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.
Nicholas Pedatella of the High Altitude Observatory is the recipient of the SCOSTEP Distinguished Young Scientist Award for 2016. The award is for his work on atmospheric variability and data assimilation and ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of the influence of lower atmospheric waves on the spatial and temporal variability of the mesosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere.
Michael is a current post-doc with HAO since 2014 in a joint appointment with RAL. He works with Art Richmond, Wiebke Deierling, and others at HAO, CISL, CU Boulder, Penneylvania State, and the UCAR Center for Science Education as part of the NSF Frontiers in Earth System Dynamics (FESD) Electrical Connections and Consequences Within the Earth System (ECCWES) collaboration.
Bidya is no stranger to solar dynamo modeling. He earned his PhD in 2013 under the direction of Arnab Choudhuri at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. A notable result from his thesis research was the demonstration that stochastic fluctuations in the meridional flow speed can trigger grand minima in flux-transport dynamo models.
After 50 years of operation, the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory received a major facelift this week. A new dome has been installed at the site. The old dome was removed Tuesday morning, January 5th, and the new dome was installed before the end of the same day.
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