Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 100th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 12-16 January 2020 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Things are a little different with the Unidata booth in the Exhibit hall this year. Unidata staff will be spending time at the larger, combined UCAR/NCAR booth (#309 on the PDF or online map) — stop by to talk with us and see what else is happening at UCAR. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS, IDV, MetPy, and THREDDS Data Server packages. As always, you can talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.
Conference Sessions
The schedule below lists selected sessions at which Unidata staff (and summer interns) will be presenting or attending. See the AMS meeting Conference Technical Program for additional information on the sessions.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 15:45 | Short Course | Plotting in Python with Metpy: Gempak-like Plots Made Easy | 158 | Ryan May, John Leeman, Kevin Goebbert |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Session 10D | Python Workshop | 205B | Sean Arms, Julien Chastang, Max Grover (2019 intern) |
Monday, January 13, 2020
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 10:00 | PD1.1 | Being an Atmospheric Science Wizard | 258C | Jeff Weber |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | 2.3 | Unidata’s Launch and Early Development—A Technology-Rooted, Transformational Partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Meteorology Community | 104A | David Fulker, Clifford Jacobs |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Session 2 | New Python Tools in the Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences | 157AB | Ryan May (chair) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | 2.3 | Remote Access of National Hurricane Center Storm Tracks and Storm Prediction Center Storm Reports with Siphon | 157AB | Aodhan Sweeney (2019 intern), Sean Arms, Ryan May |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #216 | An Interactive Demonstration of MetPy's Declarative Language: Moving from GEMPAK to MetPy as the Primary Analysis and Visualization Tool of Atmospheric Scientists | Hall B | Kevin Goebbert, Ryan May |
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:45 | 3.1 | MetPy 1.0: An Upgrade from GEMPAK for Twenty-First Century Atmospheric Science Data Analysis and Visualization | 157AB | Ryan May, Kevin Goebbert |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #532 | Data Visualization for All! Videos for Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer | Hall B | Jessica Blunt (2019 intern), Yuan Ho |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #537 | CF Conventions for netCDF: Support for Data Access, Analysis, and Visualization | Hall B | Ethan Davis |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #800 | A One-Stop Shop for Atmospheric Science Python: The Unidata Python Training Site | Hall B | Ryan May |
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Town Hall | NOAA Big Data Project Updates | 153A | Mohan Ramamurthy (facilitator) |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 7 | Interactive Tutorials in Python. Part II: Visualization and Data in the Pangeo Ecosystem | 157AB | Ryan May |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Joint Session 49 | FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part I | 157C | Mohan Ramamurthy (co-chair) |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #1246 | Declarative Surface Station Plots: The Next Stop on the GEMPAK Replacement Roadmap for MetPy | Hall B | Maxwell Grover (2019 intern), Ryan May |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #1253 | The Unidata Summer Internship Program—Seven Years of Providing Students with Software Carpentry Skills | Hall B | Sean Arms, Ryan May, Doug Dirks |
Thursday, January 16, 2020
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Joint Session 56 | FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part II | 157C | Mohan Ramamurthy (co-chair) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Joint Session 63 | FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part III | 157C | Mohan Ramamurthy (co-chair) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | J68.5 | Bringing WRF into MetPy (and the Rest of the Atmospheric Sciences Python Ecosystem) | 258C | Jon Thielen (2018 intern), Ryan May |
Student Conference Career Fair
The AMS student conference is intended for junior and senior undergraduates and all graduate students, and will focus on interdisciplinary topics and wide-ranging opportunities in the atmospheric and related sciences. Sessions include invited speakers from the private, academic, and government sectors. A Career Fair and networking evening is scheduled to provide a forum for students to personally interact with professionals who represent potential employers and graduate institutions.
Unidata will be at table C4 at the Career Fair, which runs from 5:30 - 7:30pm Saturday, January 11 and 6:30 - 8:30pm Sunday, January 12 in the East Registration area just outside Exhibit Hall B. Program Center staff will be on hand to discuss how Unidata products can help students in their education, forecasting, and research. Come visit us!
