As a community-governed program, Unidata depends on guidance and feedback from educators, researchers, and students in the atmospheric and related sciences. The Unidata Community Survey seeks your feedback both on existing Unidata services and possible future directions for the program. Your ideas will help inform Unidata's path forward; your participation is much appreciated.
Unidata offers equipment grants to support a variety of projects
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2016 Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2016, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.
Indiana University will be demonstrating the IDV running in the cloud at the Supercomputing 2015 conference being held November 15-19, 2015 in Austin TX.
If you're attending the conference, stop by booth 532 to see a range of exhibits from the Pervasive Technology Institute, the Global Research Network Operations Center, and the IU School of Informatics and Computing.
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 Western US weather as it relates to precipitation events, together with impacts of climate change. Applicants must have completed a PhD in Atmospheric Science or a closely-related field by the start of the appointment. Applicants should have awareness of and sensitivity to educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.
Note: The submission deadline for the Raskin Scholarship has been extended to October 15, 2015.
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners around Earth science issues.
The Raskin Scholarship is open to a current graduate student in good standing at an institution affiliated with the ESIP Federation. To be considered for the scholarship, students must be studying an Earth science, computer science or closely related discipline and have an interest in fields related to current technical, scientific or applied activities of the ESIP Federation. The Scholarship will provide a $2000 stipend and travel support to the ESIP Federation bi-annual meetings. The Raskin Scholar will have an invited talk covering their field of interest at the ESIP Summer Meeting.
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 six members of the Users committee and three members of the Strategic Advisory committee. New members and those finishing their terms will overlap for one meeting, which will take place at the end of September.
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.
The National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is looking to hire a Systems Integration Branch Chief. This position supervises a team of seven software developers (FTEs) and oversees 10-15 contractors with a focus in the NCEP software migration from NAWIPS to AWIPS II and the enhancements of the NOMADS and MAG websites.
The National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is looking to hire a Senior Operations Specialist to serve as a member of the Operations Team in the Production Management Branch (PMB) of NCEP Central Operations (NCO). The position entails working alongside the Senior Duty Meteorologist to provide 24x7 monitoring of the NCEP Production Suite and the WCOSS supercomputer system.
The National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction is looking to hire an IT Specialist to work in the in the ASOS Operations and Monitoring Center. The position is for a Tier I help desk staff member. AOMC staff members monitor for alerts and open trouble tickets accordingly. They remotely dial out to systems and do limited troubleshooting and repair. If they can not repair issues, they dispatch technicians to the site to for troubleshooting. They take phone calls, open trouble tickets, document all items in the TT and escalate as needed. No programming, system administration or network configuration will be done by this employee.
The 2015 Unidata Users Workshop took place June 22-25 at UCAR's Center Green facility in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop's theme — Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges — drew participants from across the atmospheric and other geosciences communities. Attendees took part in a series of presentations and hands-on exercises that explored how trends in cloud computing and Python-based workflows affect how scientists interact with and manage ever-growing data volumes.
Eighteen presenters from the Unidata community shared their insights on incorporating new technologies into scientific workflows across the geosciences. Sessions investigated topics ranging from using python tools to access remote datasets and adding cloud computing resources to data-intensive processes to building literacy in scientific computing and preserving data resources and citations. In many cases, presenters encouraged other participants to follow along with hands-on examples and exercises.
