Organization
Dr. Guy BrasseurAssociate NCAR Director for the ESSL Laboratory
Guy Brasseur returned to NCAR as Associate NCAR Director for the ESSL Laboratory in January 2006, after being Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Guy headed NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Division from 1990 to 2000 and continued thereafter as an NCAR senior scientist and senior research associate within the Advanced Study Program. A native of Belgium, Guy holds two engineering degrees and a doctorate in aeronomy from the Free University of Brussels, where his Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the effects of nitrogen oxides on stratospheric ozone. He completed his postdoctoral work at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, where he worked on advanced models of photochemistry and chemical transport in the middle atmosphere.
Between 1977 and 1981, Guy switched gears, serving as an elected member of the Belgian House of Representatives and as a delegate to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, France and the Western European Union in Paris.
Dr. Bill RandelDirector, Atmospheric Chemistry Division
Bill Randel's research interests include dynamic variability and transport in the atmosphere and understanding the variability of trace constituents using satellite observations. More recent work has focused on behavior of the global tropopause. He has been a lead author for the WMO/UNEP Assessments of stratospheric ozone and temperature trends, IPCC Assessments of Climate Change, and is actively
involved with a number of SPARC activities. Bill is currently on the Steering Group
for the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC),
and helps lead the UTLS initiative at NCAR.
Dr. Michael KnoelkerDirector, High Altitude Observatory
Dr. Knölker received a degree in Physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and then received his Doctorate from the University of Freiburg (Germany). He joined the staff of the University of Göttingen as an Assistant Professor in 1983. In 1990 he received an appointment as a Senior Astronomer at the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik in Freiburg, Germany. His associations with HAO began in 1987 as a Visiting Scientist for one year, and later as an Affiliate Scientist. In 1995 Dr. Knölker was appointed Director of HAO, and received a Senior Scientist appointment.
Dr. Knölker's major research interests and activities include the structure and dynamics of the intermittent magnetic field in the solar atmosphere, radiative transfer, and the structure and evolution of the Sun with its variable radiative output. He has also maintained an active interest in solar and stellar seismology.
Dr. Greg HollandDirector, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division
Greg Holland is Director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology
Division IN ESSL. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and
the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Dr. Holland has
several areas of research interests including hurricanes and tropical
meteorology, and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). His current active interests are
on scale interactions, including: environmental influences on hurricane
development, the impact of global change on hurricanes, the role of
hurricanes in the global circulation and bridging the divide between climate
and weather modeling. His interests in this area cover both the research
side and carrying through with promising results to applications. His
publications have included major contributions to six textbooks and forecast
manuals, together with over 100 research papers in atmospheric sciences and
UAVs.
For more information on Greg's work and links to his publications, please see his homepage.
Dr. Rit CarboneDirector, The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies
Richard (Rit) Carbone is a Senior Scientist and Director of The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies (TllMES) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has authored more than 100 scholarly works. A pioneer in meteorological radar, he has published on physical processes in clouds and storms, topographically-influenced circulations, predictability of warm season rainfall and societal aspects of weather prediction. Carbone led the United States Weather Research Program and served as Chairman of the World Meteorological Organization?s World Weather Research Programme. He was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1994. Among other honors, Carbone received the 2001 AMS Cleveland Abbe Award for distinguished service to atmospheric science by an individual, and the 2003 NCAR Publication Prize.