NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research

Have you noticed our ozone garden at the Mesa Lab? It’s both beautiful and beneficial for scientists, BEElieve it or not! 🐝 The garden hosts an array of bioindicators, or plants that are sensitive to ground-level ozone. Scientists use this garden as a way to understand the air quality in the Denver area over the past growing and blooming season. Next time you visit the Mesa Lab, check out our ozone garden and the informative posters curated by UCAR - The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/ UCAR Center for Science Education. 🐝 Learn more about our ozone garden: https://lnkd.in/gMSJJnNg • • • #ozone #airquality #bioindicators #garden

We’re going for the GOLD in weather research! 🥇 As Olympic teams assemble their finest athletes, several international forecasting and weather research organizations will be collaborating during the Paris Olympics. They will be providing hi-res forecast info for Olympics organizers while testing experimental air quality and weather models. • Learn more about the friendly forecasting competition proposed by METEO FRANCE: https://lnkd.in/dMTnuM7b • • • #Paris #Olympics #AirQuality #wxresearch

Want to SEA how scientists use models to study coral reefs?🪸 Join us this Wednesday, July 24 at 5:30 for an Explorer Series lecture with associate scientist Kelly Dunning all about saving our underwater wonders and climate models. • Register: https://lnkd.in/gvbaEDaS • • • #coralreefs #marinebiology #climatemodels

How can scientists study coral reefs using our models? 🤿 Dive into this exciting research during the next Explorer Series lecture featuring visiting scientist Kelly Dunning. Join us next Wednesday, July 24 from 5:30-7 PM (MT) online and at the Mesa Lab. We hope to SEA you there! 🌊 https://lnkd.in/gvbaEDaS • • • #coralreef #webinar #marineresearch

Will hurricanes get more intense in a warmer climate? Scientists are looking into how moisture in the atmosphere might affect the growth of hurricane “seeds.” Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over Africa, making it more difficult for the predecessors of many Atlantic hurricanes to form, according to a new study led by NSF NCAR scientist Kelly Nunez Ocasio, PhD. Learn more about cyclogenesis, or the formation of tropical storms, and how a warmer climate will impact hurricanes: https://lnkd.in/gtRY3g-6 • • • #hurricanes #wxresearch #weather

After the #DinosaurFire in Boulder this past weekend, we are glad to report that the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab is now open to staff and the public today, July 15. Thank you to all the #firefighters, the airborne response team, and the emergency responders who worked quickly and tirelessly through the weekend to protect the Mesa Lab and all of Boulder. • Photo extracted from video taken by Tyler Jones

In 1984, NSF NCAR supported the Los Angeles Olympic games with weather forecasting towers! #ThrowbackThursday 🏊🏼♀️ To support the National Weather Service Forecast Office, we deployed eight solar-powered Portable Automated Mesonet (PAM II) weather stations to give up-to-the-minute weather updates. This was integral to ensure events like cycling, equestrian events, and swimming and diving (among others) were not interrupted by weather events. 🏃♀️ Learn more from the NSF NCAR Archives and explore this #Olympics artifact: https://lnkd.in/gZC5FRMQ • • • #weather #wx #tbt

Did you know that there’s a secret tunnel under the Mesa Lab, filled with scientific secrets?? 🕵🏻♀️ Well, it’s maybe not soooo secret, but nonetheless, it is very, very illuminating for solar science! Welcome to the NSF NCAR Vacuum Tunnel Facility! • Our Vacuum Tunnel Facility is located underneath the Mesa Laboratory, containing a class 10,000 clean room (peep the clean suits!) and coronagraph calibration chamber. Run by the NSF NCAR High Altitude Observatory (HAO), the spaces are used for testing and calibrating both internally and externally occulted coronagraphs.  • The UCAR - The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Communications team recently took a tour and suited-up in clean suits to learn all about the amazing instruments and tunnels right beneath our feet at the Mesa Lab! Big thank you to Scott Sewell for a fantastic tour. • Sleuth out more info about this secret tunnel:  https://lnkd.in/gzuxy2yF • • • #coronagraph #secrettunnel #mesalab

New art exhibit alert!🚨 Check out “Exploring Climate Change Through Art” displayed in the Mesa Lab cafe. The exhibit hosts an array of stunning art pieces in a variety of mediums, from painting to textile art and sculpture. #MesaLabMonday Plan your visit: https://lnkd.in/gunDmGvY

We're #Hiring! Are you interested in advancing Earth system science by supporting the strategic priorities of NSF NCAR? Do you have a background in business/public administration or law? Consider applying for the Assistant Director for Operations at NSF NCAR, where you'll help us on the delivery of business and administrative functions that support the strategic plan at NCAR and UCAR and other operational tasks. If this isn't the right fit for you, take a look at our other open positions. We'd love to learn more about how your skills can benefit NSF NCAR! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/giN8bp3V • • • #wearehiring #jobsearch #operations #strategicplanning #businessadmin #law