2014 DeSouza Award
Rich Signell of the United States Geological Survey was the 2014 Russell L. DeSouza award winner.
Richard P. Signell, U.S. Geological Survey
The Russell L. DeSouza Award honors “individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.”
Rich's colleagues in the Unidata community pointed out that he has been a tireless proponent of Unidata software tools for more than twenty years. In 1992 he co-authored a paper titled “NetCDF: A Public-Domain-Software Solution to Data-Access Problems for Numerical Modelers” for a conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers; many credit his efforts for the wide adoption of netCDF for storing numerical ocean model information.
In addition to his involvement in and promotion of various Unidata projects (netCDF and the THREDDS Data Server being the most prominent), Rich has been active in promoting use of the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convetions for netCDF, helping to make Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) output CF compliant and actively working on an unstructured grid CF framework.
A video recording of the award presentation and Rich's seminar is linked below and is available on the NSF Unidata YouTube Channel. Rich's presentation slides are also available.
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