Scott Jacobs of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) has been awarded the 2015 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.”
Jacobs is the IDP Onboarding Team Lead in the Production Management Branch (PMB) of NCEP Central Operations (NCO). PMB “serves as the technical transition between the research and development of all aspects of the NCEP's computing algorithms and their operational implementation. Production Management is responsible for final checkout of new applications software prior to operational implementation and its maintenance after implementation,” according to their web page. While Jacobs' duties at NCO currently encompass the release of the AWIPS II package, and specifically the National Centers Perspective, he has for many years been an important developer of the GEneral Meteorology PAcKage (GEMPAK) and the associated National Centers NAWIPS software.
Interestingly, Jacobs was a student of Russell DeSouza at Millersville University in the 1980s. He is the first receipient of the award to have been one of DeSouza's students.
The 2015 DeSouza Award was presented to Jacobs during the Fall 2015 Joint Meeting of Unidata's Users and Strategic Advisory committees. As part of the award ceremony, Jacobs presented brief remarks on the history of his involvement with GEMPAK, his time with Russell DeSouza at Millersville, and other related topics.
A recording of the award ceremony and talk is available on the Unidata Seminar Series page.
congraturations, Scott
You well deserve Russell DeSauza award for your work sir. Being ther first reciepient of this award, all of us who loved Dr. D selebrate with you. for the great impact Dr. D's life was to us
I graduated from Millersvile in 1993. now reside in Lusaka, Zambia
Posted by Silume Nyambe on November 30, 2016 at 09:48 PM MST #