Ryan Abernathey of Columbia University has been awarded the 2022 Russell L. DeSouza Award by the Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors “substantive and sustained contributions of energy and expertise to the geosciences community that reflect the ideals of the Unidata Program's mission” to better serve the geosciences.
The American Geophysical Union will be conducting a hybrid in-person and virtual conference for its 2022 Fall meeting, December 12-16 2022, with live events taking place in Chicago, IL.
Several Unidata staff members will be presenting as part of the AGU Scientific Program; read on for a schedule of their talks and posters.
For the fall 2022 term, Unidata is once again offering universities (or individual instructors) access to cloud-based JupyterHub servers tailored to the requirements of university atmospheric science courses and workshops. Unidata will work with you to customize the technologies and data requirements for your class. By using the Unidata Science Gateway, instructors can add Jupyter notebooks used in their coursework to a dedicated JupyterHub hosted using Unidata's resources in the NSF Jetstream cloud. Once logged in to the JupyterHub, individual students access pre-configured computing environments that allow them to work with the notebooks interactively, making and saving their own alterations to existing notebooks or creating their own new notebooks.
The Unidata Program Center's three summer student interns — Hassanpreet Dhaliwal from Texas Tech University, Rhoen Fiutak from the Colorado School of Mines, and Nathaniel Martinez from the University of Chicago — have come to the end of their summer appointments. Following two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions, Hassanpreet, Rhoen, and Nathaniel were able to join us at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder. After a summer of dedicated work they presented the results of their projects to the UPC staff on July 27, 2022. You can find videos of their presentations to the UPC staff on the Unidata Seminar Series page.
The focus of my summer internship was working on MetPy, both adding new functionality and updating existing documentation to reflect recent updates to MetPy. In particular, I focused on expanding current declarative syntax functionality to Matplotlib's pcolormesh via the RasterPlot class. Declarative syntax enables quick and easy plotting of data, particularly for users new to Python or MetPy.
We at the Unidata Program Center are delighted to have three student interns with us for the 2022 Summer Internship Program. Click through to read their introductions.
Nathaniel Martinez joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 31, 2022. He is a rising 4th year student at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, where he is working towards a double major in computer science and environmental science.
Rhoen Fiutak joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 23, 2022. She completed her bachelor's degree in physics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in May 2019 and went on to complete her master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA in August 2021. She is entering her second year as a master's student at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO this fall, in the applied mathematics program.
Hassanpreet Kaur Dhaliwal joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 23, 2022. She completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in Physics from Panjab University in India, and moved to United States in January 2021 for her graduate studies in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech University.
Everyone loves to talk about the weather. But until now, serious collectors of weather memorabilia have been left on the sidelines. Oh, a lucky few manage to save enormous hailstones in their freezers, but most are limited to screen shots of satellite or radar imagery, or maybe articles clipped from the local newspaper.
But never fear: Unidata is preparing to bring weather collectibles into the twenty-first century by minting a series of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) based on significant weather events. Our inaugural series will consist of 902 distinct NFTs of Hurricane Katrina, one for each millibar of the storm's lowest recorded atmospheric pressure.
