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Visitors 2006 | 2007 | 2008

Calendar for 2006

Visitors	Dates/ Location	Organization	Purpose	Contact
	January
	February
Shiow-Ming Deng Lung-Tsung Cheng	February - July	Visiting Scientists from CWB-Taiwan	Working with Forecast Applications Branch on LAPS modeling efforts.	John McGinley x6161
NOAA Research Technical Committee for Computing Resources Conference	February 7-9	Government Representatives from NOAA Research Labs	Bi-annual meeting to advise NOAA Research Management on issues of common concern in computing and network resources and to develop an overall NOAA reserch computing network strategy.	Mike Doney x6364
Mary Kizca, Deputy AA	February 8	Government NESDIS	SOS Viewing	Rhonda Lange x6045 Sylvia Hasui x6709
Steve Davis	February 9	University of Colorado	To discuss the possibility of SOS exhibit	Bill Bendel x6708
Jon Van de Grift	February 10	Education - Photojournalist and lecturer at Metro State / Denver	To take photographs of scientists working in their labs	Annie Reiser x6634
Andre Tarro 301-495-2204 Doug Lawson	February 16	Raytheon / Keane	Technical Exchange on AWIPS evolution	Carl Bullock x7247
Matthew Wood and Kevin Wells	February 22	Private Sector - RSI	SOS Viewing	Ben Tuttle (NGDC) x3948 Annie Reiser x6634
NGDC Visitors from the Air Force	February 24	Military	SOS Viewing	Ben Tuttle (NGDC) x3948
Sheila MacDonald with group from the Montana Education Commission as well as local members of WICHE, SHEEO, NCHEMS, and NCET	February 24	Montana Education Delegation	To hear SOS presentation by Sandy MacDonald	Annie Reiser x6634 Rhonda Lange x6045
Front Range Community College Meteorology Class	February 26	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Christopher R. Need 303-735-5880	February 27	Education - CU Department of Geological Sciences	SOS Presentation	Sylvia Hasui x6709
	March
Beth Russell	March 6-8	Education - Hollings Scholar	Orientation visit for her GSD summer internship	Annie Reiser x6634
Roland Draxler	March 6-10	Government - NOAA / ARL Silver Spring, MD	Project Coordination	Richard Jesuroga x6936
Mike Graf, Jason Chasse	March 7-9	Government - NWS HQTR	Aviation Branch Overview	Michael Kraus x5200
Douglas Elementary 2nd Grade - Mary Jo Barbeau (teacher)	March 10	Education	SOS visit as part of a school tour	Carol Knight x6401
Bob Kendrick and Mike McMahan, Harris County - Houston, TX	March 15	Customer SOS will be exhibited at new facility they are building	SOS Demonstration	Bill Bendel x6708 Sylvia Hasui x6709
William L. Smith, Jr. 757-864-8677	March 16-22	NASA Langley Research Center	Assimilation of GOES Satellite cloud data into the RUC	Steve Weygandt x5529
Jon Harvey	March 20-22	Education - Hollings Scholar	Orientation visit to his GSD summer internship	Doug van de Kamp x6309
Bruce Webster (NCEP) Gary Wohl (NCEP) Mike Young (NCEP) Mark Iredell (NCEP) John Derber (NCEP) Ron Bewtra (GFDL) Brian Gross (GFDL) Jeff Durachta (GFDL) John Sheldon (GFDL) Bill Turnbull (CIO) Bill Voitk (CIO) Mike Kane (CIO) Robert Bohn (CIO) Mark Langstein (General Counsel) Richard Brown (General Counsel)	March 20-24	Government - NCEP, GFDL, NOAA Office of the CIO, DOC Office of General Counsel	NOAA Research and Development Hight Performance Computing Consensus Meeting	Scott Nahman x5349
Roland Draxler	March 23-24	Government - Air Resources Lab	To assist in the installation of the HySPLIT dispersion model into ISB's AWIPS development environment	Richard Jesuroga x6936
Dr. Luc Fillion	March 31	International - Meteorological Service of Canada	Presentation	Dezso Devenyi x6827
	April
Neil Gordon	April 3	Foreign MET Service, New Zealand	Review GFE Progress	Tom LeFebvre x6582
NWS Jason Tuell Ronla Meiggs Cliff Wong RAYTHEON Doug Lawson Ed Bensman Frank Griffith Andre Tarro	April 3-7	Industry - Government	Discuss AWIPS evolution development concepts	Joe Wakefield x6053
Lynn Maximuk James Partain Larry Dunn Robert Hartman Kenneth Graham Darian Figurskey Kennard Kaspar William Bunting	April 3-7	Government NWS	To discuss CONOPS	Joe Wakefield x6053
Fire Weather Forecasters	April 4-6	Government BLM-GACC's Predictive Services Group	Develop summer fire outlook report and view SOS	Sher Schranz x7254
Al Willman Mark Paese	April 6	Government NWS Office of Operational Systems	To discuss NOAA Profiler Network issues	Margot Ackley x6791
Nick Gebauer	April 12-13	Education - Hollings Scholar	Orientation visit to his GSD summer internship	Woody Roberts x6104
School of Mines Students	April 13	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Jeff Zimmerman, NW Airlines Ernie Dash , Raytheon AirDat Dan Mulally Dan Magee Alan Anderson Cyrena Druse Mark Anderson Jay Ladd Neil Jacobs U of Wisconsin Sara Bedka Ralph Petersen Government / Military Alfred Moosakhanian, FAA Paul Stough, NASA Taumi Daniels, NASA	April 13	Business - Education - Government	Great Lakes Fleet Experiment Status Meeting	Bill Moninger x6435
Rick Ochoa, NIFC Robyn Heffernen, NIFC Heath Hockenberry, NWS Rob Krohn, NWS Brooks Gordon R GS-12 AFWA / DNXT Terry Jameson, Army Research Lab	April 18	Government - NIFC - NWS	FX-Net and W4 Technical Review	Sher Schranz x7254
Intermountain Data Center Association	April 19	Government - Business	Data Center facilities collaboration and tours of GSD Data Centers	Scott Nahman x5349
Visitors from Vaisala	April 25	Business	Discuss collaborations on MADIS	Patty Miller x6365
	May
Odessey School from Denver, CO	May 2	Education	SOS Demonstration	Sylvia Hasui x 6709
Faith Christian School Arvada, CO	May 3	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Wayne Feltz	May 3	University	Meetings with staff from the Aviation Branch	Gregg Pratt x7237 Jennifer Mindek x6122
Lauren Beach - Student	May 5	Education	ESRL visit including meeting with GSD staff Tom LeFebvre and DWB (John McGinley)	Rhonda Lange x6045
Dr. Russ Schnell and 17 visitors from the US State Department	May 9	Government	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Montclair Academy Denver, CO (15)	May 9	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Skinner Middle School Denver, CO (36)	May 10	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Skinner Middle School Denver, CO (38)	May 11	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
CU Boulder Environmental Design Group (8)	May 12	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Denver Elementary School 4th Graders Denver	May 16	Education	SOS Demo for pupils, teachers, and chaperones	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Devinney Elementary School Lakewood	May 18	Education	SOS Demo for pupils, teachers, and chaperones	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Rock River Schools Rock River, WY	May 19	Education	SOS Demo for pupils, teachers, and chaperones	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Korean Delegation - 12 Senior Officials and Scientists from teh Korea Meteorological Administration	May 19	Foreign	Visit ESRL to discuss climate and global change - SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Rhonda Lange x6045 Sylvia Hasui x6709
Dumas, Texas Schools	May 22	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
NASA's Space Radiation Analysis Group	May 23	Government	SOS Demo with a few staff from SEC	Rhonda Lange x6045
Group of GSA (20-30)	May 23	Government	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
GLOBE Staff UCAR, CSU / CIRA	May 25	Government	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Laramie Schools Laramie, WY	May 31	Government - Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
	June
China Meteorological Association	June 1	Foreign	SOS Demo as part of ESRL visit	Sylvia Hasui x6709 Rhonda Lange x6045
Physics students from the Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO	June 9	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Eastern Range Clay Flinn William Roeder Paul Wahner Cathy Weller (TYBRIN Corp) Western Range Mike Schmeiser AF SPO Capt David Konradt (LRRP) 1stLt Elizabetha Murphy (LRRV) 1stLt Brian Bartram (LRRR) 1stLt Chris Alfaro (LRRL) Kent Banks (LRRD) Don Larson (LRRD) SLRSC Charlotte Johnson (Vandenberg) Chris Chaja (Colorado Springs) Lockheed Martin Dave Sautter Lowell Schaffert	June 13	Government - Military - Industry	Technical Interchange Meeting on Range, Standardization, and Automation	Joe Wakefield x6053
VAISALA Richard Pyle Hannu Tuominen	June 15	Industry	To pursue MOU with Technical Outreach Branch	Bill Bendel x6708
Marc Salzman	June 16-28	Foreign Government	Work with ISB / IGS on Australian version of GFE	Mark Mathewson x6713
Weather Modification Workshop	June 19	Government	SOS Demo as part of ESRL visit	Sylvia Hasui x6709 Rhonda Lange x6045
NCAR Undergraduate Workshop	June 20	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Boulder City and County Officials	June 22-23	City Government	SOS Demo as part of DSRC visit	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
Marc Salzman	June 23-28	Foreign Government	Collaborate with AMB on WRF/Chem project	John Brown x6867
Jianping Huang	June 26-30	Foreign Government	Collaborate with AMB on WRF / Chem project	John Brown x6867
NOAA Fisheries General Consul and Staff	June 27-28	Government	SOS Demo as part of ESRL visit	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
Christopher Treib Coast Guard LT, USCG	June 29	Student	To inquire about summer 2007 internship possibility	Seth Gutman x7031
	July
International Teachers	July 5	Education - Foreign	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Sherry Wagner New Bedford Oceanarium	July 7	Education	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
NWS Visitors	July 11-13	Government	To plan for CONOPS lab exercise	Woody Roberts x6104
Office of Program Planning and Integration Willow Marr Rori Martson Alan Leonardi	July 17	Government	Meeting several GSD staff emembers to discuss FY09-10 planning and transition of GPS-Met and MADIS	John Schneider x4646
From the NWS: Greg Mandt Deirdre Jones Chuck Piercy Jason Tuell Ed Mandel	July 17-18	Government	To discuss AWIPS-related work for 2007 and strategic direction for GSD work	Carl Bullock x7247
Space Environment Center / National Weather Service Headquarters personnel along with several Boulder-based SEC staff	July 20	Government	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Yolanda Trevino - Staffer for Colorado Pct. 3 Commissioner Bob Kendrick	July 21	State	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan: Mr. Adolphus Shen Mr. Yeun Chung Tan	July 24-25	Foreign	For semi-annual CWB meeting with GSD to discuss AWIPS, LAPS, HPCC, and FXC	Fanthune Moeng x6065
Global Hawk Instruments Meeting	July 27	Government - Industry	Kick-off meeting to begin discussions on developing an instrument payload for the Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System	Sara Summers x4221
Group of 50 from the Department of	July 28	Government	Two SOS Demos	Sylvia Hasui x6709
David Newcomer and Jeff Hamilton of Trimble Navigation	July 31	Industry	Informal discussion of NOAA's troposheric and ionospheric signal delay models	Seth Gutman
	August
5 Chinese University Professors	August 1	Foreign	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui x6709
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium	August 3	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
Students from Colorado State University	August 3	Education	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
Aimee Devaris (NWS)	August 15	Government	To discuss NWS / GSD PPBES-related issues with several GSD staff members	Carol Werner x6157
Women's Aviation Group POC: Lynn Mareth (2)	August 16	Public	Tour of GSD / NWS	Annie Reiser x6634
Chris Scotese	August 18	Government	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
ESRL Dedication	August 23	Government - Public	SOS Demos by Sandy MacDonald	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
John Englander International Sea Keepers Society	August 25	Foreign	SOS Demo by Sandy MacDonald	Kristin Bjorgo x6005
Staff from the Denver Museum Dr. David Grinspoon Kirk Johnson Dr. Steve Lee Dave Noel Jodi Schoemer Joe Verringia	August 30	Public	Visit to TOB	Sylvia Hasui x6709
	September
Tim Wilfang ENSCO	September 1	Industry	To discuss aviation initiative work with GSD	Gregg Pratt x7237
Michael Foley Johnathan Gill Australian Bureau of Meteorology	September 11-12	Foreign	To discuss GFE with Mark Mathewson's Group	Carol Werner x6157 Mark Mathewson x6713
Jeff Flick Eddie Byrd John Boucher	Sept 11-15	Raytheon	To assist with installin g the initial delivery of the follow-on Supercomputer into GA405	Scott Nahman x5349
Gregg Mann and Larry Dunn from NWS	September 11-15	Government	To participate in CONOPS testing	Woody Roberts x6104
Martin Bongers Kevin Biesecker Larry Woodmansee LaTricia Tyson Alfred S. Kenyon III	September 12-15	Government - FEMA GTAS	Fro GTAS project overview and presentations on GTAS Data Systems	Rich Jesuroga x6936
National Marine Fisheries Service Group (25-30)	September 13	Government	SOS Demos by Will von Dauster and Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Two groups of 30-35 from National Marine Fisheries Service	September 13	Government	SOS Demos by Will von Dauster and Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Air Force Visitors to NIST	September 14	Military	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui x6709 Tom x3863
Adult Group (19)	September 15	Public	SOS Demo by Tom	Rhonda Lange x6045
George Rey COTS Technology, LLC	September 15	Industry	SOS Demo - David Himes Sara Summers, and Nikki Prive	Sara Summers x4221
Dave Andra William Bunting Liz Quoetone NWS	September 18-22	Government	To participate in CONOPS testing	Woody Roberts x6104
Colorado Rotary Club Evergreen, CO	September 22	Public	SOS Presentation by Don Mock	Katy Stewart x6000
Bill Schneider Rusty Billingsley NWS	September 25-29	Government	To participate in CONOPS testing	Woody Roberts x6104
Civil Aeronautics Administration, Taiwan (6) Celia Chen (NCAR) hosting	September 27	Foreign	Tour of GSD / NWS	Annie Reiser x6634 Fanthune Moeng x6065
Shaw Heights Middle School Westminster, CO (25)	September 27	Education - 6th and 7th graders	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Monarch Elementary and Middle Schools K-8 Teachers	September 28	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui x6709
	October
Eric Sundby	October - April	Education and Outreach	Ed Tollerud is mentoring a student from Monarch High School for their Science Research Seminar Class	Ed Tollerud x6127
Front Range Community College (20)	October 2	Education	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Frank Alsheimer Darin Figurskey NWS	October 2-6	Government	To participate in CONOPS testing	Woody Roberts x6104
John Stanford Iowa State University	October 4	Education	Visiting John Brown	John Brown x6867
Gary Phillis Lockheed Martin	October 5	Industry	SOS Demo by Dave Himes and Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui x6709
James Travers Meteorological Service of NZ	October 5-6	Foreign	Tour of GSD / NWS	Annie Reiser x6634
Vicky Cunningham Cunningham Foundation	October 6	Public	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Boy Scouts	October 10	Education	SOS Demo by Dave Himes	Sylvia Hasui x6709
CIRA Visitors	October 10	Education	SOS Demo by Steve Albers	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Emily Crenshaw representing Fourth Row Films	October 11	Media	To film Joe Golden's weather briefing and conduct interview with him	Annie Reiser x6634
Colin Ware University of New Hampshire	October 13	Education	To discuss visualization on the SOS Smithsonian Exhibit	Bill Bendel x6708 Sylvia Hasui x6709
From NWS: Laura Arcieri Rusty Billingsly Peter Browning William Bunting Larry Dunn Darin Figursky Gary Foltz Rob Hartman Philipia Herman Chip Kasper Peter Manousos Greg Noonan James Partain Jason Tuell	October 17-19	Government	To write up the GSD / NWS CONOPS lab exercise	Woody Roberts x6104
George Sparks and other Denver Museum Staff	October 17	Education	SOS Demos by Sandy MacDonald	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Tony van Witsen, PBS	October 17	Media	SOS Demo - Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Geological graduate students	October 18	Education	SOS Demo - George Sharman	George Sharman, NGDC x6345 Sylvia Hasui x6709
Ms. Singleterry and 2 Congressional Staffers for Wayne Allard	October 19	Government	SOS Demo - Don Mock	Don Mock x6000 Sylvia Hasui x6709
Sara Havig and other CU graduate-level journalism students (14)	October 19	Education	NOAA tour, SOS Demo, and GSD visit / Will	Annie Reiser x6634 Sylvia Hasui x6709
Yoshinori Shoji, Japanese Meteorology Agency Iwabuchi-san, UCAR	October 20	Foreign	Discuss NRT GPA and NRT analysis system	Seth Gutman x7031
CFC Organizational representatives	October 20	Public	SOS Demo - Tom	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Sreela Nandi, NWS HQTR	October 23-24	Government	Informative Modeling Meetings	Annie Reiser x6634 Julie Singewald x6818
Dr. Jai-Ho Oh	October 25	Foreign	Presenting the seminar titled "The Construction of an e-Science Environment for the CATER Research Community"	Fanthune Moeng x6065
Director of Discovery	October 25	PBS/Discovery	SOS Demo	Anatta 6288 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Discovery film crew	October 26	PBS/Discovery	SOS Demo	Anatta 6288 Sylvia Hasui 6709
	November
Wooly Magma Helpers	November 27		Assemble NOAA 200th Anniversary kits' Wooly Magma project and participate in NOAA tour/SOS Demo	Annie Reiser 6634
Dr. Kazumasa Aonashi	November 2	Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba Japan	To present a seminar on assimilation of satellite microwave radiometer data into a cloud-resolving model.	Annie Reiser 6634 Stan Benjamin 6387
Chinese Academy of Sciences	November 2	Foreign	SOS Demo as part of visit to NOAA / NGDC	David Clark, NGDC x6214 Sylvia Hasui x6709
8th Grade Science Day	November 2 and November 8	Education	SOS Demos / Tom and Will	Sylvia Hasui x6709
Dr. Kamran Mohseni	November 3	University	Presenting seminar titled "Unmanned Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Environmental Sensor Networking"	Sara Summers x4221
University of Denver science students	November 3	University	SOS Demo	Ben Tuttle, NGDC Sylvia Hasui x6709
ISETCSC Meeting	November 7-8	ISETCSC /NOAA's EPP Educational Partnership Program	University and Government coming together to discuss NOAA's ISETCSC	Julie Singewald
Frank Griffith Christopher Hammack Ronald Anderson	November 7-9	Raytheon	To discuss technical interchange of related work with the AWIPS	Carl Bullock 7247 Carol Werner 6157
Foreign Group of 3 from U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute	November 8	U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute	SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Front Range Homeschoolers	November 9		SOS Demo	Sylvia Hasui 6709
GSD VISIT	November 17	Department of Public Works	AWIPS Demo, weather briefing, SOS demo, general building tour	Richard Jesuroga 6936 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Alumni Fulbright Students	November 18	Fulbright	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Bill Kuo	November 20	UCAR	To present a seminar on COSMIC and early results	Stan Benjamin 6387 Annie Reiser 6634
Senior Citizens Group	November 20	Senior Citizens	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Syliva Hasui 6709
Wooly Magma Helpers and Tour	November 27-December 1	Public	To assist with the assembly of Wooly Magma kits for NOAA 200th Anniversary kits	Annie Reiser 6634
Visitors to Russ Schnell's Lab	November 29	Public	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Syliva Hasui 6709
5th Graders from Superior Elementary School	November 30	Superior Elementary School	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Syliva Hasui 6709
Platte Choice School of Boulder	November 30	Platte Choice School	SOS Demo by Tom LeFebvre	Sylivia Hasui 6709
	December
Heritage Middle School of Longmont (2 groups)	December 1	Heritage Middle School	SOS Demo by Will von Dauster	Sylvia Hasui 6709
Chinese Meteorological Administration	December 1	Foreign	SOS Demo and tour of GSD	Fanthune Moeng 6065 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Superior Elementary School(5th Grade)	December 5	Education	SOS Demo and NOAA tour	Ann Bradford
Superior Elementary School(5th Grade)	December 5	Education	SOS Demo and NOAA tour	Ann Bradford 6286 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Superior Elementary School (5th Grade)	December 7	Education	SOS Demo and NOAA tour	Ann Bradford 6286 Sylvia Hasui 6709
Walt Childress	December 14	Public	SOS Demo by AEM	Syliva Hasui 6709

 

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