Education and Outreach

CGD is a strong supporter of educational activities at NCAR, the scholastic arenas and the general community. We have a broad range of participation as shown in the table below.

Staff Appointments to NCAR:	Total
Postdoc Fellowships	5
Graduate Research Assistants	2
Undergraduate Students	0
Teaching Appointments	13
Advising on Graduate Research	7
Member of Thesis Committee	10

Other Activities:
Seminars, Presentations, and Workshops
Technical	192
Non-Technical	21

The Geophysical Statistics Project continues. This project encourages the application of statistical analysis and the development of new statistical methods in the geophysical sciences. The overriding programmatic strategy is to bring in young postdoctoral fellows to collaborate with resident NCAR geophysical scientists. Also, the statistics visitors supported by this project provide statistics guidance to the fellows. This structure allows for growth in the careers of the young statistics postdoctoral fellows as well as providing additional research tools to the geophysical sciences. For more information, please see GSP section in the Narratives of the ASR04.

Sylvia Murphy (SEWG) and Dennis Shea (CAS) continue to participate in development of a free, general purpose, public domain software data processing tool based on SCD's NCAR Command Language (NCL). This tool can be used to access, process and visualize data in a variety of formats. They support and teach UCAR and university users how to use the NCL tool. To facilitate outreach, they have used three approaches: (i) a World Wide Web (WWW) portal (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support/) (ii) tutorial workshops and (iii) downloadable reference manuals. The WWW portal contains numerous examples based upon 'real-world' applications. Separate links are provided for file input/output, data processing and visualization. Examples are based upon structured training methods which proceed from simple to more complex applications. The free, three-day tutorial workshops are offered at NCAR three to five times per year. In addition to NCL, these workshops offer instruction in special CCSM related processing tools and the netCDF operators. The classes have been attended by NCAR, university and government personnel. Upon request, as part of university outreach, workshops have been held at universities. In FY04, six NCL workshops were conducted. Three were invited workshops, and they were held at Purdue University (15 attendees), Naval Research Laboratory (14 attendees), and NOAA’s National Ocean Service’s Laboratory (13 attendees). Three workshops ere conducted at NCAR with a total of 23 attendees.

Each year CGD holds a CCSM Workshop which brings together CCSM users throughout the community. At the workshop, participants present findings based on either model output from simulations or model development

CGD continues to support strongly, seminars, presentations and workshops, both technical and non-technical in nature. In FY04 the technical talks range from in house seminars to invited talks at international symposiums. This was a workshop for nineteen highly qualified high school teachers who, during a two-week period explored many aspects of the geosciences related to climate and global change. Examples of non-technical talks range from climate change presentations to undergraduates at the University of Colorado to CGD scientists being interviewed on National Public Radio. The number of CGD's technical seminars, presentations, and workshop tops 200, exemplifying CGD's strong interaction with its peers and outreach to the community.