In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of January, 2015.
Unidata Regional Workshop at the University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, the Florida Institute of Technology, and the West Central Florida Chapter of the American Meteorological Society are pleased to sponsor and host a Unidata Regional Workshop on April 10-12, 2015 (Friday through Sunday). Unidata Program Center staff will provide introductory and advanced training in the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), the Repository for Archiving, Managing and Accessing Diverse Data (RAMADDA), and other Unidata data and tools. In addition to the formal training sessions, there will be informal opportunities to interact with the UPC staff. Attendees are encouraged to “bring” their own data (preferably accessible from a remote access server) for exploration during the workshop.
iSamplES Research Coordination Network Survey
The iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) Research Coordination Network (RCN) is an EarthCube activity that seeks to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility for science. The ultimate goal of this RCN is to dramatically improve the discovery, access, sharing, analysis, and curation of physical samples and the data generated by their study for the benefit of science and society. For more information on the project, see the iSamplES workspace.
AMS 2015 Conference Highlights from the Unidata Staff
This year's annual American Meteorological Society meeting was held January 4-8 in Phoenix, Arizona. We were happy to see many of the Unidata community members participating in the meeting at our booth in the exhibit hall, and to meet so many prospective community members at the AMS Student Conference.
With so much going on at the conference, we can't cover everything here. Instead, we present some highlights as recalled by UPC staff members who attended.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. Numerous recent articles by John Caron have dealt with converting GRIB files to netCDF-4 format.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee met September 15-16, 2014, in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be held 26-27 March, 2015 at the Unidata Program Center.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee (formerly the Policy Committee) met October 8-9, 2014 in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be held 22-23 April, 2015 at Millersville University.
