1. NSF facilities User Workshop
Welcome to NCAR!
NSF facilities User Workshop
24 September, 2007
Tim Killeen
NCAR Director

2. University Collaborations and Programs
UCAR
NCAR
Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
(CISL)
Earth Observing Laboratory
(EOL)
Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory
(ESSL)
Research Applications Laboratory
(RAL)
Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory
(SERE)
A. Kellie
R. Wakimoto
G. Brasseur
B. Foote
D. Stephenson Hawk
IMAGe
TIIMES
ISSE
SCD
CDS
DFS
FPS
ISF
RAF
RSF
TDF
ACD
CGD
HAO
MMM
AAP
HAP
JNT
NSAP
WSAP
ASP
CCB
April 2007
University Collaborations and Programs
Scientific Research Divisions
Institutes
Facility and Service Providers
Education and Application Programs

3. A Founding NCAR Mission:
“… to provide, or arrange for provision of, facilities for the scientific community as a whole whose initial cost and upkeep lie beyond the capability of individual universities or research groups.”
Preliminary Plans for a National Institute for Atmospheric Research, 1959, NCAR Blue Book

4. Primary Sponsor: National Science Foundation

6. Community Climate System Model (vs 3.5)

7. NCAR’s Priorities
Support for community user facilities (observational and computational)
Community Models
Early Career Scientists
Programmatic innovation
Strategic integrative science
Partnerships
Broad spectrum education and outreach
Diversity (people, backgrounds, ideas, etc.)