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Such is life in Antarctica<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jen O’Leary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Automatic Weather Station project maintains instruments in remote areas to gather valuable meteorological data. Shelley Knuth and George Weidner headed to Antarctica to perform maintenance on these instruments.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The day after Christmas,\u00a0Shelley Knuth<\/strong>\u00a0(AWS and AMRC) began an arduous journey to the end of the earth. For more than a month, Knuth will traverse Antarctica\u2019s icy landscape to check up on instruments across the continent that gather important meteorological information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile these stations are very robust and can withstand extremely cold temperatures and high winds, sometimes they can break and require someone to visit them,\u201d Knuth says. The\u00a0Automatic Weather Station project<\/a>\u00a0within SSEC currently maintains over 60 sites. During this visit, Knuth will visit several sites and hopes to install two new stations.<\/p>\n

Automatic weather stations provide an invaluable resource for researchers and forecasters, as well as the general public, by collecting meteorological observations in Antarctica with no human input at each site. Each station measures temperature, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, and relative humidity. With co-worker\u00a0George Weidner<\/strong>\u00a0(AOS), Knuth will perform maintenance and ensure continued data retrieval.\u00a0Jessica Staude<\/strong>, an AOS student with\u00a0Steve Ackerman<\/strong>, is the lead worker for AMRC on this trip to Antarctica. She will help move the AMRC in Crary Lab to the forecast office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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McMurdo station serves as home base for Knuth, Weidner and Staude. Early on in their visit, they experience Icestock, a day-long music event.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

McMurdo Station serves as home base for Knuth, Weidner and Staude. Before getting to work, the researchers must attend classes required for all visitors to Antarctica. Snow School provides information about survival out in the cold. Instructors teach visitors useful skills such as how to pitch a tent, how to prevent and treat cold weather maladies, and how to operate communication radios.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parka is bright red or a few reasons – one, in case you get lost and\u00a0Search and Rescue are trying to find you, they can more easily spot you. Second, a seal will be less likely to mistake you for a penguin and see you as dinner,\u201d Knuth says.Beyond survival tactics, Knuth, Weidner and Staude also received Extreme Cold Weather gear. This ensemble includes: snow pants, two layers of thermal underwear, wool socks, a hat, gloves, boots, and a giant red parka. Altogether, the gear weighs about 30 pounds.<\/p>\n

In addition to learning about safety and survival in the continent’s rather inhospitable climate, visitors also hear about the more mundane aspects of life in the southernmost part of the world.<\/p>\n

For example, Knuth described a meeting that focused on garbage. Most of the trash produced by human beings in Antarctica ends up in the United States for recycling. This class instructs visitors on proper waste disposal. \u201cAbout 60% of it is recycled. Less than half of that is done in major U.S. cities,\u201d Knuth reports.\u201cYou can’t say I wasn’t paying attention this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

After attending the required classes, Knuth and Weidner began to visit the automatic weather stations. They started with a trip to the Linda AWS site. \u201cGeorge [Weidner] is going as the expert, and I am going as the person who hands him stuff,\u201d Knuth says. Finding the site proved a challenging task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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In order to perform maintenance on the stations, researchers must first locate them. A station can migrate because the ice flows off the Transantarctic Mountains.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Using global positioning technology, the researchers determine the last known position of the station. A station can migrate because the ice flows off the Transantarctic Mountains. Aboard a helicopter, Knuth and Weidner flew to the site\u2019s most recent coordinates. Once they arrived near the site, they needed to find the station using their eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to see something that’s 3 meters tall in an expanse of white,\u201d Knuth says. \u201cOne would think that it would be easy to spot, since it’s the only thing out there. However, it is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having found the station, Weidner and Knuth disembarked and began to work. The Linda station stopped transmitting data back in June. The pair found no physical damage, and was able get the station up and running by simply rebooting the system.<\/p>\n

Since the trip to the Linda station, Weidner and Knuth have visited several more sites. Knuth now plans to fly to West Antarctica. Due to various delays, she had not left as of January 9. \u201cThis is a good example of how unpredictable things are on this continent!\u201d Knuth says.<\/p>\n

Stayed tuned for Part 2 as reports come in from the team in Antarctica.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Data and Imagery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Animated weather for PDAs<\/strong>\u2014Russ Dengel<\/strong>\u2019s (SSEC)\u00a0PDA Animated Weather service<\/a>, known as PAW, continues to benefit a diverse community, from long-haul truck drivers to firefighters in Puerto Rico to commuters trying to get to work safely on a snowy morning, according to a\u00a0January 6 news release<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Jennifer O\u2019Leary<\/strong>\u00a0(SSEC). The free service allows PDA users to access real-time radar and satellite weather images and forecasts whenever and wherever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dengel’s PAW allows PDA users to access real-time radar and satellite weather images and forecasts whenever and wherever.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Based on the release, the January 9 edition of the\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported on the tool\u2019s growing popularity. Reporter Gena Kittner interviewed police officer Dave Zittlow of Fond du Lac who uses the PDA-focused animations and imagery to avoid thunderstorms. Skip Voros, Executive Director of theMilwaukee Area Skywarn Association<\/a>\u00a0said that the \u201cstorm spotter (SKYWARN) community will find this program a valuable tool for tracking severe storms.\u201d They now link to the\u00a0PAW website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As reported\u00a0last month in SSEC\u2019s\u00a0In the News<\/em><\/a>, Dengel continues to add tailored imagery for interested users throughout the world, although aimed mostly at the United States. He is able to accommodate international requests because SSEC receives satellite data from around the world in near real time. The\u00a0SSEC Data Center<\/a>\u00a0archives much of the satellite data it receives and provides it to scientists and others whose research and development helps fund Data Center operations. Imagery is provided to the public for free on the Web.<\/p>\n

Dengel uses software developed at SSEC to produce his animations. Since 1972,\u00a0McIDAS<\/a>\u00a0(the Man computer Interactive Data Access System) has been used around the world by weather organizations. Weather Central in Madison, Wisconsin, that provides weather forecasts for the channel 27 viewing area, still uses it. This flexible and powerful visualization and analysis tool is at the heart of not only Dengel\u2019s PAW, but other focused meteorological tools.<\/p>\n

AniS in Iraq<\/strong>\u2014U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Carl P. Densford reports, \u201cI am extremely pleased with the results I got from using your coding and web page. We are going to be using it for radar viewing over the internet.\u201d SSgt. Densford noted that the program they were given for viewing radar \u201cwasn\u2019t very user friendly. \u2026 We couldn\u2019t really tell what was going on with movement of features, let alone transfer the images anywhere.\u201d With his supervisor, Densford wrote an automated screen-capture program that renames and saves consecutive radar images to a folder. He uses\u00a0AniS<\/a>, developed by SSEC programmer\u00a0Tom Whittaker<\/strong>\u00a0(SSEC), to make them useful. \u201cIt allows us to see these loops and manipulate the[m] \u2026 . The loop script we were using was just a simple start, stop, next and previous. \u2026 With your software and page, our capabilities have increased exponentially. Our radar will be the only one in Iraq viewable via the internet, letting the entire area of operations and all military installations across the globe see our products. \u2026 Just wanted to let you know the value of what you all have produced. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image for Franklin exhibit\u2014<\/strong>The\u00a0Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary committee<\/a>\u00a0will use an SSEC image in a traveling exhibit about Ben Franklin. The MODIS image, from SSEC\u2019s Direct Broadcast facility, will appear in a computer interactive exhibit that illustrates the Gulf Stream.<\/p>\n

Updated software<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014The latest print issue of NASA\u2019s\u00a0The Earth Observer<\/em>announced SSEC\u2019s updated International MODIS\/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP). The software package makes it possible to process raw data from MODIS and AIRS instruments aboard NASA\u2019s Terra and Aqua satellites. The announcement lists some changes including improvements to the useful cloud mask algorithm and enhancements to profile and cloud-top property algorithms. Access IMAPP through the\u00a0web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arctic explorers aided\u2014Bob Rabin\u00a0<\/strong>(SSEC) provided data to Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen for a summer 2005 crossing of the Arctic, starting in May. When talking to an Xexplorersweb interviewer, the explorers said an SSEC scientist \u201chelped construct some rough satellite images of ice conditions during the summer.\u201d Rabin spends half his working time in Madison, WI and the other in Norman, OK at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Despite support like Rabin\u2019s and others\u2019, weather and ice forced the duo to cut short their trek in June.<\/p>\n


\n\"jan2006_2005montage\"<\/a>Fanmail<\/strong>\u2014Aaron De Runtz, Technical Operations Manager of\u00a0BevMo!<\/a>(Beverages & more!), had this to say about our Data and Imagery site: \u201cLove your web site. Weather nerd paradise. Keep up the good work.\u201d We love the compliment.Adding valuable images and data<\/strong>\u2014Anarticle in\u00a0Aviation Week & Space Technology<\/em><\/a>from December 11 emphasized the benefit of adding MODIS polar wind data to mid-range forecast models. Along with the boost provided by polar winds, the article detailed several other recent forecasting improvements that mitigated the damage caused by the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane montage created by\u00a0CIMSS\u2019s Tropical Cyclones group<\/a>\u00a0accompanied the article.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Meetings and Field Experiments<\/strong><\/p>\n

AOS and CIMSS<\/strong>\u2014Making Waves<\/em>, semiannual publication of UW-Madison\u2019s\u00a0Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences<\/a>, featured the 25th anniversary of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies in its Fall 2005 issue. The article noted that \u201cover 100 AOS graduate students have conducted research in partnership with CIMSS scientists.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Engineering Feats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The DISC drill will be deployed to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in fall of 2006 where it will retrieve deep ice cores to construct a climatological history.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Deep cores<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory web site features a profile of scientist Richard Alley who works in Greenland drilling cores into the ice sheet for clues to ancient climatology. Related pictures show drillers from SSEC\u2019s Ice Coring and Drilling Services using their 4-Inch Drill in Greenland this past summer.\u00a0Don Lebar<\/strong>, ICDS project manager notes that, while working on a project for Eric Steig of the University of Washington, \u201cwe did some testing of different cutters, etc., with the drill as well.\u201d The drillers were also performance testing two Eclipse Drills. With special engineering expertise, the ICDS continually adds to its fleet of drills, to be prepared for any drilling eventuality. The ICDS is the drilling outfit used for coring operations by scientists funded by the National Science Foundation. The \u201cspecially built drill\u201d referred to in the story is a precursor to the Deep Ice Sheet Coring Drill (DISC Drill) to be deployed to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) in the fall of 2006 where it will be assembled so that it can retrieve tens of meters of core by the end of the Antarctic summer season in February 2007. The drill will serve a science project called the\u00a0WAIS Divide<\/a>\u00a0and will retrieve deep ice cores for a climatological history. Alley, subject of the Earth Observatory story, is a student of Professor Emeritus\u00a0Charles Bentley<\/strong>, principal investigator for ICDS.<\/p>\n

Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/p>\n

CIMSS analysis in Zeta forecast<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014by Dave Santek<\/em>\u00a0Although it\u2019s not specifically stated in the\u00a0CNN story about Hurricane Zeta from January 5<\/a>, forecaster Stacy Stewart\u2019s shear description is based on the\u00a0CIMSS wind shear analysis<\/a>. Stewart also referenced the CIMSS analysis using AMSU data in Tropical Cyclone Discussion number 25. In number 30, on January 6, Stewart officially ended the 2005 hurricane season noting Zeta\u2019s many records: \u201cI suppose it is only fitting that the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season ends with a record-breaking storm. Today, Zeta surpassed 1954 Alice \u2026 as the longest-lived tropical cyclone to form in December and cross over into the next year. Zeta was also the longest-lived January tropical cyclone. In addition, Zeta resulted in the 2005 season having the largest accumulated cyclone energy … surpassing the 1950 season. So, until the 2006 season begins\u2014unless Zeta somehow makes an unlikely miracle comeback\u2014This is the National Hurricane Center signing off for 2005. … Finally.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>Weather Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDiamond dust, sundogs and a solar pillar\u201d\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0In the December 20 edition of the\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal<\/a><\/em>, reporter Ron Seely described imaginatively-named, rare meteorological phenomena that occurred on a bitterly cold sunlit day in December. Seely spoke with\u00a0Steve Ackerman<\/strong>, director of SSEC\u2019s CIMSS and professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, who explained that the sun pillar and other beautiful effects are one of winter\u2019s pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Bob Aune created a simulation of the storm that swept across the midwest on November 10, 1975 in honor of the evening the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared into the waves of Lake Superior.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Storm simulation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014On December 12,\u00a0The Daily Cardinal,<\/em>\u00a0a student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, featured\u00a0Mike Richards\u2019s article<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Bob Aune<\/strong>\u2019s (NOAA at SSEC)\u00a0simulation of the fabled Edmund Fitzgerald storm<\/a>. Aune recently recreated the storm using a computer model he helped develop for SSEC\u2019s CIMSS. The CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) is one of the first forecast models created to use weather satellite data. Richards, then an atmospheric science graduate student at UW-Madison, explained how the model was used to recreate this specific storm.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Weather Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finding clouds<\/strong>\u2014It may seem easy, but defining what is a cloud is harder than you\u2019d think. At this fall\u2019s annual meeting of the\u00a0American Geophysical Union<\/a>,\u00a0Steve Ackerman<\/strong>\u00a0(CIMSS) presented research on behalf of a team he leads that studies how satellites can better discern cloudy versus cloud-free conditions. In the\u00a0December 12 edition of the\u00a0Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a>, reporter Patricia Townsend interviewed scientists who stressed the important role played by clouds in climate. Ackerman and others noted that, \u201cA small change in cloud cover can overwhelm the sun’s heat effects by reflecting or trapping energy and cooling or heating up the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ron Seely featured weather and climate issues in the\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for Sunday, December 11. One of the three pieces in his column focused on the difficulty of defining a cloud in a straightforward fashion. More precisely, Ackerman and his co-authors noted how hard it is to find very thin cirrus clouds, which significantly influence climate. Ackerman pointed out that new satellite instruments make it easier to define the difference between cloudy and cloud-free conditions.<\/p>\n

Fox News online carried Ker Than\u2019s report on SSEC\u2019s cloud research on December 8, noting the need to update a cloud classification system in use since the 19th century. Although Luke Howard\u2019s classification has served well, it could work better if it accounted for satellite observations that reveal cloud characteristics that are invisible from the ground.<\/p>\n

Popular polar winds<\/strong>\u2014On November 29, the\u00a0National Centers for Environmental Prediction<\/a>\u00a0incorporated the\u00a0MODIS polar winds product<\/a>\u00a0into the Global Forecast System. NCEP is the seventh numerical weather prediction center to use the polar winds product in an operational weather forecast system. Others include:\u00a0European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts<\/a>\u00a0(ECMWF), NASA\u2019s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office,\u00a0Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a>,\u00a0Canadian Meteorological Centre<\/a>, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center of the\u00a0Naval Research Lab<\/a>, and the\u00a0UK Meteorology Office<\/a>. Calculating the speed, height and direction of winds in the earth\u2019s polar regions, polar satellite data fills in forecasting observational gaps and significantly extends a mid-range forecast\u2019s scope of accuracy.<\/p>\n

Verifying CLAVR-x abilities<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014The\u00a0Clouds from AVHRR extended<\/a>\u00a0(CLAVR-x) system will function as the operational cloud detection and processing system for\u00a0METOP<\/a>, the forthcoming European polar orbiting weather satellite system. In preparation for operational use, data from NOAA\u2019s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), which are received through\u00a0SSEC\u2019s Direct Broadcast facility<\/a>, were imported into CLAVR-x. High resolution (1km) data from SSEC\u2019s Direct Broadcast will verify CLAVR-x\u2019s high-resolution capabilities before the launch of METOP.<\/p>\n

Arctic research in print<\/strong>\u2014The October 28 edition of\u00a0Science<\/em>\u00a0featured a paper addressing land surface change in the Arctic.\u00a0Jeff Key\u00a0<\/strong>(NOAA at SSEC) co-authored the paper titled \u201cRole of land surface changes in Arctic summer warming.\u201d The paper details results from an analysis showing that the change in reflectivity, called albedo, of the Arctic\u2019s surface during the summer months contributes to overall warming trends.<\/p>\n

Key and\u00a0Xuanji Wang<\/strong>\u00a0(CIMSS) were co-authors on \u201cClues to variability of Arctic minimum sea ice extent,\u201d which appeared in the November issue of theAmerican Geophysical Union<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>. This paper presents an analysis of several factors that have an impact on the northernmost reaches of the ice in the Arctic. The study pinpointed downwelling longwave flux anomalies as the explanation for much of the ice extent variation in this region. Anomalies in northward winds also have a significant impact in areas north of Siberia, particularly earlier in the melt season.<\/p>\n

CIMSS researchers contribute to book<\/strong>\u2014On invitation, CIMSS scientistsBormin Huang<\/strong>,\u00a0Alok Ahuja<\/strong>, and\u00a0Allen Huang<\/strong>\u00a0contributed a chapter toHyperspectral Data Compression<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0edited by Giovanni Motta, Francesco Rizzo and James Storer, which Springer-Verlag recently published. The CIMSS researchers contributed the chapter titled \u201cLossless Compression of Ultraspectral Sounder Data\u201d in support of NOAA\u2019s GOES-R Hyperspectral Environmental Suite.<\/p>\n

Published in JAM\u2014The\u00a0Journal of Applied Meteorology<\/em>\u00a0published a few papers by SSEC scientists in its December 2005 edition.\u00a0Kris Bedka<\/strong>(CIMSS) authored \u201cApplication of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors for Estimating Mesoscale Flows,\u201d which explains results achieved through adjustments to the CIMSS Atmospheric Motion Vector processing algorithm. Operational AMV processing has data assimilation applications.Bryan Baum<\/strong>\u00a0(NASA at SSEC) and\u00a0Sarah Bedka<\/strong>\u00a0(CIMSS) co-authored \u201cBulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds.\u201d\u00a0Part one<\/a>of this paper discusses microphysical data and models. In particular, this portion of the paper focuses on the development of a set of models based on measurements from airborne sampling probes. Such models have the potential to serve as the basis for applications in satellite remote sensing. The\u00a0second part<\/a>\u00a0of the paper looks at narrowband models and centers around the development of models appropriate for use by the MODIS imager.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Education and Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grants to help girls<\/strong>\u2014Wisconsin has been selected to participate as a regional site for the\u00a0National Girls Collaborative Project<\/a>, a project that offers mini-grants to participants who collaborate to offer programming in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), areas in which girls have been underrepresented. Coordinators in the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction are eager to bring together educators, community-based organizations, business and industry, professional associations, and others to collaborate in grants.\u00a0Rose Pertzborn<\/strong>, director of SSEC\u2019s Office of Space Science Education, serves on the\u00a0Champions Board<\/a>, advisors in STEM areas. The National Science Foundation has awarded funding through 2006. The Wisconsin group holds its first event on January 28 in Stevens Point, WI; more can be learned from the\u00a0web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Indian connection<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014India\u2019s President Kalam applauded an educational network that is based in a \u201clong standing scientific cooperation between the two countries [India and the U.S.].\u201d India\u2019s Edusat was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation and links U.S. educators with Indian students pursuing technical studies. On December 9,\u00a0The Hindu<\/em>, an Indian newspaper, reported on Kalam\u2019s speech launching the network, and shows\u00a0Rose Pertzborn<\/strong>, a U.S. education delegate. According to SSEC scientist\u00a0Sanjay Limaye<\/strong>, an organizer of this collaboration, SSEC\u2019s links with India extend back to the 1970s with a short-lived program, EDSAT, that aimed to use satellite information for educational purposes. EDSAT was managed by Delbert Smith, and conceived by Professor Verner Suomi with a counterpart in India.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Honors and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mentioned in\u00a0Making Waves<\/em><\/strong>\u2014 The American Folklore Society awarded the Wisconsin Weather Stories project the 2005 Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize, as noted in fall 2005 edition of\u00a0Making Waves<\/em>, the semiannual publication of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.\u00a0Steven Ackerman<\/strong>, an investigator on the project, is a professor in the department and directs CIMSS. He noted that a \u201cproject goal was to model a new kind of interaction between folklore and science, showing that both are based on careful observation of one\u2019s environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also noted in\u00a0Making Waves,<\/em>\u00a0Shelley Knuth<\/strong>, a meteorologist in SSEC\u2019s Antarctic Meteorological Research Center and a graduate student in AOS, was awarded a scholarship from the Ruth Dickie Scholarship and Grant-in-Aid Program. The scholarship is presented by Sigma Delta Epsilon-Graduate Women in Science.<\/p>\n

Alex Harrington<\/strong>, undergraduate student hourly employee with CIMSS, earned first place in the poster session of the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC). This entitled him to present his research at the Midwest Regional Space Grant Consortium meeting in Chicago in September, where he won a $500 award.\u00a0Making Waves<\/em>\u00a0noted that the award will be matched by the WSGC.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Also of Note<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bob Wollersheim eulogy<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014George Hesselberg\u2019s tribute to Robert Wollersheim in the\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal\u00a0<\/em>on December 14 included his previous association with SSEC. Wollersheim, who died of cancer in December, was responsible for reestablishing wine-making in Wisconsin. Before starting Wollersheim Winery, he worked as an electrical engineer on several early SSEC spaceflight hardware projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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