UCAR C&GC Steering Committee

Allison Wing -Chair for 2024/2025,  Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS) at Florida State University

Kyle Armour, College of the Environment, University of Washington  

Ian Eisenman, Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Dan Ferguson, Department of Environmental Science, Arizona University

Meredith Hastings, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University

Matthew Huber, Institute for a Sustainable Future, Purdue University

Charles Koven, Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Laura Kueppers, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley

Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Jessica Tierney, Paleoclimatology, University of Arizona

The C&GC Steering Committee meets annually to review applications and make recommendations to CPAESS for appointments.   Steering Committee terms are generally three years.

 

Selection Criteria

Applicant

  • Innovation, excellence, and relevance to the NOAA mission.
  • Applicant must move to a new institution, except in compelling circumstances. Please add a justification statement, if applicable, to the personal statement.
  • Applicant has held a PhD for no more than three years from the application deadline.
  • Applicants should apply only if they anticipate finishing their PhD by December 1st of the award year.
  • Awardees must start their fellowship by the first Monday in December of the award year.
  • Applications that are not complete will not be reviewed by the steering committee.

Host

  • One or two page letter of interest from host indicating areas of focus and vitae is required.
  • Preference is that no more than one postdoctoral fellow is hosted within a department at the same time.
  • Host is responsible for mentoring fellow, but fellow is an independent researcher.
  • Hosting institution must be in the U.S.A.
  • Hosts are expected to provide office space, telephone, computer, IT services, and office support for the fellow.

C&GC Steering Committee Member Hosting Postdoc

  • C&GC Steering Committee Members cannot directly host postdocs.
  • A postdoc may go to a Steering Committee Member's institution, but may not work in a Steering Committee Member's group.

Applicant from C&GC Steering Committee Member's Institution

Steering Committee Members who are from the same administrative unit as an applicant should not take part in:

  • Voting
  • Advocacy (which could lead to promoting a candidate unfairly over another)
  • Must leave room for deliberations and vote
  • Questions of fact are okay