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October 2012


Director's Note

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The new Personnel System provides an extraordinary opportunity for UW-Madison and also for SSEC to establish a Human Resources system that is better suited to our specific activities. Your input is vital...more


Department News

Library

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

Human Resources

Two Important Notices: 1) Partners in Giving, and 2) Employee Benefits and Resource Fair...more

Academic Staff

The HR design project has taken a giant leap forward from the 155 recommendations of the work teams and all of the feedback from around campus to a more focused plan that can be implemented on 01 July 2013....more


Comings and Goings

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You Are Invited!

SSEC's High Speed Photometer is coming back to Madison. The UW Space Place is hosting an informal gathering to welcome the device home after its tour of duty aboard the Hubble Space Telescope...more

 
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Badger GameDay Site Open to Public

For many years SSEC has supplied Game Day weather reports to Campus Security and the Madison Police Department. The time period of primary concern is always two hours prior to kickoff (thats when the gates open) until one hour after the event...more

 

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3D Globe Glows at Wisconsin Science Festival

As part of the spectacular Wisconsin Science Festival, SSEC/CIMSS displayed the 3D Globe, with its entrancing full-dimensional look at how satellites study our planet...more

 

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EarthNow Website Celebrates First Year

October 2012 will mark the one-year anniversary of EarthNow’s website launch. The EarthNow project allows NOAA Science On a Sphere (SOS) institutions to go beyond the scientific facts to create meaningful visitor experiences about weather and climate connections...more

 

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MODIS Captures Fall Colors

A spectacular display of autumn tree colors can be seen on 30 September 2012 across parts of northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan...more

 

 

 

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare