Millersville University is pleased to sponsor and host a Unidata Regional Workshop on October 21-22, 2013. The purpose of this workshop is to provide introductory and advanced training in the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), and to present use cases of IDV and other Unidata services (data and tools) in the classroom.
The workshop will also include a presentation and hands-on session showcasing the GEOScience Probe of Discovery (GEOPOD), a National Science Foundation funded project that leverages Unidata's IDV to create an interactive 3-D learning environment where students can navigate a virtual probe through real geophysical data and actuate devices to explore and discover the atmosphere. More information on GEOPOD can be found at http://millersvillecs.github.io/geopod/.
In addition to the training opportunity, Dr. Mohan Ramamurthy (Unidata Program Director) will open the workshop with a discussion of the Unidata Strategic Plan. Dr Ramamurthy will be here to gather community input. There will be both formal and informal opportunities to participate in the discussions concerning the Unidata Strategic Plan at the workshop.
Registration is free and limited funding to help defray travel expenses will be available to the workshop participants. Lunches, coffee breaks and a reception on the evening of Sunday, October 20, will be covered by Millersville University. We would greatly appreciate if you would please share this with your colleagues. We encourage those interested to register by October 11 since space is limited.
Unidata Regional Workshop Agenda
| Sunday, October 20 | |
| 6:00 - 8:00 | Reception and presentation by Unidata Director, Dr. Mohan Ramamurthy |
| Monday, October 21 | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Unidata Strategic Plan - input from the community |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | IDV overview (IDV portion of the workshop will be presented by Unidata’s Sean Arms and Yuan Ho) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | General IDV workflow with model output as demo |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Working with Gridded Data (2D/3D displays) |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Saving Images/Movies and Sharing with Bundles |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 - 4:00 | Working with Observational Data (Surface Data, Upper Air) |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Time Matching, Example Forecast Error Analysis by Integrating Model Output and Observations |
| Tuesday, October 22 | |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Working with RADAR Data (level 3, level 2) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Working with Satellite Data (including time matching with RADAR) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 12:30 | GEOpod introduction (Rich Clark, Sepi Yalda, and Gary Zoppetti) |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:30 | GEOpod applications and hands-on session |
Hotel Information
Lancaster Arts Hotel
300 Harrisburg Ave. Lancaster, PA 17603
1-877-208-5521 or 717-479-4439
email: reservation@lancasterartshotel.com
Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square
25 South Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
717-239-1600
Heritage Hotel Lancaster
500 Centerville Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
1-800-223-8963
Registration
Please email the following information to sepia.yalada@millersville.edu by October 11th:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Department/Program
- Address
- Phone
Thanks much and we look forward to your institution’s participation at this Unidata Regional Workshop at Millersville University. If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at 717-872-3293 or by email sepi.yalda@millersville.edu.
Best,Sepi Yalda, Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth Sciences
Rich Clark, Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth Sciences
Gary Zoppetti, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
