Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 95th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, January 4-8 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona. Unidata will be in Booth 220 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 II environment. 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 community members will be presenting or attending. See the AMS meeting Conference Program for additional information on the sessions.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Go Extreme! (Panel discussion) |
WeatherFest, Exhibit Hall 1 | Jeff Weber, Unidata |
Monday, January 5, 2015
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 12:00 | 1B | Open Data Standards and Sharing | Room 131C | Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata (Co-chair) |
| 2:30 - 4:00 | Posters, #398 | Accessing NetCDF4 Data in Python | Hall 4 | Ward Fisher, Unidata |
| 2:30 - 4:00 | Posters, #114 | A New Approach to Sharing Curriculum and Data | Hall 4 | Jeff Weber, Unidata; Jeff McWhirter, Geode Systems |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | 3.2 | Exploring Client-Server Data Visualization using IPython and WebGL | Room 129B | Ryan May, Unidata; Sean Arms, Unidata |
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45 - 9:00 am | 4B.2 | Using Progressive Resolution to Visualize large Satellite Image dataset | Room 131C | Yuan Ho, Unidata; Julien Chastang, Unidata |
| 9:30 - 9:45 am | 1 | Typhoon Haiyan (Invited Presentation) | Room 229AB | Jeff Weber, Unidata |
| 11:30 - 11:45 am | 5A.3 | AWIPS II for the University Community: Unidata Program Center Update | Room 132AB | Michael James, Unidata |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Town Hall | New Ideas Forum: Networking and Idea Exchange for Student and Early Career Members | Room 126A | Sean Arms, Unidata |
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:45 - 2:00 | TJ5.2 | A Cloud-Based Mobile Weather Server to Support Emergency Response Meteorology Training and Operations | Room 125AB | Curtis N. James, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jeff Weber, Unidata |
| 2:30 - 4:00 | Posters, #505 | Unidata Activities at Texas A & M International University | Hall 4 | Arturo Diaz, Texas A&M International University |
Thursday, January 8, 2015
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 12:00 | 4 | Data Stewardship: Ensuring the Value of Data from Real-Time to Posterity | Room 130 | Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata (Co-chair) |
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 26 at the AMS Student Conference Career Fair. Program Center staff will be on hand to discuss how Unidata products can help students in their education, forecasting, and research. Come visit us at the table on Saturday and Sunday, January 3-4!
