Director's Note

Fred Best

With the retirement of JoAnn Banks we are left a big void to fill in the area of Building Manager. This duty is now be carried out by the team of Mark Werner and Dave Jones. The building manager plays a key role in the Center, performing a wide variety of duties...more

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Department News

Data Center

For the first time ever, the SSEC Data Center began ingesting and archiving satellite data simultaneously from eleven different geostationary satellites...more

Human Resources

The dates for the fall enrollment period are 08 October - 02 November 2012. During the enrollment period, eligible employees have the chance to enroll in the State Health Insurance program...more

Academic Staff

Please let me know if you have any feedback and/or ideas to bring to the Academic Staff Assembly and bear in mind that governance meetings are open to the public so feel free to attend and voice your thoughts at anytime...more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	A Successful Season in the Antarctic SSEC's Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) group had a spectacular season in Antarctica this past year....more
	Improving Severe Weather Predictions by Satellite Researchers from SSEC/CIMSS joined over one hundred researchers and weather forecasters at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK, for the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed and at the Aviation Weather Center...more
	SSEC/CIMSS Shine at State Fair On 08 August 2012, Patrick Rowley and Britta Gjermo from CIMSS and Joey Snarski, David Mikolajczyk, Carol Costanza, and Jonathon Thom from the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center participated in UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair ...more
	Prepping the Drone SSEC’s Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder will ride into the hearts of hurricanes on an unmanned drone as part of NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission...more
	SSEC Brings New Satellite Capabilities to Hawaii SSEC provided end-to-end installation and operations support in Hawaii for a new X/L band satellite dish capable of receiving data from several different satellite systems...more
	Summer Picnic at the Sett SSEC hosted its Summer Party at Union South Tuesday 14 August 2012 from 4 to 7 pm in the Sett Recreation area...more
	CIMSS Launches Spanish Language Climate Change Course The Climate Literacy Ambassadors project from CIMSS recently launched a Spanish language version of a course on climate change...more