What follows is a list of the programs the VSP office currently manages. Each program is overseen by a scientific steering committee. Requirements and deadlines for application differ for each program. Kristin Eschker, Ellen Martinez, Rebecca Baum, Meg Austin, Susan Baltuch. This program was designed to help create the next generation of scientists needed for climate change studies.
Appointments are for up to two years.
Participants work with NOAA host scientists on topics related to climate variation on time scales from seasons to centuries and periods from paleohistory to the future. To foster the interdisciplinary ties and exchange of ideas so needed in this field, the group has organized a series of summer institutes to gather past and present fellows from this program, host scientists, guest speakers, and NOAA representatives to discuss and assess the importance of various topics to the U.S. Global Climate Research Program's past and future work. The second of these was held last summer in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The number of openings at any time depends on NCEP's research needs and budgetary contingencies. The particulate modeling fellowships will develop a regional-scale particulate model prototype or a multipollutant, nested photochemical model.