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  • In late April 2008 CCB became a program of the NCAR Director's Office (DIR). So too has the prestigious Advanced Study Program (ASP).
  • Tsegay Wolde-Georgis joined CCB in mid December 2007. He is a social scientist whose education & training activities are focused for the most part on sub-Saharan Africa's climate, water and weather issues.
  • Tina Arthur joined CCB as it new Administrator.
  • D. Jan Stewart, ESIG, then ISSE, then CCB writer/editor and administrator, retired after 29 years, not only at NCAR but working with Mickey all those years.

New Publications

  • Mickey Glantz's edited book, HEADS UP! Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather is printed and copies will be here soon!
  • Mickey is in the final stages of a popular paperback titled "Usable Science: thoughts on climate into the 21st Century". This is to be published by the United Nations University Press.
  • Sarah Strauss recently published "An Ill Wind: Foehn and Health in Leukerbad and BeyondÓ in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Special Issue on Wind, Life, and Health" (N.S. 13(s1):163-178, 2007).

Workshops

  • CCB coordinated several El Niño Affairs activities in Mexico. From April 26th to 29th, 2008 the Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico (IAM), joined with CCB in partnership with MeteoGalicia (Spain) to organize in Puerto Vallarta a prototype course. In June 23th to 26th, 2008 in Tampico, a second course was developed, oriented to personnel related to civil defense and coastal risk management.
  • CCB, in collaboration with the WMO's new Climate and Water department, has proposed to convene workshops centered on "Water Affairs". A prototype workshop for Greater South East Asia region was held at Hanoi, Vietnam's Water Reources University in December 2006 A workshop report is available at www.ccb.ucar.edu/wkshp/waf/
  • Qian Ye, member of China's IHDP Scientific Committee, is developing workshops on "Integrated Risk Governance".

Coastal Urban Affairs

  • Qian Ye and Mickey are continuing their preparation for the "1st International Undergraduate Conference on Climate, Water and weather affairs". The conference will have several partners and will likely be hosted by the ECNU (East China Normal University) in Shanghai in Summer 2009. They will meet with the ECNU administration in mid-July 2008.
  • Sarah Strauss and Qian Ye have submitted a proposal to the NSF for improving hurricane communications in Mobile County, Alabama, during 2009-11; this project would continue pilot work started by Strauss in Charleston in June, 2008.
  • An annotated bibliography for the coastal affairs activity has been developed, compiled by Gregory Pierce, according to CCB and NOAA guidelines.
  • CCB also compiled an El Niño FAQs based on a large number of FAQs on the Internet. They were then categorized according to a range of topics.

CCB Affairs

  • Tsegay Wolde-Georgis will engage in a field trip to Ethiopia to meet with Africa Union officials about the notion for an "All-Africa Center for Climate, Water and Weather". He will meet with officials at Mekelle and Addis Ababa Universities to establish cooperative activities with NCAR related at first to water and biofuels production.
  • Tsegay will also meet with officials of the Tigray Regional State's (Ethiopia) Energy and Water and Agriculture to discuss collaboration in the fields of water, energy and food security. Tsegay will also gather data on successful food security interventions in Tigray, Ethiopia.
  • Qian is working with Barb Brown (RAL) on the social and economic impact assessment project for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Forecast Demonstration Program.
  • Stefanie Herrmann, ASP postdoc with CCB, is undertaking field work in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Mickey has lectured to graduates from around the globe for the 4th year at the United Nations UniversityÕs International Courses on ÒEnvironment & GovernanceÓ in mid-May in Tokyo.

Visitors

  • Sarah Strauss, Anthropologist, University of Wyoming, joined CCB in summer 2008. She is undertaking a program related to the use of forecast information in urban settings in the Southeastern USA.
  • Lino Naranjo (Meteorologist, MeteoGalicia, Spain) and Ivan Ramirez (PhD student, Michigan State University) are visiting NCAR updating the El Niño Affairs web page.
  • Joshua Howe (Graduate Student, Stanford University); Josh is working on a thesis that documents the obvious and not so obvious ways that NCAR researchers have been involved in the climate change issue leading up to the IPCC.
  • Peter E. O. Usher, UNEP, retired, is invited to NCAR to provide insights into the origins and establishment of the IPCC process and the Montreal Protocol. He will be involved in "armchair" discussions on these issues.
  • Jahan Kariyeva (Graduate student, University of Arizona) is working on a CCB/NASA project focused on water resources assessment using remote sensing techniques. Jahan undertook a data gathering field trip to Turkmenistan in December 2007, providing her data to the NASA PI, Mark Imhoff.
  • Gregory Pierce has been under contract to CCB to assist in the collection and preparation of bibliographies on a range of "Affairs" (multidisciplinary) issues such as coastal urban, seasonality, water. He is also copy editing various manuscripts for CCB.