Welcome onboard Alex!!. Your cooking and drinking tastes are calling for a hackethon in Colorado in next Ski Season :)
Nice career path and very much related to this project. Will hope you will find some time to contribute during your graduate study after your internship ends. Suresh On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:29 PM, "Goodman, Alexander (398J-Affiliate)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for getting this done in a timely matter, as now I no longer have to > bother Kyo whenever I need to get my changes committed. > > Anyway, though everyone on the RCMES team at JPL should know me, I'll go > ahead and talk a little bit about myself. I am currently a summer intern at > JPL working under Chris Mattmann for RCMES. Afterwards, I will be attending > Colorado State University as a newly admitted graduate student in the > Department of Atmospheric Science. I currently hold a B.S. in Atmospheric > Science from UIUC, though I have completed several courses in Computer > Science since that was my original major. > > My research interests primarily are related to climate dynamics, model > development, and scientific computing but I am also interested in open > source software development and am a lover of the Python programming > language since it was the first one I learned. Most computing courses in > Atmospheric Science education tend to teach MATLAB, but I enthusiastically > ditched it after learning about NumPy / SciPy / matplotlib. Because of my > knowledge of those packages, my work with RCMES will primarily focus on > refactoring the evaluation toolkit and developing the visualization > functionality, though I hope to contribute to the more technical parts of > the project as well. > > As for personal interests... I am not sure if it is appropriate to mention > some of those here but I love to cook (especially those dishes that must be > simmered for several hours) and am also an avid drinker of craft beer > (which was part of reason that I chose to attend CSU in Fort Collins as > there are many breweries in town). > > Anyway, hopefully I didn't bore any of you too much with that, but I am > pleased to be a member of the project. Thanks again! > > Alex > > > -- > Alex Goodman
