{"id":4267,"date":"1999-12-24T11:13:54","date_gmt":"1999-12-24T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:11:20","slug":"monthly-news-summary-december-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4267","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; December 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>The Future Arrives<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Specialist<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>November\/<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>December 1999<\/p>\n<h3><em>SSEC Receives GIFTS<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>Space News<\/em>\u00a0for December 20 announced NASA\u2019s \u201cNew Earth Observation Mission.\u201d This advanced sensor, it said, \u201ccould lead to dramatically improved forecasting capability by geostationary weather satellites. \u2026 The Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer [GIFTS], designed by Langley Research Center, was selected as NASA\u2019s New Millennium Program Earth Observing 3 mission. NASA will spend $105 million on the mission, including launch.\u201d\u00a0<em>Space News<\/em>\u00a0did not mention that SSEC is a major player in GIFTS, along with Utah State University and others. NASA draws on SSEC\u2019s 35 years of expertise in developing instruments for geostationary satellites. SSEC will receive about $10 million of the total $105 million budgeted for the project. About $1 million of that is devoted to the educational component, an ambitious program to be run by Sanjay Limaye and Rose Pertzborn at SSEC.<\/p>\n<p>The news of SSEC involvement was released by UW\u2013Madison and SSEC on Thursday, December 16. UniSci, a Web site specializing in University research science news, released the news Friday. It was posted shortly afterwards on Yahoo\u2019s Astronomy and Space News page. Queries from or about any news release can be sent to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/email_form.cgi?name=media\">SSEC&#8217;s Public Information Officer<\/a>\u00a0for routing to appropriate GIFTS personnel. Many SSEC staff will be involved in the five-year project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/newcool.html\">SSEC\u2019s GIFTS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/thisweek\/view.msql?id=3506\">At UW\u2013Madison<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcoverage.yahoo.com\/fc\/Science\/Astronomy_and_Space_News\/\">On Yahoo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Terra Data Awaited<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>SSEC took its first major step to receiving data from the Terra satellite, NASA\u2019s first satellite in its Earth Observing System, launched December 18. On November 27, a helicopter lifted tower pieces that will hold up an antenna and the dome surrounding it. The antenna and dome will be put in place in late winter.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dectowrltl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4270\" alt=\"Dectowrltl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dectowrltl.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>A helicopter lifts a 20-foot section of tower into place on the roof of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Building on November 27.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s main interest in Terra is the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS. According to SSEC researcher Christopher Moeller, \u201cThe MODIS data, along with data from other sensors on Terra, will expand our view of the earth-atmosphere system by providing new and diverse global science products for a long-term record, giving new information on cloud prevalence, atmospheric water vapor and aerosol distribution, land and ocean surface characteristics and biological activity.\u201d That\u2019s a tall order for one instrument, but MODIS measures 36 spectral bands that are sensitive to many different atmospheric characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0announced the tower emplacement on November 26. All three of Madison\u2019s commercial television stations covered the raising on Saturday morning.\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week<\/em>\u00a0(December 8), both online and print versions, noted the tower\u2019s raising.<\/p>\n<p>Suomi was the second most popular name for the afternoon satellite to be launched as a partner to the first EOS satellite, Terra. While Agua won\u2014water pairing with earth\u2014Suomi would have been as appropriate. Verner Suomi was SSEC\u2019s founding director who is also known as the father of weather satellites and of satellite meteorology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow these links.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/\">MODIS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/\">Terra<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/suomi.html\">Suomi Retrospective<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>The Future Is Fair<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>According to Peyton Smith of UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Chancellor\u2019s office, 10,000 people attended Future Fair, an exhibition held in Monona Terrace Convention Center December 4\u20135. Those who staffed SSEC\u2019s two booths would bet that nearly all 10,000 stopped by. SSEC\u2019s booth for its Office of Space Science Education was constantly mobbed. Visitors were attracted by the 3-D Mars landscape poster and the ability to remotely maneuver a planetary rover built with Legos\u2122. Even Dean Virginia Hinshaw of the Graduate School (SSEC\u2019s administrative unit) stopped by and played with a rover.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dec.jonvhltl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4269\" alt=\"Dec.jonvhltl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dec.jonvhltl.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dec.jonvhltl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dec.jonvhltl-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Dec.jonvhltl-328x300.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>John Ehringer, a Madison 7th grader who has made his own planetary vehicle, demonstrates the fine points of roving to UW\u2013Madison Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A sizeable crowd also visited the booth next door devoted to SSEC projects. More than a dozen SSEC folks gave up parts of their weekend to set up and to give Vis-5D and McIDAS demos throughout both days and present other activities such as CIMSS\u2019 experimental sea surface temperature products. Hundreds of Fair visitors entered drawings for giant inkjet GOES images of the earth. Just as many walked away with the\u00a0<em>Hot List of Science Web Sites.<\/em>\u00a0Most Fair-goers seemed delighted with what they saw and heard. Madison\u2019s\u00a0<em>Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0newspaper said that the SSEC booths were among the favorites of the Fair\u2019s 132 sites. SSEC was included in Future Fair ads, in a\u00a0<em>Downtown Madison<\/em>\u00a0insert to the Sunday\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0on November 14, and in the Future Fair booklet with a four-paragraph informational ad.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/dec.Ffairthb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4268\" alt=\"dec.Ffairthb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/dec.Ffairthb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>SSEC research meteorologist Fred Wu explains satellite images to two of thousands of Future Fair visitors at Future Fair.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0reporter Anita Clark covered Future Fair setup on December 3, interviewing SSEC researcher Matthew Lazzara, who showed her a movie loop of Wisconsin\u2019s weather. She quoted Matthew as saying that \u201cwe will not have licked the forecast problem in the next century,\u201d even though we can see it in five dimensions now. Vis5D, demonstrated at Future Fair primarily by Bob Aune, shows the weather in \u201canimated time and particular variables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow this link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/outreach\/home.htm\">OSSE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~billh\/vis.html\">Scientific Visualization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/goes.html\">GOES Products (like SST)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Mars Lander Sought<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The Education booth was a good place to ask about the Mars Lander, expected to land on December 3. SSEC\u2019s technical computing staff had the Internet working in nothing flat. Enterprising WMTV reporter Justin Williams followed planetary scientist and outreach coordinator Sanjay Limaye to Monona Terrace during Future Fair set up on Friday. On the evening news, Justin listed Mars Web sites and gave reactions from Sanjay, who stressed that the Internet made space exploration public, and Matt Mueller, a student worker in SSEC\u2019s Technical Computing group, who said that Mars exploration was the biggest Internet event he could remember.<\/p>\n<p>Madison\u2019s WISC-TV also interviewed Sanjay, asking about the Mars lander, and John Ehringer, a student helper in the Education booth. John, the son of Linda Hedges, SSEC\u2019s library assistant, had designed and built his own rover and demonstrated it throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Cardinal,<\/em>\u00a0UW\u2013Madison student newspaper, interviewed SSEC\u2019s Bob Paulos, a spaceflight hardware manager, and Sanjay Limaye, for its weekend edition, before the landing was due. Both Sanjay and Bob explained parts of the mission. They both noted that finding water on Mars might mean that life once existed there.<\/p>\n<p>WKOW-TV interviewed scientist Kevin Baines of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the 10 p.m. newscast on December 3. Kevin, visiting SSEC planetary scientist Larry Sromovsky, explained the mission and reminded viewers that the NASA Mars team at JPL was waiting for a signal from 157 million miles away.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday December 7, hope of reaching the Lander had faded and media again sought reactions. WMTV\u2019s Kelly Sackett interviewed Sanjay Limaye who said that even if the craft were lost, the mission was not a complete failure because scientists always learn from these missions. He said that perhaps we had been \u201clulled into a false sense of security that \u2026 it\u2019s easy. \u2026 Space exploration is still a risky business.\u201d He noted that with funding cuts, there is more pressure to perform well, creating a difficult situation. WMTV stressed the negative aspects of the Lander\u2019s loss but noted that Wisconsin congressman James Sensenbrenner was reserving comment till more was known about the Lander\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>On its 10 p.m. newscast, WISC-TV3 called the Mars Lander \u201can expensive memory\u201d and said it had caused frustration for UW\u2013Madison space scientists. Planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye stressed that we must learn to be patient and that we would be successful in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Seely,\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0science writer, was more realistic than other media representatives. In his weekly column (December 9) he said, \u201cFailure in scientific experimentation is to be expected.\u201d He quoted Sanjay Limaye: \u201cIf you went to any lab, there are failures all the time. \u2026 [T]his is how progress is made, by learning. And you don\u2019t learn by success, you learn by mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow this link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgi-mars.com\/\">Mars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Warm Weather Brings Concern<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>WTMJ, Milwaukee\u2019s Channel 4 interviewed Francis Bretherton (Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and SSEC) for a two-part feature story on climate change broadcast October 28 and 29. The crew also interviewed Jonathon Foley (Inst. for Environmental Studies). Both Francis and Jon teach global change at UW\u2013Madison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow these links.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgcrp.gov\/\">Global Change Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satmet\/modules\/stewards\/index.html\">Global Environmental Monitors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kathy Strabala answered questions about our extended summer-like weather for<em>Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter Pat Schneider for an article on November 9. Kathy said that \u201cthe storm systems are riding up in Canada.\u201d That doesn\u2019t mean winter will be warm. \u201cMore likely,\u201d as stated in the article, \u201cthe cold weather will merely shift a bit.\u201d Kathy also said we couldn\u2019t conclude that the extended warm weather is related to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>By November 24, the stretch of warm weather was close to breaking records. WMTV\u2019s Mike West talked with Tom Achtor, who proposed a combination of natural seasonal variations and anthropogenic forcing as causes.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Ice Makes News<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>A paper by Susan Solomon of NOAA\u2019s Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, CO and SSEC\u2019s Chuck Stearns was published in the November 9 issue of\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/em>\u00a0The paper, \u201cOn the role of the weather in the deaths of R. F. Scott and his companions,\u201d tells how weather affected the disastrous journey of Robert Scott and his men from the South Pole in 1912. Chuck Stearns, whose automated weather stations provided data for the paper, fielded queries from a dozen or so media outlets. In\u00a0<em>USA Today,<\/em>\u00a0the authors are quoted saying, \u201cScott \u2026 died near the 29th of the month after enduring what might be dubbed the coldest March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow this link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/\">NAS Proceedings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rob Holmes was featured on the Dan Burns Show, a call-in show on 1670 AM, WTDY (Madison, WI) on November 29. Rob called from Antarctica where he is servicing Automatic Weather Stations, a program that provides data to polar scientists around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow this link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/aws\/\">Automatic Weather Stations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York-based\u00a0<em>Science World,<\/em>\u00a0a national classroom magazine for high school students, contacted Matthew Lazzara for a piece on Antarctica and glaciers. Matthew, who runs the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, pointed him to the data-rich Web site. Chuck Stearns is principal investigator of SSEC\u2019s Antarctic projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow this link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">AMRC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Doppler on Wheels Visits<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>University of Oklahoma\u2019s Joshua Wurman brought his customized doppler van to UW\u2013Madison in mid-November as a teaching experience for students in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. SSEC\u2019s AERI and Lidar teams collaborated in impromptu weather studies. Josh, technician Steve McDonald, Greg Tripoli (AOS) and graduate student Shane Mayor met many media representatives on a gray chilly Monday morning in front of Bascom Hill. WMTV (Madison\u2019s Channel 15) featured the van in newscasts on November 15 and 16. WISC (Ch.3) sent reporter Cheryl Schubert to interview Steve McDonald, who drove the van from Oklahoma, for the 6 a.m. news on November 16. Madison\u2019s\u00a0<em>Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0and campus newspapers also covered the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow these links.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aaron.ou.edu\/dow\/\">Doppler on Wheels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/\">Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>McIDAS Tower Decommissioned<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Steve Arnett, NOAA manager in the World Weather Building, reported that the last McIDAS tower workstation was retired on September 30th. Tower workstations were the original McIDAS workstation types installed in the VAS Data Utilization Center (VDUC) in 1987, to process data from the then new sounding instrument on the geostationary satellite, GOES. The Tower lasted longer than WideWord workstations, which arrived later. This last tower workstation served as the Interactive Flash Flood Analyzer in support of the national Flash Flood Plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow these links.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">NOAA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/mcidas.html\">McIDAS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"internet\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the Net<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/inthenews\/\">UW\u2013Madison Newsmakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UW\u2013Madison\u2019s News and Public Affairs online Newsmakers column noted a small portion of this season\u2019s media coverage garnered by CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones group. Specifically they mentioned MSNBC.com\u2019s posting on September 14. In it, researcher Tim Olander explained the intense interest in Hurricane Floyd, which ranked as one of the biggest recent storms. \u201cIt\u2019s about four times as large as Andrew was,\u201d Tim said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/980521.html\">Turbulence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kris Kimmons, a dispatcher for Continental Airlines, used a GOES Gallery case in a training class to demonstrate the \u201cpotential of near real-time recognition of areas of probable turbulence using satellite imagery.\u201d The case, Turbulence Off the California Coast, occurred on May 21, 1998, during a Continental flight. Kris credited CIMSS and added, \u201cyou guys deserve a whole bunch of credit for this site since its one of the very few sources where a layman can learn something about satellite [data] interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmnh.si.edu\/gvp\/\">Global Volcanism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/991007_volcano.html\">Guagua Pichincha Eruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Global Volcanism Network asked to use GOES Gallery images of volcano Guagua Pichincha in their\u00a0<em>Bulletin.<\/em>\u00a0The GOES images of the Ecuadorian volcano which erupted on October 7, 1999 were made into a satellite product that compares differences in the emissivity of silicate particles within the ash plume at two infrared wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felsef.org\/dec99.htm\"><em>Failsafe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Frodl, editor of the online journal,\u00a0<em>Failsafe,<\/em>\u00a0has used the global montage in its masthead since June 1999. He still likes it: \u201cI am always awed by the beauty of your composite imagery, every time it downloads it\u2019s still as exciting as the first time. We are really proud to be able to showcase it through our journal.\u201d Failsafe is published by the Forum for Environmental Law, Science, Engineering and Finance\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"print\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>In Print<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/wxwise\/class\/aos100.html\">Weather &amp; Climate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Bushnell of the\u00a0<em>Daily Cardinal,<\/em>\u00a0a UW\u2013Madison student newspaper, shadowed Steve Ackerman one day in his professorial and scientific duties. Steve directs SSEC\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies and teaches in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Jessica painted a personal portrait of this \u201cpopular professor.\u201d Student comments in the piece include: \u201cHe\u2019s super-enthusiastic. \u2026 It\u2019s fun telling friends what [the weather] is going to be like for the football game.\u201d \u201cHe jokes around a lot. He keeps us on our toes.\u201d Jessica revealed the less visible side of Steve\u2019s work in a sidebar, detailing research realities. Steve told Jessica that he spends about 50 percent of his time on research, much of it at night, because teaching-related activities take up much of the day. About teaching, Steve said, \u201cIt\u2019s a great job. I wouldn\u2019t do it if I didn&#8217;t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/archive\/1999\/storms\/bret\/bret.html\"><em>Hurricane Brett imagery\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0magazine used SSEC\u2019s 3-color composite image of Hurricane Brett (by Jerry Robaidek) on the cover of its October 14 issue. It accompanied an article by Kerry Emanuel presenting his \u201csimple model for thermodynamic control of hurricane intensity.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/hubble.stsci.edu\/\">HST<\/a>Neptune, as pictured by Larry Sromovsky and Pat Fry, is included in\u00a0<em>Jovian Planets,<\/em>\u00a0a colorful picture of the planets viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Similarities and differences of the Gas Giant planets are discussed on the reverse side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/composites.html\">SSEC Composite Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Francisco Wong-Diaz is using the SSEC global montage as the cover image for his book,\u00a0<em>American Politics in a Changing World.<\/em>\u00a0Although slightly altered, the image will be credited to SSEC in future printings. He said, \u201cThe montage appears in the front and back of the text. \u2026 Everyone who has seen the book really admires the montage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polish Scientific Publishers are including the SSEC global montage in their new\u00a0<em>Great Encyclopedia PWN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.wisc.edu\/mentor\/\">Mentoring Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What SSEC astrophysicist is seen in the Academic Staff Mentoring Program\u2019s brochure? None of the photos have names attached, but the mentor on the back page is surely Wilt Sanders. The program matches seasoned academic staff mentors with newly hired academic staff.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"broadcast\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Over the Air<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu\/wxwise\/\">WxWise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/schedule\/ideas-webcast.htm\">Wisconsin Public Radio, Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weather Guys Steve Ackerman (CIMSS Director) and Jonathan Martin (professor, AOS) seem to have a regular gig\u2014Larry Meiller\u2019s WHA Radio call-in show has featured them since August on the last Monday of every month. On the October 25 show, a caller commended CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones group on its Web site, saying it was a superb service during hurricanes. Questions about hurricanes dominated this show, but the questions range widely. The Weather Guys can be heard, not only in Wisconsin on WHA Radio, but on the Web in real time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">Antarctic Projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/whatson\/press\/fall\/natureantarctica.html\">The End of the Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/national\/science\/102699sci-space-antarctica.html\">Under Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center provided much video and data to Natural History New Zealand for a two-part series on Antarctica. Just a very brief piece of video showing an automatic weather station was used in the first part, \u201cKatabatic,\u201d all about the fierce winds blowing almost constantly on the icy continent. The programs ran on the PBS Nature series in October.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"community\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>In the Community<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/wisweek\/view.msql?id=3479\">Antennas in Lights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 1994, SSEC has festooned its large rooftop dish antennas with holiday lights as a gift to the community. UW\u2013Madison photojournalist Jeff Miller said he\u2019d \u201calways wanted to do some kind of photo of this annual happening.\u201d Shortly after SSEC\u2019s antenna crew lit them for the first time this year, Jeff ventured to the roof and captured them for print and online versions of the campus newspaper,\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week.<\/em>\u00a0The photos were published December 8. Since then, SSEC antenna workers have added a red and white W to the MODIS antenna tower, to be lit in Rose Bowl years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/thisweek\/view.msql?id=3406\">Football Badgers Triumph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things on the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences building, UW\u2019s alumni magazine\u00a0<em>On Wisconsin<\/em>\u00a0noted the Dayne-o-meter that a few enterprising SSEC staff put up with their own funds. The giant numbers tracked how many yards Badger football star Ron Dayne needed to break the record of yards run during a college career. National television showed the Dayne-o-meter often during the last UW football game of 1999. Even Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw said she liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Janean Hill was featured in the\u00a0<em>News-Sickle-Arrow,<\/em>\u00a0a Wisconsin regional newspaper, for her work with Project Linus. The volunteer organization gathers and provides security blankets to children suffering serious illness or other personal trauma. Janean is a volunteer coordinator for communities around Mazomanie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"honors\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Honors<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/realtime\/aspthdr.html\">ASPT at SSEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/visitview\/\">VISITView<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/burn\/abba.html\">GOES Burning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOAA employees in SSEC\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies received Bronze Medals for their work this year. Acting NOAA team leader Elaine Prins graciously stated, \u201cAll of these activities are really joint ASPT\/CIMSS\/SSEC efforts. Congratulations to everyone who participated in these projects.\u201d Listed below are NOAA employees at SSEC only. Web links will list SSEC employees engaged in the projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For work on the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) for work with the National Weather Service and NOAA\u2019s National Severe Storms Laboratory for providing demonstrations in training through the COMET and VISIT programs: Bob Aune, Paul Menzel, Robert Rabin, Timothy Schmit, Gary Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Fires for response to requests from Brazil for real-time and post-season assessments of fire activitiy in Brazil during the El Ni\u00f1o fire episodes: Elaine Prins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; December 1991<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-summary"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}