Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 99th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 6-10 January 2019 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Unidata will be in Booth 416 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 Technical Program for additional information on the sessions.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 15:45 | Short Course | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Geoscientists | North 226C | Josh Young |
| 08:30 - 15:45 | Short Course | Python for Synoptic Meteorology Using Metpy | Room 221C | Ryan May
John Leeman |
Monday, January 7, 2019
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #288 | Cross-Section Analysis in MetPy | Hall #4 | Jon Thielen (2018 Intern) Ryan May John Leeman |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster #289 | MetPy 2019: Building a Software Package and Community | Hall #4 | John Leeman Ryan May |
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 - 09:30 | 7B.4 | 3D Space Isentropic Analysis in Unidata's IDV | North 132ABC | Yuan Ho |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | 7B.5 | Visualization of Wind Parcel Trajectories Using McIDAS-V and IDV | North 132ABC | Yuan Ho |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Town Hall | NOAA Big Data Project Updates | North 222AB | Mohan Ramamurthy (Facilitator) |
Thursday, January 10, 2019
| Time | Session | Title | Location | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | 11A.3 | Scaling a JupyterHub for Atmospheric Science Research and Education on the NSF Jetstream Cloud | North 132ABC | Julien Chastang |
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 C-8 at the Career Fair, which runs from 5:30 - 7:30pm Saturday, January 5 and 6:30 - 8:30pm Sunday, January 6 in Exhibit Hall 5. Program Center staff will be on hand to discuss how Unidata products can help students in their education, forecasting, and research. Come visit us!
