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2005 Faculty Fellowship Awards

The Advanced Study Program’s new Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) enjoyed its inaugural year in 2005.  Three university faculty were able to visit NCAR for extended visits.  Those faculty include:

Weiqing Han

	Home Institution:	University of Colorado, Boulder
	NCAR Host Division:	Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	The Indian Ocean Subtropical Cells in CCSM3: Structure, Dynamics and Impact on Interannual-to-Decadal Climate
	Collaborator(s):	Gerald Meehl & Aixue Hu
	Length of Stay:	3 Months
	Students:	None
	Participant Comments:	“…the FFP indeed served the purpose of building a long-term collaboration between the University and NCAR.”

Lian-Ping Wang

	Home Institution:	University of Delaware
	NCAR Host Division:	Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	Can the Turbulence-Enhanced Collision-Coalescence Explain the Observed Rapid Development of Precipitation in Warm Clouds?
	Collaborator(s):	Wojciech Grabowski
	Length of Stay:	3 Months
	Students:	Two Graduate Students for 1 month each
	Participant Comments:	“My student just returned to Delaware today. He has done a tremendous amount of work this last month here. He completed his 200-page dissertation and is about ready to defend his PhD dissertation in mid July. I really appreciate the student support as a part of my faculty fellowship appointment.”

Arne Winguth

	Home Institution:	University of Wisconsin
	NCAR Host Division:	Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	CCSM-MUDS: Coupling of a Sediment Model to CCSM to Study Sedimentary Changes at the Permian-Triassic Boundary
	Collaborator(s):	Jeffrey Kiehl
	Length of Stay:	3 months
	Students:	None
	Participant Comments:	“The Faculty Fellowship Program provides an excellent opportunity for a strong collaboration between the research activities at the universities and at NCAR by bringing together scientists from different areas of expertise.”