What Is CCB?
CCB, the Center for Capacity Building, was created within the SERE Laboratory on 1 April 2005, six months after the NCAR reorganization that created the five laboratories. The primary goal of CCB is to educate educators at universities and colleges and train professionals already working in climate-sensitive sectors. A core mission of CCB is the creation, expansion, and enhancement of the Climate Affairs activity, now more broadly defined to encompass weather- and water-related issues. CCB has begun to develop a network of existing climate and climate-related activities worldwide.
CCB has identified the confluence of processes that would adversely affect mega-urban centers located on the coast, and has begun a program called "Coastal Urban Affairs," using the multidisciplinary "Affairs" template to promote programs and courses that include science, policy and law, politics, economics, and ethics and equity issues. Given sea level rise, warmer ocean temperatures, and an apparent ncrease in the magnitude of tropical storms, major ruban centers are at risk. CCB is seeking to catalyze researchers and policy makers in urban coastal areas about the potential dangers associated with a varying and chaning climate. A center in Shanghai, China, is currently in development.
We invite you to peruse this website and learn more about our programs and publications. We are in the process of expanding our publications page to include reports and publications that are of interest to people who wish to learn more about capacity building in general.
Welcome to CCB
As part of SERE, CCB encourages the development of Climate Affairs to foster inter- and multidisciplinary programs that will serve a wide variety of academic disciplines and climate-sensitive socioeconomic sectors of society; enhances communication within NCAR and nationally, as well as internationally; works with early career scientists and young professionals in the workforce; acts as a community catalyst (through workshops and other community-serving outreach activities); and undertakes research on capacity-building activities related to multidisciplinary aspects of the atmospheric sciences.
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1/4/08: Tsegay Wolde-Georgis has joined the staff of CCB as an Associate Scientist. Tsegay comes to CCB from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) in New York. For more about Tsegay, see his brief profile on our Staff page.
12/3/07: CCB, SERE, and East China Normal University are co-sponsoring an international workshop in Shanghai, China, in July 2008. For more information, please see the website.
11/2/07: Jiansheng (Jason) Qu has joined the CCB team as a visitor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. To learn more about what he will be doing here, please see his brief profile on our Staff page.
08/14/07: The ENOS team has completed an update of the El Niño Affairs website (in Spanish) after a visit by CCB's summer affiliate staff.
07/13/07: Michael Glantz, CCB's Director, has a new publication in Ambio, which is available for download in PDF. See the Publications page for more information. The paper appeared in the June 2007 issue.
05/15/07: Mickey has released the publication of his latest edited volume: Heads Up! Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather.