NOAA Climate & Global Change
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
About the Program
Past NOAA Climate Projects Office director, Dr. J. Michael Hall, founded the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in 1990. The UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs has managed the program since inception. Under the current sponsoring support from Dr. Chester J. Koblinsky, the program is thriving, having achieved its goal of training the next generation of leaders needed for climate studies.
The overarching purpose of the program is to help create and train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies. Anticipating the large amounts of data that was gathered from NOAA efforts, such as TOGA and TOGA COARE field programs, the research community required the attention of an enlarged workforce here and abroad. In a larger context, it was necessary to attract new PhD’s to the community in order to establish the seeds of scientific leadership needed in the field of climate and global change research.
The fellowship program has developed an outstanding reputation of attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. Appointed fellows are paired with host scientists at U.S. institutions to work in an area of mutual interest. The program focuses on observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability and change on seasonal and longer time scales.
The program supports a biennial Summer Institute in July and an annual alumni luncheon at the American Geophysics Meeting each December. These events contribute to the community-building goal of the program by facilitating interaction of those associated with the program on a regular and consistent basis.
VSP Climate Research
