Hailey Johnson joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 21, 2018. Hailey is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. Her dissertation research focuses on numerical methods and applications in coastal sciences, concentrating on improvements to numerical modeling of coastline evolution. Her main goal during her internship will be improving the THREDDS Data Server user experience, primarily through a redesign of the TDS web interface.
NOAA is looking for a Meteorologist and a Physical Scientist to work in the National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI) in Silver Spring, MD.
The application process for both positions is open through June 26, 2018.
Version 4.7.5 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
The NCO project is coordinated by Professor Charlie Zender of the Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. More information about the project, along with binary and source downloads, are available on the SourceForge project page.
NOAA is looking for two Physical Scientists to work in the National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Water Prediction (OWP), Water Prediction Operations Division at the National Water Center (NWC) in Tuskaloosa, AL.
The application process for both posiutions is open through June 21, 2018.
Unidata is governed by its community. Our governing committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps Unidata stay on top of trends in education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefitted tremendously from committee advice and involvement.
The Unidata Program Center is seeking new people to serve on Unidata's Strategic Advisory and Users Committees. This is your chance to make a difference on behalf of the Unidata community. As Sepideh Yalda, the current Chair of the Unidata Strategic Advisory Committee notes, “Unidata has and continues to serve a critical role in providing data and services to the earth and related sciences community. The opportunity to serve as a member on Unidata governance committees provides you with the ability to contribute and help guide the future developments in data sharing and the associated services in support of research and education in atmospheric sciences.”
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 5.5 is now available. This is a major release and is recommended for all users. Version 5.5 incorporates several new analysis and display types, notably features for isentropic analysis, scatter analysis, and display of data from the GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper. In addition, the release includes updates to existing features and incorporates the latest netCDF-Java library.
Read on for more on the major new features in IDV 5.5.
