NCAR laboratory to be restructured
Oct 12, 2009 - by Staff
12 October 2009 • Three months ago, NCAR director Eric Barron challenged the nearly 300 NCAR staff who have been part of the Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) to define a new laboratory structure that would better enable NCAR science and improve management while maintaining the ability to foster interdisciplinary science.
Greg Holland, interim director of the new laboratory.
Barron announced on 29 September that several changes to ESSL would occur starting on 1 October. NCAR will maintain the identity of its divisions, but the structure of ESSL has been modified. Three of ESSL's four divisions (the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, MMM; the Climate and Global Dynamics Division, CGD; and the Atmospheric Chemistry Division, ACD) will define a laboratory, yet to be named, focused on the Earth system and characterized by a coherent budget, personnel, and planning structure. HAO now reports directly to the NCAR director as a separate unit.
Former MMM director Greg Holland will serve as interim director of the new laboratory. For more details, see the 12 October article in UCAR/NCAR Staff Notes.