Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 98th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 7-11 January 2018 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Unidata will be in Booth 520 in the exhibit hall ( map); feel free to stop by to talk with us. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS, IDV, MetPy, and THREDDS Data Server packages. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.
Conference Sessions
The schedule below lists selected sessions at which Unidata staff (and summer interns) will be presenting or attending. See the AMS meeting Conference Program for additional information on the sessions.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 16:00 | Short Course | Python for Dynamical Meteorology Using MetPy | Convention Center 14 | Ryan May
John Leeman |
Monday, January 8, 2018
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Session 3.1 | MetPy Advancement and Community-Driven Development | Room 8 ABC | Ryan May
John Leeman |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Session 4.x | Analyzing Soundings with MetPy and Siphon (Tutorial) | Room 8 ABC | Ryan May |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Poster #7 | Tuna and Data Standards: The Use of Rosetta in the Oceanographic In Situ Data Interoperability Project (OIIP) | Exhibit Hall 3 | Sean Arms |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Poster #283 | Vertical Interpolation with MetPy | Exhibit Hall 3 | Tyler Wixtrom (2017 Intern) Ryan May John Leeman |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Poster #285 | Visualizing in Python: Analyzing GOES-16 Datasets in the Cloud | Exhibit Hall 3 | Briah Davis (2017 Intern) |
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Panel 7.3 | AWIPS Program — Collaborative Development Panel | Room 17A | Michael James |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Town Hall | NOAA Big Data Project — Updates | Room 14 | Mohan Ramamurthy (Facilitator) |
For a printable PDF version of the Unidata AMS schedule, see the Unidata AMS schedule .
Student Conference Career Fair
The AMS student conference is intended for junior and senior undergraduates and all graduate students, and will focus on interdisciplinary topics and wide-ranging opportunities in the atmospheric and related sciences. Sessions include invited speakers from the private, academic, and government sectors. A Career Fair and networking evening is scheduled to provide a forum for students to personally interact with professionals who represent potential employers and graduate institutions.
Unidata will be at table T-11 at the Career Fair, which runs from Saturday, January 6 - Sunday, January 7. Program Center staff will be on hand to discuss how Unidata products can help students in their education, forecasting, and research. Come visit us!
