The Climate and Scientific Computing group in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine is seeking an individual with enthusiasm for applying advanced computing techniques to global environmental problems. The Climate and Scientific Computing group develops software to analyze climate model and satellite data in order to improve understanding of Earth's climate.

On Friday and Saturday, April 18-19, 2014, the University of Miami hosted a Unidata Regional Workshop on the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV); the open source Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta (RAMADDA); and data and tools available from Unidata.

The 21 workshop attendees included students and scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Institute of Technology, the University of South Florida, and Duke University. While most of those attending were focused on meteorology or atmospheric and ocean science, the group included a conservation biologist studying geotagged Sooty Tern seabirds. Many attendees brought data sets used in their own research, which enhanced the workshop experience greatly.

The University of Oklahoma is seeking an exceptional, dynamic leader to serve as Director of its Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC).

On Friday, March 28, 2014 the Unidata Program Center (UPC) updated the demonstration THREDDS Data Server (TDS) running on thredds.ucar.edu to version 4.5 of the TDS software. After encountering some issues with the updated version, including problems with community members' IDV bundles not loading as expected from thredds.ucar.edu, UPC staff reverted the demonstration server to version 4.3 on April 1st.

UPC staff had became aware that TDS version 4.3 running on thredds.ucar.edu was not keeping some dataset indices up to date automatically. This situation required manual intervention by UPC staff to keep the indices updated, which, coupled with changes in UPC security procedures following the intrusion on February 20, 2014, increased the urgency of releasing a new TDS version that fixed the problem. After internal testing convinced us that TDS version 4.5 was functioning properly, we followed the normal procedure of updating UPC servers (specifically thredds.ucar.edu) before releasing the package to other sites. This staged release process normally allows us to find and fix "real world" issues that are not caught by internal testing.

The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), a Research Unit of Columbia University located on the Lamont Campus in Palisades, NY, is seeking a full-time programmer to participate in the development of web and mobile applications for a range of exciting and globally important projects. CIESIN is an organization that seeks to bridge social and natural science research with immediately relevant applied policy work, and specializes in on-line data and information management. CIESIN engages with a wide range of partners from NASA to NSF, from Google Foundation to the Gates Foundation, from World Bank to the United Nations (UN) and from Universities in Kenya to the Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti.