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2 CIRES Annual Report 2011 From the Director “We strive to explore all aspects of the Earth system to better understand all processes of our dynamic planet, which will help guide its management and conservation for future generations.”
Researchers from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) were among the first responders to measure the black smoke that rose from the water’s surface during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The earthquake this spring that moved Japan 12 feet closer to the United States was studied by CIRES geophysicists and featured on national television. The Arctic sea ice has melted to its secondlowest level on record (since 1979) as reported this fall by the CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center. The U.S. Supreme Court is presiding over a case related to water-quality issues in the Florida Everglades and will consider CIRES water-quality research on Grand Lake, Colo., in its decision. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced in October that CIRES and the University of Colorado Boulder would play important roles in two new regional Climate Science Centers that will conduct climate-change research, with a focus on wildlife and ecosystems. Dark-colored dust that settles on snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin makes the snow melt early and robs the Colorado River of about 5 percent of its water each year, reveals a new study from CIRES scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA. These are just a few highlights that make my life as CIRES Director so interesting and rewarding. We strive to explore all aspects of the Earth system to better understand all processes of our dynamic planet, which will help guide its management and conservation for future generations. This coming year will be another milestone in the history of CIRES as we celebrate our 45th anniversary as a cooperative institute, the oldest such unit collaboration with NOAA. We also will submit a proposal to NOAA based on an open competition to continue this legacy for many more years. CIRES continues to engage in cross-disciplinary research in cryosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere sciences; therefore, we organized and facilitated six mini-retreats on topics including remote sensing in geosciences, organic molecules in the environment, decision making under uncertainty and paleo-perspectives in climate change and two retreats on energy and the environment. The latter led to a new CIRES initiative to study the environmental effects of future energy solutions, in particular biomass and natural gas production. CIRES had another exceptional year and showed healthy growth both in funding and research personnel. Again, we had a remarkable increase of 10 percent in research funding in FY11, with about half of our funding from the cooperative research with NOAA and the remaining funding from the National Science Foundation, NASA, other federal agencies and the University of Colorado, totaling more than $64 million. Our research productivity remains very strong with 512 peer-reviewed publications in all the major research journals of our disciplines. The strong research funding and stellar publication record are the fruits of truly dedicated researchers (500), which include our 22 faculty lines, and excellent administrative staff (32) working with 96 graduate students and 86 undergraduate students as one team to advance our knowledge and understanding in environmental sciences. CIRES has grown to a 714-person institute, and we continue to remain a world leader in interdisciplinary research. CIRES researchers and staff received a total of 35 awards, ranging from Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado (Dr. Margaret Tolbert); Career Achievement Service to America Medal (Dr. Susan Solomon) for her research on the ozone hole; Honorary Doctor of Science, Oberlin College (Dr. Peter Molnar); Rosenstiel Award in Marine and Atmospheric Science, Univesity of Miami (Dr. Jose-Luis Jimenez); Baldi Memorial Lecture Award, International Society of Limnology (Dr. William Lewis); and the two-year appointment as Chief Scientist at NASA (Dr. Waleed Abdalati), to name a few. CIRES welcomes three new Fellows to the Council of Fellows: Dr. Stanley Benjamin, ESRL/Global Systems Division, Dr. Steve Montzka, ESRL/Global Monitoring Division, and Dr. Judith Perlwitz, ESRL/Physical Sciences Division. The Graduate School has authorized the search for a new senior faculty in experimental atmospheric chemistry in support of the new CIRES Center for Atmospheric Chemistry, increasing our tenure track faculty lines in the graduate school to 23 in nine different departments and programs in the colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering and Applied Science. This report summarizes ongoing research in six research themes: advanced modeling and observation systems, climate system variability, geodynamics, planetary metabolism, regional processes and integrating activities. Further, it provides a brief overview of research conducted by 38 CIRES Fellows, the research activities of CIRES’ five scientific centers, education and outreach and the Western Water Assessment. Our research is broad, deep and innovative, and I am very proud to present you this report. The annual report is a collaborative effort of a number of people in CIRES—researchers as well as administrative staff—and they all deserve credit for what you will find on the following pages. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the effort of Dr. Suzanne van Drunick, Brian Clark and Kristin Bjornsen, who were instrumental in coordinating this effort. Enjoy your reading! Dr. Konrad Steffen CIRES Annual Report 2011 3
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VISITING FELLOWS With partial spons
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INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM The CIR
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GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS CIRES
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Honors and Awards, 2010 Abdalati, W
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MERRA Modern Era Retrospective-Anal
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