News@Unidata

« Previous month (Nov 2013) | Main | Next page of month (Dec 2013) »

Unidata Summer Student Internship Available!

30 December 2013

Do you use Unidata software packages? Do you love to write code? The Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you!

The Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with Unidata software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Unidata's mission is to support the Earth Science research and education community with data and tools for data access, analysis, and visualization. As a Unidata intern, you'll pursue the goal of adding innovative enhancements to data access, analysis, and visualization tools developed within Unidata.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News

Email this

Unidata Funding Proposal Approved by National Science Foundation

24 December 2013

The Unidata Program receives the majority of its funding from the National Science Foundation. Every five years, the program submits a new proposal to the NSF, outlining past accomplishments and describing plans for future activities. We recently received word from the NSF that Unidata's most recent five-year proposal had been accepted and funded.

While much of the work proposed involves the continuation and extension of existing programs, projects, and services, the proposal does chart a new direction for the program; namely the provision of data and services through the "cloud" mechanisms that are becoming ubiquitous.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News

Email this

A nice global weather visualization in your browser

19 December 2013

If you have a few minutes to spend looking at some nice graphics, browse on over to earth.

earth is a browser-based visualization of global weather conditions created by Cameron Beccario. Beccario says that "earth is a personal project I've used to learn javascript and browser programming, and is based on the earlier Tokyo Wind Map project."

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News

Email this

Unidata is looking for a Community Services Manager

12 December 2013

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.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News

Email this

AMS Short Course: IDV, WRF, and Other Model Output

04 December 2013

WRF output displayed in the IDV

Unidata is hosting a Short Course on Integrating WRF and Other Model Output with Remote and In-situ Observational Datasets using Unidata’s Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) on 2nd February 2013, preceding the 94th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information are posted on the AMS Annual Meeting Web site http://annual.ametsoc.org/2014/

[Read More]

Posted by Sean Arms [ Comments [2] ]