Caitlyn McAllister

Caitlyn McAllister joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 18, 2020. She is a rising senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, majoring in Meteorology and with minor concentration in Computer Science. Over the course of the summer, Caitlyn will be digging into the MetPy package, expanding her Python skills, and looking to contribute to the open source community.

Says Caitlyn:

I came to discover Unidata after being shown netCDF files by a professor. I was developing contour plots for a school project and was shocked that all the data and toolkits were so easily accessible. Since then, I have become interested in all things Python (like many others) and especially all the tools MetPy has to offer.

You can read more about Caitlyn here: 
Welcome Summer Intern Caitlyn McAllister

Read Caitlyn's description of her work over the summer of 2020:
Investigating a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Calculation for MetPy

All 2020 summer interns at UCAR took part in a virtual poster session on July 30, 2020. You can see Caitlyn's poster here:
Creating a Web Bulb Globe Temperature Calculation for MetPy

You can also watch a video recording of Caitlyn describing her work to the Unidata staff via videoconference: