Ag Stephens: CEDA Collaborative Projects Manager

Ag Stephens: CEDA Collaborative Projects Manager
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Welcome

I work for the NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre (http://badc.nerc.ac.uk) as the CEDA Collaborative Projects Manager. I am located in Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the UK Met Office (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk). My main duties involve work with:

Management of the UK Climate Projections User Interface

Liaison with the Met Office regarding scientific and technical interactions.

Development of software for data management.

Research Interests

Having studied and been interested in environmental issues for many years I am drawn to renewable energy. My MSc dissertation examined long-term variability in the offshore windfield concluding that interdecadal changes in wind speed are large enough to significantly affect the economics of wind power generation.

These days I am finding very little time for research but learning lots of interesting things about data management, computing and storage. The occassional brush with real scientists keeps me on my toes.

Software

I spend sometime doing software development, including the NAppy (NASA Ames Processing in Python), and the COWS Web Processing Service.

Presentations and Seminars

Internal BADC/NDG Presentation of my design for a Generic Python Data Web Service with a CGI client.
The ERA-40 Re-analysis Project - BADC plans for archiving and distributing the data (HTML version only includes static pages, and can currently only viewed in Internet Explorer (sorry!), Powerpoint version also available). This presentation was given on the 4 March 2002 as an BADC Internal Staff Seminar.
A Powerpoint presentation on the BADC caching system and data delivery via the Live Access Server and Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT). The presentation was entitled Presenting a multi-terabyte dataset via the web.

Contact

If you would like to contact me then you can try:

POST: TELEPHONE: E-MAIL:

At the Met Office
Met Office,
A2 - 005,
FitzRoy Road,
Exeter,
EX1 3PB,
United Kingdom.
At the BADC
British Atmospheric Data Centre,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Chilton,
Didcot,
Oxfordshire,
OX11 0QX,
United Kingdom.

Ph: +44 (0)1392 884263 ag.stephens@stfc.ac.uk (BADC)
ag.stephens@metoffice.gov.uk (Met Office)

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