Community Service

Committees/Advisory Boards

Barbara Brown is a member of the AMS Committee on Probability and Statistics and had been chair of this committee through January of 1999. She is also a member of the Internal Advisory Committee for NCAR's Geophysical Statistics Project.

Marcia Politovich is a member of the AMS Cloud Physics Committee and the AIAA Atmospheric Environment Committee, and was an advisor to the FAA InFlight Icing Steering Committee. She also served on the COMET Advisory Board.

Tom Warner served on the CAPS External Advisory Panel.

Educational Activities

Shel Dalton was assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado at Denver, and taught a half day course on "Professional Engineering Exam Refresher Course: Digital Hardware" through Continuing Education at CU Denver.

Marcia Politovich finished COMET modules on Aircraft Icing: Assessment using soundings and profilers, Aircraft Icing: Assessment using observations and pilot reports. She worked with Plymouth State College and Lyndonville State College meteorology students for MWISP forecasting and gave a tour at the MWISP site.

Graduate Students

Shel Dalton supervised one PhD student in Mathematics.

Scientific/Technical Presentations

Barbara Brown gave a talk on verification of icing and turbulence forecasts at Northwest Airlines in October and presented lectures on verification of aviation weather forecasts at the Aviation Weather Center (Kansas City) Verification "Summit" meeting in November. She also presented two talks at the AMS Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology in Dallas: one on "Evidence of improvements in the quality of in-flight icing algorithms" and the other on "Probability forecasts of in-flight icing conditions."

Shel Dalton presented a paper "Fourier coefficients for range identification in FMCW radar systems" at the Radar Sensor Technology IV Conference of AeroSense.

Bill Mahoney gave a presentation at the Advanced Aviation Weather System Program Review and the Advanced Aviation Weather System End User Display System Design Review. He also presented the AOAWS Version-1 System Architecture and Products in Taipei; aviation weather research activity talks, also in Taipei; and a talk on Aviation Weather Modernization Activities in Asia at the MDCRS Working Group in Boulder, Colorado.

Rita Roberts gave presentations at the 15th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems; the 29th International Conference on Radar Meteorology; and the Sterling, Virginia National Weather Service office.

Bob Sharman gave presentations on turbulence forecasting techniques, difficulties and approaches to the UCLA Department of Mechanical Engineering, to Northwest Airlines Meteorology Department, to Taiwan CAA, and at the 8th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology.

Non-Technical Educational Activities

Barbara Brown spoke to Wheatridge Middle School girls about scientific careers in February.

Bill Mahoney gave a talk about weather instruments and forecasting at the Fireside Elementary School.

Rita Roberts was a COMET mentor for one of the SOO's attending the COMAP class. She was also Science Fair judge at Sacret Heart School.

Workshops

Fei Chen gave a workshop on land-surface modeling and applications to mesoscale.

Tenny Lindholm gave an OCND Workshop.

Bill Mahoney gave workshops on: Meteorological data collection and reporting system (MDCRS) in the USA and possible expansion to Asia; windshear and windshear detection systems; and advanced aviation weather workstations in Taipei, Taiwan.

Tom Warner was the lead organizer for the UNAM-UCR-UCAR Tutorial on Regional Weather and Climate Modeling for Latin America held in Mexico City in August.