Jeff Smith
Research Associate IV, Systems Analyst
Office: D.Skaggs Resch. Cntr., Rm 2B522
Phone: (303) 497-7762
Fax: (303) 497-6301
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Jeff Smith
Global Systems Division/Aviation Branch
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO  80305-3328
Biography

Jeff Smith received his B.A. in Physics from the University of Virginia (1987) and his software engineering experience prior to joining CIRA includes game programming, database/web/Java instruction, and corporate consulting.

Selected Awards:

  • 2005 GSD Web Award for "Best New Site" for wrfportal.org
  • 2006 GSD Web Award for "Best New Site" for JavaZone
  • 2007 Poster Award presented at AMS 2007 for “Use of WRF Portal to Support The Developmental Testbed Center”
  • 2007 GSD Web Award for "Best New Site" for Data Locator
  • 2008 CIRA Research Initiative Award
  • 2009 GSD Web Award for "Best New Site" for NNEW Testbed
 
Recent Work

Jeff joined CIRA in 2004 and his areas of interest include web applications, web services, and Java software engineering. He led the design and development of WRF Domain Wizard, (a graphical tool used to define the spatial domain needed to run the new WRF Pre-processor System), led the design and develop the WRF Portal (a Java application that allows users to develop, configure, run, and monitor the execution of complex WRF model workflows), he developed and taught a nine month Java training course for the ESRL staff, and developed Data Locator (a web services based search engine for finding and displaying meteorological data).

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Selected Publications
  • Smith, J.S., Leon, M., Schranz, S. W., Sherretz, L., Stewart, J. K., Turpin, M., 2012: Update on NextGen 4-D weather data cube development and tools for content developers, 27th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology., New Orleans, LA
  • Polster, E., Govett, Mark, Smith, J.S., Wang, N., 2011: GIM Tool, 13th Workshop in High Performance Computing in Meteorology.May 17, 2011, Reading UK
  • Smith, J.S., 2007: Java Zone website and 28 powerpoint presentations on Java, SQL databases, web development, and Web services. Located at http://www-ad.fsl.noaa.gov/ac/javazone/, .,
  • Govett, M. W., Smith, J.S., 2007: Use of WRF Portal to support the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), AMS 23rd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.January 15-18, 2007, San Antonio, Texas
  • Smith, J.S., McCaslin, P. T., 2007: WRF Domain Wizard: The WPS GUI, 8th Annual WRF User's Workshop.June 15, 2007, Boulder, Colorado
  • Smith, J.S., Govett, M. W., McCaslin, P. T., 2007: WRF Portal and WRF Domain Wizard, AMS 23rd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.January 15-18, 2007, San Antonio, Texas
  • Govett, M. W., Smith, J.S., 2006: Developing distributed data access capabilities for the WRF portal and beyond, AMS 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.January 29-February 2, 2006, Atlanta, GA
  • Smith, J.S., Govett, M. W., 2006: WRF portal: A GUI front end for WRF, AMS 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.January 29-February 2, 2006, Atlanta, GA
  • Smith, J.S., 2006: WRF portal: The graphical front end to WRF, CIRA Magazine, vol. 25
  • Govett, M. W., Smith, J.S., 2005: A WRF based portal for WRF, WRF/MM5 Users' Workshop.June 27-30, 2005, Boulder, CO
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