The World in Your Hands: Issues, Methods, and Opportunities from the Perspective of NCAR Scientists
Tue, April 1st, 11 am – 2 pm, LaGuardia Community College, Room E 500. Wed, April 2nd, 12 am – 3 pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4210. Free and open to all. RSVP required.
Join us for a rare opportunity to meet and talk with expert scientists Dr. Mary Barth and Dr. Rajesh Kumar from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Tue, April 1st & Wed, April 2nd at the CUNY Graduate Center 2025! Join discussions on convergent science and multidisciplinary approaches to solving environmental issues. Discover internship and job opportunities at NCAR. Learn how to use web-based tools to explore local and regional environments. Refreshments provided. RSVP here, seating is limited.
Tue, April 1st, 11 am-2 pm, LaGuardia Community College, Room E 500
-Convergent Science and Multidisciplinary approaches to solving issues/addressing environmental concerns.
-Internship/job opportunities.
-Using a web-based tool to learn about the local and regional environment.
-Refreshments
Wed, April 2nd, 12am -3 pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4210
-Research presentations on:
Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting
Clouds and Chemistry
-Internship/job opportunities
-Conversation about how CUNY and NCAR may strengthen its relationship
-Refreshments
About the Participants:
Dr. Mary Barth is a Senior Scientist at NCAR conducting research focused on the interactions between clouds and chemistry. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1985 and her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1991. She is using cloud-scale and regional-scale modeling and observations from field experiments to investigate effects of vertical transport, wet scavenging, aqueous-phase chemistry, and lightning in clouds on ozone precursors and aerosol concentrations. She is leading the NCAR System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere (SIMA) cross-disciplinary project to develop a single global-to-local modeling system for addressing a variety of science questions, such as the impact of local convection on the larger scale composition of the upper troposphere. Barth is currently the President of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. In 2017 she became a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar is the Deputy Director of the Research Applications Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. He earned his Bachelor of Science from I.B. College, Panipat, and a Master of Science in Physics from Kurukshetra University, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Hamburg, Germany (RAL). Dr. Kumar’s research focuses on air quality, integrating ground- and satellite-based monitoring with atmospheric modeling to address issues such as pollution transport, air quality forecasting, and the impacts of air pollution on health and agriculture (macmaq.aqrc.ucdavis.edu). In recognition of his contributions to aeronomy, he was awarded the Baron Nicolet Prize by the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences for the 2022-2023 biennial period (RAL).