[gradsusr] GrADS Milestones

Thu Apr 26 16:20:40 EDT 2018

Dear Jennifer and Brian,

Prefiero escribir en español (castellano) para que perciban la magnitud de
su esfuerzo. Grads ha sido de ayuda tanto en mi maestría como en mi
doctorado. Gracias  por sus esfuerzos!

Luis

2018-04-26 15:49 GMT-04:00 James L. Kinter Iii <ikinter at gmu.edu>:

> Dear All – Thanks to several of you who are offering praise and gratitude
> for GrADS. I would like to add COLA’s thanks to Brian and Jennifer. The
> original idea of putting together analysis and display of geo-registered
> data, with defaults suitable for atmospheric science and physical
> oceanography research and education, was a simple one, but, as it turned
> out, extremely powerful. The notion of making that package of code
> available to anybody, free of charge, and supporting it with new features,
> copious and useful documentation, and responses to user inquiries was
> unheard of two decades ago, but that also turns out to have been a powerful
> concept. Finally, evolving a code over a period of so many years, mostly in
> a backward compatible way, is something that normally takes an entire
> corporation to pull off. Brian started out doing it on his own, and after
> Jennifer joined COLA, they did it with a team of 2, along with debugging
> help and suggestions for improvement from all the users. The large number
> of users, the large number of figures on web pages and in scholarly
> journals, and the small number of lines of code are all testaments to the
> success and staying power of GrADS, which are in turn completely due to the
> ingenuity, dedication and collegiality of two people. For those of us who
> remember writing Fortran programs to analyze meteorological data and other
> Fortran programs to display the results of that analysis, the introduction
> of GrADS to our community was truly a quiet revolution that changed the way
> we did our work. While we often list GrADS among the contributions that
> COLA has made to the field, in truth, it is Brian and Jennifer who get all
> the credit. Thanks to you both. – Jim
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> *From: *gradsusr <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> on behalf of Jeff Duda <
> jeffduda319 at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> *Date: *Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 2:11 PM
> *To: *GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [gradsusr] GrADS Milestones
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> As a user since I started grad school in 2009, I remain a huge fan of
> GrADS. Even though I now use a lot of Python and matplotlib for plotting,
> GrADS still produces at least as high quality, if not higher quality,
> geographic plots than any other graphics software I have seen over the past
> 9 years, and is my first pick for plotting meteorological graphics. I will
> continue to use it, but am sad to see the support cease. Hopefully it will
> continue to be useful for years to come.
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>
> Thanks to Jennifer and the other support staff who kept GrADS going over
> all these years.
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> Jeff Duda
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:41 AM, John Ciolek <jciolek at alphatrac.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Jennifer, Brian, and the rest of your team for what you have
> done with GrADS!  I  hope you realize how much the atmospheric science
> community appreciates your effort and outstanding support.  I’m sure you
> will hear from many echoing that feeling as you truly deserve it.
>
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> John
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> On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> The time has come to announce some changes at COLA that will affect all of
> us: the funding that supports GrADS has come to an end. Brian Doty will be
> retiring at the end of the summer, and I will be moving to NASA/GSFC to
> work in the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services
> Center (DISC). Both of us will continue to be active GrADS users, and our
> plan is to move the source code to GitHub where it will become a more
> traditional open source project. Our development and support of GrADS going
> forward will be a volunteer effort, but I sincerely hope you will not
> interpret this news as a reason to stop using GrADS. We feel that our
> recent changes to GrADS make it a flexible and extendable tool with a
> stable core and the necessary hooks for further customization by ambitious
> users. COLA will continue to host this forum, and I will remain as the
> moderator and frequent contributor. I promise to do what I can to ensure
> that GrADS remains relevant, useful, and fast.
> —Jennifer
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> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
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