NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., (NWRA) is usefully understood as a scientific research group having geophysical sciences expertise across various arenas to include oceanography, sea-ice mechanics, and atmospheric, ionospheric, and solar physics. Company personnel pursue their areas of interest and expertise in diverse fields such as diverse as Solar and Stellar Physics; Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere; Atmosphere and Climate; Terrestrial, Oceans, and Sea Ice; Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Fluid Mechanics; and Data Assimilation and Statistical Signal Processing. In addition to the Corporate HQ and Research Office in Redmond, WA, NWRA has Research Offices in Boulder, CO and in Monterey, CA with individual scientists working out of San Diego, CA, Corvallis, OR, and Socorro, NM.