[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Announcing summer opportunity -- Weather and Society Integrated Studies (WAS IS) in Boulder

[Maura Hagan]

Hi all-
   Thanks for your participation in this morning's breakfast with Joel
Widder and Cindy Schmidt. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as
I did. I'm appending an opportunity that might be of interest...in case
you haven't already heard about it. Best regards.
--Maura

>
>Summer WAS*IS: An opportunity to be part of Weather and Society *
>Integrated Studies!
>
>Do you or someone you know want to be part of a vibrant, pioneering
>community of scientists and practitioners that is working collectively
>to integrate societal impacts into the national weather enterprise?
>
>The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Societal Impacts
>Program announces an exciting opportunity: Weather and Society *
>Integrated Studies (WAS*IS). WAS*IS is a workshop that is going to
>change from what WAS to what IS the future of integrated weather studies.
>
>We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, innovative people who feel
>strongly about the need to bring together researchers, practitioners,
>and stakeholders in order to make weather relevant, but who might not
>know how to do that, where to begin, or other people with similar
>interests.
>
>Following on the successful first WAS*IS, we are pleased to have funding
>to offer a Summer WAS*IS in Boulder, Colorado, from July 14-21, 2006. We
>hope the Summer WAS*IS will accommodate graduate students and others who
>were unable to participate during the school year.
>
>See our webpage (http://www.rap.ucar.edu/was_is/) to read more about
>WAS*IS and to apply for the Summer WAS*IS workshop. Applications are due
>Wednesday, March 22. Please contact Eve Gruntfest (ecg at ucar.edu;
>303-497-8116) or Julie Demuth (jdemuth at ucar.edu; 303-497-8112) if you
>have questions. We'd love to talk with you about WAS*IS!
>
>Please HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WAS*IS!
>
>
>


-- 
Maura Hagan
Director, Advanced Study Program
Senior Scientist, High Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
+1-303-497-1537
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