Initiated a new series that will highlight specific data streams detailing the contents of each stream and its history. Two have been highlighted so far:
Unidata Seminar Series. Three seminars, have been presented since the October 2008 Users Committee meeting, and one is scheduled for later in April.
An Update on the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Patricia A. Miller and Michael F. Barth, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division
Impact of the 2008 tropical cyclone season on the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, presented by Luis M Farfan, CICESE
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
A prototype Earth-gauging system integrating weather and health data to manage meningitis, presented by Raj Pandya, UCAR
Unidata seminars are webcast live, and archived for future viewing by community members.
Participated in the following meetings:
AGU Fall Meeting:
20 Unidata related presentations.
Unidata presence in UOP booth
AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix
23 Unidata related presentations
Staffed Unidata booth
Co-chair, AMS Committee for AMS Annual Community Meeting
With Administrative staff member, we created Unidata presence on Twitter and Facebook.
Data Access and Distribution
IDD
Maintain topology, fill new requests
Monitor status
Monitor 3rd party feeds (FNMOC, GEM, MADIS, NLDN, USPLN)
collaborated with FNMOC to provide COMAP and NOGAPS data flow again
Support
Answer IDD, datatstream, miscellaneous, and assorted other support requests
Data
Maintain data pages
Meeting with COSMIC to provide easier data delivery of COSMIC data to the Unidata community
Community
E&O: presentation to 2nd grade class at Heatherwood Elementary School
Web pages maintenance
PV2 and related activities
Provide domain expertise to staff
Workshop 2009
Miscellaneous
Meetings
Coordinated and participated in a meeting during AMS with NWS and NCEP staff members regarding AWIPS-II and NAWIPS transitition to AWIPS-II
Planning and coordination continues for the Unidata summer workshop with the Users Committee
Co-chair, Board of Enterprise Communication Planning Committee for the AMS summer community meeting, 10-12 August 2009 in Norman, OK at the National Weather Center. The theme of the meeting is based on the BASC report, "Observing Weather from the Ground Up - A National Network of Networks."
