Director's Note

John Roberts

I have been told that since many people exclusively use the on-line SSEC project list they would be more than happy to...more

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Department News

Human Resources

The 2011 Partners in Giving campaign is going on now and will run through November 30, 2011...more

Equity & Diversity

The Equity and Diversity Committee has been working on several new and continuing projects this fall...more

Academic Staff

The October Academic Staff Assembly overview was summarized nicely by several contributions and Denny Hackel sent the following to...more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	Recognition for Support to the Space Shuttle Program The Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB), CIMSS, and SSEC were all recognized by the Spaceflight Meteorology Group for...more
	GOES Images of Major Blowing Dust Event in Texas and New Mexico The CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with a post containing a comparison of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...more
Steve Ackerman Honored by Wisconsin Academy Steven Ackerman, Director of CIMSS, was honored at the 06 November 2011 Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters Annual Fellows event for his...more
	Colleen Mouw Interviewed on Huge Lake Erie Algae Bloom Colleen Mouw, Assistant Researcher with both SSEC and CIMSS, provided expert commentary for two separate stories posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory site...more
	Larry Sromovsky Discusses Uranus on Skymania and the Huffington Post Larry Sromovsky, SSEC, was interviewed by Skymania concerning a bright region on Uranus appearing to be ten times brighter than...more
Kind Words From a Satisfied User of the GAMIS Buoy In an email Keith Meverden, State Historical Society of Wisconsin Underwater Archaeologist, praised the UW Mendota Buoy...more
Amato Evan and James Kossin Co-Author Paper Published in Nature A paper establishing a link between air pollution and cyclone intensity in the Arabian Sea, co-authored by Amato Evan (formerly of CIMSS), James Kossin...more
	CIMSS Participates in NPP Educator's Launch Conference CIMSS participated in the NPP Educator's Launch Conference, in conjunction with the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite launch...more
Schmit Receives T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the NWA Tim Schmit received the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award at the 2011 National Weather Association (NWA) annual meeting...more
	Steve Goodman and Greg Mandt Visit CIMSS/ASPB CIMSS and the NESDIS/Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) hosted a visit by Greg Mandt and Steve Goodman, GOES-R System Program Director and Senior Program Scientist...more
	Lindstrom Leads CIMSS VISIT Session The Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) session "Trough of Warm Air Aloft (TROWAL) Identification" was led by Scott Lindstrom...more
	Solar Panel Update The MG&E solar panel installed on the roof of AOSS this past June produced 167 kWh electricity in August, offsetting...more