2013 DeSouza Award

Larry Oolman, University of Wyoming

The Russell L. DeSouza Award honors “individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.”

Larry's colleagues in the Unidata community commended him for the creation and ongoing support of the University of Wyoming Weather Server. His early work in making observational data available via the World Wide Web has been invaluable to innumerable students and researchers around the world — for many, it is the “go to” site for a full range of observational data. He has maintained this important access point without fanfare, and the community felt it was time to acknowledge his contribution.

The Unidata community also appreciates Larry's efforts toward the standardization of aircraft archive data formats, and his work with NCAR on the Unidata NCAR Research Aviation Facility NIMBUS conventions for netCDF. Efforts like Larry's advance data usability now and for future researchers. 

A video recording of the award presentation and Larry's seminar is linked below and is available on the NSF Unidata YouTube Channel. Larry's presentation slides are also available.

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