NASA Job Openings in JPSS Ground Segment at GSFC
30 July 2012
Richard Ullman of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Science Data Management Branch forwards information on the following two job openings. Applications for these positions will be accepted from Wednesday, August 01, 2012 to Thursday, August 16, 2012.
[Read More]McIDAS-X Addendum v2009k / v2012.1
27 July 2012
McIDAS-X Addendum v2009k aka v2012.1 has been released to make changes to the Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD 2009 distribution.
This cumulative set of bugfixes and enhancements in Unidata McIDAS-X v2009k includes all SSEC v2012.1 and previous updates, and is available to registered users in a gzip-compressed tar file.
For more information on the changes included, please see the v2009k addendum information. To download the v2009k distribution, please visit the McIDAS-X download page.
2012 Users Workshop Brings Unidata Community Together
25 July 2012
The 2012 Unidata Users Workshop took place July 9-13 at NCAR's Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop's theme — Navigating Earth System Science Data — encompassed topics that drew speakers and participants from across the atmospheric and other geosciences communities.
Twenty-six presenters from the Unidata community shared their insights on doing science in an environment of expanding data availability with the nearly 100 workshop attendees. The talks ranged from high-level descriptions of big initiatives like the National Science Foundation's Earth Cube, Global modeling at NOAA, and the joint NOAA-NASA GOES-R satellite program to hands-on demonstrations of data analysis tools including python, GrADS, Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer, and the still-in-development AWIPS-II system.
[Read More]Reminder: Data Stewardship Sessions at the 93rd AMS Annual Meeting
20 July 2012
Abstracts are due 1 August 2012.
The American Meteorological Society's Board on Data Stewardship will be organizing sessions on topics related to Data Stewardship at the 93rd AMS Annual Meeting, which will take place 6-10 January 2013 in Austin, TX.
[Read More]Visitor Appointments at the Developmental Testbed Center
20 July 2012
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 August 20, 2012, with notification to submitters of successful proposals in November 2012.
