Past Interns

The following is a (very) brief summary of projects that past Unidata Summer interns have worked on.

2025

Linfeng Li focused on accelerating the MetPy thermodynamics module using C++. Read more in Summer 2025 NSF Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Jaye Norman created a software performance benchmarking framework for MetPy. Read more in Summer 2025 NSF Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Ana Castaneda Montoya spent her summer learning about coding in Python for the atmospheric sciences and building her skill with open source software development practices. Read more in Summer 2024 NSF Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Leo Matak extended the THREDDS Data Server's capabilities for server-side virtual data processing, making it easier preprocess datasets for use in AI/ML workflows. Read more in Summer 2024 NSF Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Jhamieka Greenwood focused on developing skill with two Python tools: PyVista for visualization and RAPIDS for artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. Read more in Summer 2023 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Erin Rhoades solidified her fundamental knowledge of Python and GitHub, developed several Cookbooks for Project Pythia, and made contributions to Unidata's MetPy and Python-AWIPS packages. Read more in Summer 2023 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Jessica Souza implemented data pre-processing capabilities into Unidata's THREDDS Data Server, providing new datasets tuned for the needs of machine learning algorithms. Read more in Summer 2023 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Hassanpreet Dhaliwal worked with Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) and python development teams to implement new ways to visualize the planetary boundary layer (PBL) values from trajectory sounding data. Read more in Summer 2022 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Rhoen Fiutak worked with the AWIPS development team and with our educational designer on a range of projects that helped students and others access educational tools that allowed them to realize their role in bringing meaning to numbers. Read more in Summer 2022 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Nathaniel Martinez worked on expanding Metpy's radar functionality, documentation, and examples, in the process expanding his technical skill set with Python and general software development processes. Read more in Summer 2022 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Lydia Bunting Tackled a MetPy issue dealing with projection attributes of netCDF archive files when used with the pyproj interface for cartographic projections and coordinate transformations. Read more in Summer 2021 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Connor Cozad Spearheaded the development of MetPy’s new PlotGeometry class, making it easy to plot data from geoJSON files and shapefiles. Read more in Summer 2021 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Isabelle Pfander Contributed to the netCDF-Java project by updating tutorial code, testing code snippets, and modernizing tutorial text to improve user understanding. She also had time to focus on performance testing in Python. Read more in Summer 2021 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Russell Manser Focused on integrating support for Dask Arrays into Unidata's MetPy package. Read more in Summer 2020 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Caitlyn McAllister Worked toward building her Python coding skills and getting familiar with the tools and processes used by developers in the Open Source community. Read more in Summer 2020 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Lauren Prox Spent her time over the summer improving user documentation for several of Unidata's Open Source projects. Read more in Summer 2020 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Jessica Blunt Focused mainly on explaining IDV features in a series of video tutorials published on Unidata's YouTube channel. Read more in Summer 2019 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Max Grover Added METAR functionality to the MetPy package. Read more in Summer 2019 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Aodhan Sweeney Expanded functionality for both the netCDF C++ library and the Python data access tool Siphon. Read more in Summer 2019 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Hailey Johnson Improved the usability of the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) web-based user interface. Read more in Summer 2018 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.
Jon Thielen Added cross-section feature to the MetPy package. Read more in Summer 2018 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects.

Briah' Davis Focused on options for doing data-proximate analysis on the GOES-16 data sets using Python.
Aubrey Kane Focused on on making contributions to the Data Management Resource Center.
Matthew Wilson Worked on various Python projects.
Tyler Wixtrom Worked on adding user-friendly functionality for vertical interpolation to various coordinate systems to the MetPy package.

Alex Haberlie Improved MetPy mapping functionality by adding point data interpolation capabilities. Read more in Unidata Interns Wrap Up Summer Projects.
Kristen Pozsonyi Added some standard meteorology calculations to MetPy. Read more in Unidata Interns Wrap Up Summer Projects.

Josh Clark Created MesoPy to retrieve meteorological data from observation stations in the United States and display the data in geographic context. Read more in Unidata Intern Wraps Up Summer Projects.

Shawn Cheeks Extended his work from the summer of 2013. Read more in A Mobile App for Radar Data.
Florita Rodriguez Created an IPython notebook to plot hurricane data from the National Hurricane Center's storm archives. Read more in NHC Hurricane Tracks in Python.

Shawn Cheeks Developed a prototype mobile application to display data from the THREDDS Data Server NetCDF Subset Service. Read more in Summer Intern Shawn Cheeks debuts prototype mobile Weather app.