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2006 Awards

The Advanced Study Program's new Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) enjoyed its second year in 2006. Six university faculty were able to visit NCAR for extended visits. Those faculty include:

Enrique Curchitser

	Home Institution:	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
	NCAR Host Division:	Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	Towards multi-scale modeling of oceanic coupled physical-biological systems within the CCSM framework.
	Collaborator(s):	William Large
	Length of Stay:	3 Months
	Students:	None
	Participant Comments:	“I had a wonderful  summer here,  and I want to thank you for your help.  We establishd an important collaboration here, and hopefully I'll be back in Boulder soon.”

Sunil Khatri

	Home Institution:	Texas A&M University
	NCAR Host Division:	Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL)
	Topic:	1. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based reconfigurable systems for hardware implementation of data acquisition and signal processing boards for use in radar and lidar applications at NCAR. 2. Extreme low power sensor and transmitters for weather, CO2, O3, and CO data acquisition.
	Collaborator(s):	Jothiram Vivekanandan
	Length of Stay:	3 Months
	Students:	One graduate student for three months
	Participant Comments:	“The Faculty Fellowship has been a tremendously rewarding experience for me. I have come away with a high regard for the depth and breadth of the work being conducted at NCAR. I also found the NCAR personnel to be extremely competent, and easy to get along with. With their engagement, we were fortunate to complete the design of the two reconfigurable radar signal processing engines. We hope to test these on NCAR's radars at the earliest. My student Suganth has matured significantly as a researcher through his participation in this program. Further, I feel that I came away with some ideas, through our summer work at NCAR, which would form the seeds of some new research initiatives in my group. We plan to submit two publications with NCAR personnel, based on our summer work.”

Jan Mandel

	Home Institution:	University of Colorado, Denver
	NCAR Host Division:	Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL), and Institue for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)
	Topic:	Data assimilation in atmospheric sciences
	Collaborator(s):	Janice Coen and Doug Nychka
	Length of Stay:	3 months
	Students:	One graduate student for three months
	Participant Comments:	“The fellowship at NCAR has allowed me to start gaining background in atmospheric science, in addition to one month of continued NSF funded work with Janice Coen on wildfire simulation. We have made a good progress on formulating a PDE based model. The report from this work is about to be finished.”

David Noone

	Home Institution:	University of Colorado, Boulder
	NCAR Host Division:	Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	Evaluation of isotop climate proxies from global process modeling of five paleoepochs
	Collaborator(s):	Bette Otto-Bliesner
	Length of Stay:	3 months
	Students:	One graduate student for three months

Hatim Sharif

	Home Institution:	University of Texas at San Antonio
	NCAR Host Division:	Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)
	Topic:	1. REFRACTT Experiment, 2. Long-term land surface modeling study over the Southern Great Plains, and 3. Education and Outreach.
	Collaborator(s):	Roy Rasmussen and David Gochis
	Length of Stay:	3 months
	Students:	None
	Participant Comments:	“The faculty fellowship was an excellent opportunity to interact with and benefit from NCAR scientists. Moreover, NCAR resources were available for me during this visit. I have started, and continued, collaboration with several scientists at RAL. Collaboration resulted in one funded collaborative proposal to NOAA (100 K), one submitted proposal (83k), one submitted LOI, two submitted conference abstracts, and four ongoing studies. I had the chance to present my work through two seminars at NCAR. I work on hydrologic analysis and forecasting and close collaboration with NCAR hodrometeorologists has tremendous potentials. I also learned that ASP has a program for graduate students which I will definitely recommend to my students. I also plan to send some students to SOARS. Last, but not least, the cheerful help from ASP staff was invaluable."

Paquita Zuidema

	Home Institution:	University of Miami
	NCAR Host Division:	The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies (TIIMES) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
	Topic:	The influence of evaporative cooling upon Vaisala temperature soundings from the southeastern Pacific stratocumulus region.
	Collaborator(s):	Junhong Wang
	Length of Stay:	3 months
	Students:	None
	Participant Comments:	“The program was a wonderful experience. Although I have previously lived in Boulder, this program allowed me a physical presence at NCAR for the first time. The opportunity to develop a collaboration with Junhong Wang, whose abilities I have long admired, was very valuable to me. The facilities and work space were more than adequate, the staff professional and friendly. The ready access to NCAR seminars and scientists was extremely enriching, and opened doors for valuable potential future collaborations. I want to thank Junhong Wang for suggesting that I apply to this program, and thank the program for creating and facilitating such faculty visits. I expect I will apply again, both to finish the work begun this past summer, and because NCAR provided such a hospitable and productive environment.”