The NCAR Mesa Laboratory was completed in this year.
What is 1966?
100
The full name of the UCP program "JOSS"
What is the Joint Office of Science Support?
100
This woman was the first to obtain a PhD in meteorology (University of Chicago). Her photo hangs in the Mesa Lab Damon Room.
Who is Joanne Simpson.
100
This educational resource from the 1990s was created by NCAR scientists, UCAR educators, and formal middle-school educators. Parts of it are still available online today.
What is Project LEARN?
100
Name of NCAR's newest climate model
What is the Community Earth System Model (CESM)?
200
Walter Orr Roberts obtained his doctoral degree from this US university, which brought him to Colorado.
What is Harvard?
200
This is the flagship supercomputer at NWSC.
What is Yellowstone?
200
This North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) expert is the current division director of the NCAR Earth System Laboratory.
Who is Jim Hurrell?
200
This figure, recently released for spring 2010, is the highest since 1975-1976, 78%.
What is the percentage of US high-school students graduating on time?
200
Hurricane Sandy was the topic of this UCP scientist's appearance in the recent NOVA PBS special, Inside the Megastorm.
Who is Jeff Weber?
300
Most of NCAR's first scientists filled positions within this NCAR program/division.
What is HAO.
300
The second draft of this K-12 science standards document was released for review earlier this month.
What is NGSS, the Next Generation Science Standards?
300
In 2010, this NCAR scientist was only the second woman to become president of the American Meteorological Society.
Who is Peggy LeMone?
(She followed Susan Avery who was president of AMS in 2004.)
300
This is the oldest education-related program at UCAR/NCAR.
What is the Advanced Study Program (ASP), led today by Chris Davis?
300
Between 1979 and 2012, Arctic sea ice extent reached a record seasonal minimum during this season & year, reinforcing its downward trend.
What is summer 2012? (3.41 million square kilometers)
400
This document conveyed preliminary plans for a National Institute for Atmospheric Research (NIAR) over 5 decades ago?
What is the Blue Book, prepared in Feb. 1959 for the NSF by 14 department heads dubbed the University Committee on Atmospheric Research. NIAR became NCAR.
400
The 2 UCP Programs with titles that are NOT acronyms.
What are Spark and Unidata?
400
This NCAR marine ecologist and geologist was named a recipient of the prestigious Heinz Award in 2011.
Who is Joanie Kleypas?
400
The number of current UCAR University Members
What is 78? (Plus, there are 26 affiliate members.)
400
UCAR President Tom Bogdan recently called on the US Congress to create this entity.
What is the first US Weather Commission?
500
This individual was originally tapped to be UCAR's founding director, but withdrew his nomination at the 11th hour.
Who is James Van Allen - namesake of the Van Allen radiation belts and one of three men responsible for Explorer 1 – the United States' first satellite.
500
Names and/or acronyms of all UCP Programs
What are COMET, COSMIC, DLS, GLOBE, JOSS, NSDL, Spark, Unidata, VSP
500
Warren Washington traveled to Russia in 1971 with this famous MIT mathematician and meteorologist who was a frequent summer visitor to NCAR. He coined the term "Butterfly Effect" related to Chaos Theory.
Who is Edward Lorentz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos?
500
The number of founding UCAR university members.
What is 14?
500
This recent field campaign investigated the impact of deep, midlatitude continental convective clouds.
What is the Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Experiment (DC3)?