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Educational Statistics
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 |
7 |
| Graduate Research
Assistants |
6 |
| Undergraduate Students |
3 |
| Teaching Appointments |
13 |
| Advising on Graduate
Research |
6 |
| Member of Thesis Committee |
12 |
| |
|
| Other Activities: |
|
| Seminars, Presentations,
and Workshops |
|
| Technical |
288 |
| Non-Technical |
31 |
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 ASR03.
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 and other public domain . 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 4-5 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 (Purdue, UCLA, Univeristy of Alaska and UCSC).
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, presentaitons and workshops, both technical
and non-technical in nature. In FY03 numerous CGD scientists gave presentations at
the first annual NCAR Climate and Global Change Geosciences Education Workshop hosted by
UCAR's Office of Education and Outreach. 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. Other 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 again tops 300 thus
exemplifying CGD's strong interaction with its peers and outreach to the community.