CPAESS Director Mauriello Promotes UCAR Staff, Mission, Earth System Science
In recent months, Hanne Mauriello, director of the SPS | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), accompanied by members of the CPAESS Leadership Team, has visited numerous sponsors to tell the stories of CPAESS scientific and technical staff who are embedded in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) units conducting research and managing support services crucial to advancing NOAA’s mission.
Mauriello has been on a mission to build new relationships with sponsors, strategizing with them on new business opportunities and developing approaches to minimizing uncertainties, maintaining staffing levels, and preventing future furloughs.
To her credit, she and her leadership team of CPAESS Deputy Director Cindy Bruyère, CPAESS Assistant Director Tracey Baldwin, and CPAESS Manager of Business Administration Joshua Neidigh have negotiated the return-to-work of 44 CPAESS employees placed on furlough during the months of June and July 2025. This includes staff across the NOAA | CPAESS portfolio: NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO), NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research (OER), as well as NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows. Additionally, they visited the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NOAA National Environmental Data and Information Service (NESDIS), and the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Mauriello, along with Bruyère and Neidigh, has visited:
- NOAA CPC, NCEP, and NESDIS
- Washington D.C. and Silver Spring, MD
- Mauriello, Bruyère, and Neidigh met with sponsors and CPAESS staff as well as with members of the UCAR Board of Trustees in June 2025. Meetings in Washington D.C. and Maryland included those with sponsors and CPAESS staff at NOAA CPC, NCEP, and NESDIS.
Staff Meet up in Silver Spring, Maryland with CPAESS scientists at NOAA’s CPC, NCEP, and NESDIS. Left to right: Endalkachew Bekele, Associate Scientist IV; Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala, Associate Scientist II; Bohar Singh, Associate Scientist III, Cindy Bruyère, SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director; Seubson Soisuvarn (Golf), Project Scientist; Hanne Mauriello, SPS | CPAESS Director; Aissatou Faye, CPAESS Visiting Scientist; Gloria Recalde, Associate Scientist II, and Joshua Neidigh, SPS | CPAESS Business Administrator
Credit: CPAESS
- NOAA GFDL
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Mauriello and Bruyère met with NOAA GFDL administrators and CPAESS staff where several staff remain on furlough.
SPS | CPAESS Director CPAESS Staff at GFDL in Princeton, New Jersey. Back Row - Left to right): Levin Carn and Jason Alvich. Front Row - Left to Right: Baoqiang Xiang, Liping Zhang, Hanne Mauriello, Cindy Bruyère, Hans Vahlenkamp, Matthew Morin, and Raphael Dussin.
Credit: CPAESS
- University of Miami and NOAA NHC
- Miami, Florida
- Mauriello and Bruyère, SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director met with NOAA NHC sponsors and CPAESS staff in November 2025. While there, they visited the University of Miami, UCAR Board of Trustees member Ben Kirtman along with managers of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).
Hanne Mauriello, SPS | CPAESS Director and Cindy Bruyère, SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director visited and spoke with our staff and sponsors at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.
Credit: CPAESS
“The safety, stability, and continuity of our CPAESS staff and the critical science they support – from scientific and technical staff to business services – are of the utmost importance. While we have faced significant challenges, close collaboration with our federal partners has enabled us to sustain much of our work. We remain actively focused on protecting our people and their research, while continuing to pursue additional funding opportunities to ensure long-term resilience and impact,” said Mauriello.
By initiating and continuing dialogue with federal partners, Mauriello is advancing research capacity, building community collaborations, and fostering scientific leadership in the Earth system sciences.
