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Center for Capacity Building (CCB)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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Boulder, Colorado USA 80307-3000
Tel: 303-497-8134
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Email: jan@ucar.edu
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D. (Dorothy) Jan Stewart is Administrator for the Center for Capacity Building (CCB), at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. She is also Publications Editor and webmaster for CCB.

(May 2007) I began my employment at NCAR in 1979 as an administrative assistant. I became ISSE's Publications Editor and a Program Development Coordinator in 1999. Today, I am the Administrator for CCB, a newly created Center within the Societal-Environmental Research and Education (SERE) Laboratory.

Michael (Mickey) Glantz (Director of CCB) has edited a book on early warning systems for climate, water, and weather, which was published by Tsinghua University Press in 2007 (Heads Up!). A short description of this book is available for your perusal at this website. Ordering information is included. Please contact me if you would like to receive a copy for review.

In December 2006, I traveled with Mickey to Hanoi, Vietnam, to act as Rapporteur for a meeting on Water Affairs in Southest Asia and to help in preparation of a report. The meeting was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), NCAR, and NOAA. The final report was released in early 2007. The website is available here. The final report can be accessed in HTML or printed in PDF.

We also finalized the report for a prototype training workshop held in Bangkok in March 2006, which was funded by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, SERE, and NOAA. For more information, see the website. This workshop was held for educators on the effects of climate change on seasonality and environmental hazards.

I assisted Mickey Glantz with a workshop held in the Galapagos Islands in September 2004 with Jose Luis Santos of CIIFEN (Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño) on " El Niño Early Warning for Sustainable Development in the Pacific Rim and Islands." The workshop report was released in early 2005 and is available at this link in HTML and PDF.

Mickey Glantz's book on Climate Affairs: A Primer was released in May 2003. We have worked together to develop his idea of a new concentration of knowledge that is needed to deal with climate change and climate variability. This book discusses the multidisciplinary areas that researchers, as well as the general public, will need in order to deal with the complex issues facing the world today.

During the 19-month-long United Nations/ESIG project, I acted as the Project Liaison with the international organizations and team leaders from 16 countries and gathered and edited their reports. We prepared a short summary of the results of that study (in PDF format) and presented it in October 2000 at the United Nations. The UN University Press released a book in 2001 that contains the Executive Summaries of the project's results. Please write to me if you would like a copy of the book free of charge.

Presently, I am continuing work with Mickey Glantz and others on the development of the notion of Climate Affairs and have organized conferences on Water, Climate, and Development Issues in the Amudarya Basin and Climate-Related Flashpoints. A workshop on Early Warning Systems was held in late 2003 in Shanghai, China.

I am also an avid skydiver on the weekends and during vacations. I have more than 3,900 jumps and am a USPA certified skydiving instructor, a Coach Course Director, and was elected to the US Parachute Association's Board of Directors in January 2003. I served as the Mountain Regional Director for four years.

My son Christopher E. Heath passed away in August 2002 while serving in the US Army. This is a short story about his life and death.