AOSC professor and former ESSIC Director Antonio Busalacchi was the featured speaker at the most recent NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Maniac lecture series. The talks provide insight into what motivates successful people and the obstacles they've overcome to realize their career goals. Busalacchi's tongue-and-cheek talk title of "From Here to Boulder: With Apologies to Burt Lancaster," discusses his early science interests and education, as well as a career path which included notable stops as the Lab Chief of NASA / GSFC Division 970, the Director of UMD ESSIC, and his current role as president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, CO.
The talk can be viewed at the following link: https://youtu.be/C-G2OuwKm7Y