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author: Max Grover
date: 2021-12-02
tags: python-tutorial-series, xarray, intake
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# Intake-ESM Tutorial

The Project Pythia Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues with the Intake-ESM Tutorial on **Wednesday, December 8 at 1 PM Mountain Standard Time**. This session will be led by [Max Grover](https://github.com/mgrover1).

The content for this tutorial is hosted in the `.ipynb` notebook file(s) within the `tutorial` directory of this repository.

## Bio

Max works as software engineer within the Climate and Global Dynamics Lab here at NCAR. He graduated with a B.S in meteorology from [Valparaiso University](https://www.valpo.edu/geography-meteorology/) in 2019 and will complete his M.S. in atmospheric science this spring at the [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign](https://atmos.illinois.edu/).

He works on Python-based tools to support climate model evaluation and contributes to the Earth System Data Science initiative. His research in graduate school focused on using observational data collected during the RELAMPAGO-CACTI campaign in Argentina to study mesoscale convective dynamics, primarily utilizing mobile radar observations as well as GOES-16 satellite imagery. This is not his first time working at UCAR – he took part in the Unidata summer internship program in 2019, working with Ryan May on contributing METAR parsing functionality to MetPy, which motivated him to pursue a career in software engineering.

He enjoys hiking, visiting breweries, and spending time on the water (his summer job, prior to graduate school, was at a resort in southern Wisconsin where he worked as a tour boat captain on Delavan Lake). He is also a big fan of Hawaiian shirts, with a collection of more than 40.

## How-to-Run

**All of the tutorials in this organization can be followed by clicking the "Launch Binder" button at the top level or in each directory.**

You may also download the environment to run locally:

- Check your conda install with `conda --version` and if necessary [install by following these instructions](https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html).

- Clone this repository by running `git clone https://github.com/ProjectPythiaTutorials/intake-esm-tutorial_2021_12_08` in your terminal.

- Still in the terminal, create a Conda environment from the `environment.yml` file by first moving into the `intake-esm-tutorial_2021_12_08` directory with `cd intake-esm-tutorial_2021_12_08` and then `conda env create --file environment.yml`

- Activate your environment in the terminal with `conda activate pythia-intake-esm-tutorial`.

- Test your installation by launching JupyterLab with `jupyter lab`.

## Sign Up

To receive the Zoom link and password, please join the *learnpython@ucar.edu* Google group and Calendar.

To join the *learnpython@ucar.edu* Google Group, follow this [link](https://groups.google.com/a/ucar.edu/g/learnpython/about) and click "Join Group" next to the group name.

By attending this tutorial, you are subject to the [NCAR/UCAR Code of Conduct](https://www.ucar.edu/who-we-are/ethics-integrity/codes-conduct.)

## Tutorial Recording

This tutorial will be recorded and posted on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZPBqJal5uKpO8ZiwzavCw).
[Note: A Project Pythia team member will replace this section with the embedded video once it is ready.]