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EAPS Weekly Newsletter: January 22, 2019 EAPS WEEKLY Earth ~ NEWSLETTER Atma 22 January 2019 Plane ary Sciences Contents: Meetings/Events & Dept. News…………………………...........1 Undergrad/Graduate Student News…………………………..2 EAPS MEETINGS & EVENTS University News….……..…..…….…………..…………...…….….6 EAPS SPRING PRIMARY COMMITTEE MEETINGS BE SURE TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE EAPS COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA! Tuesday, January 29, 2019 3:00 PM HAMP 3201 Facebook Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Twitter 3:00 PM Department Magazine HAMP 3201 Website News Tuesday, April 9, 2019 *NOTE DATE CHANGE* 3:00 PM DEPARTMENT NEWS HAMP 3201 EAPS COLLOQUIA SPRING FACULTY MEETINGS Ashish Sharma Tuesday, February 12, 2019 University of Notre Dame 3:00 PM Thursday, January 24, 2019 HAMP 3201 3:30 p.m. HAMP 2108 Tuesday, March 26, 2019 *NOTE DATE CHANGE* 3:00 M SUMMER 2019 STAFF PROFESSIONAL HAMP 3201 DEVELOPMENT FUND Tuesday, April 16 3:00 PM It is time to request nominations for the Summer HAMP 3201 2019 Staff Professional Development Fund. These applications should be for professional development opportunities that will take place May through early August. To apply, please completed the attached application and return it to Angela Teel by Monday, February 4. A committee of fellow CoS staff members will then http://www.eaps.purdue.edu/ Page 1 of 8 meet to evaluate the applications and make the final funding decisions. The highly successful program is structured to pair students with a mentor who is active in the private Please contact Angie if you have any questions! sector discipline of greatest interest to the student protégé. Examples include—but are not limited [CoS Information sheet & Development Fund to—energy forecasting, software development, Application are attached] project management, aviation, broadcasting, and catastrophe risk management. Every attempt is made to pair students with a mentor in the same LEADERSHIP IN GLOBALIZATION AWARDS geographic region to help facilitate face-to-face interactions, in addition to regular phone calls, e- The University’s Office of Corporate and Global mails, and other forms of communication. Partnerships (OCGP) and the Global Academic Committee (GAC) are soliciting nominations for The mentorship program is currently seeking a Outstanding Leadership in Globalization. One limited number of upper-level undergraduate and faculty member and one staff member will be graduate students who are focused on building a recognized in 2019. Each will receive a cash career in the private sector. This program is award. uniquely focused on skill development, coaching, and helping students grow professional network Nomination information can be accessed using and business acumen. This year at the AMS 2019 the following links. Self-nominations are allowed. Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, we had a record number of students express interest in our Instructions for Faculty: mentorship program during the student https://partners.purdue.edu/global- conference career fair. The word has gotten partnerships/purdue-leadership-in-globalization- around about the success of our program and we awards/faculty-award-rules-and-procedures/ are seeking to expand both our student and Instructions for Staff: professional network. https://partners.purdue.edu/global- partnerships/purdue-leadership-in-globalization- The application deadline is January 31, 2019. For awards/staff-award-rules-and-procedures/ more information, go to https://www.ametsoc.org/CPROF/index.cfm/boar All nominations must be routed to OCGP through ds/board-for-private-sector-meteorologists/. the College of Science by their deadline of 2/15. Therefore, please send your nomination materials electronically to Robin Sipes ([email protected]) WORKSHOP: REMIXING RESUMES FOR AN by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. ONLINE PRESENCE Questions regarding the nomination process can be directed to Professor Elizabeth J. Taparowsky: This workshop will help you translate your print [email protected] résumé for professional networking sites like LinkedIn. Free and open to all Purdue students, staff and STUDENT NEWS faculty. Registration is required, so sign up online at: https://cla.purdue.edu/wlschedule and AMS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM choose the “Group Workshops” schedule from the menu. For the past 12 years, the American Tuesday, January 22nd Meteorological Society’s Board for Private Sector 1:30-2:30 PM Meteorologists (BPSM) has reached across the HEAV 220 private industry to connect a cross-section of professionals working in private sector positions related to meteorology, with students interested in learning more about the private sector. http://www.eaps.purdue.edu/ Page 2 of 8 GRAD & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES undergraduates to participate in an 8-week summer 2019 internship program in Earth system Jan. 22: Resources Refresher science using a NASA flying laboratory. VPHD. Career Research Portal. Diligence Lab. Participants will acquire hands-on research Bring your laptop to learn about these & more! experience in all aspects of a scientific Jan. 23: Career Fair 101 campaign, i9ncluding flying onboard the NASA What’s OCR on this campus like? Why & how should grad students & postdocs participate? DC-8 research aircraft to collect data. See the Jan. 24: Job Search Basics & Ethics attached flyer for more information, or go to Effective strategies & realistic discussion of https://baeri.org/sarp/. The application common myths & rumors related to the job deadline is January 30, 2019. search. Jan. 28: LinkedIn [See attached flyer for additional information] Make sure you’re maximizing your use of this vital career-related resource! Bring your laptop! Jan. 30: Convert your CV to a resume Learn to convert to a resume or improve an REQUEST FOR PREPROPOSALS FOR USE OF THE existing resume! Bring a draft to work on. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S ARM USER Feb. 5: Tell me about yourself! FACILITY Drill down into networking fundamentals; market yourself authentically & effectively. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is now Feb. 12: The Question behind the accepting preliminary proposals from scientists Question … worldwide to use components of the Atmospheric What do recruiters really want to know?! Practice Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility for field and improve upon your STAR method. campaigns. Feb. 18: Negotiation Skills Should one negotiate? And if yes, HOW?! Preproposals are due April 5, 2019, for: All workshops: in ME 3006 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Use of the second ARM Mobile Facility – NO RSVP; arrive early to get a seat! Questions? AMF2 will be available for deployment [email protected] beginning in January 2022. Note: The Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (SACR) will not be offered with AMF2. UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH Supplemental campaigns – Moderate-size OPPORTUNITIES AT THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF campaign proposals to augment an ARM OCEANOGRAPHY atmospheric observatory will be considered for calendar years 2020−2021. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is offering Note: The Gulfstream-159 research aircraft summer research experience for undergraduates, will not be available for this call. spanning fields that include earth sciences, geophysics, and atmospheric science. For a list of Submit preproposals online through the field these internships, go to: campaign preproposal form. https://scripps.ucsd.edu/undergrad/research- Be sure to check the ARM campaign page for programs/summer-research-opportunities. more details, including current campaigns and capabilities, and proposal due dates. Proposed deployments should focus on research that NASA STUDENT AIRBORNE RESEARCH addresses the ARM mission of improving the PROGRAM (SARP) understanding and representation of clouds and The NASA Airborne Science Program announces aerosols in earth system models, as well as their the opportunity for highly motivated rising senior interactions and coupling with the Earth’s surface. http://www.eaps.purdue.edu/ Page 3 of 8 Priority will be given to proposals that: experienced Research Scientist to provide scientific and meteorological expertise for make comprehensive use of the ARM collaborative work to advance NSSL’s storm-scale facilities data assimilation and prediction science within focus on strategic goals of the DOE Office the NOAA Warn-on-Forecast project. Specifically, of Biological and Environmental Research research will focus on improving short-term (BER) predictions of high impact severe convective have the ability to improve regional or storms, heavy rainfall, landfalling tropical cyclones global earth system models. and other hazardous weather associated with convective storms. This research will require close Proposals that coordinate with other BER collaboration with the Storm Prediction Center, community capabilities (e.g., Environmental NOAA’s Global Systems Division at the Earth Molecular Sciences Laboratory, AmeriFlux Systems Research Laboratory, and the Network, Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments Environmental Modeling Center in College Park, in the Arctic and Tropics, Energy Exascale Earth Maryland. A successful candidate for this position System Model) are encouraged. will need high-level abilities to diagnose and understand differences in forecasts between https://www.arm.gov/news/facility/post/52337 various modeling and data assimilation systems, through expertise in mesoscale and storm-scale dynamics and convection allowing models. Also ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF METEOROLOGY required are high-level abilities to assess the POSITION AT VIRGINIA TECH capabilities of models to properly depict mesoscale convective systems and land-falling
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