# About Me I work as an Atmospheric Data Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where I contribute to tools and infrastructure to enable open science. ## What I do ````{grid} ```{grid-item} :columns: 3 **Open Source and Open Science** ``` ```{grid-item} :columns: 9 I work on projects that make analyzing large atmospheric/climate datasets easier, and ensure folks have an inclusive community around the tools to support robust communities of practice. I contribute to a few open-source projects that support the weather/climate community. In particular I am a core contributor to many projects in the [Pangeo ecosystem](https://pangeo.io/), and in particular the following major projects: - [Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART)](https://arm-doe.github.io/pyart/) - a Python library containing a collection of weather radar algorithms and utilities. - [xradar](https://docs.openradarscience.org/projects/xradar/en/stable/) - includes all the tools to get your bring weather radar data in the [pangeo ecosystem](https://pangeo.io/). - [intake-esm](https://intake-esm.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - a data cataloging utility built on top of intake, pandas, and xarray, and it’s pretty awesome! - [The Open Radar Forum](https://openradar.discourse.group/) - a place for the weather radar community to come together. For an idea of the kinds of projects that I work on, check out my [{fa}`github,style=fab` GitHub page](https://github.com/mgrover1) ``` ```{grid-item} :columns: 3 **Outreach and Community Involvment** ``` ```{grid-item} :columns: 9 I regularly teach short-courses at academic meetings, including the American Meteorological Society (AMS)Meetings (Radar and Annual), European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, as well as smaller workshops and webinars. I am also involved as a member of the AMS Board on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, as well as co-chair for the Earth, Ocean, Geo, and Atmospheric Science track at the annual [scientific python conference](https://www.scipy2024.scipy.org/). For a list of publications and scholarly artifacts (such as datasets) in which I've been involved, check out [my ORCID page](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-8974) or [my Google Scholar page](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQMa8CkAAAAJ&hl=en). ``` ```` ## CV In a more CV/resume style, here is more information about my background: ### Education - B.S. in Meteorology, Valparaiso University, 2019 - M.S. in Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021 If you want a download-able CV, you can find a {download}`(mostly) up-to-date CV here `. ## A Timeline Here is a brief timeline of my professional journey `````{grid} 2 :class-container: timeline ````{grid-item-card} :class-item: entry left **2022**: Joined [Argonne National Laboratory](https://www.anl.gov/) as an Atmospheric Data Scientist ^^^ Argonne National Laboratory is a Department Energy Office of Science facility, where I work on projects related to open atmospheric and climate science. Key programs/projects I work on include: - **[ARM User Facility](https://arm.gov)** - **[Open Radar Community](https://openradarscience.org/)** - **[Earth System Grid Federation](https://esgf.llnl.gov/)** - **[CROCUS UIFL](https://crocus-urban.org)** ```` ````{grid-item} :class: right ```` ````{grid-item} :class: left ```` ````{grid-item-card} :class-item: entry right **2021**: Joined NCAR ^^^ After finishing graduate school at the University of Illinois, I began my data science career at the [National Center for Atmospheric Research](https://ncar.ucar.edu/), where I focused on developing open-source tools for the Climate and Global Dynamics laboratory, specifically those working with the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Here are a few of the main things I did during this time: - Kickstarted the [Earth System Data Science](https://ncar.github.io/esds) initiative, writing 52 blog posts for the project. - Co-lead development of [intake-esm](https://github.com/intake/intake-esm), a tool used for organizing petabyte-scale climate model datasets. - Hosted office hours for the community to ask [pangeo-related](https://pangeo.io/) questions, building a community of practice around common analysis workflows. ```` ````{grid-item-card} :class-item: entry left **Fall 2019**: Started graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ^^^ My scientific training began as an atmospheric scientist, where I studied deep convective storm dynamics in South America. I used observations from the [RELAMPAGO-CACTI](https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/relampago) field campaign, which focused on some of the largest storms on earth, located in the Sierras de Cordoba region of Argentina. In particular I focused on relating observations from space-borne satellites to ground-based radars. ```` ````{grid-item} :class: right ```` ````{grid-item} :class: left ```` ````{grid-item-card} :class-item: entry right **Summer 2019**: Interned at [Unidata](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/) Unidata (a National Science Foundation funded organization) is a diverse community of education and research institutions with the common goal of sharing geoscience data and the tools to access and visualize that data. During my time there, I spent most of my time adding a [METAR parser](https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/latest/api/generated/metpy.io.parse_metar_file.html#metpy.io.parse_metar_file) to [MetPy](https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/latest/), the go-to python library for working with weather data. ```` ````{grid-item-card} :class-item: entry left **2019** Graduated from Valpo ^^^ Graduated from Valparaiso University with a B.S. in Meteorology. ```` ````` This page is largely based on [Chris Holdgraf's personal website](https://chrisholdgraf.com/about/).