Unidata Interns Wrap Up Summer Projects
31 July 2014
Unidata summer 2014 interns Shawn Cheeks and Florita Rodriguez
The Unidata Program Center's two
summer student interns
— Florita Rodriguez from Texas
A&M Univeristy in College Station, TX, and Shawn Cheeks
from Marshall University in Huntington, WV — have come to the
end of their summer appointments. After a summer's dilligent work,
they presented the results of their projects to the UPC staff on
July 29, 2014.
The Unidata Summer Internships offer 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.
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Unidata Program Center Welcomes Marty Bright
31 July 2014
Marty Bright
Marty Bright joined the Unidata Program Center as a System
Administrator on July 28, 2014. Along with his cheerful
disposition, he brings some 25 years'
experience in the design, implementation, and support of
complex information systems. Marty had
actually been working at the UPC on a contract basis since
April 2014, and has now consented to join the staff as a
full-time employee.
Prior to coming to the UPC, Marty helped support the Adams
12 school district in Colorado, where he was responsible for
troubleshooting hardware and software issues for a network
of several thousand personal computers. Along the way he
developed expertise in dealing with numerous operating
sytems, server hardware, virtualization technologies, and
networking gear.
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A Mobile App for Radar Data
31 July 2014
Editor's note: Shawn Cheeks was a Unidata Summer
Intern in 2013 and again in 2014. He is a senior at Marshall University
in Huntington, WV, majoring in computer science
and applied math with a minor in meteorology. He plans to
continue on to graduate school to eventually earn a PhD in
atmospheric science.
Shawn Cheeks writes:
During my internship last year with Unidata, I developed
an Android version of a netCDF Subset Service form. Coming
back this year, I wanted to expand my endeavors in mobile
development by writing an application that works on all
mobile platforms. To do this, I decided to use Apache
Cordova because it takes a JavaScript/HTML file and packages
it as a native application for any mobile platform. The
product of choice this year was Unidata's radar data as it
seemed to be a product well suited for mobile users.
Read Shawn's full posting over on the
Unidata Developers' Blog.
