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      On 4/26/2018 3:49 PM, James L. Kinter Iii wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">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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          <p class="MsoNormal">****************************************************<br>
            Jim Kinter<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">Director, Center for
            Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic
            & Earth Sciences<br>
            Professor, Climate Dynamics<br>
            284 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5<br>
            George Mason University<br>
            4400 University Drive<br>
            Fairfax, VA 22030 USA<br>
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
              </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">gradsusr
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org"><gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org></a> on behalf of Jeff
              Duda <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com"><jeffduda319@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Reply-To: </b>GrADS Users Forum
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org"><gradsusr@gradsusr.org></a><br>
              <b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 2:11 PM<br>
              <b>To: </b>GrADS Users Forum
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org"><gradsusr@gradsusr.org></a><br>
              <b>Subject: </b>Re: [gradsusr] GrADS Milestones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Thanks to
              Jennifer and the other support staff who kept GrADS going
              over all these years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Jeff Duda<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Thu, Apr
              26, 2018 at 9:41 AM, John Ciolek <<a
                href="mailto:jciolek@alphatrac.com" target="_blank"
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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.   <o:p></o:p></p>
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                              style="margin-left:.5in">On Apr 26, 2018,
                              at 7:30 AM, Jennifer M Adams <<a
                                href="mailto:jadams21@gmu.edu"
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                              style="margin-left:.5in">Dear All,<br>
                              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.
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                              —Jennifer<span
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                              </span>Jennifer Miletta Adams<span
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                              </span>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere
                              Studies (COLA)<span
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                              </span>George Mason University<span
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