Do you know someone in the Unidata community who has been actively involved and helpful to you and other Unidata members? Perhaps this is someone who volunteers to assist others, contributes software, or makes suggestions that are generally useful for the community.
The Unidata Users Committee invites you to submit nominations for the Russell L. DeSouza Award for Outstanding Community Service. This Community Service Award honors individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences. Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of a community that shares ideas, data, and software through computing and networking technologies.
The Unidata Program Center has an opening for a community services manager. The main focus of this position will be establishing, cultivating, and maintaining relationships with organizations with which collaboration is important in advancing Unidata's mission of serving the broad Unidata community, which includes UCAR, universities, consortia, government, and the private sector.
The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) in Boulder, Colorado is offering visitor appointments for up to a year, beginning on a mutually agreed upon start date. Proposals must be received by January 6, 2014, with notification to submitters of successful proposals in early March 2014.
Unidata's Policy Committee — one of the program's two governing committees — has chosen to change its name. After a vote at the October 2013 committee meeting, committee members voted to change the name to the Unidata Strategic Advisory Committee.
Although piracy has been around since nations have engaged in maritime trade, the scale and focus of attacks in and around the Horn of Africa has attracted significant attention over the past few years. The publicity reached a peak in April 2009 following the seizure of the Maersk Alabama and the direct involvement of the US Navy in the release of the ship's Captain. The extent of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and waters adjacent to Somalia led to the formation of Combined Task Force 151 (CTF151) to conduct anti-piracy operations.
As part of their task force activities, the Royal Australian Navy's Hydrography and METOC branch began to analyze whether any weather-dependent patterns could be identified in the timing and distribution of piracy attacks. The study commenced with accessing the NGA piracy database and overlaying the location of each attack on the long-term climate average for monthly mean significant wave height (a measure of the combined height of the locally wind driven sea and the underlying long wave swell).
The School of Meteorology of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma seeks a Coordinator of Departmental Computing Systems and Services.
The 94th AMS Annual Meeting will be held 2–6 February 2014 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As in previous years, the Society will sponsor a Career Fair at the beginning of the meeting.
Applications are invited for two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Arctic Atmospheric Research affiliated with the Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic (PAHA) project. Using measurements from the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut and measurements from other sites around the Arctic and the rest of the globe, the PAHA project is investigating the changing atmosphere of the Canadian High Arctic. This project also operates in association with the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science.
Northern Arizona University (NAU) is seeking two dynamic, visionary and collaborative leaders, who will develop and implement the strategic plan for a new Informatics in Computing Program (ICP).
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 two members of the Users committee and three members of the Policy committee. We'll also be welcoming a new Graduate Student representative and a new representative from NASA. New members and those finishing their terms will overlap for one meeting, which will take place in October 2013.
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 for the October meetings.
