23 September 2009  •  UCAR's presence in northeast Boulder grew on 11 June with the acquisition of a building at 3375 Mitchell Lane (see photo), within a block of UCAR’s Foothills Laboratory. Holding roughly 5,000 square meters (54,000 square feet) of office space, the building should help provide net savings to UCAR by reducing the amount of space the organization leases elsewhere. A UCAR-wide space plan now being developed will determine how best to remodel and utilize the building.

The new UCAR building at 3375 Mitchell Lane, near the current Foothills Lab.

Observing networks and renewable energy were the two themes of this year’s AMS Summer Community Meeting, held 10–13 August in Norman, Oklahoma, and organized by the American Meteorological Society’s Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise. The group explored how best to implement recommendations set forth in a 2009 report from the National Academies, Observing Weather from the Ground Up: A Nationwide Network of Networks. Also discussed were the weather-prediction aspects of wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy.

Summer sea ice melt in the Arctic was predicted month by month for the second year by an international panel of experts organized by the Study of Environmental Arctic Change. The group issued reports starting in June that compiled and
analyzed forecasts from 16 teams. New this year: regional reports that focus on topics such as the potential opening of the Northwest Passage.

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