Students
Students have been engaged in Curator throughout the project, through affiliations with collaborating universities and programs such as NCAR's Summer Interships in Parallel Comutational Science (SIParCS). These interactions have resulted in great experiences and opportunities for the students, and many contributions to the project.
Andrew was a 2010 SIParCS intern at NCAR. While working with Curator, Andrew was in a Masters Program in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Andrew worked on integrating LibCF regriddging capability into ESMF. LibCF is a package built upon netCDF for interaction with gridspec files.
Edwin Sumargo was a 2010 SIParCS intern at NCAR. While working with Curator, Edwin was in his third year in an undergraduate program in Meterology at Univerity of Illinois. He worked on phase 3 of a end-to-end workflow coupling the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) and the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) by focusing on the data transfer within the system including variable unit converstions and data downscaling. Edwin plans to attend graducate school in atmospheric chemistry. See the project page for more details.
Xinqi (Jack) Wang was a 2009 SIParCS intern at NCAR. While working with Curator, Jack was in the Computer Science Ph.D. program at Louisiana State University. Jack prototyped the ability to output the WaterML schema using ESMF Attributes. See the project site for more details.
Peter Bosler was a 2009 SIParCS intern at NCAR. While working with Curator, Peter was in the Applied Mathematics Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan. He worked with staff from the Naval Research Laboratory to instrument the Navy's Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Modeling System (COAMPS) using ESMF Attributes. The project site has more details.
Ufuk Turuncoglu visited the Curator team at NCAR during 2008-2009 while a Ph.D. student at Istanbul Technical University and Informatics Institute (ITU) in computational science and engineering. Ufuk developed a Kepler-based workflow to run the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) on the TeraGrid, automatically gather scientific and technical metadata, and export the metadata for display in Earth System Grid's (ESG) scientific gateway.
Ralph (Rocky) Dunlap was a 2008 SIParCS intern with the Curator team. While at NCAR, he was studying for his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His project focused on developing tools for taking an XML file exported from ESMF and uploading it into the Earth System Grid scientific gateway. To accomplish this task, he created an XML parser, modified ESG's database and Java objects, and identified the need for a controlled vocabulary checker. During the summer, Rocky also finished his first journal article (Dunlap, R., et. al, (2008), Earth system curator: metadata infrastructure for climate modeling, Earth Science Informatics, 1, 131-149).
Ryan O'Kuinghttons was a 2007 SIParCS intern at NCAR. At the time he was a master's degree student in mathematics at the Colorado School of Mines. His summer project focused on the design and implementation of a use test case for the regridding capabilities in ESMF. The use test case performed a regridding between general curvilinear coordinate grids using a parallel sparse matrix multiplication operation. After graduation, Ryan joined the ESMF Core Team full-time. With ESMF, he developed a hierarchical metadata handling class that has been used in a variety of subsequent Curator projects and applications.
