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10 November 2011

Ed Hartnett pleading for help from the netCDF community

The Unidata Program Center wishes a fond farewell to Ed Hartnett, who has left Unidata for a position at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). He will be joining two other Unidata alumni — developers Anne Wilson and Doug Lindholm — at the lab, and will be working on the ground data system for the Total Solar Irradiance Sensor instrument package, which will measure spectral and total solar irradiance.

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Unidata Update: October 2011

02 November 2011

In case you missed it — here's a wrap-up of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of October, 2011.

Note: Unidata's two governing committees met in Boulder at the end of October; a summary from those meetings is available here.

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Space Shuttle Program Thanks Unidata for LDM

18 October 2011

Commendation from the Space Shuttle program

The Unidata Program Center has received a commendation from the National Weather Service's Spaceflight Meteorology Group, thanking the program for providing the Local Data Manger software and technical support for both the LDM and McIDAS packages. Over the course of the Space Shuttle program, the LDM was used to transport observational and experimental data from a variety of sources, including the NWS and the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center.

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Unidata Update: September 2011

03 October 2011

In case you missed it — here's a wrap-up of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of September, 2011.

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NetCDF makes geekiest license plates list

23 August 2011

If you're looking for geeky street cred, it doesn't hurt to have your car's license plate featured in Network World magazine's World's Geekiest License Plates feature.

Russ Rew's (suddenly) famous NetCDF license plate.

Clear, concise, and to the point, Unidata Program Center developer Russ Rew's "NETCDF" plate holds its own in the company of eternal questions ("R2WHRU") and verities ("COS 0 = 1") expressed in the abbreviated language of the automobile license plate. And while it may require more explanation than the easily recognizable "MICROSOFT", it uses its powers only for good — unlike, say, "RM -RF /".

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