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Story in American Society of Civil Engineers Magazine: A story appeared in the 17 June 2014 issue of the American Society of Civil Engineers Magazine about a recent paper by Jim Kossin (NESDIS/NCDC), Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Gabe Vecchi (OAR/GFDL). The ASCE magazine has an audience of 145,000 civil engineers, and the news story provides an important link between the paper's findings of trends in tropical cyclone risk, and concerns of wind and water engineering requirements in the foreseeable future. The ASCE Magazine is available at http://www.asce.org/. The direct link to the story is http://www.asce.org/CEMagazine/Article.aspx?id=23622331346.  (J. Kossin, NCDC, 608-265-5356) 

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ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

Capitol Hill and NOAA Senior Leadership Briefings on Volcanic Cloud Research: Mike Pavolonis (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) represented NESDIS as a speaker at NOAA Science Days on June 23-24, 2014. The primary purpose of NOAA Science Days is to highlight state of the art, mission oriented, NOAA research. The NOAA Science Days theme was “Research to Reduce Disasters and Increase Resiliency.” In support of the Science Days theme, M. Pavolonis briefed House and Senate staff members on Capitol Hill, as well as NOAA senior leadership at the Department of Commerce Headquarters, on NESDIS research aimed at using weather satellites to help mitigate aviation-related volcanic hazards. A seminar on the volcanic cloud research was also conducted in Silver Spring, MD. The seminar was available to all NOAA personal able to attend in person or via the Internet. The NESDIS volcanic cloud research was one of two Science Days briefings conducted on Capitol Hill and at Commerce Headquarters. NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research scientist Vasily Titov gave the other briefing on tsunami modeling. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, Mike.Pavolonis@noaa.gov) 

Significance: The Science Days briefings highlighted significant efforts within NESDIS to maximize the societal benefit of NOAA’s satellites through state of the art mission oriented research 

Mission Goals: Serve Society's Needs for Weather and Water Information; Support the Nation's Commerce 

NOAA Cross-Cutting Priorities: Sound, Reliable State-of-the-Art Research; Integrating Global Environmental Observations and Data Management 

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

The 22nd CIMSS Student Workshop is held in Madison.: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Student Workshop was held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), 22-26 June 2014, with 13 high school students participating. Although the majority of students were, as typical, from Wisconsin and the Midwest, students also came from as far away as Massachusetts and California. A wide variety of atmospheric, satellite, and earth science topics and activities were presented at the UW Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and UW Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (AOS) as well as at a number of field trip venues, including: WISC-TV3 studio, Aldo Leopold Nature Center, National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office in Sullivan (WI), Washburn Observatory (and planetarium), UW Geology Museum, Devils Lake State Park (geology hike), and even the UW “Wednesday Nite @ the Lab” presentation by the “Weather Guys” Drs. S. Ackerman (CIMSS Director/AOS) and J. Martin (AOS professor). (See http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/studentworkshop/index.html for more details). (G.S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, gary.s.wade@noaa.gov; K. Nelson, CIMSS, kyle.nelson@ssec.wisc.edu; M. Mooney, CIMSS, 608-265-2123, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu). 

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Figure caption: Scenes from the CIMSS Student Workshop (22-26 June 2014): McIDAS-V (Man computer Interactive Data Access System) session; "Wednesday Nite @ the Lab" with Dr. S. Ackerman; Bascom Hall at University of Wisconsin-Madison; and NWS-MKX Nexrad radar (Sullivan, WI). 

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VISITORS:

Visitor from Australian Bureau of Meteorology: Leon Majewski from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology visited the Advanced Satellite Products Branch and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) from June 16-23, 2014. The primary purpose of his visit was to collaborate on activities related to the next generation of operational geostationary and low earth orbit satellites. In particular, the Bureau is leveraging NOAA’s algorithm development for volcanic ash and cloud applications. He also gave a seminar on activities within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to prepare for the Himawari-8 satellite. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, Mike.Pavolonis@noaa.gov) 

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