Protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research!

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is a global center for weather and climate science - and it's under attack! Losing NCAR would endanger Americans and raise housing prices.

Want to protect NCAR? Here's three great things you can do:

Call your representatives and tell them to put protection for NCAR into law.

Share our video spreading the world about the benefits of NCAR and the threats it faces.

Read and share these amazing responses to the NSF's Dear Colleagues letter:

 

111 Earth Scientists

284 Earth Scientists

53 scientists who have led research projects enabled by the NSF NCAR observational facilities

Adam Sobel

American Academy of Actuaries

American Geophysical Union

American Meteorological Society

American Statistical Association

Anjuli S. Bamzai, Ph.D.

Anne-Marie Schmoltner (retired NSF Program Director, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences)

Cecilia M. Bitz, Ph.D., Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington

Chairs of the Advisory Boards for several NSF NCAR laboratories

Cheryl S. Harrison, Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean and Coastal Science and Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University

City of Boulder

Clifford Jacobs, NCAR program officer for 25 years

CO-LABS, Inc.

Coastal Flood Resilience Project

Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science (Faculty)

Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science (UCAR Representatives)

Cornell University (Faculty)

Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

Daniel L. Swain, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR)

Dartmouth University (Faculty and Researchers)

Florence Fetterer

Former NCAR Directors

Galen A. McKinley, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

Gregory E. Tucker, Professor of Earth Science, University of Colorado, Fellow of AGU

Jennifer Nakamura, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Columbia University

Johns Hopkins University (Faculty and Researchers)

Jonah Bloch-Johnson, Chang Family Assistant Professor, Tufts University

Kate Marvel, Ph.D., Research scientist

Matthew Savoie, Scientific Software Engineer, Colorado State University

Members of Congress

Michela Biasutti, Ph.D.

Michon Scott

National Institute for Earth and Space Sciences of CNRS (INSU), France

Oregon State University, Climate Science Unit (Faculty)

Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University,

Richard Behnke (former Head of Geospace, NSF)

Richard Seager, Ewing Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University

Robert Louis Grossman, Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Retired), University of Colorado

Ronald Weaver, Senior Associate Scientist Retired, University of Colorado, Boulder

Sara Lance, Ph.D., Research Faculty, University at Albany

Stephen W. Nesbitt, Ph.D., Professor and Head, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Texas A&M University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (Faculty)

The UCAR Board of Trustees

Twila Moon, Ph.D., Deputy Lead Scientist, NSIDC

Union of Concerned Scientists

University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Faculty, Students, and Researchers)

University of Miami, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (Faculty)

University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department (Faculty)

University of Washington (Faculty, Postdocs, and Students)

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Faculty and Research Scientists)

Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty)