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Argonne Instruments at WFIP3: Days 3-4: A Full Weekend

We had a busy weekend deploying more instruments that are collecting data for the field observation portion of the 3rd Department of Energy funded Wind Forecast Improvement Project, which focuses on offshore wind regions off the coast of New England. On Saturday, we spent a bulk of the day putting

Date: December 17, 2023 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: W, F, I, P, 3, ,, , A, r, g, o, n, n, e, ,, , I, n, s, t, r, u, m, e, n, t, s, ,, , F, i, e, l, d, , W, o, r, k
Argonne Instruments at WFIP3: Day 2 - Installation Begins!

Today was the first day of real installation work! We started with a quick breakfast at the hotel, then drove to the field site at sunrise (shown below). ![Nantucket Morning](../images/morning-field-site.jpg) We started by installing the meteorology tower, which includes sensors that measure wind speed, wind direction, temperature, precipitation, and moisture. The tower

Date: December 15, 2023 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: W, F, I, P, 3, ,, , A, r, g, o, n, n, e, ,, , I, n, s, t, r, u, m, e, n, t, s, ,, , F, i, e, l, d, , W, o, r, k
Argonne Instruments at WFIP3: Day 1 - Landing in Nantucket

Today was the first day of my trip focused on deploying instruments from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (based in Lemont, Illinois), to the East Coast of the United States for the 3rd Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP3). The project aims to improve wind forecasting ability within models, using both models

Date: December 14, 2023 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: W, F, I, P, 3, ,, , A, r, g, o, n, n, e, ,, , I, n, s, t, r, u, m, e, n, t, s, ,, , F, i, e, l, d, , W, o, r, k
AMS 2023 Reflections: Thank You Denver (and Boulder)!

Last week, I attended the 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado. Prior to attending, I put together a blog post detailing my pre-conference thoughts and expressed a high level of excitement for this yearโ€™s conference. It did not disappoint. The week was full of meaningful connections with

Date: January 16, 2023 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: A, M, S, ,, , C, o, n, f, e, r, e, n, c, e, ,, , C, o, l, o, r, a, d, o
Pre-AMS 2023 Reflection

It is hard to believe that tomorrow I will hop on a plane for AMS 2023. Am I prepared for all of my presentations, co-chair obligations, and general travel logistics? Absolutely not. I am however excited to reconnect with the weather community in beautiful Colorado, with this being the

Date: January 05, 2023 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: A, M, S, ,, , C, o, n, f, e, r, e, n, c, e, ,, , C, o, l, o, r, a, d, o
ERAD Takeaways

This week, I attended the 11th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology in Locarno, Switzerland! This conference brought a large community of weather forecast agencies (hosted by Meteoswiss, the Swiss weather service), researchers, software developers, vendors, and other members of the private sector. The conference consisted of two

Date: September 03, 2022 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: R, a, d, a, r, ,, , C, o, n, f, e, r, e, n, c, e, ,, , O, u, t, r, e, a, c, h, ,, , O, p, e, n, -, S, c, i, e, n, c, e, ,, , P, a, n, g, e, o
SciPy 2022 Reflection

This past week, I attended my third SciPy conference, with this being the first in-person event. The host of SciPy 2022 - the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center near the University of Texas Campus in Austin, Texas. ![ATT conference hotel at night](../images/att-conference.jpeg) The Scientific Python (SciPy) Conference is annual meeting, typically held in

Date: July 17, 2022 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: S, c, i, P, y, ,, , C, o, n, f, e, r, e, n, c, e, ,, , O, u, t, r, e, a, c, h, ,, , O, p, e, n, -, S, c, i, e, n, c, e
Earthcube Annual Meeting Takeaways

Last week, I attended the Earthcube Annual Meeting in San Diego, California! Earthcube is an organization, funded by the National Science Foundation, which is focused around facilitating communities and practices related to geoscience data and cyberinfrastructure (the computers + software needed to get science done). From their [official information page](https://www.earthcube.org/info): ```

Date: June 20, 2022 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: E, a, r, t, h, c, u, b, e, ,, , C, o, o, k, b, o, o, k, s, ,, , P, y, t, h, i, a, ,, , C, a, l, i, f, o, r, n, i, a, ,, , S, a, n, , D, i, e, g, o
Moving to Illinois (Again)

It has been a while since my last post! Over the past ~9 months, I started a new job at Argonne National Laboratory and relocated to the state of Illinois, more specifically the Western Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. I work with Scott Collis, a scientist and Geospatial Computing, Innovations, and

Date: June 06, 2022 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: I, l, l, i, n, o, i, s, ,, , A, r, g, o, n, n, e, ,, , W, i, s, c, o, n, s, i, n
Westward Bound: Midwestern Grad Student to a Colorado Software Engineer

September is fast approaching which marks six months since I started my role as a software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It is crazy to think that just six months ago, I was pushing to finish the first draft of my Master's Thesis. So much has changed

Date: August 30, 2021 | Author: Max Grover | Tags: N, C, A, R, ,, , G, r, a, d, , S, c, h, o, o, l, ,, , C, o, l, o, r, a, d, o