CGRER's efforts took wing this past May when the Center officially moved into the university's Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratory, a stunning new metallic structure on the Iowa River just north of the Iowa Memorial Union, designed by award-winning architect Frank Gehry. CGRER occupies two administrative offices on the second floor, ten carrels assigned to CGRER projects and their graduate assistants, and a computer laboratory. Both administrative assistant Jane Frank and data systems coordinator Mark MacLennan, the Center's two full-time staff members, are usually easily located and happy to welcome visitors interested in CGRER activities.

CGRER's ranks also include 50+ faculty members from nineteen departments in the liberal arts, engineering, medical, and law colleges at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University, and their over 100 graduate students. Eight of these members (plus the two co-directors) form the CGRER Executive Committee, which meets monthly to oversee Center activities and facilitate communications among members. An advisory board of nine individuals from the state legistature, utilities, academia, and state agencies meets biannually.

CGRER promptly established its computer laboratory for environmental and spatial data analysis. Here members can use any of the eight UNIX-based workstations to develop and run their computer simulation models and to manipulate spatial and temporal data. A variety of sophisticated software programs allow them to visualize three-dimensional phenomena, construct map overlays, and create real-time animations, among other things. The Center is grateful to Hewlett-Packard for its donation of $275,000 of equipment and to the University of Iowa for additional funding.

Outdoor teaching and research laboratories are being established at three sites within 20 miles of the university. Equipment there will be monitoring a variety of meteorological and biogeochemial variables to provide baseline data for future research, as well as train graduate students in field monitoring procedures.

In October, 1993, CGRER was honored with election to membership in UCAR (the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research). This NSF-funded consortium of North American institutions operates NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder) and manages a variety of other atmospheric science institutions and activities.

Dr. Hiram Levy of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, is on the campus this semester to work on a monograph on tropospheric ozone and to collaborate with Gregory R. Carmichael. Center co-directors hope that he will be the first of many visiting scientists to energize interdisciplinary interactions and studies in global change. That goal also will be furthered by the Center's next planned installation, a media resource center, and by the upcoming symposium,Global Change II: A Midwest Perspective, to be held in April, 1994.