NASA: Atmospheres - Weekly Report for the Week of November 10, 2008

Weekly Report for the Week of November 10, 2008

Noteworthy science achievements/awards

Most noteworthy achievement/award.
Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1) for won the 2008 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science. This honor is the highest Goddard award in the Earth sciences and recognizes sustained, significant scientific contributions to Goddard and NASA in the Earth Sciences.

Projects/missions

Most significant milestone with the GPM mission
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is holding its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) November 10-14, 2008 at University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Arthur Hou (610.1), the GPM Project Scientist, will present an overview on GPM science. GPM science staff members Gail Skofronick-Jackson (613.1), Bob Meneghini (613.1), and Bill Olson (613.1) will also attend.

George J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), Robert F. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), Chunglin Shie (GEST; 613.1), WeiKuo Tao (613.1), Guojun Gu (GEST; 613.1), Mircea Grecu (GEST; 613.1), William Olson (JCET; 613.1), attended the 4th NASA Energy and Water Studies (NEWS) P.I. Meeting, 3-5 November 2008, Four Points Sheraton BWI, Baltimore, MD:

Noteworthy talks/presentations

Most noteworthy talk/presentation.
The project demonstration by Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1) and Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1) at the supercomputing conference 2008 has been chosen as one of the top 3 to be featured in the NASA press release and brochure. The demo title is "High-Impact Tropical Weather Prediction with the NASA Multi-scale Modeling System", presented at the NASA booth 1343.

In addition, Shen and Tao will present a poster entitled "Predicting the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Nargis (2008) with the NASA High-resolution Global Model and Supercomputers" in the poster section.

The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC08) will he held at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-21, 2008. This year's conference is expected to attract nearly 10,000 people from around the world.