From aramos at ucar.edu  Mon Aug 11 12:12:19 2025
From: aramos at ucar.edu (Alexandra Ramos Valle)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:12:19 -0400
Subject: [Nsa] Seeking NSF NCAR researchers for Innovators Ideas Lab
Message-ID: <CAGKvp+pAdOGPg03f1O0keivrTzw05Y-gLf69XNpcFmhaptnM1g@mail.gmail.com>

The Innovator Program is gauging staff interest in participating in a
two-day Ideas Lab workshop with university faculty.

The Innovator Program will be inviting applications from faculty to
participate in the Innovator Ideas Lab. The two-day workshop will bring
together faculty interested in actionable, translational and convergence
research to co-develop proposal ideas with NSF NCAR researchers. The Ideas
Lab replaces the traditional Letter of Intent (LOI) process with an
interactive event that promotes proposal co-development with NSF NCAR staff
starting from the ideation phase.

Apply to participate in the Ideas Lab
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnr5LOT96kJP4imMtKM4UlR-XtW3kTwSzmA6nHWaJfnM9s6w/viewform?usp=dialog>

Ideas Lab participants will engage in facilitated sessions to workshop and
co-develop novel research proposal ideas. The primary anticipated outcomes
of the Ideas Lab include:

   -

   Formation of initial interdisciplinary research teams
   -

   Drafting of proposal abstract or letter of intent

Two months following the workshop, proposals will be solicited based on the
concepts generated during the event. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications,
research to reduce damage and disruption to livelihoods, safety, and
critical infrastructure from weather and space weather hazards, and
assessing and predicting societally relevant Earth system variability
across time scales. Proposals should describe interdisciplinary and
convergent research projects that support major NSF NCAR initiatives.

Submitted proposals will be evaluated for funding and due to start in
September 2026. Funding will be available for NSF NCAR collaborators to
participate in the event and collaborate on the funded projects.

If you are interested in being considered as a participant in the Ideas
Lab, fill out this brief form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnr5LOT96kJP4imMtKM4UlR-XtW3kTwSzmA6nHWaJfnM9s6w/viewform?usp=dialog>
by
August 15th.

For questions, please email ecinnovators at ucar.edu.

-- 
Alexandra N. Ramos-Valle, PhD
Project Scientist II - NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab
Principal Investigator - NSF NCAR EdEC Faculty Innovator Program
<https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/early-career-opportunities>
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From aramos at ucar.edu  Thu Aug 21 06:04:10 2025
From: aramos at ucar.edu (Alexandra Ramos Valle)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:04:10 -0400
Subject: [Nsa] [Deadline extended] Seeking NSF NCAR researchers for
 Innovators Ideas Lab
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Dear colleagues,

Please note that we have extended the deadline for staff to apply
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnr5LOT96kJP4imMtKM4UlR-XtW3kTwSzmA6nHWaJfnM9s6w/viewform>
to
the Innovator Ideas Lab through *September 15th*. The Ideas Lab workshop
will take place on *November 12-13th*.

Thank you for your interest in the program!
Alexandra

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 2:12?PM Alexandra Ramos Valle <aramos at ucar.edu>
wrote:

> The Innovator Program is gauging staff interest in participating in a
> two-day Ideas Lab workshop with university faculty.
>
> The Innovator Program will be inviting applications from faculty to
> participate in the Innovator Ideas Lab. The two-day workshop will bring
> together faculty interested in actionable, translational and convergence
> research to co-develop proposal ideas with NSF NCAR researchers. The
> Ideas Lab replaces the traditional Letter of Intent (LOI) process with an
> interactive event that promotes proposal co-development with NSF NCAR staff
> starting from the ideation phase.
>
> Apply to participate in the Ideas Lab
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnr5LOT96kJP4imMtKM4UlR-XtW3kTwSzmA6nHWaJfnM9s6w/viewform?usp=dialog>
>
> Ideas Lab participants will engage in facilitated sessions to workshop and
> co-develop novel research proposal ideas. The primary anticipated outcomes
> of the Ideas Lab include:
>
>    -
>
>    Formation of initial interdisciplinary research teams
>    -
>
>    Drafting of proposal abstract or letter of intent
>
> Two months following the workshop, proposals will be solicited based on
> the concepts generated during the event. Topics of interest include, but
> are not limited to, artificial intelligence and machine learning
> applications, research to reduce damage and disruption to livelihoods,
> safety, and critical infrastructure from weather and space weather hazards,
> and assessing and predicting societally relevant Earth system variability
> across time scales. Proposals should describe interdisciplinary and
> convergent research projects that support major NSF NCAR initiatives.
>
> Submitted proposals will be evaluated for funding and due to start in
> September 2026. Funding will be available for NSF NCAR collaborators to
> participate in the event and collaborate on the funded projects.
>
> If you are interested in being considered as a participant in the Ideas
> Lab, fill out this brief form
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnr5LOT96kJP4imMtKM4UlR-XtW3kTwSzmA6nHWaJfnM9s6w/viewform?usp=dialog> by
> August 15th.
>
> For questions, please email ecinnovators at ucar.edu.
>
> --
> Alexandra N. Ramos-Valle, PhD
> Project Scientist II - NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab
> Principal Investigator - NSF NCAR EdEC Faculty Innovator Program
> <https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/early-career-opportunities>
>


-- 
Alexandra N. Ramos-Valle, PhD
Project Scientist II - NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab
Principal Investigator - NSF NCAR EdEC Faculty Innovator Program
<https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/early-career-opportunities>
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From tonyb at ucar.edu  Thu Aug 28 12:22:12 2025
From: tonyb at ucar.edu (Antonio Busalacchi)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:22:12 -0600
Subject: [Nsa] Nominate your colleagues for the UCAR Awards
Message-ID: <CAHuXBnLE_AU_-6mjqnx06R3Y2aWLJPGGU7mu53VZdg00ehHeCA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

As a reminder, we are approaching the deadline to submit nominations for
the 2025 Distinguished Achievement and Outstanding Accomplishment awards.
You all ? as leaders and members of the NCAR Scientists? Assembly, the
Early Career Scientists? Assembly, the UCP Early Career Assembly, and the
Software Engineering Assembly ? play a key role in exactly the kind of
accomplishments we celebrate as an organization each year. In light of
that, I am writing to encourage you to consider nominating yourself or your
colleagues for one of these awards.

By convening and offering support to different groups of staff within our
organization, you are building community and creating a culture of
inclusion and excellence that we can all be proud of. This is something to
celebrate alongside the other achievements honored at the Celebration of
Excellence in November.

There are a number of resources available on Sundog to help you in the
nomination process, including a presentation on assembling a nomination
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Dz6s7tViW3Hm9Cke4zzmIyQ83aOepjTe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116261794312181128994&rtpof=true&sd=true>,
a template for recommendation letters, and a frequently asked questions page
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iahvAcqxSY6OpfSmpjx3TBtlfmXfTSBRX6edXn_-TM4/edit?usp=sharing>,
which goes into detail about what makes a good nomination. Read more
on the Employee
Recognition Awards Procedures page
<https://sundog.ucar.edu/Interact/Pages/Content/Document.aspx?id=5217>.

Nominations are open until Thursday, Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. MDT.

On behalf of our entire organization, I thank you for your work in support
of our mission. I hope to see you at the 2025 Celebration of Excellence, on
Friday, Nov. 14, from 3-5 p.m
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGgxcmpuMW5oNDlhZDM1M2Q4b2txY2gzdTkgY18xODhlZ2hmOXJzZ2t1anByZzJnZG83djdlYzJxMDRnOGVsaG0yc2hlY2xpN2FAcmVzb3VyY2UuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&tmsrc=c_188eghf9rsgkujprg2gdo7v7ec2q04g8elhm2shecli7a%40resource.calendar.google.com>
!

Best,

Tony

Antonio J. Busalacchi
President
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Tel: (+1) 303-497-1652
Email: tonyb at ucar.edu
Web: http://president.ucar.edu

Joanna Schmitz
Executive Assistant
Tel: (+1) 303-497-1653
Email: joanna at ucar.edu
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