NCAR People & Organization

  • NCAR Organization

Clickable Organization Chart. NCAR, its manager UCAR, and UCAR's Office of Programs (UOP) are all part of a collaborative community dedicated to understanding the atmosphere—the air around us—and the interconnected processes that make up the Earth system, from the ocean floor to the Sun's core.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, with major sponsorship of The National Science Foundation (NSF), provides research, facilities, and services for the atmospheric and Earth sciences community.

Research Laboratories Hold mouse over acronyms for full names


Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)

NCAR's Computational & Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) is a world leader in supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure, providing services to over 60 UCAR member universities as well as NCAR and the larger geosciences community.

GROUPS -> IMAGe • OSD • TDD

Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL)
The Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory promotes and facilitates the solar, atmospheric, and earth-systems research areas within NCAR. Research within ESSL is highly collaborative, with specialties focussed in four major research divisions, and one institute which administers collaborative projects.

GROUPS -> ACD • CGD • HAO • MMM • TIIMES

Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL)
EOL provides state-of-the-art atmospheric observing systems and support services to the university-based research community for climate and weather research.

GROUPS -> CDS • DFS • FPS • ISF • RAF • RSF • TDF

Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)
RAL conducts directed research and engineering toward the solution to problems relevant to society, and facilitates the transfer of the information, expertise, and technology developed to the public and private sectors.

GROUPS -> AAP • HAP • JNT • NSAP • WSAP

Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory (SERE)
The Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory (SERE) is responsible for overall leadership in the definition, planning and execution of NCAR efforts in education and capacity building, appropriate social science components for NCAR research activities, societal and policy-relevant information products, and research on human-environment interactions.

GROUPS -> ASP • CCB • ISSE

NCAR Directorate

NCAR Director's Office
GROUPS -> Budget & Planning Office • Office of Research Relations • NCAR Libraries

NCAR Professional Groups

NSA The NCAR Scientists' Assembly
ECSA Early Career Scientists' Assembly

NCAR's Management & Sponsor

UCAR: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (NCAR's Manager)

NSF: The National Science Foundation (NCAR's Sponsor)