On Wednesday, 27 July, a memorial service was held at the Mesa Lab for Vic Tisone. Vic’s family, friends, and colleagues walked through the breezeway onto the Mesa Lab's generously shaded tree plaza and the blazing-hot summer heat was suddenly forgotten.
HAO along with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, The University of Göttingen, and NorthWest Research Associates have now shown that magnetic flux concentrations forming active regions on the sun emerge at a rate much slower than predicted by the prevailing current model.
Director Scott McIntosh gave a NCAR Explorer Series Lecture detailing the anticipated great American eclipse of 2017. This lecture was recorded live and is now available to watch!
Former HAO Senior Scientist Tim Brown has received a prestigious award from the National Academy of Sciences for landmark research that he conducted while at NCAR in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Congratulations to Mausumi Dikpati for her recent promotion to Senior Scientist. Mausumi received her PhD in physics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. She came to HAO as an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow and she has since continued her career trajectory within NCAR.
