SIParCS technical projects 2025
Group photo of interns from the 2025 SIParCS program
Students in CISL's SIParCS internship program will make their oral presentations on Tuesday, July 29 in the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, Colorado.
All are invited to attend in-person or via live webcast - including staff, students' family, friends, and others. Attendees will be able to submit questions via Slido. The presentations will be recorded and published for those who cannot attend. In addition, those joining remotely can do so from this Google Meet link.
Tuesday, July 29 (MDT)
9:30 a.m. - Introduction: Virginia Do, CISL
9:40 a.m. - "Enhancing Scientific Onboarding in CIRRUS Through Cloud-Native Infrastructure for Earth System Scientists" Shilin Chhabra, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:00 a.m. - "Scalable Vector Calculus Operators for Geoscientific Analysis on Unstructured Grids in UXarray" Esther Gallmeier, Cornell University
10:20 a.m. - "Enhancing Scientific Reproducibility and Software Correctness in CrocoDash for Regional Ocean Modeling" Andrew Kwong, Cornell University
10:40 a.m. - 10 min break
10:50 a.m. - "Advancing Atmospheric Chemistry Workflows in Python" Angela Pak, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Aidan Winney, University of Florida
11:30 a.m. - "Reimagining Python Education for Geoscience: Lessons from Project Pythia's Modernization" Christian Okyere, Colby College
11:50 a.m. - 1 hour lunch break
1:00 p.m. - Welcome back: Virginia Do, CISL
1:05 p.m. - "Systematically Improving Data Access in the NSF NCAR Research Data Archive Through User Experience Research" Connie Chau, Northwestern University
1:25 p.m. - "Enhancing Data Access of the Research Data Archive Through Full-Stack Development" Minh Le, Dickinson College
1:45 p.m. - "Natural Language Discovery of NSF NCAR Scientific Data" Sofia Borukhovich, Temple University
2:05 p.m. - 10 min break
2:15 p.m. - "radIOTic: An Intelligent, Fault-Tolerant, AI-Enhanced Mesonet for Atmospheric Sensing" Adebowale Adelekan, Brown University
Immediately following - "Microservice-Driven IoT Architecture for Atmospheric Sensornets and Real-Time Visualization" Isaac Oppong-Baah, Norfolk State University
2:55 p.m. - "Where Science Meets Humanities: A Program Evaluation Proposal for SIParCS" Prashansa Agrawal, University of Texas at Austin