Chris MacDermaid
Senior Research Associate, Sr. Prog./Analyst
Office: D.Skaggs Resch. Cntr.
Phone: (303) 497-6987
Fax: (303) 497-7259
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Chris MacDermaid
Earth Systems Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division
325 Broadway R/GSD2
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Biography

Chris MacDermaid earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Colorado State University in 1994. Following graduation, Chris worked as a consultant at Interleaf and as a software developer at Spatial Technologies.

Chris became a CIRA associate in 2001 and currently works for NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in the Global Systems Division (GSD) as lead of the Data Systems Group (DSG). His areas of expertise include meteorological data acquisition, data dissemination, and data standards.

Recent Work

Most recently, Chris has been working as a technical coordinator for ESRL/GSD on the FAA's NNEW (NextGen Network Enabled Weather) project and the National Weather Service's NextGen project. Chris is working as a researcher and technical contributor on the NEIS project (NOAA Environmental Information Service). Chris is also working on the NSF EarthCube project.

Selected Publications

  • MacDermaid, C., and G. Pankow 2011: Trade-offs Involved When Representing Weather and/or Aviation Data in WXXM Formats, presented at Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference, Silver Spring, MD, 2011.

  • Smith, J. S., M. Leon, M. Turpin, S. Schranz, J. Q. Stewart, and L. Sherretz 2012: Update on NextGen 4-D Weather Data Cube Development and Tools for Content Developers, presented at 27th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, 2012.

  • Stewart, J. Q., M. Leon, C. MacDermaid, M. Schultz, and L. Sherretz, 2011: Nextgen 4-D Weather Data Cube Development and tools for Content Developers: 27th International Conference on Interactive Information Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 4A.4.

  • Lipschutz, R., D. Hagerty, P. Hamer, P. Lannigan, and C. MacDermaid 2010: A high performance LDM data cluster, presented at 26th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, GA, 2010.

  • MacDermaid, C., R.C. Lipschutz, P. Hildreth, R.A. Ryan, A.B. Stanley, M.F. Barth, and P.A. Miller, 2005: Architecture of MADIS data processing and distribution at FSL. 21st Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, San Diego, CA, American. Meteorological Society, CD-ROM, P2.39.

  • Lipschutz, R.C., and C. MacDermaid, 2005: Recent advances in the FSL Central Facility data systems. 21st Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, San Diego, CA, American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM, P2.25.
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