Andrea Sealy, Ph.D., is a scientist at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology. She spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in NCAR's Advanced Study Program.
Andrew Gettelman has a broad perspective on what he does as a scientist. "My job is to try to figure out how the world works," he says. "There's a lot of fun in that, as well as infinite job security, since we'll never completely figure it out."
Britt focuses on building new instruments and adapting existing ones that he and other scientists can use to study the global carbon cycle.
Christopher Castro is proof of the value of a summer internship.
As a child, Clara enjoyed maps, math, and making observations about the natural world around her, so pursuing a career in science naturally followed.
Claudia Tebaldi jokes that if different climate models were all in agreement with each other, she wouldn't have a job. A statistician by training, Claudia analyzes results from climate models to assess the degree of uncertainty in their predictions.
Working at NCAR for nearly two decades has taught Cory Morse that she has the soul of an engineer.
For Dave Gochis, a day on the job as an NCAR scientist might mean driving around the rural backroads of northern Mexico, setting up dozens of gauges the size of cookie jars that record rainfall to the nearest millimeter.
Doug has been director of NCAR's Institute for Mathematics Applied to the Geosciences (IMAGe) since 2004. A statistician by training, he leads IMAGe in its mission to bring mathematical models and tools to bear on fundamental problems in the geosciences.
If it weren't for a lackluster chemistry score on his college entrance exams, Fei Chen might have followed his father's wishes and become a doctor.