This year, as in the last 2 years, Larry Swanson, Frank Roethel, and Mark Wiggins have been conducting the EPA’s National Coastal Assessment sampling in New York waters ( http://www.epa.gov/emap/nca/ ). Find out more about the details in the Projects Section.

Students, Have you been to the new student lounge? Our lounge is in Discovery 109. It’s our own space, a place to eat lunch, hang out, drink Friday Beers…. There’s even a blackboard for those more intellectual moments. So come over hang out. There is one thing we need, and that’s furniture. If anyone knows of couches, tables, chairs etc. bring them by. Someone suggested getting beanbag chairs. (The editors of Sounding strongly endorse the concept of beanbag chairs.) One final note…. The cleaning staff is not responsible for cleaning the lounge. So clean up after yourself!!!!!!! Have fun…..

From the GSO:
ALL MSRC and ITPA Students: Please sign the petition approving our request for GSO funds. Our department gets several hundred dollars each year for departmental activities. We can use these funds as we choose. This year they cover events such as the upcoming Vax to Flax run, on May 4. However, we can only get these funds if 30% of all students sign the petition. PLEASE REVIEW THE BUDGET AND SIGN THE PETITION ON THE MAILROOM DOOR!!!!! Please contact Aaron Rust if you have any questions.

Check out our new job announcements.

Please note this week’s living world lecture. Prof. Futuyama from the Department of Ecology and Evolution speaks on “Why we need to teach evolution” on Friday 7:30pm in Earth and Space Sciences. Details can be found below.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen and Alex Kolker

Purpose: To evaluate and select a suitable, existing, community storm surge model. To run a series of storm (hurricane and nor’easter) scenarios over the New York Bight to evaluate the potential effectiveness of protecting the metropolitan region from storm surge damage in an era of rising sea level by constructing storm surge barriers. Three barriers are proposed in principle: Verrazano Narrows, Upper East River, and the entrance to Arthur Kill behind Staten Island. The model(s) will be run both with and without storm surge barriers in hindcast and nowcast modes against a background of slowly rising, but accelerating sea level rise (presently 1 foot/century) to see what amelioration can be expected from coastal flooding with barrier emplacement and smart management.

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Mar 18, 2002

Marine Animal Disease Lab Breaks Walls!

You may have wondered what all the boxes marked Lobster Lab have been doing in Dana Hall for the past couple of months. They are the makings of the new Marine Animals Disease Lab at MSRC. After a seemingly endless wait, things are finally happening. Demolition of the former lab space began last week, coincident with the arrival Alistar Dove, the Cornell part of the team. We hope the second faculty member, Bassem Allam will arrive in the middle of May.

Alistair Dove hails from down under having received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Queensland. His thesis was titled Parasite and the Exotic and Native Freshwater Fishes of Australia. The following year he came to New York to become the Aquatic Pathologist for the New York Aquarium on Coney Island where he was responsible for diagnosing and treating everyone but the marine and terrestrial mammals. While at the NYA he also was an adjunct lecturer at Columbia. It will be a while before Al’s lab is ready, but please stop by to say hello to him in his office, Dana 153. His phone is 9251. Although Al will be employed by Cornell, and be a faculty member of the vet school, he will be in residence at MSRC full time. We hope that in May, Al will be joined by the MSRC part of the team, Bassem Allam. We will let you know more details once he has arrived.

Travel Awards

The SBU Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, is pleased to announce that it is accepting student applications in Excellence in Research and Educationally-related Travel. Click here for details.

MSRC T-shirts

Doug Potts and Ann Zulkosky would like to thank everyone for making the “Unofficial” MSRC T-shirt a rousing success! Sales exceeded all expectations with 133 shirts ordered by 58 people. We would especially like to thank the shirt’s graphic designer, Daniel Frey, for volunteering his services (http://www.danielfrey.com). If anyone would still like a t-shirt, a 2nd and final printing will be done later this spring. Details to follow…

Environmental Studies Career Night

The Environmental Studies Career Night takes place Tuesday night in the Dreiser College Lounge.

Farewell

As you may already know, Pat Corn will be leaving us. Pat’s last day of work is Wednesday, March 27th. Please join us for coffee and cake on Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 pm in room 120 to wish her well in her new position.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen , and Alex Kolker

This week’s contributors: Anne McElroy, Ann Zulkosky

Purpose: To evaluate and select a suitable, existing, community storm surge model. To run a series of storm (hurricane and nor’easter) scenarios over the New York Bight to evaluate the potential effectiveness of protecting the metropolitan region from storm surge damage in an era of rising sea level by constructing storm surge barriers. Three barriers are proposed in principle: Verrazano Narrows, Upper East River, and the entrance to Arthur Kill behind Staten Island. The model(s) will be run both with and without storm surge barriers in hindcast and nowcast modes against a background of slowly rising, but accelerating sea level rise (presently 1 foot/century) to see what amelioration can be expected from coastal flooding with barrier emplacement and smart management.

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Mar 25, 2002

It’s spring break, we will have a quiet week with no seminars to attend. Timothy Essington has announced that the informal seminar will be revived, it is going to be held on Friday afternoons at 3:30pm. Next Friday, however, will be occupied by a Symposium in honor of Prof. Bob Cess’ retirement.

Symposium April 5, 2002

The Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres (ITPA) is sponsoring a symposium, “Radiative Transfer and Global Climate Change” in honor of Professor Bob Cess’ retirement and forty years of service to the university. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 5, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. in Endeavour 120. An evening dinner is planned at the Port Jefferson Country Club at a cost of $38 per person. Officially registered participants may want to pay an optional registration fee of $50 for the symposium; this will include the dinner, name tags, and conference material. Students are encouraged to attend the lectures; they will not be asked to pay anything unless they want to attend the evening dinner. Faculty and staff who are not registered are welcomed to sit in, but won’t get name tags or conference material. The agenda and additional information can be found at http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/symp.html.

Vax to Flax Race May 4, 2002

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Farewell to Pat Corn March 26, 2002 4pm

As you may already know, Pat Corn will be leaving us. Pat’s last day of work is Wednesday, March 27th. Please join us for coffee and cake on Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 pm in room 120 to wish her well in her new position.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen , and Alex Kolker

This week’s contributors: Dianne Greenfield

Purpose: To evaluate and select a suitable, existing, community storm surge model. To run a series of storm (hurricane and nor’easter) scenarios over the New York Bight to evaluate the potential effectiveness of protecting the metropolitan region from storm surge damage in an era of rising sea level by constructing storm surge barriers. Three barriers are proposed in principle: Verrazano Narrows, Upper East River, and the entrance to Arthur Kill behind Staten Island. The model(s) will be run both with and without storm surge barriers in hindcast and nowcast modes against a background of slowly rising, but accelerating sea level rise (presently 1 foot/century) to see what amelioration can be expected from coastal flooding with barrier emplacement and smart management.

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Apr 1, 2002

Bob Cess Symposium April 5, 2002

The Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres (ITPA) is sponsoring a symposium, “Radiative Transfer and Global Climate Change” in honor of Professor Bob Cess’ retirement and forty years of service to the university. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 5, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. in Endeavour 120. An evening dinner is planned at the Port Jefferson Country Club at a cost of $38 per person. Officially registered participants may want to pay an optional registration fee of $50 for the symposium; this will include the dinner, name tags, and conference material. Students are encouraged to attend the lectures; they will not be asked to pay anything unless they want to attend the evening dinner. Faculty and staff who are not registered are welcomed to sit in, but won’t get name tags or conference material. The agenda and additional information can be found at http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/symp.html.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen , and Alex Kolker

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Apr 8, 2002

Informal Seminar on Thursdays at 11:45am

The revived Informal Seminar has been moved to Thursdays 11:45 am. The seminar will be held in Endeavour Hall 120. Ben Twining will give this week’s presentation (see below).

MSRC Winners of SBU’s “What is Leadership?” Contest

Two members of the MSRC community know what leadership is. As you may or may not remember, Stony Brook University initiated a contest for the “What is leadership?” banner, which will be exposed on April 29. From the 10 selected definitions, two of the winning entries are from MSRC faculty and staff. Lynn Bianchet crafted leadership is “the art of helping others find the best in themselves”. The winning entry by an undisclosed MSRC/ITPA adjunct faculty reads leadership is “imagining the future, exploring new ideas, listening to others, and learning from mistakes”. The winners will receive $100 and a poster of the banner on April 29 in the SAC . Congratulations!

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Apr 15, 2002

Hello,

We’d like to announce that one of the recent MSRC Ph.D’s, Patrick Lee Ferguson , has won the Stony Brook University President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students. Congratulations!

We have a busy week this week, with three seminars, a Master thesis defense, and a blood drive. I hope you will have the time to take advantage of some of these offers.

Master Thesis defense

Laurie Zaleski will defend her Master thesis on Tuesday 10:00 Am in Endeavour Hall 120.

Blood Drive April 18, 2002 8:30-2:00PM

On Thursday, there will be a blood drive from 8:30 am to 2:00 PM in Endeavour Hall 120.

Informal Seminar on Thursdays at 11:45am

The Informal Seminar gives students and faculty the opportunity to discuss their research within MSRC. If you always wanted to know what your colleagues next door are working on, but were afraid to ask, come to this seminar. This week’s seminar will be held in Endeavour Hall 113 due to the Blood Drive in EN120. Stephan Munch will be the speaker.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Apr 22, 2002

Hello MSRC,

this week marks new arrivals, defenses, seminars and even concerts by talented MSRC members.

Defenses

We have two defenses this week, the M.S. defense on Thursday 9:30 am by Maureen Dunn, and the Ph.D. defense by Dianne Greenfield on Friday morning 9:30 am. Both defenses take place in Endeavour Hall 120 (see below for more details).

MSRC Colloquium joins Provost Lecture Series

This week’s MSRC Colloquium takes place on Main Campus in the Humanities Building Room 101. The speaker is Robert Dunbar from Stanford University. See below for further details.

Informal Seminar on Thursdays at 11:45 am

The Informal Seminar gives students and faculty the opportunity to discuss their research within MSRC. If you always wanted to know what your colleagues next door are working on, but were afraid to ask, come to this seminar. This week’s seminar will be held by Timothy Essington. (more here)

New Positions

We have listed a new position Ocean Biologist/Ecologist at the University of Hawaii.

MSRC and Culture

On Saturday, April 27, at 8:00 pm, MSRC professor David Conover and graduate students Vanessa Madrid and Rebecca Marzec will be participating in the Stony Brook Chorale concert, which will be held in the Staller Center Recital Hall. The chorale will perform Robert Ray’s “Gospel Mass,” Nancy Telfer’s “The Spell of Times Long Past,” and Harry Somers’ “Five Songs of the Newfoundland Outports.” Tickets are $4 for students and seniors and $8 for everyone else. Please come out and support our singers.

Arrivals

Congratulations to Brian and Jennifer Colle for the birth of Justin Anthony Colle at 1:47 p.m. on Sunday, April 21.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, Apr 29, 2002

Hello MSRC,

take a look at this week’s seminars and learn more about climate, carbon and fish. Then prepare yourself for this weekend’s run/walk from Vax to Flax. Hope to see you there.

Final Results from National Weather Forecast Contest 2001-2002

The National Forecast Contest is now over. During the 8 month contest the 12-member Stony Brook team made 1-2 day temperature and precipitation forecasts M-Th for 8 cities around the U.S. For our 1st time in the contest we did quite well, finishing 9th out of 39 schools (see below for the Top 10 list). Here are some individual standouts: (1) Graduating Senior Brian Pederson finished 12th out of 515 junior/seniors across the country. (2) Chris Balliro, who left the contest early because of Dec graduation, was 15th in the country. (3) 1st year graduate student Yong Song finished 36th out of 165 graduate students. (4) Brian Colle finished 3rd out of 91 faculty/staff and 9th overall (out of 1115).

Graduate Student Paula Rose wins Travel Award

Paula Rose, a Master’s degree student in MSRC, has won a 2002 Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society) Travel Award. She was the only applicant from MSRC, and was one of 13 students campus-wide to be selected for this award. Congratulations, Paula!!

16th Cariaco Research Cruise in Venezuela, May 5-14, 2002

Prof. Scranton and Taylor will be accompanied by F. Mirasol (MSRC grad student) and A. Carter (SBU Bio undergrad) to Isla de Margarita, Venezuela to stage their 16th research cruise in the anoxic Cariaco Basin. Research group will be continuing their biogeochemical and microbiological measurements of this system, as part of the International CARIACO Timeseries Program.

Vax to Flax Race May 4, 2002

Get ready for this year’s annual Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 4! For newcomers, this race is a 4.6 mile (7.5 km) jaunt from Endeavor (Vax) to Flax Pond. Participants can run, walk, or bike. People traveling to Flax on foot are considered part of a team (students or faculty/staff), but the biking is separate. The run/walk team MUST have members of both genders to be legitimate, and all participants are rewarded with a rousing BBQ at Flax Pond at the end of the event. If you’re not interested in traveling the 4.6 miles but still want to participate, we will need timers and perhaps a water station. Sign up on the poster by the mailroom.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

Teaching Assistant for WISE

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, May 6, 2002

Hello MSRC,

it’s the last week of classes. This means there won’t be regular seminars for a long time and we will have to rely on thesis defenses for entertainment. I’m sure you have plans to attend conferences, cruises or field trips this summer.So please if you plan to go somewhere let Soundings know the details.

Jingbo Wu receives the Wu Xiading Memorial Award for the Academic Year 2001-2002

The ITPA faculty has selected graduate student Ms. Jingbo Wu to receive the Wu Xianding Memorial Award for the academic year 2001-02. This award was established as a means to provide a tribute to Professor Wu who died in May 1996 while on a six-month visit to ITPA. Professor Wu was an eminent scholar from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The winner of the Wu Award is selected based on his/her academic achievements while enrolled in the ITPA graduate program. Congratulations, Jingbo. MZ

Alumni News

One of our alumni in atmospheric sciences, Prof. V. Ramanathan of the University of California at San Diego (advisor: Bob Cess), was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was at MSRC earlier this month to attend an ITPA Symposium on Radiative Transfer and Global Climate Change in honor Bob Cess’s forty year service to the university. MZ

Results of the Vax to Flax race

Thanks for coming out on this past Saturday, it was absolutely gorgeous weather, and we had an excellent turnout of 50 people, including walkers, runners, bikers, and helpers! The winning team, squeaking by with an average time of 37:13 wasFACULTY/STAFF. The students were not far behind with an average time of 37:35, so it was close. No records were broken this year, but….The winners were:

Overall, JOHN ROBINSON, a faculty member from the Psychology Dept., who put all of us to shame with a time of 30:48.

Within MSRC, the overall winner(s) were a TIE of CHRIS CLAPP (s/m) and ANTONIO TOVAR (f/m) at 32:41. LAURA COTTRELL (s/f) came in at 32:43, KIM MCKOWN (f/f) came in at 40:47.

And thanks for all of those who stayed for the BBQ that Laura and Michelle put together. DG

MSRC Convocation May 17

The MSRC convocation will be held at 8:30am in Endeavour Hall Room 120. I will list the graduating students in next week’s newsletter.

Summer Internship for Undergraduates at the EPA Long Island Sound Office

Click here to see the full text for the announcement.

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

This week’s contributors: MZ-Minghua Zhang, DG-Dianne Greenfield

Teaching Assistant for WISE

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

Summer Internship for Undergraduates at the EPA Long Island Sound Office

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, May 13, 2002

Hello MSRC,

welcome to gaduation week. Even though regular seminars are over, we have a special seminar on Monday at 2:30 pm. Dr. E. Michael Thurman will be giving a seminar entitled “Reflections on a decade of monitoring of herbicides in surface and groundwater of the midwestern United States”. Dr. Thurman is the project director of the USGS’s Organic Geochemistry Research Group in Lawrence, Kansas. He will be here on May13-14 accompanied by another geochemist from his group, Imma Ferrer. Bruce Brownawell is hosting their visit. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Thurman while he is here, please let Eileen Doyle or Bruce know and we will do our best to make the arrangements.

Tomoko Matsuo received the outstanding student paper award at the AGU Fall 2001 Meeting

ITPA graduate student Tomoko Matsuo received the AGU student paper award for her poster ” Modes of high-latitude electric variability derived from DE-2 measurements: Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis.” She is working on her Ph.D. thesis project at NCAR in Boulder with ITPA faculty Marvin Geller as one of her advisors. Congratulations.

Where do Atmospheric Sciences undergraduates find jobs once they graduate?

Our recent ATM graduates are Kevin Kreeger, Chris Balliro, Brian Pedersen, Kyle Gregory, Spiro Avantinos, Ken Wildelski, and Lee Solomon. Many of the students have already found some interesting jobs: Ken Wildelski: National Weather Service: San Antonio, TX, Kevin Kreeger: Earth Science Teacher in Queens, NY, Brian Pedersen: Weathernews Inc (WNI) ocean route forecasting, Sunnydale, CA, Lee Solomon: WNI ocean route forecasting, Sunnydale, CA

Brian Colle receives COMET Award

ITPA faculty member Brian Colle was awarded a collaborative COMET (Cooperative Program in Operational Meteorology Education and Teaching) award for 3 years to build a regional ensemble modeling forecast system and a real-time model verification system. This effort involves forecasters and hydrologists from the New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston regions and the Eastern Region Headquarters of the National Weather Service in Bohemia, NY. The modeling system will be constructed later this summer and will consist of a series of 5-7 moderate resolution (10-15 km grid spacing) forecasts for around the Northeast.

MSRC Convocation May 17, 8:30 am, Endeavour Hall 120

The MSRC convocation takes place at 8:30 am in Endeavour Hall 120. Please make an effort to attend and congratulate all graduating students, Masters, and Ph.Ds. The following students will attend the convocation: America Canas (MS, DeZafra), Maureen Dunn (MS, Wang), Lee Ferguson (PhD, Brownawell), Dianne Greenfield (PhD, Lonsdale), Sarah Griscom (PhD, Fisher), Anitra Ingalls (PhD, Lee), Melissa Jump (MS, Lwiza), Alberto Marinato (MS, Brownawell), Rutatenekwa Rugabandana (MS, Wilson), Charlene Sullivan (MS, Bokuniewicz), Kimberly Williams (MS, Lopez), Laurie Zaleski (MS, Flood), Ann Zulkosky (MS, McElroy), and Undergrads: Philyppe Carre and Kevin Kreeger (Colle) and Visna Harris (Bowman). Congratulations to all of you!

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

This week’s contributors: Brian Colle, Nancy Glover, Eileen Doyle, Marvin Geller

Teaching Assistant for WISE

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

Summer Internship for Undergraduates at the EPA Long Island Sound Office

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, May 13, 2002

Hello MSRC,

welcome to gaduation week. Even though regular seminars are over, we have a special seminar on Monday at 2:30 pm. Dr. E. Michael Thurman will be giving a seminar entitled “Reflections on a decade of monitoring of herbicides in surface and groundwater of the midwestern United States”. Dr. Thurman is the project director of the USGS’s Organic Geochemistry Research Group in Lawrence, Kansas. He will be here on May13-14 accompanied by another geochemist from his group, Imma Ferrer. Bruce Brownawell is hosting their visit. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Thurman while he is here, please let Eileen Doyle or Bruce know and we will do our best to make the arrangements.

Tomoko Matsuo received the outstanding student paper award at the AGU Fall 2001 Meeting

ITPA graduate student Tomoko Matsuo received the AGU student paper award for her poster ” Modes of high-latitude electric variability derived from DE-2 measurements: Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis.” She is working on her Ph.D. thesis project at NCAR in Boulder with ITPA faculty Marvin Geller as one of her advisors. Congratulations.

Where do Atmospheric Sciences undergraduates find jobs once they graduate?

Our recent ATM graduates are Kevin Kreeger, Chris Balliro, Brian Pedersen, Kyle Gregory, Spiro Avantinos, Ken Wildelski, and Lee Solomon. Many of the students have already found some interesting jobs: Ken Wildelski: National Weather Service: San Antonio, TX, Kevin Kreeger: Earth Science Teacher in Queens, NY, Brian Pedersen: Weathernews Inc (WNI) ocean route forecasting, Sunnydale, CA, Lee Solomon: WNI ocean route forecasting, Sunnydale, CA

Brian Colle receives COMET Award

ITPA faculty member Brian Colle was awarded a collaborative COMET (Cooperative Program in Operational Meteorology Education and Teaching) award for 3 years to build a regional ensemble modeling forecast system and a real-time model verification system. This effort involves forecasters and hydrologists from the New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston regions and the Eastern Region Headquarters of the National Weather Service in Bohemia, NY. The modeling system will be constructed later this summer and will consist of a series of 5-7 moderate resolution (10-15 km grid spacing) forecasts for around the Northeast.

MSRC Convocation May 17, 8:30 am, Endeavour Hall 120

The MSRC convocation takes place at 8:30 am in Endeavour Hall 120. Please make an effort to attend and congratulate all graduating students, Masters, and Ph.Ds. The following students will attend the convocation: America Canas (MS, DeZafra), Maureen Dunn (MS, Wang), Lee Ferguson (PhD, Brownawell), Dianne Greenfield (PhD, Lonsdale), Sarah Griscom (PhD, Fisher), Anitra Ingalls (PhD, Lee), Melissa Jump (MS, Lwiza), Alberto Marinato (MS, Brownawell), Rutatenekwa Rugabandana (MS, Wilson), Charlene Sullivan (MS, Bokuniewicz), Kimberly Williams (MS, Lopez), Laurie Zaleski (MS, Flood), Ann Zulkosky (MS, McElroy), and Undergrads: Philyppe Carre and Kevin Kreeger (Colle) and Visna Harris (Bowman). Congratulations to all of you!

Enjoy your week,

Petra Udelhofen

This week’s contributors: Brian Colle, Nancy Glover, Eileen Doyle, Marvin Geller

Teaching Assistant for WISE

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

Summer Internship for Undergraduates at the EPA Long Island Sound Office

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

UpdatedMon, May 13, 2002

Hello MSRC,
welcome to Soundings.  This page is currently under construction.  Come to Friday Beers!
Enjoy the Weekend.

Alex Kolker

Teaching Assistant for WISE

Ocean Biologist/Ecologist Position, Oceanography Department, University of Hawaii

Research Scientist Position, Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Science Publications Specialist, University of Maine

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has a full time opening for a Research Analyst. E-mail applications to mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas. Scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. have an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division which is located in Monterey, California. For more information: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu

Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a faculty position – Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or possibly tenured, to begin service in academic year 2002-2003. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2002. E-mail William H. Beasley, Search Committee Chairperson wbeasley@ou.edu

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. http://weather.ou.edu

The Dept. of Meteorology at the University of Maryland announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty position to begin on or before the 2002-2003 academic year. http://www.atmos.umd.edu

Produced by Petra Udelhofen

Updated Mon, May 6, 2002

Welcome back for a new school year!  We especially extend our warm welcomes to new students in atmospheric sciences. We wish everybody had a wonderful and productive summer.

We ask those of you who plan to participate in OCN694 to inform Gina ASAP so that you will receive a copy of the articles to be discussed on next Monday.
 

In the following weeks, we will post some latest research results and publication by ITPA faculty and students.

Note that Prof. Sultan Hameed is hosting the MSRC Friday Colloquium this week.  If you want to talk to the speaker, please let Prof. Hameed know.

Welcome back for a new school year!  We especially extend our warm welcomes to new students in atmospheric sciences. We wish everybody had a wonderful and productive summer.

We ask those of you who plan to participate in OCN694 to inform Gina ASAP so that you will receive a copy of the articles to be discussed on next Monday.
 

In the following weeks, we will post some latest research results and publication by ITPA faculty and students.

Note that Prof. Sultan Hameed is hosting the MSRC Friday Colloquium this week.  If you want to talk to the speaker, please let Prof. Hameed know.

This week, Duane Waliser will attend the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) monsoon systems studies
working group meeting, at IRI, Palisades, New York , USA .  Minghua Zhang will attend the ARM Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) meeting in Washington DC.

You may be interested to know the status of the PJ Ferry project.  Here is an update: All instruments have been mounted on board the vessel.  Data is expected to begin being recorded in the next couple weeks and a web page is currently under deveopment to describe the project and provide access to archive and real-time data.  For more information, please ask Duane Waliser, who is the PI of the project.

Publications by ITPA personnel:

The recent issue of the J. Climate includes an article by Edmund Chang and collaborators:  Storm Track Dynamics, Edmund Chang, Sukyoung Lee, and Kyle Swanson, J. Climate, 15, 2163-2183.  It will be posted on the AMS website shortly.

Duane Waliser recently has the following papers in press.  Some of them can be downloaded.

Waliser, D. E., K. M. Lau, W. Stern, C. Jones, 2002: <http://terra.msrc.sunysb.edu/mjolop/mjopred.win.all.doc.pdf> Potential Predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., In Press.

Waliser, D. E., J. Ridout, S. Xie, and M. Zhang, 2002: <http://terra.msrc.sunysb.edu/onr/waliser.etal.pdf> Variational Objective Analysis for Atmospheric Field Programs: A Model Assessment, J. Atmos. Sci., In Press.

Wu, M. L. C., S. Schubert, I. S. Kang, and D. E. Waliser, 2001: Forced and Free Intra-Seasonal Variability Over the South Asian Monsoon Region Simulated by 10 AGCMs, J. Climate, In Press.

Kang I.S., Jin K, Lau K.M., Shukla J., Krishnamurthy V., Schubert S.D., Waliser D.E., Stern W.F., Satyan V., Kitoh A., Meeh G.A., Kanamitsu M., Galin V.Y., Kim J.K., Sumi A., Wu G., Liu Y., 2002: Intercomparion of GCM simulated anomalies associated with the 1997-98 El Niño. J. Climate. In Press.

Kang IS, Jin K, Wang, B., Lau KM, Shukla J, Schubert SD, Waliser DE , Krishnamurthy V, Stern WF, Satyan V, Kitoh A, Meeh GA, Kanamitsu M, Galin VY, Kim JK, Sumi A, Wu G, Liu Y, 2001: Intercomparison of the climatological variations of Asian summer monsoon precipitation simulated by 10 GCMs. Clim. Dyn. In Press.

We have had big turn-outs at the Friday weather discussions led by Brian Colle.  We extend our welcomes to students from the ATM205 class participating in the discussion.  Last Friday, three numerical models, the MM5, the Eta and the Aviation models, all predicted heavy rain over our area from Sunday evening to Monday morning, as a result of the interaction between a cold front and hurricane Hanna.  It looks like the forecasts are on track.

The Center is establishing a Petra Udelhofen memorial scholarship fund.  The fund will be used to award outstanding undergraduate students in Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Sciences.  A fund-raising commitee has been formed and will have its first meeting this week to plan fund raising activities.  Several of our faculty members have already made contributions to the fund.  We have an initial target of raising $10,000 for this scholarship fund.  If you would like to support this worthy effort, please contact Gina for more information.

The NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) is now called the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) as part of the Comminuty Climate System Model (CCSM).  A new version of the CAM (CAM2) was released to the community this summer.  CAM2 uses a new cloud macrophysics scheme developed by Minghua Zhang and collaborators.  A paper describing this new scheme can be downloaded here, which will appear in the Journal of the Geophysical Research (Zhang, M. H., W. Y. Lin, C. S. Bretherton, J. J. Hack, and P. J. Rasch, 2002: A modified formulation of fractional stratiform condensation rate in the Community Atmospheric Model CAM2), 

Last week, Bob Cess attended the NASA CERES Science Team Meeting in GDFL and gave a presentation there.  Marv Geller visited  NASA GISS to discuss collaborative research.

This week, the MIT Integrated Global System Model will be discussed in OCN694.  The following people have volunteered to lead discussions of the five component models:  Matthew Jone and Joe Olson for the economic and anthropogenic model, Justin Wolfe and Xiaosong Yang for the terrestrial ecosystem model, Yilin Li and Yangxing Zheng for the climate model, Jun Zheng and Travis Baggett for the atmospheric chemistry model, and Joonsuk Lee for the natural emission model.

The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorology Society has just gone online (http://www.royal-met-soc.org.uk/).  A paper entitled  “Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parametrizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions” by Xie et al. was recently published in this journal.  Minghua Zhang is a co-author of  the paper.  The paper can be downloaded from http://masetto.catchword.com/vl=1124906/cl=63/nw=1/rpsv/cw/rms/00359009/v128n582/s4/p1095.  Dr. Xie graduated from our program, and he will be visiting us on October 11.

The 2002-2003 National Forecast Contest begins this week (http://www.ems.psu.edu/NFC/). The first city is Fargo, ND. The following 17 students and faculty are participating this year.

Division 1 (faculty and staff):
Brian Colle

Division 2 (graduate students):
Travis Baggett
Matt Jones
Stephanie Grimes
David Myers
Joe Olson
Justin Wolfe
Song Yong

Division 3 (junior/senior):
John Albright
Mike Charles
Joe Giannotti
Paul Giordano
Adrienne Leptich
Don McGrath
Melissa Ou
Anne Szorc
Brian White

Employment Opportunities:

The Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville invites applications for a tenure track faculty member at the assistant or associate professor level.   Details can be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announces the continuation of the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change.  UCAR manages this NOAA-sponsored program which pairs recently graduated postdoctorates with host scientists at US institutions to work in an area of mutual interest.  Details can be found at www.ogp.noaa.gov and on the ITPA bulletin board.

In cooperation with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is seeking postdoctoral level scientists interested in furthering their research interests and developing expertise in new areas.  Details can be found at www.nrlmry.navy.mil or on the ITPA bulletin board.

This week, Brian Colle will attend the Mid-Atlantic Winter Storms Conference in Washington D.C. on 3-5 October.  Brian will present verification results from the SBU MM5 modeling system as well as lead a panel discussion on “Improving Winter Weather Forecasting – Where Do We Go From Here?”.  Marv Geller will be in Rio de Janeiro attending the ICSU meeting (International Council of Scientific Unions) in his capacity as SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee for Solar-Terrestrial Physics) President.

On Tuesday, October 1st, there will be a National Weather Service SKYWARN Spotter Training program in 120 Endeavour Hall MSRC from 5:30-8:00 pm. The program is open to the general public. No experience is needed, just an interest in weather and storms. This is your chance to become NWS
certified, thereby allowing you to call in your reports of severe weather to the NWS when needed. To register for this *free* class, please send an email to Joe Giannotti (joe.giannotti@noaa.gov) before Tuesday.

The MIT Integrated Global System Model will  be discussed in OCN694 for one more week.  The following people will lead this week’s discussion:  Justin Wolfe and Xiaosong Yang for the terrestrial ecosystem model, Yilin Li and Yangxing Zheng for the climate model, Jun Zheng and Travis Baggett for the atmospheric chemistry model.

Duane Waliser will be giving the following talk and participating in the following: “Predictability and Forecast Issues Associated with the MJO”, Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) sponsored workshop on Weather Extremes and Atmospheric Oscillations, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, September 30 – October 2, 2002. 

Dr. Pablo Zurita has arrived at ITPA to work with Edmund Chang as a postdoc.  Pablo recently graduated from MIT.  His office is in Endeavor 195.  Please stop by and say hello when you get a chance.

This week, we will have several people visiting ITPA.  On Monday, Dr. Jim Hack at NCAR will be at ITPA to discuss collaborative research with Minghua Zhang.  On Wednesday, Dr. Isidoro Orlanski at GFDL will visit us and give a seminar.  On Friday, Dr. Shaocheng Xie from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab will visit Minghua Zhang and give a special seminar.

Marv Geller is away this week to attend meetings of the American Meteorological Society’s Council and Executive Committee in Newport, Rhode Island.

This week, ITPA’s 17-member team in the National Forecast Contest begins forecasting for Burlington, VT for two weeks.

The American Meteorological Society has developed special programs to encourage students to join AMS memberships. Invitation letter and application form can be downloaded from:: http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/memb/generalrecruit2.pdf  (letter) and http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/memb/smiley_app.pdf  (application) .

Bob Cess will be in Houston this week to attend the 34th COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Scientific Assembly.  He is invited by the Assembly to present the following talk: “Changes in the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect during 1985 to 1999”.

We will add profiles of ITPA postdocs and research associates on our web.  Please contact George for details if you are in this category.

For those of you who followed the “iris” hypothesis by Prof. Richard Lindzen at MIT regarding the change of cloud cover with temperature, there is a new round of discussion in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society between Lindzen et al. and Hartmann and Michelson, which can be downloaded here and here .  Prof. Lindzen will visit us this week to give the Friday seminar  on a different topic.  We have two seminars in atmospheric sciences this week.

This week, ITPA’s team in the National Forecast Contest begins forecasting for Cheyenne, WY for two weeks.

Duane Waliser will be at George Mason University at the Climate Diagnostics Workshop presenting two talks, one on AGCM representations of intraseasonal variatiability in N.H. summer and another on intraseasonal predictability.

There will be an AMS meeting for the Long Island / NYC Chapter on Thursday, 24 October 2002, 5:30 to 9:00 pm at the New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd St., NYC. There will be speakers and a buffet reception dinner. Please see Prof. Colle for additional details.

This Friday, we will have the FIRST EVER MSRC Oktoberfest, full of German beer, pretzels, bratwurst, soda, cider, and funnel cake. The event is scheduled on Friday, October 25, from 3:30 pm in the boathouse. It is a fundraising event for the Petra M. Udelhofen Scholarship Fund. All are invitated to join the fun. Volunteers are needed to help with set-up. If you can help, please contact one of the Oktoberfest Committee members (Sandy, Julia, Gina, Duane, Sue, Dianne).

The American Meteorological Society has just announcened its undergraduate and graduate scholarships/fellowships for the year 2003.  All applications need to be submitted before Feburary, 2003.  Eligibility and selection information can be found at http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/amsedu/scholfeldocs/.  If you are interested to explore the opportuinities, please see one of the ITPA faculty members.

Th Oktoberfest last Friday was a big success.  Thanks to members of the organizing committee (Sandy, Julia, Gina, Duane, Sue, Dianne).  Everybody enjoyed  the great selection of food, drinks, good talking and music.

Duane Waliser will be giving a seminar at University of Rhode Island on Friday: “Indo-Pacific Ocean Response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation”.

The National Science Foundation has graduate research fellowships available for competition every year.  More information can be found at https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/jsp/homepage/grad_research_fel.jsp.  The deadline for this year’s application is November 7, 2002.   If you are interested to explore the opportuinities, please see one of the ITPA faculty members.

Congradulations to Pablo Zurita who successfully defended his thesis at MIT on October 28th. Pablo will be our TAOS speaker this Wednesday.

This week, two ITPA faculty members will attend the DOE ARM Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group Meeting in Washington DC. Minghua Zhang is a co-organizer of the meeting, and Bob Cess will give an invited presentation entitled “Cloud feedback: What have we learned over the past 27 years?”. The meeting agenda can be found here. After this workshop, Minghua Zhang will attend the steering committee meeting of the PCMDI Climate Prediction-ARM Parameterization Testbed (CAPT) project.

Brian Colle will attend the Northeast Operational Weather Workshop in Albany, NY this week (5-6 Nov). He will present a paper entitled: “High Resolution Simulations of Floyd (1999): Structural Evolution and Responsible Mechanisms for the Heavy Rainfall over the Northeast U.S.”

On Wednesday and Thursday, Edmund Chang is off to Lamont attending a meeting on abrupt climate change. He was invited to present a talk on the influence of Hadley circulation changes on mid-latitude climate.

Graduate student Matt Jones has developed a web page for the new MM5 5-member ensemble forecasts over the Northeast for the 0000 UTC cycle (see http://cheget.msrc.sunysb.edu/html/suny_ensemble.html). More members will be added as computer power is increased this winter.

The ITPA National Forecast team begins forecasting for Seattle, WA this week. 

This week, Marv Geller will be attending the International Symposium on Stratospheric Variations and Climate at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.

The Oktoberfest 2002 photo gallery is now online. You can find it on http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/of.html

This week, ITPA second year Ph.D graduate students will take their oral qualifying exam.

This week, Minghua Zhang will be at NCAR in Boulder Colorado to attend a joint meeting between NCAR and GFDL discussing the NCAR Community Climate Model and the GFDL GCM.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held last Friday to dedicate Petra’s Corner in the MASIC Library. All books donated by Petra’s family have been catalogued by the university library with Petra’s name permanently marked. We want to thank the fund raising committee for the outstanding work and the library to make this happen.

Stony Brook is again in the National Forecast Contest this year, with 39 schools competing. This year we have 17 forecasters, as opposed to 11 last year. We are almost half way into the contest and we are in 11th place (2 ahead of ALB!).

Special congratulations goes to David Myers, who just finished in a 3-way tie for *first* place forecasting for Seattle, WA. He beat out over 700 other forecasters across the country. Dave will receive a certificate, the first ever awarded to Stony Brook for a city competition.

Yong Song finished in 11th place for SEA. Great job!

This week will conclude the interviews of all Dean candidates of MSRC. On Thursday afternoon, the Search Committee will separately meet the students, staff, and faculty to solicit input for all candidates. On Friday morning, the Committee will meet to deliberate on the search and make recommendations to the Provost. Please attend these meetings and have your opinions heard. You may also provide written comments to members of the committee.

Based on recommendations from the NASA sponsored workshop on Prospects For Improved Forecasts Of Weather And Short-Term Climate Variability On Sub-Seasonal Time Scales that was held last April and a number of program discussions since that meeting, letters went out from ITPA/SUNY this week to ten international forecasting/modeling centers and six empirical modelers inviting their participation in a new experimental MJO/ISO prediction program. The program will be hosted by CDC/NOAA and involve having extended-range forecasts operationally sent to CDC where they will process the data to emphasize the MJO/ISO components, compute skill scores, and serve this information to the community via the web. Progress on this activity will be reported in the future.

This week, U.S. policy makers and the climate science community as well as stakeholders will gather in Washington to discuss the Planning of the U. S. Climate Change Science Program. Speakers include former Stony Brook University president and current Science Advisor to President Bush Dr. John Marburger, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, NSF Director Dr. Rita Colwell, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe, EPA Administrator Christine Todd-Whitman, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dr. Samuel Bodman, US Climate Change Science Program Director Dr. James Mahoney, President of National Academy of Sciences Dr. Bruce Alberts, and many more. The workshop is open to public and comments are solicited before January 13, 2003 (http://www.climatescience.gov/sitemap.htm).

The MSRC Holiday party is on Friday this week at 3:00 pm! Please come and bring your family with you. We look forward to the fun of food, drinks, raffle, music, ….

This week is the last week of class. All students are busy preparing the finals.

This week, Minghua Zhang will be in San Francisco attending the ARM STEC meeting.

This is the final exam week. Good luck to all atmospheric sciences graduate and undergraduate students.

Last Friday’s MSRC holiday party was a huge success. The raffles organized by the Udelhofen scholarship committee added a lot of fun to the party. Most of the people got prizes. Among the hot items contested are the baskets of bottles of the Rosemount Estate wines. More details including photos will be posted soon.

On Monday, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm, there is an ITPA faculty meeting.

Roger Kelly’s retirement party starts from 3:00 pm on Monday in Endeavor 120.

PJ Ferry Project Update: Nearly all the instruments have been mounted onto the ship and wiring is underway. It is expected that the ADCP and wind sensors will be the first to become operational – hopefully in the next couple weeks. In the meantime you can check out the project web site at: www.stonybrook.edu/soundscience. Any comments and suggestions in regards to the latter are welcome.

Class starts Wednesday this week. We hope everybody enjoyed the holidays.

Last week, ITPA graduate students had a retreat with ITPA Director Minghua Zhang. The students made constructive comments to improve the education and research programs in atmospheric sciences. The discussion covered the areas of student life, core courses, qualifying exam, and OCN694 (Graduate Seminar in Atmospheric Sciences). A number of suggestions happen to be consistent with what the faculty has recently discussed. Subsequent to the retreat, the ITPA faculty met and discussed the suggestions from the students. Changes to our graduate courses, curriculum, and overall environment will be made, some of which will be implemented as soon as this Spring semester.

Drs. Jerry Potter and Shaocheng Xie from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were at ITPA last week to discuss collaborative research separately with Bob Cess and Minghua Zhang.

Graduate student Jingbo Wu got a Global Change Scholarship from the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The scholarship will pay for air travel and lodging expenses for her to attend the AMS annual meeting in California this coming February. Congratulations, Jingbo!

Right before the winter break, Keeyoon Sung successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis proposal: “Laboratory measurements of infrared spectra of planetary atmospheric trace gases”. Prof. Prasad Varanasi is the thesis advisor. Congratulations, Keeyoon!

The Oklahoma Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma invites motivated undergraduate students interested in a career in scientific research or secondary science education to apply for a summer research program. Deadline 2/19/03

Details can be found at http://www.caps.ou.edu/reu or on the ITPA bulletin board.

Special Session: ITPA faculty members at AMS Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA

Three ITPA faculty members are at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society at Long Beach, CA this week: Marv Geller, Duane Waliser, and Edmund Chang.

Marv Geller is attending the annual meeting as a member of the AMS’ Council and Executive Committee.

Duane Waliser will be making four presentations at the meeting. These include

1) Poster entitled “Marine and Atmosphere Observations from the Bridgeport – Port Jefferson Ferry: A Community Resource for Conducting Long Island Sound Research” by Waliser, R. Wilson, T. Wilson, T. Baggett, J. Giannotti1, D. Codiga, and M. Reynolds;

2) Poster entitled “Assessing Ocean Buoy Shortwave Observations using Clear-Sky Model Calculations” by D. Waliser, M. Medovaya, R. Weller, and M. McPhaden;

3) Talk entitled “Variational Objective Analysis for Atmospheric Field Programs: A Model Assessment” by D. Waliser, J. Ridout, S. Xie, and M. Zhang;

4) Invited Talk entitled “AGCM Simulations of Intraseasonal Variability Associated with the Asian Summer Monsoon” by D. Waliser and 15 others.

Edmund Chang will be presenting two papers at the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations:

1) Talk: “STORM TRACK VARIABILITY AS SEEN FROM AIRCRAFT AND SHIP OBSERVATIONS” at 4:30 pm on Monday, 2/10,

2) Poster: “USING MEAN FLOW CHANGE AS A PROXY TO INFER INTER-DECADAL STORM TRACK VARIABILITY” at 2:30-4pm on Monday.

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