[ISP-mc] NCAR-Colorado School of Mines research symposium planning

[Lawrence Buja]

Lab and ISP Directors,

If you or anyone in your group would be interested in joining an effort 
to build research bridges with the Colorado School of Mines, please 
contact me.   CSM is a very quiet and effective organization with 
substantial expertise in the energy and water sectors.  CSM is currently 
launching their new graduate Earth Energy Institute and would like NCAR 
to be closely involved.

The CSM/NCAR symposium concept came out of a meeting between NCAR and 
CSM researchers & top-level managment last year and earlier, very 
positive, interactions arising from the NCAR data center site search.   
We are looking ahead to the interdisciplinary calls that we expect to 
come out of NSF this year.   Right now from NCAR we have Lawrence Buja 
(climate), Caspar Ammann (paleoclimate/energy), Dave Gochis (water), 
Rich Loft (high-performance computing)

Rough Timeline:
  Jan 21 1st symposium planning meeting at Mines
  Feb ?? 2nd symposium planning meeting at NCAR
  Mar 17?  1-Day NCAR/Mines research symposium at Mines sometime the 
week of Mar 15-19

Lawrence