Izzy Pfander

Izzy (Isabelle) Pfander joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 17, 2021. She completed a double-major in Computer Science and Environmental Science from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in May, and is planning to begin graduate school in the fall of 2022.

Says Izzy:

I love coding because it gives me the ability to solve complex problems and interpret the world in which we live. When applied to what I consider humanity’s most challenging and multifaceted problem, the climate crisis, I find the integration of computation especially exciting.

You can read more about Izzy here:
Welcome Summer Intern Izzy (Isabelle) Pfander

Read Izzy's description of her work over the summer of 2021:
Maintaining netCDF: Updating Java Tutorial Code and Performance Testing in Python

All 2021 summer interns at UCAR took part in a virtual poster session on July 29, 2021. You can see Izzy's poster here:
Maintaining netCDF: Updating Java Tutorial Code and Performance Testing in Python

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

Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Unidata's 2021 summer interns did not travel to Boulder to work on their projects in person. Instead, they interacted with Unidata developers through e-mail, online chat, and video conferencing.