Director's Note

Fred Best

In light of all the news about the Government sequester, shutdown, and looming debt ceiling issue, it seems a bit of clarification as well as a few reassuring words are in order. First the clarification...more

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Technical Computing

Scott Nolin and John Lalande attended the Lustre Administrators and Developers Conference 2013 (LAD '13) in Paris last month (September 16 - 17). Scott spoke about testing done here at SSEC...more

Human Resources

The It's Your Choice enrollment period is set for October 7 - November 1, 2013. This is your opportunity to make changes to your health insurance plan, as well as any other benefits...more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

	Steve Ackerman Elected 2014 AMS Fellow Steve Ackerman, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and director of CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society...more
	Source of High Ozone Tracked Down in Wyoming Thunder Basin, Wyoming, found itself threatened by an invisible invader on 6 June 2012. Carried by the wind, high levels of atmospheric ozone descended into the remote...more
	Expedition Earth: Weather Satellites at the Wisconsin Science Festival For the third year in a row, Patrick Rowley, representing CIMSS, will take visitors on a unique journey of Earth as seen from the vantage point of an orbiting weather satellite...more
	Thirty Years of Cloud Studies Paying Off An article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, “Assessment of Global Cloud Datasets from Satellites: Project and Database Initiated by the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges Radiation Panel) Cloud Assessment,” compares and evaluates current long-term cloud data products...more
	Breaking the Ice in Madison The 7th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology came to the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus September 9-13, 2013. SSEC’s Ice Drilling Design and Operations team and the Ice Drilling Program Office...more
	Looking Back at GOES-12, Looking Forward to GOES-R On August 16, 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) retired the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-12 (GOES-12 satellite), after ten years of service monitoring severe weather in the Atlantic basin and South America...more
	CIMSS Goes Epic Patrick Rowley and Tim Schmit presented a display consisting of the CIMSS/SSEC 3-D Globe, education and public outreach brochures, and several large full disk GOES images...more