If you're looking for geeky street cred, it doesn't hurt to have your car's license plate featured in Network World magazine's World's Geekiest License Plates feature.

Russ Rew's (suddenly) famous NetCDF license plate.

Clear, concise, and to the point, Unidata Program Center developer Russ Rew's "NETCDF" plate holds its own in the company of eternal questions ("R2WHRU") and verities ("COS 0 = 1") expressed in the abbreviated language of the automobile license plate. And while it may require more explanation than the easily recognizable "MICROSOFT", it uses its powers only for good — unlike, say, "RM -RF /".

The NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina (CICS-NC) is seeking a Meteorologist / Computer Scientist / Research Associate to work in Asheville, NC, in collaboration with scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The successful candidate will provide hands-on computer programming and software engineering support for the National Climate Model Portal (NCMP) in the development, implementation, and tools for scientific climate data access, and interoperability.

NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued to migrate NAWIPS functionality into the AWIPS II system during the month of July, according to NCO Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. "NCO also spent time testing the automated data flow from the Central Computing System to the AWIPS II Test Bed located in the World Weather Building," says Mainelli. Test data includes NCO-provided model data and observational data types including radar mosaics and NCEP-specific satellite imagery.

The American Meteorological Society's Summer community meeting will be taking place August 8-11, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting's theme is "Building a Stronger Weather and Climate Enterprise — Keeping the Economy Moving." Unidata's Linda Miller will be attending and presenting "Towards Open Weather and Climate Services: A Unidata Academic Perspective" during the NOAA Environmental Information Services Working Group session.

The Unidata Program Center will be moving into the Anthes building.

The Unidata Program Center has spiffy new lodgings.

Update: Our move to the new building is (more or less) complete. Come by and visit us in our snazzy (if temporary) new building.

It's only temporary, and it's only across the street, but the Program Center offices (along with the offices of most of the programs that make up the UCAR Community Programs — UCP) will be moving to new digs during the week of August 8, 2011. As a result, we may be slow to respond to phone calls and e-mail support questions during the transition. If all goes according to plan, we'll be in the new space beginning on Monday, August 15th.