Russell Manser

Russell Manser joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 18, 2020. Russell recently defended his Master's thesis in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech University and will be graduating toward the end of the summer. He'll be pursuing a PhD in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech this fall. This summer, he'll be working to integrate support for large datasets in MetPy via the Xarray and Dask libraries.

Says Russell:

I've had an interest in the intersection of atmospheric science and software development for a few years now and Unidata is a great place for me to foster those interests. I'm excited to contribute to community tools such as MetPy, which I use frequently myself. I look forward to absorbing as much as I can about programming and software design from the talented team here.

You can read more about Russell here: 
Welcome Summer Intern Russell Manser

Read Russell's description of his work over the summer of 2020:
Building Support for Efficient MetPy Calculations Across Large Datasets with Dask

All 2020 summer interns at UCAR took part in a virtual poster session on July 30, 2020. You can see Russell's poster here:
Dask support in MetPy

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