Unidata Program Center developer Yuan Ho, along with John Clyne of NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), will be presenting a data analysis workshop at the American Geophysical Union's Fall meeting in San Francisco. The workshop will provide an overview of several of the open source software packages that are most relevant to researchers and educators in the geosciences, including Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), NCAR's Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR), and the Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS-V) from the the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and NCAR's NCAR Command Language (NCL).
Three members of the Unidata Program Center staff attended the EarthCube charrette held in Washington D.C. on November 1-4, 2011. Read on for Unidata Program Director Mohan Ramamurthy's summary of the meeting.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the College of Charleston (a nationally-recognized, public liberal arts and sciences university) invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Atmospheric Physics, beginning fall 2012. The successful candidate must have a commitment to excellence in teaching undergraduate physics or astronomy in addition to atmospheric sciences. Additionally, the successful candidate is expected to develop and sustain a research program that involves undergraduate students. A PhD in physics or in a closely-related atmospheric science field with a strong physics background is required. Teaching and/or post-doctoral experience is preferred.
The Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) of the University at Albany, State University of New York, seeks applicants at the Assistant (tenure track) Professor level for one position, effective Fall 2012. This is a 10-month appointment that allows supplementary summer salary from research funding. Candidates with experience in the following two possible areas are encouraged to apply: Ocean – Atmosphere Interactions or Climate-Cryosphere Dynamics and Feedbacks.
Scott Jacobs, acting chief of the NCEP Systems Integration Branch, NCEP Central Operations (NCO), made a remote presentation on the status of AWIPS II development during Unidata's joint Users and Policy committee meeting in October. Jacobs' presentation highlighted several details of the migration status...
Ed Hartnett pleading for help from the netCDF community
The Unidata Program Center wishes a fond farewell to Ed Hartnett, who has left Unidata for a position at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). He will be joining two other Unidata alumni — developers Anne Wilson and Doug Lindholm — at the lab, and will be working on the ground data system for the Total Solar Irradiance Sensor instrument package, which will measure spectral and total solar irradiance.
Joint meeting of Unidata Users and Policy committees
Members of Unidata's two governing committees gathered in Boulder in late October 2011 for a joint meeting to share information and ideas between the committees and with Unidata Program Center staff.
