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Visitor Appointments at the Developmental Testbed Center

DTC

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) in Boulder, Colorado is offering visitor appointments for up to a year, beginning on a mutually agreed upon start date. Proposals must be received by January 6, 2014, with notification to submitters of successful proposals in early March 2014.

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Unidata Policy Committee now Strategic Advisory Committee

Strategic Advisory Committee
The Strategic Advisory Committee

Unidata's Policy Committee — one of the program's two governing committees — has chosen to change its name. After a vote at the October 2013 committee meeting, committee members voted to change the name to the Unidata Strategic Advisory Committee.

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Using METOC Geospatial Intelligence in anti-Piracy Operations

Anti-Piracy Stoplight

Although piracy has been around since nations have engaged in maritime trade, the scale and focus of attacks in and around the Horn of Africa has attracted significant attention over the past few years. The publicity reached a peak in April 2009 following the seizure of the Maersk Alabama and the direct involvement of the US Navy in the release of the ship's Captain. The extent of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and waters adjacent to Somalia led to the formation of Combined Task Force 151 (CTF151) to conduct anti-piracy operations.

As part of their task force activities, the Royal Australian Navy's Hydrography and METOC branch began to analyze whether any weather-dependent patterns could be identified in the timing and distribution of piracy attacks. The study commenced with accessing the NGA piracy database and overlaying the location of each attack on the long-term climate average for monthly mean significant wave height (a measure of the combined height of the locally wind driven sea and the underlying long wave swell).

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Departmental Computing Systems Coordinator at OU

University of Oklahoma

The School of Meteorology of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma seeks a Coordinator of Departmental Computing Systems and Services.

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American Meteorological Society 2014 Career Fair

AMS 2014

The 94th AMS Annual Meeting will be held 2–6 February 2014 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As in previous years, the Society will sponsor a Career Fair at the beginning of the meeting.

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