Director's Note

John Roberts

Hank discussed the New Human Resources Strategic plan in last month's Director's note. Since that time we have been collecting suggestions and concerns from SSEC staff...more

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Department News

Library

To all amateur weather photographers! Enter your best all–around weather photo in the Third Annual SSEC Photography Contest....more

Technical Computing

UW's Division of Information Technology (DoIT) recently completed an upgrade of the wireless network here in the Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences building...more

Human Resources

Employees who have not completed their Partners in Giving form, this is reminder to take time and complete your pledge sheet.

"TOGETHER WE MOVE MOUNTAINS"...more

Academic Staff

On behalf of the Grad School Committee on Academic Staff issues (GS-CASI), I would like to invite and encourage you to attend an HR Design briefing on Monday, November 12 at the Biotechnology Center in room 1360 at 1:30 pm. This session is specifically for....more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	Tracking Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy began its savage life on 22 October 2012, when a tropical depression in the Western Caribbean Sea was upgraded to tropical storm status. Two days later, Sandy had made the grade to hurricane and was sweeping northward across Jamaica and eastern Cuba, spreading death and destruction in its wake...more
	Riders on the Storm In the last week of September 2012, a Grumman-Northrop Global Hawk unmanned drone, laden with scientific instruments, spiraled up into the atmosphere just off the east coast of the United States. At its cruising altitude of 70,000 feet, guided by researchers...more
	SSEC Scientists Produce Highest Resolution Image of Uranus On 24 and 25 July 2012, SSEC planetary scientists Larry Sromovsky and Pat Fry, along with co-investigators Heidi Hammel (Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO) and Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), captured unprecedented views of the planet Uranus...more
	High-Speed Photometer Comes to Earth at the Space Place After spending 44 months in orbit and traveling 535 million miles in space, one of the original instruments launched with the Hubble Space Telescope has finally made its way back to its birthplace...more
	Virtual Laboratory Training Event in Jincheon, Korea From 4 – 6 October 2012, Paul Menzel and Jim Purdom (CIRA) conducted a two and a half day Virtual Laboratory on Training and Education in Satellite Meteorology training event at the Korean Meteorological Administration National Meteorological Satellite Center in Jincheon, Korea...more