Alex Haberlie

Alex Haberlie is working on his PhD at Northern Illinois University, writing a dissertation on the climatology of mesoscale convective systems. Prior to beginning his dissertation, Alex earned his Masters, also at Northern Illinois University, in Geography with an emphasis in meteorology and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

Alex's overall interests are in applied climatology and meteorology, and how the two interrelate within the last twenty year timeframe. His primary task while interning at Unidata will be to add GIS functionality to MetPy. GIS functionality will improve the accuracy of the mapping capabilities already in place within the software.

Says Alex:

As a regular user of several Python packages, I am very grateful for all of the hard work that is put into developing, testing, and maintaining those projects. This internship is a great opportunity to pay it forward and work with some of the leaders in the open source community in meteorology.

You can read more about Alex here: 
Welcome Summer Intern Alex Haberlie

Read about Alex's work over the summer of 2016:
Unidata Interns Wrap Up Summer Projects

You can also watch a video recording of Alex describing his work to the Unidata staff (Alex's presentation begins at 26:45):