Nathaniel Martinez

by Nathaniel Martinez
2022 Unidata summer intern

The focus of my summer internship was working on MetPy, both adding new functionality and updating existing documentation to reflect recent updates to MetPy. In particular, I focused on expanding current declarative syntax functionality to Matplotlib’s pcolormesh via the RasterPlot class. Declarative syntax enables quick and easy plotting of data, particularly for users new to Python or MetPy.

Rhoen Fiutak

by Rhoen Fiutak
2022 Unidata summer intern

This summer, I worked with Unidata AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System), contributing to educational resources for and outreach within Unidata's user community. Unidata AWIPS supports two visualization frameworks for rendering meteorological and geographic data: CAVE, a graphical user interface (GUI) application, and Python-AWIPS, a programmatic application programming interface (API) for EDEX. Users can learn about each through multiple resources, including blog posts on topical updates and tutorials via AWIPS Tips, eLearning courses like Learn AWIPS CAVE, and examples of data plotting with Python-AWIPS.

Hassanpreet Dhaliwal

by Hassanpreet Dhaliwal
2022 Unidata summer intern

I started my summer internship with the goals of understanding software development and improving my coding practices to feel confident writing reproducible and sharable code. My time at Unidata not only gave me a structure for writing sharable pieces of software, but also helped me in exploring data manipulation and visualization practices to their full creative extent.

Izzy (Isabelle) Pfander

by Isabelle Pfander
2021 Unidata summer intern

I came into this summer internship with a goal of working on the Network Common Data Form (netCDF) libraries. NetCDF is a combination of software libraries and APIs describing a data model for scientific multidimensional arrays. I planned to improve the online user guide, write tutorial code, and learn about storage and efficiency.

Connor Cozad

by Connor Cozad
2021 Unidata summer intern

I spent this summer with Unidata contributing new features and improvements for version 1.1.0 of MetPy. This release is the first to introduce new features since 1.0 debuted in December 2020. I focused on enhancements to MetPy’s declarative interface, which allows users to plot datasets on maps. These new capabilities provide greater control over map design and introduce support for plotting additional data formats.