Professors and students from the departments of Computer Science and Earth Sciences at Millersville University are using Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) as the platform for an application to let students explore meteorological data in three dimensions.

The application, known as the Geosciences Probe Of Discovery, or Geopod, uses the IDV's "Flythrough" facility to give the experience of navigating through 3D meteorological data sets as if in an airplane.

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0 update 2 is available now. This version is recommended for all users. The latest updated can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/3_0u2.

The Unidata Program Center's Yuan Ho reprised the Visualization of Geoscience at the Speed of Thought demonstration he presented at the December 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting to a local NCAR audience on December 20, 2011.

Unidata Program Center developer Yuan Ho, along with John Clyne of NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), will be presenting a data analysis workshop at the American Geophysical Union's Fall meeting in San Francisco. The workshop will provide an overview of several of the open source software packages that are most relevant to researchers and educators in the geosciences, including Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), NCAR's Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR), and the Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS-V) from the the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and NCAR's NCAR Command Language (NCL).

Modelling radiation stress on marine corals.

Researchers from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia; the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York; the department of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; and the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom are using the IDV to help analyze environmental stresses on marine corals. The stress factors include high temperatures, ultra-violet radiation, weather systems, sedimentation, as well as stress-reducing factors such as temperature variability and tidal dynamics. Their paper Global Gradients of Coral Exposure to Environmental Stresses and Implications for Local Management, was published in the online journal PLoS One and has been featured in other scientific magazines including Nature.

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0b1 is a new major version of the IDV. This is a beta version release.