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Gilbert personifies Unidata's ideal of a community that shares data, software, and ideas and unselfishly contributes time and energy that benefit everyone. |
The Russell L. DeSouza award honors "individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences."
Gilbert has been committed to maintaining a timely and uninterrupted flow of real-time data to the Unidata community. His energy and enthusiasm for the Local Data Manager (LDM) are evident in his interactions with other participants. Gilbert has often been the first to download and install new LDM versions, sometimes before they've been released. His testing and generous feedback to developers and the rest of the community have been invaluable in advancing the LDM.
Gilbert was actively involved in the Unidata community while an undergraduate at NIU in 1994. He uses his knowledge of data and datastreams to help others in the community, whether it is finding information on particular products, locating station information, or diagnosing problems with data feeds.
Few Unidata community members have been as active as he has been over the past 15 years. His frequent contributions to e-mail lists keep the community informed of data stream changes, outages, and LDM changes.
Gilbert personifies Unidata's ideal of a community that shares data, software, and ideas and unselfishly contributes time and energy that benefit everyone.
We are pleased Gilbert has received recognition for his service to the community by being selected as the 2010 DeSouza Award winner.
