4-th Annual UCAR/NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions (JFF)

August 1st through August 3rd, 2006, Boulder, Colorado

The topics for this year's forum are the following. More detailed information, including: (i) the beginnings of a white paper, (ii) a list of relevant papers, and (iii) subtopics: can be found by clicking on the links below.

* Topic 1: The Science of Communicating Uncertainty in Weather and Climate

* Topic 2: Regional and Global Models: A study in model sensitivities to various parameters

* Topic 3: Air Quality Management: Recent progress and future directions

What is the JFF?

The Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) hosts the annual NCAR Junior Faculty Forum on future scientific directions with the objective of bringing together junior faculty (or postdoctoral researchers) and members of NCAR's Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) to discuss selected topics in the Geosciences.
This forum is open to non-tenured faculty at UCAR member universities and institutions, with preference given to those within five years of their first professorial academic appointment (some non-tenured faculty at non-member universities/institutions in North America may be considered).

The primary goals of the forum are the following.

* To have junior scientists decide a research plan for future science directions including identification of new and important scientific challenges, development of grant proposals, and planning strategies for conducting research on the identified challenges.
* Encourage collaboration between early career scientists at NCAR and junior faculty and researchers at universities and other research institutions (particularly UCAR member institutions).
 
A secondary goal of the forum is to familiarize junior faculty with the facilities that NCAR has to offer including models, computers, observational facilities and collaborative opportunities.