Community service activities

Ethan Alpert served as a technical advisor to the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model effort, on the Data Management and Analysis subcommittee and as a member of the Common Model Infrastructure Working Group (CMIWG).

Brian Bevirt serves as a science writing mentor for the SOARS program.

Ginger Caldwell was the SC2001 Infrastructure Chair, a supercomputing conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH. She coordinates the annual Colorado Computational Science Fair held at NCAR for high school students.

Scot Colburn served on the State Commodity Internet RFP committee, the Wheatridge High School computer and networking curriculum board, and as a judge for the Boulder Valley Science Fair.

Jeff Custard serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Higher Education Computing Organization (CHECO).

Fred Clare continued to serve on the NCAR Library Committee.

John Clyne served as the visualization program chair for the Cray User's Group (CUG), and as the technical program chair for DOECGF 2001.

Susan Cross serves as a mentor for the SOARS program.

Rachelle Daily serves as Secretary to the Executive Board, Mass Storage Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society. She attended and worked registration for the 18th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems in San Diego, CA. She maintained the membership list and alias for this board, and the database for the IEEE MSSTC Mailing List. She is a member of the logistics and planning team for the Computing in Atmospheric Research (CAS) meetings, sponsored by SCD and vendors. She coordinated meeting, catering and registration details for the international CAS 2001 Workshop, scheduled for October 2001 in Annecy, France.

George Fuentes is a member of IBM's SP-XXL Group. The SP-XXL group is comprised of IBM SP installations that are 128 nodes and greater. The SP-XXL group meets three times a year and provides technical input to IBM on new functionality that should be added to the AIX and PSSP operating system product toolset. He is a member of Compaq's AlphaServer User Group. The AlphaServer User Group meets three times a year and provides technical input to Compaq on new functionality that should be added to the Digital Tru64 and AlphaServer SC operating system product toolset.

Pam Gillman is a member of Compaq's AlphaServer User Group.

Roy Jenne negotiates data exchanges with Russia under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. Each year participants agree on a set of tasks and datasets, then prepare a document listing what has been accomplished with plans for the next year. Jenne has been leading this multi-agency effort for the U.S. since 1982. He also serves on the panel for the NCEP 20-year regional reanalysis project.

Steve Hammond is a member of the Technology Advisory Panel for the Artic Region Supercomputing Center located at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He was also a member of the organizing committee of the international workshop, Computers in Atmospheric Sciences 2001.

Gene Harano was on the Program Committee for the 18th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems in cooperation with the 9th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Techonologies. The conference was held in San Diego, CA, April 17-20, 2001. He is also a member of the Program Committee for the 10th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies in cooperation with the 18th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, which is scheduled for April 15-18, 2002 in College Park, MD. Program committee work began in FY2001 for this meeting. Gene is also a member of the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center (ARSC) Technology Panel. This technology panel assists the ARSC in assessing technology trends relevant to the ARSC.

Al Kellie participated in activities of the NCEP Advisory Panel Special Review Team. He is a member of the Unidata Policy Committee, the External Advisory Board to the IBM Deep Computing Institute, and the IBM eServer Advisory Council for UNIX. Al served as the NCAR contact for the Ocean Observatory Steering Committee held at NCAR this year. He co-chairs the Computing in Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) workshops, which are sponsored by SCD and vendors. (The next meeting is scheduled for October 2001 in Annecy, France).

Jeff Kuehn served on the steering committee for the Parallel Tools Consortium and helped to plan last year's annual meeting. Kuehn was the deputy chair of the Tutorials Program for the SC2001 Conference.

Lynda Lester sponsors the Boulder-based Web Designers and Developers group.

Marla Meehl serves on the Westnet Steering Committee, is chair of the Front Range GigaPop Management Committee (FMC), and is a member of the Quilt Steering Committee.

Don Middleton served as a co-PI on the NSF-funded Visual Geophysical Exploration Environment project, as a member of the Alliance Environmental Hydrology team, as an advisor to the NSF-funded Exploring Time project, as a member of Sun Microsystem's Visualization Advisory Council, as a program chair for the AMS Electronic Theater, as co-PI for the Earth System Grid and Earth System Grid II projects, and as co-PI for the Unidata-led Thematic Realtime Distributed Data Servers (THREDDS) project.

Bernard T. O'Lear is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Technical Committee Executive Committee. He co-chairs the Computing in Atmospheric (CAS) workshops, which are sponsored by SCD and vendors. (The next meeting is scheduled for October 2001 in Annecy, France).

Pete Peterson served as Chair, SOARS Steering Committee, and as a mentor for the SOARS program.

Tim Scheitlin provided the keynote speech about the broader applications of computer graphics for the Colorado Computational Science Fair.

Pete Siemsen served as the co-chair of the Front Range GigaPop Technical Committee (FTC).

Steve Thomas served as a reviewer for the following journals: Atmosphere-Ocean, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Computational Physics, and Monthly Weather Review. He is also a member of the NCAR Geophysical Turbulence Program (GTP), the NCAR Scientist I Appointments committee, and a reviewer of NCAR ASP Post-doc Appointments. He was also a co-organizer of the workshop: Adaptive and high-order methods with applications in turbulence, NCAR Geophysical Turbulence Program, February 4-6, 2002.

VETS staff Don Middleton, Jeff Boote, John Clyne, and Tim Scheitlin provide an ongoing community service at conferences and for NCAR visitors by explaining and demonstrating state-of-the-art scientific visualization techniques and technology in the forms of Technical presentations and Education and outreach presentations. As the new Visualization Lab neared completion, they also began providing interactive virtual conferencing services to the scientific community via the Vislab's function as the NCAR AccessGrid node.