Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 101st annual American Meteorology Society meeting, to be held virtually 9-15 January 2021. The schedule below lists sessions or posters presented by staff members. It also lists times when we'll be available to chat in our AMS Virtual Booth.
Note: while the larger UCAR organization has an official booth in the virtual exhibit hall, Unidata has chosen a system we think makes video chat interactions a little easier. We've set up a separate site that allows you to join us via the Airmeet virtual events platform. We hope you'll stop by with questions, or just to chat, during our exhibit hours.
Student Conference Python Workshop
In the wake of last year's successful student conference Python workshop, we're trying a virtual version this year. For information about what that looks like, visit Unidata AMS 2021 Python Workshop.
If you're participating in the Student Conference, you can join the Python workshop. The workshop gets started with an orientation session on Sunday afternoon, January 10th — choose either session 8B.i or 8B.ii to learn how the workshop will operate, and then join workshop leaders and your peers during “office hours” in Unidata's virtual booth environment. (See the schedule below for information on office hours.)
Workshop Participants: Please register for the workshop by January 7, 2021 using this Registration Form. We'll need your GitHub user ID in order to provide access to the workshop resources.
Student Conference Career Fair
Student Conference participants who want to learn more about the Unidata program, the data and software we make available, and internships at the Unidata Program Center can stop by our virtual table during the two Career Fair sessions: Saturday, Jan 9th, 4-5:30pm EST and Monday, Jan. 11th, 5-6:30pm EST. Access to the virtual table is managed through the AMS virtual conference system.
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.
All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00).
Saturday, January 9, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Student Conference Career Fair | Join the Career Fair via the AMS virtual conference platform, and look for the Unidata/UCAR table. | Several |
Sunday, January 10, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:30 | 8B.i | Student Conference Python Workshop Introductory session. Both half-hour sessions will have the same content: choose one or the other to attend. | Many |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | 8B.ii | Many |
Monday, January 11, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Student Python Workshop Office Hours | Participants in the Student Conference Python Workshop can visit our Airmeet for live help and discussion. | Several |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Exhibit Hall | Visit our virtual booth and click the “Airmeet“ button to chat live. | Several |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Student Conference Career Fair | Join the Career Fair via the AMS virtual conference platform, and look for the Unidata/UCAR table. | Several |
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Student Python Workshop Office Hours | Participants in the Student Conference Python Workshop can visit our Airmeet for live help and discussion. | Several |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Exhibit Hall | Visit our virtual booth and click the “Airmeet“ button to chat live. | Several |
| 13:15 - 13:20 | 8.2 | Creating Successful Equity and Inclusion Training for Geoscientists | Josh Young |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | EIPT Posters | Object Stores and THREDDS: Benchmarking netCDF-Java and the THREDDS Data Server Access to Object-based Storage | Sean Arms, Ethan Davis, Hailey Johnson |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | EIPT Posters | Accessing Cloud Storage In The NetCDF-C Library Using Zarr | Dennis Heimbigner, Ward Fisher |
Thursday, January 14, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Student Python Workshop Office Hours | Participants in the Student Conference Python Workshop can visit our Airmeet for live help and discussion. | Several |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Exhibit Hall | Visit our virtual booth and click the “Airmeet“ button to chat live. | Several |
| 13:15 - 13:20 | 11.2 | Assisting University Earth Science Programs Transition to Online Learning With Computational Notebooks | Julien Chastang |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Education Posters | Discovering the Intersection of Software Development During a Summer Internship | Lauren Prox (2020 Intern) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Student Python Workshop Office Hours | Participants in the Student Conference Python Workshop can visit our Airmeet for live help and discussion. | Several |
Friday, January 15, 2021
| Time | Session | Title | UPC Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:10 - 10:15 | 13.1 | Project Pythia: A Community Learning Resource for Geoscientists | Ryan May |
| 10:20 - 10:25 | 13.3 | MetPy: What’s Next After 1.0 | Ryan May, Drew Camron |
| 10:40 - 10:45 | 13.7 | Unidata AWIPS Update | Tiffany Meyer, Shay Carter |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Student Python Workshop Office Hours | Participants in the Student Conference Python Workshop can visit our Airmeet for live help and discussion. | Several |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Exhibit Hall | Visit our virtual booth and click the “Airmeet“ button to chat live. | Several |
| 13:45 - 13:50 | 14.3 | Building Support for Efficient Calculations Across Large Datasets in MetPy | Russell Manser (2020 Intern), Ryan May, Drew Camron |
| 13:55 - 14:00 | 14.9 | Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI): Integrating Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms for Forecaster and End User Decision-Making during Severe and Hazardous Weather | Tiffany Meyer |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Python Posters | How Unidata Taught Python in 2020 | Drew Camron, Ryan May |
