Mike Zuranski
Mike Zuranski of the College of DuPage has been awarded the 2020
Russell L. DeSouza
Award by the Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors
“individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the
Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.”
Zuranski has been contributing to the well-known NexLab site as a student at the
College of DuPage in 2011, and has been a Meteorology Support Analyst for the
program since 2016.
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Nicole Corbin
Nicole Corbin joined the Unidata Program Center on February 1st, 2021 as an
Educational Designer. Prior to joining Unidata, Nicole created learning content and
educational experiences for technical support staff at Esri focusing on
desktop GIS, Microsoft Windows administration, Python, and customer service. Nicole is
passionate about instructional design and is always keeping up on the latest in
learning sciences. Her professional interests include adult learning theories,
inquiry-based learning, and modular/micro-learning.
Although she's been working in the GIS sector for the past five years, Nicole's background is in
meteorology. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in
Meteorology from North Carolina State University. It was there that she first became
interested in discipline-based education research and pedagogy, and was able to
experiment with creating educational content for university students. Her very first
educational module covered hail growth processes. Now, at Unidata, she is excited to
continue creating learning and outreach content for the greater Earth systems science
community.
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