In case you weren't already aware of it, the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) at NOAA and NCAR in Boulder, Colorado publishes a quarterly newsletter describing its work on issues involving research to operations (R2O) transitions. The DTC was established to accelerate these transitions, and also to facilitate communication and code transfers in the other direction (operations to research — O2R) to improve the ability of research institutions to have a more direct and timely impact on operations.
The School of Meteorology of University of Oklahoma invites applicants for several post-doctoral research scientist positions in the area of numerical modeling and data assimilation. The successful candidate will work with one of the leading, vibrant and productive teams who conduct active research and development in numerical modeling and data assimilation for various scales and atmospheric phenomena. Successful candidates will conduct research to advance the sciences in numerical modeling, data assimilation, numerical prediction, and predictability.
The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University (SJSU) is seeking applicants for the post of Assistant Professor with a specialization in Physical Meteorology with applications to Climate Science. Applicants must have completed a PhD in Atmospheric Science or a closely-related field by the start of the appointment. Applicants should have a demonstrated awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience. Applicants should also have a demonstrated record of research and publication in their field of study.
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome new members to the program's governing committees. Committee members normally serve three-year terms; terms are finishing up for three members of the Users committee and one member of the Strategic Advisory committee. New members and those finishing their terms will overlap for one meeting, which will take place in September (Users Committee) and October (Strategic Advisory Committee) of 2014.
The UPC staff looks forward to working with our new committee members, and to having all the current members of both committees at the Program Center in Boulder, Colorado this fall.
Read on for a brief introduction to the scientists joining Unidata's committees.
The Continuously Operating Caribbean Observational Network (COCONet) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks applicants for two graduate research fellowships starting in August or September of 2014. The COCONet Graduate Fellowships provide individual awards between $5,000 and $10,000 per year for a maximum of 2 years to support solid Earth or atmospheric science graduate research projects conducted at a U.S. institution of higher education. The research projects must be within the COCONet footprint or directly use data from the COCONet GPS stations and/or meteorological sensors.
The Climate and Scientific Computing group in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine is seeking an individual with enthusiasm for applying advanced computing techniques to global environmental problems. The Climate and Scientific Computing group develops software to analyze climate model and satellite data in order to improve understanding of Earth's climate.
On Friday and Saturday, April 18-19, 2014, the University of Miami hosted a Unidata Regional Workshop on the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV); the open source Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta (RAMADDA); and data and tools available from Unidata.
The 21 workshop attendees included students and scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Institute of Technology, the University of South Florida, and Duke University. While most of those attending were focused on meteorology or atmospheric and ocean science, the group included a conservation biologist studying geotagged Sooty Tern seabirds. Many attendees brought data sets used in their own research, which enhanced the workshop experience greatly.
